Duh, Pinning!

I have a new obsession and it is Pinterest! If you've never heard of it, it is a virtual pin board where you can save images you find on online into your own individual "boards" or you can browse through other peoples "pins". When I first heard about it I it was a little confusing, but all you have to do is request an invite and that is basically it. I have found SO much inspiration there! I'm seriously looking at it on my phone all the time and pinning away! :)

Here are just some of the cute stuff I've "pinned".

Source: u-createcrafts.com via Kimberly on Pinterest

I love the colors and these would be so easy to make!! I see a wreath in my near future! ;)

Source: whittenarchitects.com via Kimberly on Pinterest

This would have to be my dream house! Wrap around porch on water, gimme a break! LOVE.

Source: misobakes.blogspot.com via Kimberly on Pinterest

How cute is this cake?! I think it would be pretty easy to make for a baby shower... so friends time to start having babies..wink wink ;)

Source: ruffledblog.com via Kimberly on Pinterest

I've also been pinning images for my friend Jessica's wedding that is coming up in October... the ideas are endless!!

If you haven't been on Pinterest yet I definitely recommend it!

If you'd like to follow my boards you can do it here

Hello!

WOW! I can't believe a year has gone by since I last posted on here. Here's a little glimpse of what we have been up to this past year...

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song by my hubby's favorite band - Hall and Oats :)

*note - when he is spinning on the horse that is actually how fast he was going!

This time last year Carter wasn't saying anything, no words at all yet, so we took him to the SoonerStart program here in Oklahoma and after his evaluation he was at a 10 month old communication level and he was almost 2! Poor guy! So we started having a tutor come over once a week (this is all free from the state which is awesome!). Almost immediately after she started coming Carter was saying words and is now talking non stop. He is very smart and can remember everything! like daddy talking about a race car bed not thinking he would remember or even know what that is, but now has been asking for one everyday for about 2 weeks... lol

I guess he'll have to learn that a race car bed doesn't go with the lovely baseball decor I have designed for him ;) just kidding. We're working on the new bed thing now too.. so we'll see!

We are also in the middle of potty training! The day has FINALLY come! He is doing great, he is staying dry with only a few accidents here and there. We have only been working with him a couple weeks. Since he is obsessed with cars we gave him

a new little match box car when he would go, then he affectionately calls them his "peepee cars" nice! hey, whatever works ;) I will be so glad when he is completely potty trained!!

This spring we welcomed another boy into our family... Marty!

He has added a lot more messes fun to our lives! ;)

One of my favorite sounds!

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This is Carter laughing at Grandma baaaaing like a sheep. It was really cracking him up, he is so funny, I just love his laugh!

Isn't he a little young for this?

I thought kids started rolling their eyes at you when they were teenagers! HA HA Guess he was tired of me trying to get a video of him dancing! :)

Finally an Update!

I think its safe to say I don't really keep up with this blog as much as I thought I would! Considering all of winter has passed with only 1 post.

What have we been up to this winter? Not much, trying to stay warm inside, wishing it was nice enough to let Carter run off some energy out in the sun.

It was one of the snowiest winters I can remember. We had 2 blizzards and snow on the first day of Spring!

But now the worst is over and I can look forward to garage sales and spray paint again! :)

I say and think it all the time, but time is flying by! ugh Carter is now almost 15 months old???

So whats new with him? He likes to climb, on everything!!

Don't mind the neon orange "warning do not stand on toy" sticker on the back. lol

He dive bombs the couch and buries his head into the cushion, hikes a leg up and pulls with all his might to squirm up there. He's now mastered this and does it in about 1.2 seconds. We have the ottoman wedged into the corner of the sectional so he has a full platform to bounce around on.

He's not a big talker yet, he's too busy trying to figure out how he can get on the next tall item. He still cracks us up everyday, I can't wait until he does talk though I can't imagine the funny things he will say! Especially if he is anything like his dad.

Lets see... early in January Katy got married. I almost fainted during the ceremony, so that was a real treat. Ha, I started to see spots and looked at Jennie and said, I think I'm going to pass out. The look on her face of "uh oh" was enough to send me over, but I looked at the ground and kept breathing. The sheer thought of passing out during her wedding in front of everyone made it so much worse!! Luckily it was one of the shortest ceremonies ever! The rest of the night was just fine! haha

She had a beautiful, fun ceremony at the Civic Center here is a link to some of her pictures by our favorite photographer.

Then came February, Emma's 6th birthday. They had a petting zoo come to the house, poor Carter was not feeling good at all that day. He did get to enjoy the animals for a little bit though.

