Potty Trained

I am proud to say that Dave and I no longer have to pay for diapers! Well, now it's on the the underwear and the pull-ups, but it still is saving us money...until the next one comes along. We started potty training Carson around the beginning of February and he is going, going, going. He has an occasional accident or if he feels like peeing down the stairs, he'll do so, but for the most part he goes in the potty.

I would love to thank Hot Wheels for their invention of toy cars which helped motivate Carson to go in the potty. Oh, and Skittles.

Holy Cow! It's About Time!

We finally got the internet! It feels like Christmas to me right now! Ever since Dave and I bought a house, we've been so money conscious that every time I complained about not having the internet, Dave said, "you can get it, if you make the call." I didn't want the expense and not only that, I hate calling and getting things set up. I don't know why. I know I am a shy person, but if something bothers me enough, I'll say something or call someone. I work too dang it, so I am getting the internet. It makes me happy! I haven't been able to blog and we are going to save money considering Dave would always tell me he'd pay our bills at work and we'd get late fees because he forgot or got too busy. So, in a way, I think we are saving money or at least paying the same. (He knows I'm kidding)

Yay! Hopefully you all haven't forgotten about me because I  am back baby!

Valentine's Day

So for this Valentine's Day, I told Dave that we just needed to get each other some cards because we want to get carpet here pretty soon. I have slowed down at Jordan Valley a little bit so I can be home more for Carson and especially to help my mom out. So I got him a card and a treat. The freaking stinker got me the comforter set I saw that matched my wall perfectly! I got a new bedspread about or 4 Christmases ago and I tried to match my back wall with it, but I failed miserably. I wanted it darker than the bedspread and it was, it was just the wrong shade. Carson got me a bunch of lotions, body spray and bubble bath from Bath and Body Works. That kid spoils me. He's like his Dad for sure. Happy Valentine's Day!

Long Time No Post

Mom and Carson at Trunk Or Treat. Luckily I got to have some Halloween fun before the Swine Flu hit! Oh, and black hair spray was a BAD idea! What a mess.

Here is Carson at the zoo riding the train. This is his favorite part of the whole zoo. He even likes the train more than the carousel.

Here is mom and Carson carving pumpkins on Halloween. That was one of the last

days I was sick. I still didn't feel too good in this picture.

I feel so bad that I haven't posted anything for such a long time. No one probably even looks at my blog anymore, but I still want to post. We don't have the internet, but hopefully we get the internet soon though.

Just a recap of everything since the summer. We got a zoo pass and Carson and I go up there quite a bit, or at least try to. He loves seeing the animals and he loves any animal cage with water. We should've bought season tickets to a water park instead.

Carson is talking more and more each day and can say short sentences now. He's so fun and says random things. His obsession right now is to play games...so we will play Wii Sports like bowling or baseball. I stand behind him and he pretends to throw it and I am the one actually controlling everything behind him. Hey, he thinks he's doing great! He loves board games and any type of game he can find. We finally packed them all in boxes because he is starting to lose the pieces. I know, we're mean parents, but he'll love them in about 1-3 years. Carson turned two Aug. 11 and he is such a fun, happy little boy.
The house is going a long pretty well. Things are actually getting hung up on the walls and it is starting to feel like home more and more each day. ANYONE is welcome to call and ask to come see the house if they want to. Dave and I love hanging out with people and are willing to have people come look any time they want to. We still have TONS of work on the house, but that is what you get when you purchase a short sale home.

Carson was a vampire for Halloween. He loved getting all of the candy. I on the other hand had the swine flu over Halloween and I am happy to report that I lived! Luckily Dave and Carson didn't get it. I was isolated for 5 days in my bedroom, so I tried not to go around the house very much so I wouldn't spread the germs.

My sister in law Angela is pregnant with their 6th baby. It's a boy. They now have 3 girls and the 3rd boy is on the way. My brother's wife was pregnant, but she also miscarried like I did. Dave and I are going to try again soon. I could've been trying already, but we wanted to wait a couple of months to get more things done with the house.

