Found my camera

Yup, dad came to visit and brought down my camera from Cedar City. I asked them to keep an eye out for it. I'm so happy to have my camera again.

Here are a few more pics from our vacation in California.

See any similarities in these two pictures? My husband

is such a hottie! :)

Here we are a San Diego Zoo! This was also the first time I used my new Chariot stroller. It's not cheap, but well worth it. Carson and mommy both love it!

Carson standing up in his stroller during lunch break. It was really sunny and hot, so we got him a Zoo hat. Isn't he so cute!

This is after playing at the beach on Coronado Island. Such a beautiful place. If I were rich, I would definitely move there.

Such a cute little beach bum.

Us at Coronado Island, Carson checking out the waves...

Not so innocent

Where do they get this stuff? As Carson is transitioning to the toddler stage, I am realizing that all that talk about how sweet and innocent children are is only partially true. I don't ever remember losing my temper or biting or scratching. So where did he get this from? Today I took my Powerade bottle from him to have a drink. That is when he pounced! With rage is his eyes and screaming at the top of his lungs he lunged forward and clawed my face. How rude! What happened to my sweet little boy! I am not ready for this. I thought that they learned this behavior from other unruly children, or something like that. Apparently not so. Or if this is the case, it looks like Carson plans on being a model instuctor.

Walking

So I don't know how to link up my camera to the computer yet. I'll have to figure that out soon. Carson is walking! I think that it started a week or so ago. First, he started taking a couple of steps with our encouragement. Then, this week, he walked all the way across the living room. Again, with our encouragement. So you can understand my surprise and astonishment when, while I was reading a book, he walked around 11 steps from a couch to a chair all by himself. I'm so excited for him. He loves walking and honestly, I look forward to him not wanting me to hold his hand all of time to go places.

Stay-at-home mom

Yep. That's right. I am finally, officially, a stay-at-home mom. Sorry it has been so long since I've posted. We had a family vacation the first week of August in CA, I worked my last two weeks at Pulte Homes, then spent an entire week in Cedar City, UT with my family, just because I can. It has been a lot of fun. I've now spent a week at home with Carson. My house is so clean. I love it!

I should be posting more often now. Our only TV stopped working and we are not going to replace it. Not that I watch a ton of TV, but it did help me wind down at the end of the day. Blogging will probably be its replacement. That and abc.com.

I cannot find my camera right now. I think I left it in Cedar City. Here are a few pics from the California trip that Linz took.

Carson LOVED the ocean!

Thank goodness Carson has daddy's skin color. (P.S. My legs turned so red they looked purple, even with wearing spf 30)!

Carson on the USS Midway. I had to carry him throughout most of the tour, because you cannot take a stroller through the small passages of an aircraft carrier. It was actually fun and my arms got quite a work out.

Carson wanted to listen to the self-guided tour too.

Well, that's all for now. I might post some more pics when I find my camera. :)

Kim, the overachiever

Okay, so I have to poke fun at my sister Kim a little bit. Kim and I, along with the family are trying to make plans for a week long trip in San Diego. We voted on activities, Kim gave assignments. Each couple gets a day that they have to plan. Then, where I think she gets a little carried away, we are all assigned to fill out an agenda. She attached a sample (her day) to the email. See her "agenda" below, decked out with pictures and everything. She writes on her email, "Once you have a layout of your agenda send it to me and I will make sure all the formatting is correct and add pictures and logos." Wow. :)

One more

Okay, so I didn't get all of the pictures back from Nate on my last post. I'd put every picture on my blog, but that would just be overkill. This one I think is just too adorable to not share. :)



Is that not the sweetest little face?! I'm glad that I don't have to really discipline him at this age. It's gotta be hard saying no to a face like that. Either Carson needs to get uglier or mommy needs to toughen up.

Photos by Nathan Juarez

These are some of the shots taken by my brother-in-law, Nathan Juarez. Not bad, eh? It's nice to marry into such a talented family.

On a different note: on Sunday Carson showed Ben and I that he knows how to share. He now tries to feed mommy and daddy some of his soggy graham crackers. Yum!