Christmas Eve and Day 2011

Christmas Eve we spent the day with Chris' family.  We went to Alpine and Chris and his parents did this little hike right by there house that takes about an hour round trip and it is so beautiful.  Carter and I stayed at the house and took a little nap.
We traveled down to temple square for the annual lights on temple square.  We had a great time and Carter loves the lights and the Christmas trees.

We went with Gma Rass, Bob, Kae, Emily, Randy and Gma Morgan.  Chris gpa Morgan has been in the hospital for 3 weeks and they finally just found the cancer and he had surgery and now he will start chemo and radiation soon.  He just got sick one day.  He was definitely missed.

Christmas day we had a wonderful time.  Carter woke up  and had a great time.  He got a kitchen that I bought at a consignment sale, a mickey mouse T-shirt, a cars pillowcase I made him.  I will post the video.  Then we got ready and when to Alpine for presents with the Rasmussen's.

Carter got a lunch bag from his gma Kae.

Carter and his gma kae with his new pajamas

The whole Rasmussen clan comes over for lunch on Christmas day.  They have been doing this for over 20 yrs.  His cousin Randy and his Aunt Michelle make chili verde.  It is so yummy. 

Carter with his cousin Ledger.  He wanted to hold him so i put him on his lap and I held his hand just in case he decided he was done.  And He just sat there and was so calm and loving to him and Ledger who is a little mover, just sat there and smiled at Carter.

 Then we traveled to my family house for dinner, presents and games.

 My sister Tabitha and Mom.

I didn't take many pictures.  I ment to but it just didn't happen.  I know others took some I just need to get it from them.  Carrie my oldest is from D.C. and she was here for the months of Nov and Dec. It was good to have her here with us and for Carter to get to know her. 

I am lucky to be with my family on this special holiday.  Things will change this coming year and we soaked up as much family as we can.  We love you all.

Me 31!

Well this year I turned 31.  I know I can't believe it myself.  I am also 34 weeks here.  I lovc banana cream pie and not cake.  So I always get pie and then we have cake for everyone else.  We played games at my mom's house and ate dessert.  Melanie, Jason and the kids came earlier for pizza.

Every year I get flowers from my dear friend Sterling in Chicago.  Chris figures it's one holiday he doesn't have to get me some.  I think they are beautiful.

Early that day at church I was released from my calling.  I was in Young Women's.  I served 2 1/2 years as the secretary and the 6 months as the Laurel Advisor.  I fell in love with those girls.  We had the greatest times together.   I was looking forward to bringing the baby in but it looks like she will come with me to Relief Society.  My new calling is Relief Society teacher.

I will miss these girls most of all.  They will always be a part of me.

Chris also made my birthday a big deal.  He made it an entire weekend.  He called out friday and then he took me out saturday night.  We went to dinner with Melanie, Jason and Bruce and then to see Sherlok Holmes.  He is into birthdays which I like.  I think birthdays are a big deal and I am glad I don't have to convince my husband that it is a big deal.  He also got me a pedicure, manicure.
I love him and Carter more than anything. I am very lucky.

Festival and Such

Another year with Festival is here and it turned out great.  I didn't get a chance to take pictures of the trees I loved.  I was able to help out on set up day and opening night.  We took Carter 3 different times, he loved it.  He would get really excited and not wan to leave that tree that he loved and then we would convince him there was another tree he would love.  I love the gingerbread house's, but this year I was surprised on how there not any big ones.  Usually there are.

Carter played Joseph in Nursery 2 weeks before Christmas at Church.  He was lucky to have 2 wives that day.  He did such a  great job and he did all of his parts.  I couldn't believe how cute he was.  All the kids did a great job.

With my friends there are 4 of us that have a December birthday.  So Ingrid threw a Christmas party and threw in a baby shower birthday theme.  1 Friend had a baby and then Holly and I are due the same day.

31!

I had my birthday on Sunday, It was fantastic.  I am uploading pictures and then I will tell all.  I must say that MY HUSBAND is the best man that I know and he sure knows how to make a girl feel like the world is hers.

I also need to tell you about Jury Duty....Except some stories in the next day or two.

Thanksgiving 2011

For the first time in 12 years all of my sisters and brother were together with my parents.  Of course we each of added to the family but it was great to be together.

Caden at his thanksgiving performance.

All of my nieces and nephews

Me and my siblings (Emily Melanie Tabitha Bruce Carrie and I) Carter snuck in.

We had a wonderful thanksgiving and the kids had such a great time playing together.  My sister Emily put together some crafts for the kids to do while the others got dinner ready.  It was fun to do with her.  

I feel very blessed to have all of my family together but also in good health and good standing with each other.  We also have great talks and laughter with each other.  I also have to say that I love my parents.  I just feel very blessed.  

I also have to say that my son and husband bring me so much joy.  I can not wait for this little girl to come to our wonderful family.  I love my boys.

