Let's go fly a kite!

First off, I found this cool ribbon by the yard at JoAnn's so I made Carter this Lightning McQueen belt.

Ok, now the real post. We haven't had any plans this weekend so we thought we would try out the super cool kite I found for like $1. It is the perfect kite for Carter. Enjoy pictures with very little commentary.

It did fly a lot but I was more concerned with getting pictures of the boys handling the kite than the actual kite flying.

Here goes nothing...

Our little Mann is growing up and potty training has resumed, but this time we're serious. Carter got his very own underwear!!! He LOVES them and will hopefully learn quickly not to "go" in them.

I'm glad these are clean...

Pictures, pictures and more pictures!

Our lives have been busy so it's taken me a while to upload some pictures. Here's what I found on my cameras, probably all out of order but oh well.

When we do get time together as a family we like to try out frozen yogurt places and share a frozen yogurt between the 3 of us.

Potty training is going slow and is on hold for right now. He is willing to sit but not quite understanding the concept. We'll start again very soon hopefully.

Playing with Daddy...

These were not shot from a gun. Don't worry.

Carter had his 2 year appointment (a little late) and the doctor was very impressed. He told us he is probably as smart as a 4 year old and he couldn't believe he was talking to a 26 month old. Hooray!

A trip to the doctor with no shots? Hooray! AND the doctor gave him a tongue depressor to which he replied "Thank you doctor."

At the library on the miniature version of our couch

We've had a few visits from Hailey lately and Carter loves it! He also really enjoyed seeing Aden and has found a new best friend!

Carter loves to dip now. He says "dip, dip dip"

A quick trip to the planetarium

Carter has gone almost 27 months without needing band aids for anything besides shots but the other day we went grocery shopping and as I was holding his hand Carter fell. I didn't notice so I kept walking and dragged him on his knees a little bit. I felt so bad but Carter was a trooper. When I told him he was a resilient kid he echoed it right back to me. He wouldn't wear his Curious George band aids. He's a real man.

Gotta wear shades!

Carter brought a "G" over and put it on my tummy so we told him which other letters to find and he spelled Grover.

Carter went swimming with his cousins and he LOVED it! he wouldn't get out of the "cool" and played with the diving rings which he called circles.

Carter loves the circles!

The ward ice cream social was fun with the cousins!! Carter wants to be just like Michael!

Love Auntie!

Uncle John does the best "pony boy" and Carter just can't get enough!

Carter is super in to playdo now. Here is one of his creations.

14 weeks. Still huge. I actually got asked at work straight out if I was pregnant. The woman said she shouldn't ask but she knows I just lost a bunch of weight. Translation: You got skinny but now you look really fat!

I love to see the temple

Pictures!

First off Happy anniversary to my hubby of 5 years yesterday! Love him! So, we had a very busy day yesterday which started out with a friend of mine taking some pictures of our family at Wheeler Farm. Alicia is starting a photography business and wanted some photos for her portfolio so she was offering free shoots. How could I turn that down? Here are a few of her favorites that I stole from her blog. I will post more when I get them all.

Since it was our anniversary we wanted a few of just us.

Carter singing "do as I'm doing"

The boys look cute. I kept putting myself in awkward positions which made for awkward faces...

The guys

I was standing on a picnic bench 2 ish feet away and leaning against this tree.

Handsome!

Carter's new thing is honking noses. His own... or anyone else that will let him! I'm so glad she caught that.

I cannot believe how grown up and good looking my little Mann is. I am so grateful to Alicia for the free photos and think she did a great job capturing Carter's fun personality and rugged good looks.

Thank you Alicia! You are amazing!!

Because I'm too lazy to upload the pictures twice...

This is what we've been up to lately (in scrapbook form):

We had a great Mother's Day and I don't think I stepped foot in the kitchen once! I woke up to the smell of blueberry muffins (yum!) and the treats continued throughout the day. The page below was made by Dave and the painting that they are holding was done by both of them. Dave did the paint and the white part has crayon drawings by Carter.

We decided to have a family day so we went out for frozen yogurt and to Wheeler Farm. Carter is really into farm animals right now and the farm is free so we've been a few times and he loves it. The page below actually won me $100 gift certificate for How Fast Time Flies in their Mother's Day page contest.

Since the weather has been decent (some days) and since Elmo got a tricycle in a recent episode of Sesame Street Carter has been obsessed with riding his "ficycle". He is getting better every day and knows that he can't ride it without his "hat".

I don't have a scrapbook page for this but Grover (baby #2) is doing great. We had a doctor's appointment last Friday and going into it I was a bit nervous about the possibility of twins. I've been getting very big VERY fast and been really sick all the time which didn't happen with Carter. Everyone around me kept planting the twin seeds in my mind and I just wanted confirmation that they were wrong. When I went in and she checked me she was able to find a heartbeat (which is great for only 9 weeks which is what I was at the time) but she said I was measuring 2 weeks ahead and that I would need an ultrasound to make sure of dates and number of babies. Fantastic.

We went in yesterday for the sonogram and I am happy to report there will be only 1 Christmas miracle joining our family this year. It was fun to see little Grover, who is measuring exactly at my due date, although it still doesn't feel real to me. Dave says Grover "looks like a girl" and that he "just got a feeling" it was a girl when we were looking at "her". We'll see I guess.

And that's the update. Below is a picture of me at only 9 weeks. In case you thought I was exaggerating.

Same old Same old...

Pretty much our life right now...

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I love my new bike!!!!

Dear Santa...

I know Daddy took me to Toys R Us to get me a brand new super cool big boy tricycle, but this 'My-saur' is definitely on my Christmas list!

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The California playlist for our theme date

I was going to post this a while ago but I figured now is as good as any time. I made a play list of songs for our California date night, some being obvious and others being songs reminding us of the golden state. Here is what i chose:

-Welcome to Paradise by Greenday

-California Girls by the Beach Boys

-Heads Carolina, Tails California by Jo Dee Messina

-California English by Vampire Weekend

-Some Beach by Blake Shelton

-Seaside by the Kooks

-I Left My Heart in San Francisco by Storm Door (an old school barbershop group)

-My Paper Heart by All American Rejects (It reminds me of the times Brook and I would go to the beach after returning home from my mission)

-Hotel California by the Eagles

-Surf Wax America by Weezer

-Vegetable Car by Joshua Radin (for all the environmental-friendly cars in CA)

-Ocean Avenue by Yellowcard

-West Coast Friendship by Owl City

-California by Rufus Wainwright

-Good Day Sunshine by the Beatles

-San Francisco by Brett Dennen

-It Happened in Monterey by Frank Sinatra (told by Brook after putting it on the list that the song is actually about Mexico but I left it on anyway)

-I Heard It Through The Grape Vine by Marvin Gaye (Wine Country Baby!)

-I'm Walking On Sunshine by Katrina and the Waves

We were planning on doing this every week but have been unsuccessful since the trial run. Hopefully we can start it up again as it was different and fun.

In case the baby with the Christmas lights didn't give it away...

WE'RE PREGNANT! Baby Grover (temporary name courtesy of Carter) is due to join our family on or around December 21st. We are so grateful to have received another miracle and know that we are truly blessed. Thanks to all that have supported us in this journey thus far.