Better Late Than Never

Hello! It has been a while… We’ve been quite the busy little family lately! When you own a house, the to-do lists never get any shorter. When you are the mom of a 2 year old little boy, time never stays still. The summer always makes the days fly by a little faster! Here’s an update on everything we have been doing!

We were able to go to the Payson Utah Temple open house. What a beautiful temple!

To-do Lists

We’ve been busy bees with the lovely warm weather. Our garden has grown a ton, and we just had our first harvest. Nothing like fresh lettuce, spinach, arugula in a delish salad. We even had 2 snap peas which were delish, and Jason got his crop of awesome radishes. They were a little too spicy for my liking. All of our other plants are poking through the ground, and now the only hard thing is waiting.

We’ve been trying to build a fence around our garden boxes to keep the dog and little Carter bug out. It has taken us several tries to put in a fence that we like. We finally have a cute little fence around our cute little garden area. Unfortunately the dog and the little Carter bug still find ways to squeeze their way inside. Oh well, maybe someday.

Our cute little garden area and the new fence we put in. We love having a garden!

Our first harvest!

Our down stairs living room was orange a black. Yep you read right, orange and black. Yikes! I didn’t mind it so much when we looked at the house to buy it, but it was wearing on me… so we painted it! Now the room feels so much bigger, and I love that I am not always looking at a rust orange. We are pretty happy it’s all done, because painting is hard work! One tip I would give future painters, edger! They are amazing. So happy we didn’t have to tape everything before we painted it!

This our orange living room right before we painted!

The after color... so much better!

2 Year Old Little Boy

My sweet little Carter at 4 months 

My sweet little boy on his second birthday! 

My big little boy <3

Okay, so I am so LATE on this! Carter is 2! He turned 2 on April 10^th and oh my goodness that little boy melts my heart more and more every day! He is so smart too, and I cannot be more proud of him! Here are some facts about this sweet little cutie!

We've gone to the zoo a couple of times, and Carter loves it!

Favorite color: All of them. He knows all of his colors and always makes sure to use them when describing things. My favorite is when we are driving and he sees a car of a different color. He’ll yell, “Mommy red jeep (or car or truck or whatever it is)” and he always gets the color right. He is a little smarty pants, no wonder he is in the 90^th percentile for head circumference. He just has a lot of brains.

At the zoo during the opening of Jurassic Park.

Favorite toy: Cars and trucks are his obsession. For his birthday he got a little Mater (the tow truck from the movie Cars) and he is his best friend. They do everything together, and he even has to tuck him in when they go to sleep at night. He also loves riding his cute little motorcycle (he gets to be like Grandpa). When he puts his sunglasses on while riding he means business.

Favorite food: EVERYTHING! Except veggies, although he loves dipping broccoli in ranch. Sometimes I am blown away that he eats more than I do. He’s just like his daddy though, hollow legs.

Cool dude on a motorcycle

Favorite things to do: He absolutely loves playing with cars, running around outside (his favorite place to be), watching and touching bugs, playing in the dog’s water, playing in dirt and rocks, making up games with balls, being silly, and giving hugs and kisses. He is the sweetest boy when it comes to showing love to everyone.

Outside washing the car!

Carter with baby goats, so sweet!

Favorite people: He sure does love his aunt Kira. If he doesn’t ask about her at least once a day, there is something wrong. His best friend is his cousin Taylor, and he Loves texting and talking to Grandma on the phone. Many times he tells daddy to go back to work, and has to have his mommy do everything (ok so secretly it’s kind of funny). He has been a huge mommy’s boy lately.

Aunt Kira (aka Teeda)!

Carter with his best friend/cousin.

Jason

For a little while Jason was working nights (in May), and we were able to do all kinds of fun during the day together. He really enjoyed helping to plan and carry out a 5k fun run in Springville for Nestle. Friday we went on an incredible date to celebrate OUR 5^th YEAR ANNIVERSARY (how has that much time past?)!!!! We went black light golfing, ate dinner at an AMAZING restaurant called Oregano Italian Kitchen (better than Olive Garden), and surprised me with tickets to the BYU play Hansel and Gretle. He is such a hard worker and is amazing at taking care of us. He’s my favorite.

Clarissa

I’ve been taking a class online, and just finished my last test! Now on to writing papers, YUCK! I also signed up to be a consultant for Usborne Books & More and have been a little frazzled at starting my own business, but it’ll be an adventure! I’ve loved living close to family in Utah, and get to see my sisters at least once a week. It’s pretty fun! We just ran the 5k Jason helped organize, and had fun. Siehara and I ran with our kiddos and boy was it hard. Pushing 30+ extra pounds while running is hard. I have been incredibly busy with play dates, attempting to decorate my house, and running after my sweet little man. He is my obsession and I can’t get enough of taking care of him. Being his mom is so fun!

The running crew after running in the rain!

Carter at a play date with Mater. Every where he goes...

Our ever growing family

My niece Carmen turned 1! We were able to celebrate with a wonderful trip from my mom, dad, and baby brother Dyelan (still blows my mind that he’s home from his mission and is 20 years old!). My sister in law announced that she is due with a little girl in September, and my beautiful cousin just announced her engagement (she’s still 13 and totally not allowed to even touch boys yet!). Not only that, but one of my baby cousins graduated from High School. What?! Since when did I get so old?

My sweet little niece Carmen. Can't believe she's already 1!

Kira made her smash cake. She's talented and we loved the cupcakes she made!

Well, I’ve probably left a zillion things out but that kind of happens when you wait almost 2 months to blog. We have continued to see miracles with my health, and our testimonies are continually strengthened by the experiences we’ve had! I hope to keep you in the loop more often, but we’ll see how that goes. Until then, enjoy life and the amazing moments you are given!