Later that night we went back to gma's and had dessert and played games.  It was a wonderful time with both sets of family.  I also am really grateful for my in-laws.  I have a great relationship with them and enjoy spending time with him.

I hope everyone had a wonderful thanksgiving.

A few things I forgot..

I got a new phone a while ago and it is not as user friendly when it comes to taking things off my phone and putting them on my computer.  I always have to have Chris do it because there are so many little steps that don't make sense to me.  So here are some pictures of  some of the things we did in the last little while.

 Carter, Me, Jack Dan Tiana and baby Luke.

The first weekend of November Chris, Carter and I traveled to Idaho Falls to  see a dear friend and his great family.  When I got home from my mission in 2003 I became close friends with Dan Miller, Jon Moore and Mark Egan.  We have adopted a few more friends on the way but it has been us from the beginning.  We each have grown and changed and we are all lucky enough to be able to do it with each other.  Dan was the first to get married and have a baby.  He also was the first to move away.  I feel for his poor wife because we were not always the easiest of girls to hang around with.  We were very protective of our guys. Well Dan and his wife had another baby the first of October and we wanted to come and see the baby and have a nice little over nighter together.  We got to hang out they have a little boy Jack that is 3 and Carter loved playing with him.  We ate pizza and talked, it was fabulous.  I wish they lived closer but it is good to know that no matter where we live or what happens within our lives we can meet up and pick up from where we left off.

Thanks for a wonderful weekend and can't wait to see you guys soon.

We took Carter to the zoo a couple of weeks ago.  It was a little chilly but it was great hardly anyone was there and the animals were awesome.  We even got to hand feed some Lamas.  We had a really great time and I look forward to going back when the zoo lights are on.

We got Carter a Car bed when he turned 2 and I have just forgotten to tell you all about it.  It is not the greatest picture but this is what carter does when I change the sheets.  He loves to jump on it and I don't mind that he does.  We also have the crib up for baby sister.  Better pictures to come.

When we took Carter to Chris work for halloween at the end of the event they took family photos and this is what came out of it.

Halloween and such

This was me at 25 weeks.  I am 29 now so I will post an updated one.  I am loosing shirts.  With Carter I was more round with this one I just pop out in the front.

Chris and I attended our first Murder Mystery.  It was actually really fun.  We were a little worried seeing we had never been to one.  Nicole and Brian Hill hosted it and it was awesome.  Chris was a 3000 yr old  Mummy and I was a murdering dentist..Dr. Angela Deth DDA.  In the end neither of us were the murderers. 

Chris carved a pumpkin.  I hate carving pumpkins.  The guts inside gross me out and I do not like the seeds.  I would just rather support and had over tools when ready.  He had a great time and Carter loved it.

This doesn't happen very often.  Usually Carter is in his bed and chris is like this on the couch.  But because of stake Conference and having to leave to go to dinner with the family.  Carter got some down time with a movie on the ipad.

We are offically in our first season of the pac 12.  Keep in mind as crazy n love my husband is with the utes, he is very realistic with their abilities with a much different set of teams we were playing against.  Some losses have been hard and some easy but every win has been great.  We can hopefully only get better.  The last game we went to was the weekend of Halloween and so there were some costumes there.  This is Chris' BFF Mike (Ron Burgandy) and his wife Alianna (a saloon girl).  

We also had our first Rasmussen halloween party.  It was a great hit.  We played bowling with ghosts (idea from my sister Emily W) we had a donut string contest.  I lost miserably.  I do not have a very big mouth...literally.  Here is a great shot of Gma working it.

We also had some allergy issues with Lynzie and Shawna so we set up the apple and the string.  First one wins but seriously they both took a bit out of the apple at the same time they got to the string.  

Shawna and Jeff

Lynzie and Marq.  Lynzie is dying of laughter and choking on the apple at the same time.  It was a good time.

The kids loved playing in the leaves.  They spent most of the time in there.  

Fuller Halloween Party 2011

We thought it would be great since the kids are getting older that we could start to throw a Halloween party.

We played games and we ate yummy food.  Thanks Em and Mick for hosting it.

Carter...

Carter is completely potty trained.  We have our occasional accidents but he is doing great.  I would say it took us 5 weeks total.  He had the peeing down by a week and by week 3 he had pooping down.  He did not get how big of a deal it was to poop in the potty in the beginning.  One day he is going potty and he starts to yell, I make a snake.  I walk in and he had pooped in the potty.  So that is what he says when he goes poop.  I think it is really funny.  He still gets really excited when he uses the potty.  I have to say that he could have cared less about rewards and candy after.  I would have to remind him that he could have one.  

He has been sleeping in a toddler bed since he was 2.  I bought him a car bed and he loves it.  I have yet to take a picture...I promise it will come but we got a killer deal on ksl.com.  He also likes to get out of his bed and turn on the light so we had to take the light bulbs out and use a lamp.  So one day we went to check on him and this is what we found...

He went into the closet turned on the lights and took a nap there.  Now there is a child door knob lock on it.