Dissapointments

So it turns out that Carter read that book with Mike the night before and Mike spent a lot of time going over some of the words with him. My son is not the genius that I thought he was. He does recognize some words, but he's definitely not reading. Which is just fine.

And, I am fully expecting Target to cancel my car seat order. From what I have found online it was a typo. If it sounds too good to be true... We'll see!

Won't you be my neighbor?

My neighbor has been trying to sell his house for a while now. And as some of you know, I have been trying to sell it to friends so we can have great neighbors. He came over the other day to let me know that he has dropped the price to $189,000 and is offering all sorts of incentives (snow blower, lawn mower, etc). His contract with his agent is up around Thanksgiving, so he would be willing to go lower without the agent commission. It's 4 bedroom, 1 1/2 bath, 2 1/2 car garage. You can read more about it here. If you want to see it, let me know and we can schedule it directly through John. You know you want to be my neighbor. I make cookies and bread...

Seriously?

Yes. I just bought a Britax car seat from Target for $45. Free shipping. No, that is not an announcement. If you are in the market for a new car seat check this one out! Click here.

These went quick. They are out of stock this morning.

Oh, Baby!

Tonight I threw a baby shower for my good friend Karen. I was so excited to do it, because this girl has thrown her share of showers and then some. She is always the first to volunteer to do them. She throws and attends baby showers faithfully although it must have been torture sitting through all that baby talk when she didn't have kids. She has been a great friend and tonight it showed! So many people came to support her. We had a full house! It was great though, she got some great gifts and I think we all had a good time. So, thank you to everyone who helped (especially Jessica)! And a big thank you to everyone who came!

My little genius

So I was reading Carter his bedtime story tonight and all of a sudden, he's like "Mom, I'll read it" and starts reading. What?!? Now I am not 100% sure that he didn't have parts of it memorized, but I am pretty sure that he was reading some of the words! Don't get me wrong, I'm not bragging, I take absolutely no credit for it (other than to say that he does come from a superior gene pool :)). Go MPS, right?

This one is for Jessica

Carter (after the baby shower I just threw): Since everybody is leaving, these cookies are leftovers. We can eat them now!

Whitney: Do you know what happens to boys who eat too many cookies? They get their hands cut off.

Carter: No, CAVITIES!!!

Utah

This probably would have been better had I posted right after I got back, but I got busy, so this is our Utah trip in a nutshell.

We stayed at my brother's house with his awesome family (Carter took this picture):

Had fun with cousins:
It snowed one of the first days we were there (the weather was beautiful back home - go figure):

We made new friends - Carter and Ashton getting crazy: And hung out with old ones - me and my best friends from high school:

We ate great food - Wingers, Los Hermanos, Apollo burger, Taco Time, Brick Oven, Chili's - YUM!

We hunted flies. Ok, Carter was on his own with this one:

We slept with a large purple horse - again, just Carter:

We performed slave labor. Just kidding - Carter and Samantha had a blast helping Grandpa pick up the walnuts from his tree:

We spent some quality time with one of our favorite aunts, Amber:
We were stinkers at the Bean Museum:
We had a tea party with service for 20:
Carter reconnected with his betrothed. Tell me they're not the cutest couple ever (this is Eliza Ward). Once we showed up at the Ward's house these two disappeared and were inseparable:

And quite possible the best part of the trip, we went to the BYU game with Grandpa.

Thank you Amanda and Andy!

Carter insisted on winking in this one:
Overall, it was one of the best Utah trips yet. The kids missed Mike (so did I), but we had a great time visiting with family. I am actually looking forward to going back!