What We've Been Up To....

Well, I guess this is a bit of a catch-up since I haven't done any posts since Christmas! Oops. I have been kind of busy getting the girl who was replacing me at work trained and finishing that all up, and of course chasing busy little Carter all around, but mostly I've just been too lazy to post. So, for January...we mostly just worked on getting back into the swing of school and I was finishing up things at work and trying to find the last Head Teacher for Guilin and find someone to replace me (my last day ended up being the 12th of February!) and such. We also got to go to Boise for a long weekend for my Dad's retirement party. We flew down Wednesday after Michael's classes and then went to the Party on Thursday and just hung out with the family and visited some friends. We had a great time and flew back on Sunday after church. Carter has been on several flights now since Thanksgiving in Boise and Christmas in Texas and he's done great on all the flights, but on the landing coming home he just screamed! I felt so bad for him. He'd had a cold since Christmas that was just kind of lingering so I thought maybe he had an ear infection since he had such a hard time. I took him to the doctor that week and sure enough, he did have and ear infection. I felt so bad! Poor little guy. They gave him some medicine and he got better quickly after that.

As for February, we have been to the ward play group at Cabella's to see the animals which was fun for me, but Carter seemed pretty indifferent to it partly because they are all dead stuffed animals, and also partly because he was SO tired. We went out for Valentine's all by ourselves because Coralie's cousin was nice enough to volunteer to watch both of the boys so we could go out! We just went to dinner at Chili's (Thanks Chad! He got us a gift card for there for Christmas) and then we rented a movie. It was so nice to go out to dinner just the 2 of us!

Michael, Carter and a Triceritops? at Thanksgiving Point

Carter and I and Raptor at Thanksgiving Point


For President's day we decided to go to the Natural History Museum at Thanksgiving Point because we'd never been. It was actually really cool! Carter even enjoyed it. We even decided to get a membership for me since Carter goes for free so we have something fun to do during the days when Michael is a school. So, we can go to the Farm Country, the Gardens, and the Museum. So, I'm sure we'll have lots of future posts about our adventures at Thanksgiving Point! If any of you want to go I can take guests for 50% off! Wahoo! Also as you can tell from the pictures, we also enjoyed some Mavs games! Carter and Michael have to wear their jerseys on big game days.



As I'm sure you can imagine, Carter has been getting VERY busy. He is just into everything. He is really in such a fun stage. He has the cutest personality and just is SUCH a good baby. I really have been so blessed. He is almost always happy. He's sleeping really well and on a good schedule. He took his first steps a few weeks and is still just taking a few steps here and there, which I'm good with. He loves to follow me around the house and play hide-n-seek. I'll go crawl into another room as he watches and he'll come in and find me and just giggles uncontrolably when he finds me. It is so cute. He also LOVES to stick things in the VCR! A few weeks ago we were searching for days for the remote. Then when I was at work training the new girl Michael called to tell me he finally found it...in the VCR! Since then I've found DVDs, Michael's cell phone, remotes, toys, etc inside the VCR. If we ever can't find something it is usually there. He also loves going through the cupboards, pulling all the books and movies off shelves, etc. He just loves making messes! He also loves to climp all over his bouncer seat and stand and bounce in it. He's so funny. He also LOVES his stuffed animal monkey. The last few weeks he's been dragging it with him everywhere. It is so cute.

Playing in his bouncer

He thought it was funny when I didn't take his hoodie all the way off. He thinks it is hilarious when we put anything on his head...especially when Michael does it.

You can't see it very well, but in the background he's pulled some movies off the shelf and I just think he looks cute in this picture! I think he looks so grown up in his hoodie.

He likes to use his high chair like a walker and walk all around the house with it!

Carter and his Monkey

Great News and some kind of sad news....

A few weeks ago we found out that Michael offically was accepted to go on an internship for 4 weeks this summer to Romania! He served his mission there and is so excited to go back. He will be working for the firm that the church uses there whenever they need legal assistance like for getting property, etc. It will be such a great experience for him. Sadly, we cannot afford for Carter and I to go, so we are going to have a little adventure of our own! We're going to stay with my sister's family in New Jersey! We are so excited. Carter is going to have so much fun playing with his little cousins and I'm going to have so much fun playing with my sister! We are going to head out the end of may and come back the first part of July. Michael will get to have some time with us there on the way out and back since he'll have to fly through NYC anyway. I can't wait to go see all the fun places back east and spend time with the fam. Michael also got a paid internship that he started on the 15th of February. He works for a lawyer in Sandy that deals with family law. Our home teacher is in law school at the UofU and he works for this lawyer and said he needed more help. So Michael went in for an interview and was offered the job right then! He works about 10 hours a week and is really enjoying it and the extra money obviously can't hurt.

The kind of sad news is that we have been thinking about moving back to Provo or closer to school just because the commute is more annoying than we initially thought it would be and it is borderline too expensive for us. So, the decision to move was basically made for us yesterday when I came home and there was a note on all of our doors saying that they are raising rent $50 starting in April! We are sad just because we really like the area, ward, friends here, and the apartment is really nice. But it will be nice to be closer to BYU. And things have really fallen into place...some friends from law school have been telling us about 2 apartments opening up in their complex this summer and they are nice places too. It is in Orem. Our contract is up here the end of May so we'll move all of our stuff into storage before we leave for New Jersey/Romania and then the place is available in July...so we'll move in when we get back. So we were actually really lucky that it is working out so well and we won't have to pay rent while we're gone...just for a storage unit! So, I guess that catches us up to now! Hopefully I won't put of posting quite so long next time...but no promises!