Happy Daddy Day

For Father's Day I decided to go all out. I threw this awesome dance party and invited all my friends...

Actually my friend Kimberly decided to get hitched and asked that I be in her wedding! It was a ton of fun. Her family especially made it a special day- complete with Limo rides and all. I especially enjoyed Father Ben.... It really was a good time. Thanks Kim, and good luck!

And Happy Daddy's Day, Love. I hope you had a good one.

Thank-you Grandpa and Grandma

Thanks to my grandparents, our summer was kicked off with a bang as we vacationed in California at a beach house for a week. The place was GINORMOUS. It had 10 bedrooms, 6 bathrooms, 2 jacuzzis, 2 kitchens and 100 reasons to never want to return home!

I knew the week was destined for greatness when I saw my mom's tote full of towels, and three drawers in the kitchen stuffed with junk food.

And thanks to my parents we were able to visit the happiest place on earth (except when you have to wait 20 min in line for a snap shot with 2 dogs!) It was worth it though when I saw how Liam was panting during the picture.

Liam loved all the rides. The Jungle Ride and Tiki room were his favorite. This picture is about when Liam decided he couldn't be very brave anymore. After this he clenched on to me, thus enabling him to take a few glances at the last of the scary animals!

I can't imagine a job like this. Think of it- running around on a street dressed like a utensil while holding hands with a spoon. This dancing team created such a comotion that it caused Liam to dance and go into turbo-pointing-mode.

Tanner and I had 2 ways of babysitting: putting floaties on Liam and tossing him in the ocean, and burying him in the sand. This was probably our favorite way...

The best part of the whole trip was Liam getting to know all my family and saying "ba-pa" everytime he saw my grandpa, grandma, mom and dad. Thanks Grandpa and Grandma!

Summertime!

Aahh...summer. After a grueling 2nd year of graduate school, the last day of final's week is definately the best day of the year.

Summer officially began this year when I woke up at 4 am and came upon Tanner, sound asleep, sitting on the couch with the t.v. on and a piece of floss stuck between his teeth. I laughed for quite awhile.

Thegraduate school here is awesome! They always throw the best end of year bash for everyone. This year Tanner played in their golf tournament. It was fun to trek Liam along and mingle with the professors. The dean even drove around on a golf cart giving out munchies and cold drinks. Tanner was in total-fun-mode.

That night Wal-Mart threw all the students an end of the year barbeque/fun night. They really went all out.. there was live music, a clown, crafts for the kids, a bouncy balloon castle, and....

face painting!!! Liam decided he'd do his own face painting with some cake icing, even though they had a real face painter there.

We really had a great time and felt very grateful for the much deserved "thank-you" from the school for another year of hard work done.

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!!