Happy First Birthday Tyler!

My 10th was my nephew's 1st birthday. His parents didn't want a big party so they just had the family over for dinner the night of Tyler's birthday. Here's the banner I made for the party.

The boys played, and played, and played. Here's Tyler in his birthday outfit.

And of course, you might need some tools to help you eat your cupcake!

Happy birthday Tyler! We love you! Auntie Tana, Uncle Chris and Carver

Future Hunter?

I absolutely love these jammies on Carver. Can you tell that he likes them too?

You can't see me Mama!

Easter: Better Late Than Never.... right??

I'm finally making the time to post the pictures from Easter weekend. I've got little monkey right on top of me so I'll keep the typing to a minimum. :) We were at my mom's for the weekend. It was supposed to be warm but with the wind it was pretty chilly. My mom hid a bunch of plastic eggs in the back yard for Carver to find. We filled them with some candy, and plastic animals that my mom picked up.

Getting his new gardening gloves on. This coat was my dad's when he was a kid. It was passed down to my brothers and we keep it at mom's house for when we forget a coat. :)




Having so much fun!!!


Look down monkey!




Trying to figure out how to open the eggs

We got Carver a DVD set of Chip & Dale episodes and Duck Tale episodes (from Costco), a bulldozer to go with his dump truck, digger and steam roller, some gardening tools and the gloves.

This was his simple (& cheap) Easter outfit. It was a plain white polo and jeans. He was supposed to wear some cute plaid shorts but it wasn't that warm out.







All in all, it was a fun weekend. We pushed Carver's nap off because of lunch so he was a bit fussy and wouldn't sleep much in the car on the way home. Oh joy! :)

Recap on last weekend

Ok, so here's a recap of what happened around our house this weekend.

Saturday:
*We met my mom, her boyfriend, and my Gramma at Home Depot to lend them our dump truck to take a pallet of pavers to my Gramma's house.
*NATIONAL SCRAPBOOK DAY!
*Daddy and monkey got to spend a lot of time outside working on the garden. It was actually nice out, for WA.
*I made 7 projects for the day! Yay me! It was a lot of fun and I'm glad NSD fell on a weekend this year. Head over to my crafting blog to see everything I made.

Sunday:
*Mothers Day AND my 26th birthday!!!
*My mom and her boyfriend came up from my Gramma's and we all went to church.
*Then we had a BBQ with hubby's family (they all live here) and my Mom and her boyfriend. One of my brother's lives in CO and the other was a camp counselor for an 8th grade honors camp (they both called me though).
*I got some great gifts! :) aka Ergo Baby carrier, lemonade holder thing (it'll be perfect for monkey's bday party next month), lots of flowers and gift cards.

So all in all, the weekend was a success. My dear husband went above and beyond on all the planning and thoughtfulness. I usually set myself up for disappointment on my birthday but I was never once remotely disappointed.

Thanks for letting me ramble! :)

3 Glorious Years!!

Today marks my 3rd wedding anniversary. These last three years have had a lot of changes but I wouldn't change them for the world! I love you babe!

I have a bunch of Easter pictures to show you but lil monkey and I have been down with colds the last couple days. So there goes the dinner plans for tonight, as well as everything else that needs to be done around here.

I'm Sorry!!! {long post}

I can't believe it's been this long since I've posted!!!! Life has kind of gotten in the way and, frankly, it's easier to post to my crafting blog because it's simple. There just hasn't been much 'blog-worthy' things to post about. So I'm going to try to catch you up on what we've been up to, as well as do Carver's 22mo post, all in one. So hang onto your seat because it's going to be a ride!

Carver's 22mo post:

• Not much has changed from his 21.5mo post.
• Clothes - 12-18mo. He's just now starting to be too tall for his 12-18mo pants
• Shoes - size 6
• Hats - 2T :( He's outgrowing all of his 18-24mo hats
• Diapers - 3... 4... He's starting to pee through his 3s at night so I've finally agreed with Chris that we need to move up to 4s for overnight. This is the HARDEST thing for me. I fight it until I'm sick of changing his sheets every.single.day. Then I wrap my head around it and force myself to get that next size. Don't ask why it's so hard. I don't know.
• He takes one nap a day, usually around 11:30 or after lunch (lunch is usually around 11am) and he's typically down for 1-1.5hrs. Sometimes if he's had a busy morning he'll be down for 2hrs. I won't let him go longer than that because then he won't go to sleep at night. Believe me, I let him sleep 3hrs one day and he didn't go to sleep until 10pm.
• He loves playing with his friends at church and MOMS group. Some of them include: Sadie (aka best friend), Tanner, Emma, Coco, Cece... to name a few
• I held a new baby last weekend and Carver did not like it! It was very interesting. He just snuggled into Chris and wouldn't look at me.
  
