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!

Things I love Fridays

Notice that I changed my blog template? I was pretty excited about changing Familia Verde up a little bit.  I know I haven’t blogged for a while…I think about potential posts a lot but then I question their blog worthibility.  Putting all worthibility worries aside I am going to blog again.

Lately I’ve come up with a lot of stuff that I love.

This bread is amazing.  I always buy it when I go to Sam’s Club.

One day a few months ago I decided to splurge and forgo Johnsons & Johnsons and spend a bit more on shampoo for Carly. I spent more in hopes that something new would help me comb through her hair better.  I am SO glad I bought this stuff.  It smells awesome, and now it’s easy to comb through Carly’s hair!                                                                                                                                                    

These crackers are my new favorite.  I even got my dad hooked on them!

I have fallen in love with Wet Ones.  I used to just use wet wipes to clean Carly’s face but now after using these I won’t go back to wet wipes for wiping faces and hands.  These smell really good, and I love that they’re antibacterial.  I’ve tried store brands but for me it’s worth it to spend an extra 40 cents to get these that are easy to get out of the canister and smell good.

And tomorrow I’m running my first 5K, wish me luck!

Halloween!

This Halloween Carly got to go trick or treating three times.  On Wednesday we went to our ward’s trunk or treat, on Friday we went trick or treating at my dad’s work, and then on Saturday night we went trick or treating in Casey’s sister’s neighborhood in Sandy.  It was so much fun!  Carly loved every minute of it. She was really good at picking out a treat and then saying thank you and bye.  After a while when her bag started getting full I started “helping” her pick out candy that I knew I wouldn’t eat, on the other hand, Casey would “guide her hand” toward the Twix or Snickers. 

Carly loved her giraffe costume and started wearing it almost every day two weeks before Halloween.  We had such a fun Halloween weekend and I’m really glad we celebrated it to its fullest!

My parents with  their decorated trunk for the trunk or treat. 

  

A few days later we met some cousins and went to my dad’s work to trick or treat.  Carly got a boatload of candy there and couldn’t carry her bag because it was too heavy. 

Carly and Sadie love hugging each other.

My dad dressed up in his Karate Gee and put in his freaky contacts that he wears every year.  Carly got so freaked out by them. 

My mom is a teacher and she always goes all out for Halloween.  This year she was a Spanish dancer.