Maybe one day we will get a decent family picture, until then they all will just have to look like this:

Haha, We've tried many many times and this is the best we can do every time! Carter will not stay still for one second.

Now it is already the end of March, I can't believe it. Jamie's birthday was on the 13th and I got us both iPhones as a surprise. He was really surprised, and I was happy to have something new myself. New and awesome as a matter of fact :)

Then, on March 21st Jamie and I had our 1 year anniversary. We made it! ;) We celebrated by getting Marble Slab ice cream. That was our big adventure for the whole day, which was kind of nice.

Since it is now spring I am feeling the crafting bug again, so I had to make a new wreath for our front door. Not only was the fall wreath still up, it was lopsided and very sad looking. I had seen this wreath and thought it was so cute. So one Sunday I worked on this all day long. I just kept my glue gun plugged in and glued Lima beans on it in between doing mom things.

Gluing, gluing and more gluing...
But I am pretty proud of how it came out! And just like that blog I saw it on I can just spray it another color if I feel like it.
I also finished up my wall decor thing I've been putting off forever, thanks to Jamie and his hanging skills for this because I couldn't have ever gotten them all straight like he did.

This cost less than $15 and could not have been any easier! They cut the wood for you at Home Depot, and just glue on scrapbook paper, voila! That's it!

So other than those things we have been chasing around the little maniac known as our son. Here are some more pictures just because he is so cute!
He loves this little scooter, he will pick it up and practically throw it around.

When we are out he always tries to get away from me, as he wrestles away from me a stranger will try to hold him back and then they are like "wow he's strong". I'm like yes, VERY! This happened at church on Sunday and then at Little Gym. Also, at Little Gym this week, he was squatting to pick up a huge cylinder shape mat and he looked like the strongest man contest when they pick up the heavy barrels, it was literally twice his size! It was pretty funny.

Here he is doing more tricks on his favorite toy.

I guess this is what happens when your two older cousins are girls :)So coming up in the next months Jessica and I are preforming Zumba at the halftime show of a Thunder game. It's like salsa type dancing/exercise class we take once a week, so when they asked who wanted to do it at the game we said Why not!?

We are also running the 5k at the OKC Memorial Marathon at the end of April.

That is basically a small recap of what we have been up to all winter. I'm going to try and keep up with this blog a little more, because later on I can look back like a little journal for what was going on with us!

My baby's not a baby anymore

On January 8th Carter turned 1 year old. I cannot believe how fast a year can go by, this being the fastest ever!

It seems like it was yesterday we were in the hospital. Everyday leading up to his arrival I would go over lists and lists of things to take to the hospital, which items I still needed to get for him, stress over what I was going to wear home, and what he would wear home even. Everything in his room was so organized and in its perfect place. I had know idea how much none of those things would matter once he was here! Here I am about to pop on New Years last year! YOWZA!

It looks like I'm saying "get out of there mister!"

I had no clue what to do with a baby, I went to classes and read A LOT of books, none can truly prepare you for it though. Everyday is a learning experience.

When he finally arrived it was almost as if he had been with us all a long. I some how automatically knew what to do, I could hold him and feed him and change him without worrying I would break him. He was so small and so swaddled up like a little burrito, only his tiny face peaking out!

He was just so small, look at him coming home from the hospital!

Just a day before he was in my belly! Its funny how for the first 8 months of his life we took this carrier everywhere, in the house back out to the car, into restaurants and into stores. Now that he's grown out of it I haven't thought about it since. Everything he does is like that, once he learns something new it's as if he has always been that way.

This is him only a few weeks old, he would always hold his hands up when he slept, and then flail them around every now and then, so we gave him the nickname The Maestro. I love this picture of him! Now if I put a hat on him it comes straight off, here, he had no idea what was going on :)

As the months went by he began to show signs of his true personality, he is an explorer to say the least, never still! At 5 months he started sitting up on his own, this didn't last long, he was crawling a few weeks later!
Eating food for the first time, he looks a little stunned, haha This is him with Grandma Deneci's glasses on, it makes me laugh every time! Mr. Magoo!

Fast forward a few months and he is walking and he understands what I'm saying. Since he started walking at 9 months he's now a pro, well really he is running, especially when I say "what do you have?" plus an expression like this:

He is so funny, we crack up at him every night. He climbs on everything he can now, he will push his toys to the ottoman to stand up on it, once he's made it he thinks he's really done something. He'll smile then lose his balance, with a panicked look, but then stand straight back up and grin even bigger. He also chases Weezy around, when Weezy gets his one burst of energy for the day he'll sprint through the house and Carter will squeal with is arms up as Weezy whisks by.

