THE first Santa experience

Santa came to our ward party last Saturday.  Carly was so excited to see him.  She even sat on his lap and told him that she wanted a puppy for Christmas! 

Waiting in the line to see Santa…

 

BYU football

I was looking through the pictures on my phone and found these pictures from one of the BYU games that we went to.  We were lucky that Casey’s parents let us go with them to the home games.  Carly absolutely loved the games.  She cheered, clapped, and sang the BYU fight song.

   

 

Happy Thanksgiving…a bit late.

We had a very fun Thanksgiving.  I made the turkey for Casey’s family’s party.  We had a few “problems” while trying to transport the turkey from Provo to Centerville – Ray (our old-time friend) ended up with a lap full of raw turkey juice, and then the spigot on the cooler that was holding the turkey froze open (it doesn’t sound possible, but it did happen).  Nevertheless, we did get the turkey to Centerville.

Kreg got to carve the turkey this year.  Can’t you tell by the look on his face how confident he was? 

All the nieces loved playing with Ray.

  

Carly’s 2-year pictures

 

BYU fight song

Carly is obsessed with the BYU Cougars.  Whenever she sees a Y anywhere she wants to start singing the BYU fight song.

Things I love Fridays - “Homemade” popcorn

 

I love microwave popcorn.  I don’t love the butter lovers way greasy types but I do love the lightly salted and buttered ones.  In the past I would buy the light butter popcorn because it’s not  drenched in fake butter.  BUT a few months ago I was picking up some popcorn at the grocery store and I saw that a few brands had new homemade flavors.  I was curious what this homemade flavor would taste like so I bought some.  I tried it and now am a huge fan.  The homemade flavor actually has real, tasty butter in it.  It’s definitely not as buttery and fattening as the butter lovers/movie theater kinds but it has more butter than the light kinds, so it’s perfect in my opinion.  It’s really good and what’s even better is that I don’t feel like a chunk o’ lard after I eat it!

Carly’s birthday!

We had a slammin’ birthday party for Carly!  Lots of family and friends came.  We played some games that Casey came up with.  They were actually the same games we played last year, but a bit different.  Casey put together Carly’s annual birthday quiz, guess how big Carly’s belly is (baby shower style), and guess what toy Carly will grab first. Carly loved all the attention!  We had such a fun time celebrating her birthday.

    

Carly’s cousin Taylor wouldn’t let go of the balloons! 

 

Casey with the quiz.  Uncle Jacob ended up winning the box of Lucky Charms!

   

 

   

Carly fell and hit her lip on the corner of a desk the night before her birthday.

 

The Dora cake.  It was the best store bought cake I've ever had!  It was filled with Bavarian cream.

   

Carly wouldn’t touch the cake I made her!

          

                              Thomas ate it though                               

Playing with all her new toys.

  

Happy 2nd Birthday baby girl!

 

I was looking through pictures of Carly and I couldn’t believe that my little baby is already 2.  She has grown up so much this past year.  She is such a sweetheart and she already loves to try to take care of me and Casey.  Here are some pictures from the past 2 years!                                              

                                 2 months                                                                                      3 months

                     

                             4 months                                                                                    5 months

                  

                            6 months                                                                                     7 months

               

                              8 months                                                                                             9 months

                         

                           10 months                                                                                              11 months

                                        

1 year

                            14 months                                                                                         16 months

                

                                     18 months                                                                             20 months

         

                                    22 months                                                                                            2 years!

           (apparently I only took 1 picture of                                                  Pics to come after today!

                      Carly in September!)                                                    

Latest accomplishments/loves:

• Talks ALL the time.  She just started counting to ten!
• She only had 4 teeth until 2 months ago and now she has 11!  Finally I don’t have to chop everything up into teeny pieces!
• Loves sleeping with her “animals” and is obsessed with all kinds of animals.  She squeals when she sees birds outside or a dog out for a walk.
• Sleeps awesome in her big girl bed
• Her favorite book is Goldilicious, sometimes I read it to her 3 times at night and she keeps saying more!
• She still is the most outgoing little kid I’ve ever known.  She says hi to everyone we see whenever we go shopping. 
• Asks for M&Ms 50X a day.  She doesn’t get them a lot but she sure loves them!
• She is very caring and if I say ouch about anything she’ll come up to me and kiss it better and give me loves.

We love you Carly!