Blanding

Thanks to my SIL Maryn for sending me pictures of our trip to Blanding! We drove from Centerville to Blanding the day after we got to Utah. It was about a 6 hour drive and Casey's parents were so kind to let us drive with them. It's a lot more enjoyable when you have a fun group in the car to talk to! Carly did awesome on the drive. She slept a lot. It made Casey and I want to take more road trips! We spent our three days there hanging out with family, riding four-wheelers, and going to our neice Taya's blessing in Bluff. We have a lot of fun talking and spending time with family. We were expecting it to be warm, nice weather there but most of the time is was rainy and cold. We didn't bring any warm clothes for Carly so we headed down to a local store and bought Carly some sweatsuits and a "skimpy onesie" (I'll post pics). We'll always remember The Green Family Reunion '09! Thanks everyone for making it such a fun time for us!

Casey trying to keep Carly warm.

Carly with her cousins Emersyn and Taya. Emersyn is 2 weeks older than Carly. They'll have a lot of fun playing with each other in the future!

We visited the dinosaur museum in Blanding to get out of the rain.

We love Grandma & Grandpa!

I am 23!

My birthday was on Friday and now I'm 23! Yes, I really am only 23 all you old farts! I had an amazing birthday. Casey was so sweet to plan a birthday party for me. He got me a Sam's cake and invited some friends over. Everyone was so extremely kind to spend time with me on my birthday. It was so fun!

Casey also got me a jogging stroller! I'm so excited to be able to safely jog with Carly now (not that I've attemped to jog with her in the umbrella stroller...). Today we went shopping to some outlets and I got some very cute clothes with birthday money from my parents and Casey's parents. Thank you everyone for making my birthday amazing!

Utah fun

We've been back from Utah for a week but we haven't had a workable computer until today so finally here are some Utah trip pics. We realized that we didn't take any pictures at the Green family reunion in Blanding. I will get some and post them later. We had an awesome time in Utah. It was so fun to spend four straight days with Casey's whole family and then spend time with my family too.

Carly was an awesome traveler besides the flight home. She kept tugging at her ears the whole trip but I thought nothing of it because she's been doing it for weeks and seemed fine. Also at her well-child checkup a couple weeks ago the doctor said her ears were perfectly fine. On the flight from SLC to Denver she cried for 30 minutes staight. She was even too upset to take a bottle. I was more worried about her than embarrased because she never acts like that. A couple days after we got home I took her to the doctor and low and behold she had an ear infection. Poor girl.

While in Provo, Carly and I hit up some of my local food favorites: Gandolfos, Cafe Rio, and Snowie. I would've hit up more places but after Cafe Rio my already fragile tummy could handle no more. I also made my way to Costco, Goldsmith (I try to get my ring cleaned whenever I go to Provo), and some other places with my familia. It was tons of fun! Thanks to Casey's and my family for being so kind to us while we were there. We loved it.

My dad loves Costco. Especially the tool aisle.

My mommy
Carly sitting like a big girl in the cart. She's a lot happier being able to see what's going on.

Carly met her new cousins Taylor and Thomas for the first time.

Carly got to play with all of Grandma and Grandpa's toys. It's crazy to think that I played with the same toys when I was her age!

Carly loved hanging out with her Uncle Jacob.

Jobba?

My awesome dad.

Jacob and mom at Gandolfos.

6 months!

 This post is a week late because our computer crashed last week and we've been on vacation. We may be computerless for a while because lets face it computers aren't cheap.

Little Carliflower turned 6 months last week!  I can't believe it.  She's half a year old!  She can sit up by herself, drink out of a sippy cup, and "scoot" on her tummy. She's so much fun.  She loves to suck on her toes and sleep in weird positions.

Height: 26.5" -75%

Weight: 16.7 -60%

Being sick blows chunks...literally

We've been in Utah since the 21st. It has been so great to see family again!  We miss our families so much.  Coming back to Utah makes us realize how much we miss it.  The people, places, and food are all beautiful! It has been a fun and interesting trip  (Casey left back to Milwaukee today).  We all got the GI flu.  While we were camping in Blanding, UT for a Green family reunion the flu started going around until it hit our family on Memorial Day.  Poor Carly seemed to get the worst of it.  Camping with a sick baby was pretty tiring!  Now hopefully I can get over this already 72-hour flu so I can get some Cafe Rio (and not throw it up)!  

I ♥ Aldi

Ever since I stopped working after Carly was born I've been trying to find ways to save money. There are a few things that I won't skimp on but as for food I'm definitely willing to forgo the name brand to save some money. Which brings me to my new found shopping love, Aldi.

I saw Aldis all over Europe when Kari and I were there but when Casey and I moved here to Milwaukee I was a little hesitant to venture into one because someone once told me it was ghetto. I got over my fear of ghetto-ness after working in the ghetto for a year and a half so I finally made my way to one. I was pleasantly surprised how much I enjoyed shopping there my first time, and now I do 90% of my grocery shopping there. I love being able to walk down the aisles and just grab things that I need instead of checking unit prices for different brands. Plus everything I've ever purchased at Aldi has been great quality, and tastes the same as buying stuff full price somewhere else.

After figuring out how much money we've saved from shopping at Aldi I'm never buying food anywhere else! All you haters best be steppin'!

Pictures!

We decided to get Carly's pictures taken for her half birthday. She'll be 6 months in less than 2 weeks! We're going to Utah in 2 weeks so I wanted to get some pictures before we left. We had the hardest time trying to get Carly to smile. I think there's only one out of the whole bunch where she's smiling, lil punk!