Life is good!

So here we are, and I have yet again been terrible with keeping you in the loop. Not because I don’t have the time (I can always make time), but because I always get a terrible case of writer’s block when I being a new post. So much has happened and I just can’t find the words to share it all, so here are some important events and some fun pictures to look at J

After our crazy winter snow, and it snowing ALL DAY LONG for a couple of days, Carter got to play outside in the snow for the first time (and actually roll in it). Last year we got snow, but Carter wasn't walking and having your little baby roll around in the freezing snow didn't really appeal to me. We have had so much fun with him in the snow this year. We got him the cutest little snow pants, bundled him up, and out we went. Oh my goodness I just love new things with Carter. He is so fun!

Carter waiting to go outside to play in the snow!

Daddy and Carter in the snow!

Mom pushed him in his car for awhile. It was hard to drive in snow!

My uncle Bill Lee is the new Utah County Commissioner. We are so proud of him, and it was so fun to go to his inauguration. Carter had fun running around with my cousins and it was nice to see lots of family including my grandma and grandpa.

Utah County Commissioner Bill Lee (with my grandparents)!

Carter got another hair cut and boy is my sister-in-law amazing. She cut his hair with scissors and he did so good. At the very beginning, there were a few tears. We had to distract him with his obsession... a ball!

Hair cut time!

Our favorite time of day is when daddy comes home from work! With in 5 minutes we are laughing, running around, and being silly. More then once we have ended up in our bed taking silly pictures and just hanging out together. I love my boys!

One of those fun moments taking silly pictures.

Moving to Utah, we decided we would no longer rent. It was the time for us to make a really grown up decision and become beyond broke for a long awaited house. Well, after a couple of weeks of looking, we entered the house that would make us broke. We are so excited to be home owners! What a rush it has been, and we get to move in next month! Here is to move number 9! Don't worry, there will be lots more pictures once we move in! We can hardly wait :)

Our new house! I took this right after we made the offer :)

My amazing little brother came home from his mission! We are so proud of him, and think he is amazing for serving in the Philippines and blowing us away with how much he has learned. We weren't able to be there at the airport, and haven’t seen him yet, but have gotten lots of talking in. In April Jason will finally have some time off and we’ll be able to see him for the first time in 2 years! The count down in on little bro.

My little bro and sis after Dyelan got off the plane!

This weekend Friday night date night turned into a family outing, and it was so much fun! We took Carter to a nickelcade and had a blast. Jason even got the jackpot and we won 1000 tickets. I’m pretty sure everyone was looking at us. Yay for daddy and getting us lots of toys :)

Daddy won 1000 tickets in 1 turn!

At the Nickelcade not really knowing what to do....

Saturday mornings are my mornings to have a girl’s day. My sister and I have started on an exciting project of making quiet books for our cute little kiddos. I just love it when I’m out and Jason sends me little messages to let me know he and Carter are thinking of me.

This was a picture of a text that said. CHEESE!

While Carter and daddy were out, they said We Love You!

Daddy and Carter went to the park and sent me a text saying, Hi mom, we love you!

First page in our quiet books.

I love being a mother to the cutest, sweetest, most polite little boy on the planet. Each day I am amazed at how much I have been blessed. Life is so good!

Isn't he the sweetest?!

Carter is the best big cousin. He gives Carmen hugs and kisses too <3

Happy 2015!

It seems like only 2 days ago I was frantically trying to get ready for Christmas, New Years, and Jason's 30th birthday celebration. I could hardly believe it was almost here! Now it's Jan. 2, 2015 and the start of another wonderful year. We sure had lots of fun, but some advice... never move in December. It make things crazy!

As you might have already read, Jason accepted a new job in Utah. They gave him a choice of when he would like to start and us being crazy and thinking about never paying a zillion dollars for rent again, decided that he would start December 8th. Bad. Idea. I am so happy we are where we are now, but my goodness, moving right before Christmas makes you feel as if you'll never be ready for it. Plus Jason wasn't able to get the time off for us to go to my parents house, so I was sad to hear that we would be having Christmas by ourselves. We had so much fun! Talk about the excitement of creating your own little family traditions :)

Growing up we never went out to eat. 5 kids just meant a circus and a huge bill so... we had the awesome tradition of going out to eat (it was Red Lobster at first but has changed since then) on Christmas Eve. We always had a magical time and even when we lived in New Mexico, it always seemed to snow the night we went. As kids we were convinced that was the only reason it snow, because we kept our tradition. Well, we decided that all of us kids would still keep the tradition even though we're all grown, have our own families, and weren't with our parents this year. We went to Olive Garden for dinner so it didn't snow lol, but we sure got a crazy winter storm later in the week. 

After dinner we went and looked at lights around the neighborhood, and headed to my sister's house to play games, visit, and reminisce in wonderful memories. We ended up leaving their house at about 11 pm! Carter loved the fact that he got to stay out so late :)

Carter and Taylor at our Christmas Eve Dinner.

All of us at Dinner Christmas Eve. 

Christmas morning was always a magical thing too. I was always so excited to see what everyone got, and we had the biggest breakfast of our lives on Christmas day. I must say it was a fantastic idea, because we'd get our cooking out of the way, and veg and play with our toys the rest of the day. Jason and I however, decided to switch it up a little bit. He and his mom would always have a big Christmas dinner on Christmas day. I thought, how fun would it be to have our favorite cereal for breakfast (we hardly ever eat cereal but it's our favorite) and then cook a huge Christmas feast! it was a wonderful day to remember, and I hope we keep our little family Christmas tradition forever :)

We google chat-ed with the rest of our family while opening presents. Technology is amazing!

Carter loved what we got from Santa :)

Carter was so good with opening his own gifts, it was so fun!

Carter and Jason, all ready for our Christmas feast.

Christmas night we got the best present of all! We were able to google chat with Dyelan! He is serving a mission in the Philippines and is doing so well. It was so awesome to actually see him while we were talking to him!

He only has 10 months left!!!!

Another family tradition we had growing up was looking at lights Christmas eve. While we still did that on Christmas Eve, we decided we really wanted to see the Hogle Zoo lights in Salt Lake City. Although it was so cold, Carter laughed and giggled, and loved looking at all the different creature made of lights. We also saw some of the animals and had a wonderful time.

Carter was all snuggled and warm in his stroller :)

Here is us in the gazebo. My goodness was it cold!

 After all of our wonderful Christmas creations, we then started preparations for New Years Eve and even more importantly Jason's 30th birthday (both the same day). I was going to plan a surprise party when all of my plans were blown. That's when we decided a family party with homemade pizza, some yummy cake and ice cream, and a new years count down would do the trick. We had so much fun and loved that everyone (siblings in Utah and their little families) were able to make it. They stayed until 2 am and Siehara ended up spending the night. It was so much fun!

Tain and Karalee making their pizza.

Andres and adorable little Carmen!

The cutest nephew ever, Taylor!

Siehara making her pizza, and don't worry Karalee we don't blame you for sneaking a pepperoni :)

Jason's dirty thirty birthday cake!

The birthday boy!

His favorite gift that was destroyed seconds later, an air plane :)

 Well, those were the holidays for us. I am so bummed Jason had to go back to work today, but I guess you can't just sit around a be lazy all the time. Here is to another year we are going to fill with wonderful memories. Happy 2015!