It's finally finished!!!! After months of working on my new project it is finally done. The company is called Simply Creative. We offer craft classes at events such as showers, family reunions, girls nights out and craft groups. For those who are craft savvy we offer ready to go kits with all of the needed supplies and step-by-step instructions. I posted a slide show of some of the crafts we offer below!!

We are offering 10% off all kits through the month of May. You will need to use the coupon code:blog. These is a great way to make a cheap, personal gift for Mom. I especially love the Mom's Magnetic Boards.

Check it out at:
WWW.SIMPLYCREATIVECRAFTS.BLOGSPOT.COM

My Baby Turns Five

Yesterday Carson turned five years old. Ryan and I can hardly believe that our 2lb. 13 0z. baby is now FIVE!!! I remember when he was born how terrified we were, and now look at him. . .he's a happy healthy five year old.

Carson's first baby pictures. For some reason the second picture will only scan small.



























We had such a fun day. My Mom and Sister came down for cake and ice cream and to watch him open his presents. After the festivities we went to see Horton Hears A Who. Which I highly recommend, it cracked me up. Ryan's Parents, his sister Cynthia, my sister-in-law Jessica, and my brother Isaac joined us for dinner. I let Carson choose the restraunt and he said he wanted to go to the tomato place with the little muffins. AKA Sweet Tomatoes. Not the choice I expected, but hey it was his birthday.

Five Things Carson Loves

1. Carson loves people. He can get along with just about anyone. His favorite person in the whole world (besides me of course), would have to be his cousin Kaden followed closely by his cousin Grayson whom he idolizes. He also loves his brother to death (literally sometimes).

2. Carson LOVES TV, much to my dismay.

3. He loves Bundocks, an arcade/play gym by our house. He asks to go there EVERYDAY

4. He loves to eat. He will eat just about anything I cook. Which is wonderful of course.

5. He loves to imagine and color, one time he drew twenty different robots that did different things and taped them all over the walls. Oh and he LOVES tape. He loves to tape odd things (like my kitchen utensils) together to create strange "inventions"


FIVE THINGS I LOVE ABOUT CARSON. . .Before I start though I have to say, he is so much like his Dad, wow did I luck out on that one.

1. He is such a good big brother. He looks out for Brayden and always tells me, "Brayden is my best buddy."

2. He can be really sweet. He always tell me I am pretty and when I finish putting vinyl on a sign he will say, "that looks really great Mom!"

3. I love his smile. Carson has huge dimples that spread across his whole cheeks when he smiles. He also has the best laugh in the world and he's really tickelish, which is a great combination.

4. He is a lot of fun. Carson has such a cute, funny little personality. He can be so engaging and always has something fun up his sleeves that he wants to do. He cracks me up with his little stories and his WILD imagination.

5. He is an incredibly clean child. He keeps his hands clean, he wipes his own nose when it runs, for a five year old his clothes are always amazingly clean and he even won't go to bed until his room is clean. How nice is that!?


and of course because no child is perfect so. . . Five Things That Drive Me Crazy.

1. People never believe me until they see Carson have a melt down, he is drama like none other. When he's mad at me he will run to his room slam the door and scream, "FINE, I GUESS NO ONE IN THIS HOUSE LOVES ME!!" than he will throw himself on the bed and pretend to cry. WOW is all I can think when he gets that way.

2. He makes up for those nice brotherly moments by tackeling and beating the crap out of Brayden when he's ticked. Not to worry though Brayden's learned to hold his own.

3. Don't get me wrong, I love the kid to death, but man can he whine!

4. His LOVE for TV drives my crazy. It is a constant battle between the two of us.

5. Carson's ears are full of cotton. I swear 90% of the time all he hears is bla bla bla.

If your still reading, you must be one of his Grandmas. After all Ryan and I have been through trying to have more kids we now realize what a complete miracle Carson is. Since being diagnosed with an incompetent cervix we have learned that it is virtually unheard of for women to make it past 22 weeks with out a cerclage (which is how we got Brayden.) Carson truly is our miracle baby that should have never been. We are so, so, so grateful to have him.

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There's Nothing Like Good Friends

I stole this picture from my friend Ashley's blog.

I just had to take a minute to say how much I love my Stansbury girls. I have been blessed with good friends where ever I have lived and Stansbury was no exception.

My friend Hillary nailed it when she said raising our first babies together created an unmistakable bond. We went to dinner a couple of nights ago and laughed our heads off! It was such fun. I miss the old familarity that comes from spending our days together. I have been surprised by how much I miss their kids. I miss being able to take their babies in my arms, or stepping in to take care of a toddler. I miss having a million escaped children sitting by me (really Carson) at church and Addy's "Holly's house, Holly's house?" Every time we walked home from the park. Don't get me wrong I love my new ward and the friends that I am making and I know that familiarity will come with time, but I am so glad that I met and created friendships with my Stansbury girls!

Never a Dull Moment

I'm not really sure how my life has become so crazy but it sure has. Just a month ago things seemed calm and laid back.

Here are a few events and things that have added to this months insanity:

I now have three callings. I teach Weeblos (the ten year old scouts), I'm on the Enrichment committee, for which my main responsibility is to teach a quarterly craft class for my ward, and I am a permanent sub for the Primary. Between those callings and Ryan's bishopric responsibilities my kids spend a lot of time playing in the church nursery.

