Christmas is coming

I know it seems a bit early to be doing this, but I wanted to actually do it this year so I started early. My AC Challenge for the week was making my Christmas cards! It was tons of fun to do-time consuming, but fun. It took me a couple hours with some friends, and then 3 movies to finish them, but I enjoyed the movies, hot chocolate, and card making. AC#3

New Starts

We went home to Michigan for Christmas this year and had such a great time. Everyone's blogs are talking about their holidays so I thought we should probably post about ours too. We got to spend 2 wonderful weeks with our families, and had such a great time. It was a really nice vacation-the perfect amount of time too. Here are a few photos of things we did. While we were there we got to see our friends Jon and Becca.  We were so excited to get to spend a day with them, and had a blast-just like old times! We also got to hang out with my sister Aubry, and her fiance Michael, as well as his family. I'm glad Aubry's in-laws live in Michigan too so we'll probably see her more often.

Carson on Christmas morning

Erin-Ryan's sister-Christmas morning

Carson as a hotdog at the Henry Ford Museum

Other new news...Carson is finally potty training. People kept telling me he would do it when he was ready, but I finally realized that he's been ready for a while...it was me that wasn't ready. I thought it would be this really hard, long, drawn-out process, but it has been fairly easy, so far. The first day was rough, but Sunday he had 2 accidents, yesterday 1, and today none! So we are working on having only one child in diapers-hooray!

Halli is 7 months old-as of Saturday and is doing pretty good. She welcomed in the New Year with a tooth, and her second one looks like it is about to poke through any minute. She is sitting on her own really well, army crawling, and trying to prop herself up to sitting. We took her to the doctor last week and she is a whopping 19 pounds 3 ounces already....and she makes me carry her around all day. I'm not quite sure why I'm not super buff by now. Maybe I should try arm curls while I walk around-that might help get rid of the extra pounds I'm still carrying around from her!

We are all doing well and happy for the coming year, and the exciting things ahead. Hope you are all well and happy too! I wanted to load some more photos, but my computer is refusing to do so-three is all you get for now!

Holiday PJ's

Well, we are trying to get Carson in the Christmas spirit, so we put up our tree and a few lights. And since his old PJ's are too small for his body, we let him open his new ones (see picture below). He was pretty excited. Now all he wants to do is open presents. Also we had a ward Christmas party last night where "Santa" showed up to give everyone candy. I think Carson was a little freaked out by the whole thing but was excited at the same time. I think he really just wanted the candy. It has been fun this holiday since he is old enough to understand about Santa and Christmas and everything. Good times!