Carrie's Trippin'

Liam and I were trippin' big-time as we drove 13 hours alone to Women's Conference, a graduation and Tanner's family.
Women's Conference is just what you'd think; a bajillion loud, crazy, and lost women frantically rushing to a bunch of classes on a huge BYU campus. I was excited to go and see all my family who came to listen to my Aunt Betty who was asked to speak. One thing she said about service that I liked was, "Even the smallest act is greater than the best intention."

After 900 miles, two fevers, being away from my honey, and a blizzard I had the opportunity to drive through myself (there were snow plows involved!) the trip seemed worth it to see Kat's face as I suprised her by showing up to Sam's graduation.

While I was gone Tanner decided to catch up on some "studying" (click on the picture for a bigger shot). Actually, this is picture of a trip we took in Grace not too long ago. This summer we have 2 trips planned to Californina. If they turn out like this past one, tough times ahead!

Happy Birthday, Liam!

Since Liam is our first kid and it was his first birthday we let him throw quite the party with quite the guests. Liam loves to play with Elliot and Riley and was so excited to see them come.

We decided to jumpstart the mess with this truck full of "dirt" (chocolate cake, chocolate icing, Oreo cookies, and chocolate pudding). It was my- I mean Liam's favorite part of the party.

Liam was so excited that he kept shouting and stuffing his face with chocolate goodness.

The chocolate cake was a good idea. It's important to see the huge mess Liam can create. It was fun singing the birthday song and watching him look around at all of us. We had a great time. Happy Birthday, Buddy!!

A Mission Fulfilled

When I found out I was pregnant with Liam I thought what any parent first thinks of: "Now I get to cash in on the free candy this Halloween and Easter!" The latest event… Easter egg hunting with an almost 1 year old Liam. So what my kid can’t walk- I can! I can also pick up eggs lying on the ground and steal jellybeans from 2 year olds. That qualifies me to hunt right?!
My friend Myla came. She has a 5 month old, but hey, it’s free candy for crying out loud!!!

Here I took a mad dash for some Easter eggs while Liam hung on for dear life. Liam picked up one egg (only because I put it in his hand). We came home with 16.

Hunk Of Burning Love

Death doesn’t scare me (unless it’s me whose dying). But that’s why I perform these stunts: to show Fate that I’m the one in control, not some silly cookie at the New Hong Kong restaurant.

Anyway, I did it for Liam. I figure when he’s older, and he sees me wearing a smock to work everyday he may think I’m kind of boring, maybe even a nerd, even though I’ll basically be a legit, licensed drug dealer, and most kids think drug dealers are cool. My boy will be able to look at this picture and realize that his old man is quite extreme at heart.

Feel free to copy this photo and blow it up and tape it on your bedroom wall to motivate you to become more like me.

Carrie Angel and Tanner Landing

Tanner's parents treated us to some awesome hiking at Zion's National Park and Bryce Canyon this past week. This picture is during our hike to Angel's Landing. It is pretty cool because it ascends 1500' and is 5 miles long. This point is about 2 miles up and is right before you have to start using chains to hike the rest. This is also the point where I commanded that Liam not go up any further!

Thanks to the encourgement of Tanner's parents, and their offering to hike Liam back down, we were able to hike the rest of the way to the top. You can see the chains needed to help the hikers... on the other side a drop off to the bottom.

It was so awesome at the top. You can see the tiny road that kind of puts into perspective how high up we were. We had so much fun with this hike- I think it was because it was so satisfying to know you hiked the whole way up from the bottom. We would love to do it again.

We also hiked at beautiful Bryce Canyon. We had a great time hiking here because of the awesome rock formations we saw. I was so happy to be outside and with my family-check out my stride!!

"Mossy-wait no, Icy Cave- no..... lover's cave..."

Liam was so much fun to bring and did awesome as we hiked him around everywhere. He was extra cute in the little backpack and drew in attention from the other hikers. At one point we passed some foreign hikers. One of them looked at Liam and said, "Hey little clime-Ber." We all laughed- it was a fun time.