EASTER

I love Easter! It's a day that allows me to feel the hope and peace the resurection brings to my life. I can't help but think of the beautiful day when I will see my Dad, my baby, my grandma and my niece again. I can not express the difference it has made in my life to have the knowledge that my Savior was resurrected so that I could be sealed to my family forever.

I tried hard to keep Easter nice and simple. I just kept thinking we don't need to make this a second Christmas. I bought the boys each a small basket with some candy (which I mostly ate) and a few small toys including sunglasses, flashlights and some bouncy balls. Brayden LOVED looking for eggs, although he didn't get very many. He was so excited about each egg he found he had to bring it to me and let me share in the excitement. After three eggs Carson had found the rest.

The rest of the day was very peaceful. A sweet lady in our ward named Sister Samowitz spoke on the power of the atonement. I was so impressed with the strength and power in her testimony. I only hope that one day I can stand and testify with the power that she did.

We spent the rest of the afternoon at Ryan's parents. The food was, as always, delicious!!

MY NEW PEEP HOLE

Carson and my nephew Kaden were playing in the boys room when they discovered that the door locked. How cool to lock each other in and out of the room they thought. The only problem, the didn't know how to unlock it. Luckily when the door was shut they were both on the outside. Now all of this would have been no big deal, if we had a key to unlock the door. We searched every where for the key, but the thing is, we had never locked the door before, so we weren't even sure if the key existed.

Ryan and my brother-in-law Ed had to stick a drill straight into the lock and than saw the door knob off. As you can tell from the picture it left it's mark. The one perk, I can see if Brayden is sleeping like he should be or playing in his room with out having to open the door and thus without him knowing.

I'M DOOMED

Carson will only be five this year and we have already done stitches, a concuscion, and now a broken leg?

Four days after we put in our trampoline, Brayden hurt his leg. Our pediactrician was concerned that he had a toddler break so we had to take him to get x-rays. Luckily the x-rays came back negative. He had to wear a brace for three days, but now he's fine. He screamed for about 45 min after it was first put on, but than he figured out how to hobble around with it and he never so much as wined after that! If we were smart parents we would have video taped him. He was hillarious to watch hobbling all over the house. He was so determined not to let it slow him down.

Besides all of this I have been working long hours trying to get a new business, that my genius friend Kim came up with called Simply Creative, up and rolling. Hopefully we will have our blog ready in a couple of weeks.

And Last of all WE'RE GOING TO DISNEYLAND!!! I love disneyland and have been counting the days down until May when we go, but WOW vacations are a lot more work and very time consuming when you're the Mom.

Ok so weeks ago my cousin Emily tagged me, and than a couple of days ago my friend Alice tagged me, and now I find myself unable to sleep, so I thought hey, I'll respond to those tags.

First the rules.
1. List six quirks, habits, or unknown things about yourself.
2.Tag three other people
3. Let those three people know on their blog that they have been tagged.

I think there were some other rules, but I don't remember them

1. I LOVE cheerios. All kinds, frosted, apples cinnamon, plain, honey nut. I literally have to have a bowl of cheerios every day. I am working hard to instill this love for cheerios in my children, but so far they are too involved with their fruit loops to pay much attention.

2. It is very hard for me to be organized, I have to really work at it, and being on time is one of those near impossible tasks for me that gets harder with each kid. . . oh wait most of you already know that about me!

3. I love being a girl. I love wearing dresses and skirts, I love putting on make-up and doing my hair, I love the color pink, wearing jewelry and I even love wearing high heels.

4. I view the whole world as my canvas waiting for me to make it cute, beautiful or darling. My yard, my house, my children. Honestly sometimes I want to walk up to complete strangers and say, come. . . let me decorate you.

5. I hate having an unmade bed, I know this will shock my mother, but the first thing I do every morning is make my bed, and as soon as my kids are up, I make theirs. The rest of the house can be in chaos, but the beds must be made.

6. This one may be disturbing to some of you, but it's been on my mind, so here it is. I worry that people think that I have an eating disorder. This is probably based on the fact that I have had some very mean and hurtful things said to me, and behind my back about my weight. There have been times when I have almost peed my pants when I am out to dinner with friends because I am worried that if I go to the bathroom people will think that I'm headed off to puke my guts out. I have stuffed myself to the point that I am sick to prove that I really do eat. So there you have it, my great unknown. I don't really like being so skinny. It makes people say mean things and thirteen year olds have more curves than me!

Ladies Man!!

Carson, Katilee and Will, Christmas 2006

I noticed that at a very young age that Carson treated girls differently than he treated boys. His two best friends in our old neighborhood, in Stansbury, were Katilee and Will. Carson would deck Will and take him to the ground (usually in a battle he lost) to take a toy from Will, but would bend over backwards to give Katilee whatever she wanted.

As of late he's started to make some comments that have really made me take notice. Today when I picked him up from preschool his cousin Kaden and him were sitting in the front seat while I arranged car seats. Two of the little girls from his preschool ran in front of my car and started waving, Carson said to Kaden, "Look, there's my ladies, they love me". I sat up and checked out the girls. . . they were pretty cute.

Than tonight Carson tells Ryan and I, "That little girl at IKEA, she was really pretty, I just keep thinking about her" I asked how old the little girl was wondering if she was actually a worker at the IKEA play place. He told me, she was three, but she would be four soon like him.

So, there you have it, four years old and already picking out the cute girls.

I was hoping we could put this off until what. . . he came home from his mission??? SCARES ME TO DEATH!!!