Oregon Trip...2 weeks of wonderful!

 4th of July!!!! Clastkanie Parade.  Uncle Stewie loves Paige. 

 It was pretty hot and very sunny (unusual for Oregon :)  Molly let Paige borrow her hat...what a nice cousin.

 Carson loved the cars, trucks, and motorcycles.  He wasn't very interested in the candy, which means I had to get my own.   After the parade we walked around awhile then headed home for naps.  That evening we set off fireworks.  Mostly snakes and flowers.

 

 On the 5th we headed to Newport.  It was a long drive, but turned out great.  We went to the beach right away and Carson LOVED it.  It was windy and a little chilly but he jumped right in the water.  Molly had fun building sand castles.  We rented a beach house and stayed for 3 days!  We went to the beach, the aquarium, and just played, played, played.

 Gotta have a hat at the beach :)

 The aquarium was really cool.  At first Carson was nervous about the tank tunnel thing, but soon he loved it.

The 2nd time we went to the beach Carson loved it even more.  He, again, went right for the water.  He was going crazy.  It wasn't warm, but it didn't slow those crazy kids down.

 While we were at Grammy and Grandpa's house Paige decided to sit up.  She is getting so big.  She is 5 1/2 months and way more mobile then Carson was.  She rolls front to back and back to front.  When she is on her tummy it looks like she is going to get up and crawl.  She has her 2 bottom middle teeth, and LOVES people food.  She seems fond of everything I give her, but she seems to really like bananas and crackers.  Probably shouldn't give those to her yet, but she does great with them.

USA USA USA

The weekend after the 4th was Rainier Days in the Park.  It was another gorgeous day and parade.  Carson was interested in the candy this time, and of course loved the cars and trucks.  We walked around the park and Carson discovered the slide.

It isn't a trip home without seeing Grandma Kinzig.  She is well into her 90's but still very sharp.  Paige makes her 8th great grand baby.  She was excited to see the kids and have us visit.

It was a great trip.  Thank you Dad and Mom for everything.  WE LOVE YOU!!!!  

Some firsts...boring for you to read, but I need to write it somewhere

Yesterday, Wednesday, June 1st, Carson got his first BEE STING!!!  Good job Carson boy :) 
We were at the park with one of his favorite friends Poppy.  The park has sand and grass so his shoes were off.  He found some water...of course...and all of the sudden I heard him crying.  I looked over and he was walking towards me walking so that only the heel of his left foot touched the ground.  I also noticed some bees flying around close to where he was playing.  I ran over to him (with super mom speed) and sure enough there was a stinger poking out of his chubby little foot.  I pulled it out and gave him so loves.  Within 30 seconds he was ready to go back and play in the water.  What a kid!!! I put his shoes on and that was that.

On Monday I decided I had enough of this silly getting up at night with a baby business.  We put Paige in the pack-n-play, which she should have been moved into weeks ago from her basinet, and went to sleep in the spare room.  We would have moved Paige, but it is right next to Carson's room and we figured there would be some crying.  I brought a monitor in with us, but at 3ish when she started to cry I turned it right off.  I really have no idea how much she was up.  Is that wrong?  I don't think so.  A mom needs to sleep! 

On Tuesday we did it again.  She was up 2 times at 1 and 3ish, but she didn't fuss long.  Although Danny was in charge of the monitor that night and I think he turned it off to :)  We really need to leave it on to hear if she is crying a lot or not so that we can move her over. 

Well, last night Paige was coughing and snotty and crying a lot.  She ate at 4:30 and then just went from crying to sleeping and crying and sleeping (but never restfully).  She didn't want to eat and finally fell fast asleep around 8:30.  Since it was such drama I didn't want to wake her up to feed her.  So we decided to all sleep together so that when she woke up I would feed her.  She got up at 2ish and then around 8 to eat.

She is better today so we are back to ignoring her at night.  She is 4 months old and 18 pounds I think she can make it :)  We wised up and realized we have 2 extra rooms; one next to Carson and then the "office" which is down the hall.  Tonight we will put her in there and I can sleep in my big wonderful King size bed again.  Wish us luck. 

he needs BOY friends

Carson and Olivia are the best of friends (until one of them takes a toy that the other one didn't feel like sharing at the moment :)  It is so fun to have a friend right next door.  The only problem is that Olivia ("ivia" as Carson calls her) is a very girly girly girl.  I don't think I have seen her in pants, without a skirt or dress over it, this year. 

A few weeks ago Carson was playing at her house and Tiawna called and said there was something I should see.  I went over and found my little boy dressed as a princess.  Tiawna said that Carson and Olivia were downstairs and were all of the sudden quiet.  She went down to find Olivia dressing Carson up. 

All of Carson's friends and cousins are GIRLS.  It is amazing that Carson still turns everything into weapons, loves football and baseball, plays with cars every second, and lives to see "plane skies" and garbage trucks.  Danny makes it is personal mission to be a very manly influence in his life :)

Carson vs. Paige

Carson at 10 days

Paige at 10 days

Paige at 3 1/2 months

Carson at 3 1/2 months

In the cute contest it is a dead tie!!!

I don't know who these kids look like.  To me they look so different from each other and not a thing like me or Danny.  They have a few things in common....blue eyes, and chubby chubby chubby! 

I just love these kids to pieces!  They are both so sweet.  I have never seen kids that laugh as easy as these ones.  That is why I love them the most, they laugh at ALL of my jokes. 

LoOk WhAt We FoUnD

On Saturday May 21st we went for a hike in the wilderness of Blanding with Rod and the Frenchies.  We left the kids home so that we could get serious.  We ended up hiking for about 4 hours and found some great sites.  There were some ruins, caves, grinding stones, corn, and pictographs.  It was really fun. 

4 months old

 
Baby Paige trying her first bite of rice cereal (actually it is mixed grain cereal).  She wasn't impressed.

                            


4 month stats:
16 lb 15 oz (over 97%)
25 inches

Check out my kitchen....A work in progress

It's gonna be good

Here are the granite men working on our kitchen.  It was a frustrating day of waiting and waiting and waiting.  They finally came and had the counters in and done in less than an hour.  We went with Verde Peacock.  I love it! 

Countertop in....cabinets, lighting, floor, paint, backsplash...........ahhhhhhhhhh tons of stuff to come.

Rod, Marie, and Liddie came last weekend and helped us put in our upper cabinets.  Everything was going great until the last cabinet.  It is 2 inches too big :(  so annoying.  I just want it to be done.  If we lived in a real town, I would go to Home Depot and get the right size cabinet.  Since we live in the middle of nowhere I have to drive 3 hours to the closest Home Depot.  We will stop by Grand Junction on our way to Vernal Memorial Day weekend and get the last cabinet. 

Once we have that in, we will be doing the lighting, back splash and floor.  Oh yeah, I have to get the new black appliances too.  It doesn't feel like it, but eventually this will be done!!!