• Favorite foods - Mickey nuggets, pb&j, oatmeal, blueberry eggos, pizza, peas, broccoli...

Welcome Baby Tinley Ann!!!
My good friend, Staci, gave birth to her second daughter on April 16th. Her daughter, Sadie, is 3mo younger than Carver. We brought them dinner the day they came home so the didn't have to worry about making food. And it was a great excuse to meet little Tinley! She is so tiny (7lb 1oz) and it was crazy to go from holding Carver to holding her. Congrats Scott and Staci!!! She's beautiful!

Babies Galore!!!
Last week at MOMS group a couple moms announced that they were pregnant! Rachel is due Nov 19th, Erica is due Nov 14th, I don't know Angie's due date and then yesterday Marita told me she's pregnant! She's due Dec 8th. There must be something in the water. haha No, I'm not pregnant... yet. We will probably start trying sometime this summer. I won't be talking about actually trying on here because I don't want people to keep asking me, "So are you pregnant yet?" But I'll definitely be posting when I find out I'm pregnant. :)

Another kind of baby
My mom's dog, Maggie, had a litter of puppies on April 1st (haha - Not an April Fools joke). Carver LOVES them!!! We see a puppy or two every time we skype with mom. There were 5 yellows and 3 blacks and only 2 girls!

Bible Study
I've started a bible study with my friends Marita and Heidi. We're doing Beth Moore's The Inheritance. It's an amazing study (we're only 2 weeks into it) and I love that there's no homework!!! I'd recommend it to anyone! It's been great getting back into the Word and feeding my soul. It's definitely been way too long.

Easter
Easter is this weekend. It seems to have snuck up on me this year. Thankfully I've been accumulating small gifts for Carver's Easter basket for the last couple months. He's getting Chip & Dale Rescue Rangers DVD and Duck Tales DVD (both from Costco for $10 or some crazy deal like that; they both have 27 episodes), some gardening gloves and tools, and a little Cat Bulldozer to go with his dump truck, front loader and steam roller. I don't even think I'm going to wrap them. :)

Birthday Plans
We're going to try to have Carver's birthday outside again this year. Hopefully since his party isn't on his actual birthday, it won't rain. It rained the day he was born and again last year on his birthday. We'll see. We're going to do a construction theme. :) Lots of brown and yellow and safety cones. We're going to park our dump truck at one end of the lawn with the dingo and an excavator (If I can talk Chris into renting/borrowing one for the day haha) I'm going to keep it really simple and just need to buy the paper products and favors for the kids. We're getting hard hats for all the kids with some other fun toys. How much fun will it be to see all these kids running around with hard hats. haha

Oh wait! I have a birthday too!
This year, my birthday is on Mother's day. I don't usually do anything for my birthday because I always set myself up for disappointment. Well this year, I wanted to do something. But who wants to spend time with me when it's Mother's day and they'll want to spend time with their moms? So we decided to have a BBQ and whoever comes, comes. It'll probably just be us and Kim and Greg but oh well. We'll have a little cake since Tyler's 1st birthday is on the 10th (mine is the 8th) and call it good.... well as good as it can get. It'll be interesting to see what Chris comes up with this year. I haven't told him anything that I want so I have no idea what he's going to get me.

To recap, our 1st Anniversary/bday/Mothers day I got my Nikon D60. Last year for Anniv/bday/Mothers day I got an iFlip camcorder. I thought I'd use it a bunch, and I would, except we found out I don't have editing software so all my videos are sideways. So I need to research software and see what I need and then I'll be in business! I am always hoping for 3 different gifts but let's face it, Chris is a man and they don't think of details like separating the days into their own gift.


Ok, Carver's telling me to get off the computer so I better go. This was a pretty good catch up but I'll probably think of something else as soon as I click publish.

21.5 Months

Well, I finally got around to posting his monthly update! Better late than never right? Here's what Carver's been up to...

• He's in 12-18mo clothes - mostly 12mo but definitely 18mo jammies
• Size 3 diapers
• Size 6 shoes (some are size 5)
• He takes one nap a day, after lunch, for usually 1.5-2hrs
• He's refusing to go to the bathroom in his potty. He'll sit there but won't do anything.
• He can sign: I love you, please, thank you, more, and work - sometimes I think that he refuses to talk because he can sign so much. oh well
• He LOVES to be outside with daddy
• He knows the sounds of: dog, cat, sheep, cow (sometimes), horse, lion, and monkey
• When we come home he sits down and takes his shoes off - without being told!
• He loves playing with his friends at church and MOMs group - he gets mad when we pick him up!

I'm forgetting stuff but that's the gist of everything. :)