I cannot believe he is one years old. This past year was probably the craziest ever, nothing I could have ever expected! Jamie and I have thought about things we wouldn't have ever before, things like cabinet latches, Olivia the pig, sippy cups and the list goes on and on!

~He is just the best thing in the world!! I can't wait to see what he does this next year~

He is 24lbs and 32 1/2" tall, the 75th percentile in weight and 97th in height. We had is 12 month check up today and everything looked good!

Busy Busy Busy

We have been so busy this fall, we've had weddings, my birthday, Halloween, parties, showers, now the holidays are flying by.
My friend Katy's wedding is coming fast, we found the perfect bridesmaids dresses that we all ended up loving. The color is beautiful and we all look great in it I must say :)

Here's a little preview.

Afterwards, Alli, Jessica, and I stopped off at MacDonald's to get a chocolate dipped cone. It was dark by this point, so I was just enjoying my cone in the back seat. I thought a little piece of the chocolate had fallen off into my lap, but it was so dark I couldn't feel it to find it, so I thought I must not have. Well when I got home my shirt looked like this! Haha I guess the chocolate was a little more drippy than I thought! lol lol

Oh that makes me laugh.

Anyways, the trees have all changed by now and leaves are falling off. Here are some pretty ones outside of my office, its right on the canal and there are the same three ducks that always splash around.

Then came Halloween. Carter was a monkey, and adorable one at that. :)

He didn't like it at first, but once I showed him the candy bowl everything was fine.

He got a hold of a Kit Kat and before I knew it he had chocolate ALL over his face, he was VERY upset when I took it away! I'm sure he was thinking that was the best thing he'd ever tasted. We dressed him up for trick or treaters at our house. We had quite a few this year, and of course we couldn't forget Weezy, Senor Scared himself.

He was nervous the whole time.

After Carter went to bed, Grandma and Grandpa stayed home and we headed to Jessica and Jarrett's housewarming/Halloween party. It was a lot of fun.

We have the Queen of Hearts, Saloon Girl, Amy Winehouse, Troll, and Brigitte Neilsen. We all made treats for the party, we girls love making treats for any occasion! I made these dirt cake cups.

After Halloween I don't think we have had a free weekend, and won't until after January 10th. That's ok at least we will be making lots of memories with family and friends.

This is what our weeknights look like around 6:30, Carter's favorite show Wheel of Fortune, we just like to call it Wheel. ;) He and dad trying to guess the clues. As soon as he hears the first tick of the wheel he perks up and stops whatever he is doing, stares at the TV and doesn't stop until commercial, then he gets mad it's not on. Really it is so funny how much it captivates him!

On the 14th of November we threw Katy a bridal shower at my house, once again we went crazy with the treats!

We played a newlywed type game with questions like, where was your first kiss and emailed Chris for his answers before the party. Jennie held up his and Katy wrote her answers, it was a fun game for a shower. This question was "what is one thing of Chris' that Katy will get rid of the first chance she gets?"

She has hated those things for years! Haha It was a good time of hanging with the girls, I don't get much time with them any more so when we get together it's like I am recharged with laughter. Our lives have changed SO much in the past year or so. We are married, I have a kid. It's crazy. You always know things can't stay the same forever, but you never know how or when they will change. Making treats and crafts are my favorite things to do now, I'm becoming a regular ol' Martha Stewart. I love it though. Here are a couple things I am working on now.

A photo board for my niece Emma, she just started Kindergarten this year, so my sister said she needs something for pictures and other papers she wants to hang up. I also found this frame at Goodwill, I've only sprayed it white so far... still thinking of what to do with it.

My sister was in town the week of Thanksgiving so we took the kids to North Pole City, a Christmas wonderland. I will have to go back without Carter though. Not much looking going on when he's around! :) We got the grand kids picture taken with Santa there. We actually got a good picture, they are all smiling and looking at the camera. This Santa was the most authentic I've ever seen.

He even told the real story of Christmas before the photo. Then we walked around, I tried to find a babies first Christmas ornament between chasing Carter behind desks and into the stock room.

This is my dream tree. I love snowmen and red and white, they are so happy and cute!

I saw this canister and had to have it. The cost $39. Really? Eh no thanks.

I'll just try to make it.

I got this canister at Hobby Lobby and sprayed the lid white and glued this snowman fam I found at Hob Lob on the top. There's three snowmen for the three of us, and the bird in front for Weez! ;) Im going to put fake snow and candy cane's in it next.

We are SO SO busy from here until the beginning of 2010! How has the timed passed so fast?! I'll post more holiday festivities later!