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Wednesday, October 12, 2011

A Look Back at the Pumpkin Patch

This is Carter's 3rd year celebrating Halloween and going to the pumpkin patch. I love looking back to see what Carter looked like at the same time last year, and the holidays make it pretty easy to do so.

Here is a look back at my little babe at the pumpkin patch:

October 2009



I remember the lady who worked at the patch told us she thought Carter was the youngest little one she's ever had there. He was teeny!





October 2010

This is one of my favorite pictures of C, ever!





And October 2011!





We technically haven't done our official pumpkin patch visit this year, but we did go to the farm the other day and they had their pumpkins out so I had to get some pictures.




Monday, October 10, 2011

MIA

I'm so sorry I've been MIA lately. I promise I'll be back and posting regularly again. I've never been so busy, between Carter's party, family in town, and getting our lives back in order, I'm surprised I've had time to shower lately. And I've been failing at that too I guess. Haha.

I'm still reading all your blogs, unfortunately blogger is being a dork again and not letting my comment on some of my favorite blogs from my work computer, and I tend to do all my blog reading on my lunch break so that kind of sucks. Especially after I type out a nice heartfelt and hilarious comment and it doesn't go through so my effort is wasted. I'm going to try and make an effort to comment from home.

I haven't touched my camera or Photoshop in a few weeks so hopefully that will change soon. Maybe one of my preggo friends will let me take some pictures of their bellies soon for fun?

Last week Andy and I actually ventured from home and drove the 30 miles to Hollywood, on a work night, and saw a concert! A real concert! I was pretty uncomfortable the whole time and sat down in a chair in the corner, but hey, it was a real concert! We saw the band Gomez play, we are both fans, and we also loved the opening acts Greylag and The Kopecky Family Band. All really good bands, if you like Indie-Folky-Rockish music, you'll dig it.



Here are some other things I've been doing recently:

Halloween Horror Nights at Universal with my mom, sisters and a few friends last Friday (if you enjoy being chased by a satanic clown with a chainsaw, go for it!).

Celebrated my sister Kat's 40th Birthday (I think she is lying and is really the same age as me, we are super close and I couldn't imagine not starting my day with a little coffee and chit chatting with her).



Carter and I ate something nasty yesterday and it gave us a stomach bug. He was way worse than me and woke me up at 4am, and then barfed all over me, in my bed, twice. The 2nd time came after we had bathed him, replaced the sheets and washed the dirties. Fun stuff I tell you. All I could think about at 4am, puke on my arm, is what in the world would I do with TWO barfy kids at 4am? One is too much. Sigh.

We're going up to San Francisco at the end of the month for work, and we're bringing Carter with us! Can't wait to introduce Carter to the city that Andy and I met in.

HALLOWEEN is almost here! Yikes! No costume ideas for Carter yet, although he is really into the cartoon Wow Wow Wubbzy and I found a Wow Wow costume so I might go that route. I want to choose something I know he's into rather than dress him in something I find cute, but then again I'm running out of years where I can dress him in whatever I want without any objections.

Next weekend is the annual Pumpkin Festival in a nearby town. Looking forward to bringing Carter like we did last year, and possibly going car shopping for Andy.

Carter can pretty much say any word he wants now, he repeats almost everything he hears, and sometimes he shocks us with words or phrases that we have no idea where they came from. He says thank you ALL the time, and sorry. It's the cutest thing in the world when I unbuckle his car seat, and like clockwork he says "Tank you, tank you" while giving me the cutest little smile. He is due for his 2 year check up soon and I'm sure he's grown like a weed from his last appointment. I'm working on getting him to say "Trick Or Treat" so he'll be prepared for Halloween.

The holidays are going to be so much fun this year. Carter is at an age where he understands the concept of presents. Seeing his face on Christmas morning will pretty much sum up all the reasons why I wanted to have kids in the first place.



That's about it. Thanks for sticking around. I promise to update more VERY soon.







Sunday, October 2, 2011

Carter's 2nd Birthday!

My life has been so hectic lately so thank you for being patient while I get myself back together.

Last Saturday, September 24, Carter turned 2! We had a fabulous Mickey themed birthday and I couldn't have asked for a more perfect day.





















Rock n I.

Mary and I.

Andy in his adorable Mickey apron. 
My friend Lauren's sweet baby girl Charlotte. 






My friend Sam and her baby boy Waylon.










My friend Amy.

Alina, Samantha, Debbie & Laura!


Carter is SO lucky, both of his great-grammies from Massachusetts were in town for his party. This fills my heart with joy.

Great-Grammie Spaulding (my mother's mother).

Great-Grammie Bartlett or Nana Haley (My father's mother).


I know how blessed we are and I thank God daily for his many blessings. We are so fortunate to have had such a wonderful day surrounded by our closest friends of family. 

On a daily basis my life is filled with work stress, and home life frustrations; it just takes a second to remind myself that the little things don't matter. In the end, all that matters is my family,  friends, and the impressions we make on people and this world. 

I am living my best life and need to not take everything else so seriously. 

Hope you enjoyed these pictures! :)