4th of July Weekend

Chad's family came up to visit us for the 4th of July weekend. It so fun to have them here! I just love being with family for the holidays. Even though we didn't get to see any fireworks or do any parades, we still managed to have a great time. On Saturday we spent the day playing at Mahoney Park playing on the playground and playing tennis. Chad and I finally got to break in our new rackets. We definitely need more practice though! We had a fun time laughing at our lack of skills. That night we had a little indoor BBQ since it started to rain. Got to just love the summer storms here. They're crazy! Then on Monday we went and played at the Children's Museum. I just love that place! It makes me wish I was 5 years old again. I'm pretty sure Chad had more fun playing and crawling in and out of things than anyone else did. All in all I would chalk it up as another great 4th of July!

Kevin teaching Carson how to fly.

Mark was always willing to pose for a picture for me.

Poor Carson is such a drool monster that he has to wear a bib all the time.

I LOVE Chad's face in this picture...I'm pretty sure he was wishing he could really fly it. :)

Carson and Papa

Carson loves his uncle Mark

Carson having a great time flying by himself.

This picture cracks me up! Looks like a clown car with all of them packed in there.

Carson just chillin' in his jogging stroller at the park. He loves this thing.

Mark holding on for dear life right before he fell off.

Who doesn't love the teeter totter?!

This is Carson's new favorite toy.

Hope you all had a fun 4th of July!

Happy Birthday Chad!!!!

My cute hubby turned the big 26 last week. This poor guy has been going none stop lately. He works full time and then goes to school every night from 5 until after 9pm. He barely has any spare time these days. Thank goodness these 5 week classes will be coming to an end here soon!! I had thought of tons of ideas of fun things we could do to celebrate Chad's birthday, however, between work and school all my fun ideas had to be put on hold. After Chad had a fun filled day working and going to school he came home to his own mini "surprise party" that I threw for him. The party was complete with birthday cake, presents, streamers, and balloons. It was so fun to be able to spend some time with him and celebrate together! Love you Chadley!

The birthday boy and all his loot. I think he made out pretty well. :)

This picture was taken early in the morning before Chad went to work...not the best picture, but it was the only time these two saw each other that day.

This was the most exciting present of all....

I just LOVE our new jogging stroller! I've already taken it out on my runs many times. The best part is that Carson seems to love it too and is content to sit there and just enjoy the scenery.

Here's a few recent pictures of Carson. I found him sleeping like this during his nap the other day. So funny! I'm not sure how that could be comfortable though.

I absolutely LOVE this picture! I just love this boy to pieces!

This cute little guy is growing up so fast! He does a sort of army crawl right now and it seems to work for him to get to wherever it is he wants to go. I'm sure he'll be crawling before we know it.

Zoo Day

This Saturday we went to the Omaha Zoo with our good friends. We left early that morning to try to beat the crowds of people that would be there for the college world series games (which is right next to the zoo). Unfortunately, it still took us an extra hour to go about 5 blocks. While we were stuck in traffic we had a great time people watching all the thousands of people tailgating . These people are pretty serious about their tailgating parties. They had couches and multiple grills with tons of food. Pretty impressive stuff! The other funny thing was that people that live in the surrounding neighborhoods sell their yard for parking or for different vendors to come in and sell their stuff. It was nuts! Anyway, back to the zoo... we had the perfect weather and no rain! So great! We saw tons of animals and even saw a random wedding going on at a pavilion right next to the zebras.-Seriously...who has their wedding at the zoo?! Must have been a zoo employee romance or something like that. haha We made some good memories at the zoo that day including Chad mowing me over with the stroller while we raced up the hill. I totally would have won if he hadn't taken me out. :)

Here's the cool train that we didn't ride cause it was a ripe off. Major bummer!

I think giraffes are so cool

These orangutans were hilarious trying to get people to feed them. They know exactly what to do.

Matt had a great time in the jungle!

Poor Carson was exhausted. I love this picture of Chad feeding him! So sweet!

Look at these two boys with all the baby gear.

Couldn't get Carson to look at us for one picture

Cute Matt and Traci. We love these guys!

My little lion

And my other little lion. haha What a goof!

Successes and Failures

Well turns out more than half of my garden is a bust this year. First to go was the cucumber plant. It looked like a bug had been munching on it and was killing it off. So I just pulled that one out and was happy with the rest of my garden. However, then days later my pepper plants start to have little holes in their leaves. Some bug has been eating my little garden! On top of the bug situation we have had storm after storm here with the rain coming down in bucket loads. My pepper plants didn't handle that so well. But I must say that so far my tomato plants are doing great! I'm feeling pretty successful with the two tomato plants since they seem to be loving the heat and the rain. Bring on the tomatoes!

No I didn't over water these...this is after a storm. Poor plants can't even stand up straight any more.

Stupid bugs!

My happy little tomato plants. Hope these guys keep up their good work!

Memorial Day Weekend & Swimming

As I mentioned in my previous post, my best friend Melissa came up to visit us for Memorial Day weekend. We went to the Winter Quarter's Temple and the Cheesecake Factory while she was here. It was such a blast!

Eating at the Cheesecake Factory. Yummo!

Touring the Winter Quarter's visitor center

And guess who can sit up all by him self? He is a little wobbly at times, but he is starting to get the hang of it. Such a big boy!

Also, this month on the 16th my little boy turned 7 months old. He's growing up so fast! These past 7 months have really flown by! I am enjoying this stage so much. He loves interacting and playing with people, and babbles and giggles like crazy.

Still snuggles with his crib bumpers. I think it's so stinkin' cute! I love the one arm over the side!

Since we have a pool at our complex I have taken Carson swimming a couple of times this summer. My cute friend Traci came swimming with us last time and we had a great little time! Even though it was overcast on the day we went it was so sticky and hot. Got to just love the humidity here!

I need to get some shades for Carson...it's a wee bit bright outside. Carson loves the water! He thinks that riding in his little turtle is pretty darn cool and spends most of his time trying to gnaw on the turtle's head. Yes I am so pasty white. It's gross!