My mom started selling Miche Bags. My sister or I will go and help her with parties. If you are ever interested in a bag for you or a gift for someone else, let me know and I'll give you my mom's contact info.

My work schedule is going to be changing soon. I now work Mondays and Tuesdays and then take Tuesday and Friday night call from 11p-7a and then I am on call one Sat. or Sun. a month. I may just go to Mondays and then take my call on Tues. night and eliminate Friday as well. Or I may just start taking nights. I would be a late person. If they needed me at 5 until a room would finish, they would call me in at 3 pm and then I would only work from 5 pm until that room was finished. I am sad to say that my 97 year old Grandpa died this past October and we all miss him very much.

Dave is still at Usana and has an office now. He works hard and cares for the company and the people he works with.

Other than that, Dave and I just celebrated our 5 year anniversary and we are just scrambling to get going on Christmas shopping and decorating for the holidays.

Incubus Concert

Oh la la!

Those tiny ant looking figures in the background is Incubus

Last night Dave and I went to the Incubus concert and sat in the suite at Usana Ampitheater. Our friends Eric and Danielle sat with us and Dan, Josh and J were up in the pit. Can I say, it's probably my 3rd favorite concert I've ever been to. I think The Fray was my number one and Sarah McLaughlin was number two. I loved it and we had a ton of fun! They are so talented.

Harmon's Lagoon Day

Here are the coolest twins ever!

Here is Carson on the boat ride. That was my favorite ride growing up...that and Puff!

Here is Carson and Uncle Beau getting ready to go on Puff. Beau was so excited to actually have another opportunity to ride Puff. Hey, if anyone wants an excuse to ride it again, take a kid!

Here is Carson and Grandpa on the boat ride.

Carson is driving a spaceship.

I remember when my twin nephews were this curious about where the water came from. He had no clue what those holes were for. You can see Uncle Beau and Aunt Gina's hands anxiously trying to save him before any water came shooting out.

I think Carson and I have had our share of fun at Lagoon this summer. We had to pay a little bit of money to get into Lagoon this time, but we are happy that we were able to go twice this summer. My sister Gina and my mom both work at Harmon's and they have their party every year at Lagoon. So this time, I got to go to Lagoon with some of my family. Carson got to go on other rides that he didn't get to go on at Usana's Lagoon Day.

Happy Fourth of July

Carson getting ready to go down the slide. Who is that goof ball climbing up the gray wall? Carson loves to play with his Uncle Stephen!

Carson jumping on the trampoline

Carson hanging out up at Doug and Kirstin's

Here is the goofy Park Clan making faces at the camera.

Carson using mom as a lounge chair and watching the fireworks

Here is Carson and Dad...and the break light, I mean a sparkler...if you can see it!

Happy Fourth of July! We had such a fun day today! We went to Uncle Doug and Aunt Kirstin's house to eat, play and watch fireworks! Carson had a lot of fun on the trampoline and their backyard playset. After we left, we went and watched the West Jordan fireworks at our church. They were perfect and we had an awesome view. They didn't last very long though. I hope everyone had an awesome 4th of July!

Zoo Pass

Look at the monkeys! Oh, I mean look at Dad and Carson looking at the monkeys!

Mom and Carson on the Carousel

Despite loving looking at the water most, Carson does love Giraffes. Here is one with it's tongue sticking out.

I remember drinking out of this water fountain when I was little. I love this picture.

Mom and Carson with one of their many favorite attractions...the giraffes!

Today Dave got the day off of work, so we wanted to do something fun. We had such a fun day today. We went to the zoo and Carson of coarse loved it. We thought we spent a lot of money to get into the zoo, so we ended up just buying zoo passes, which I know will be used quite a bit. He loves the zoo, but his favorite thing there is anything that has water in it. He loves water! Hopefully he'll become interested in the animals one day.

If there is anyone who ever wants to go up to the zoo with me and Carson, we can get a guest in for free!

Usana Lagoon Day

Here is Dad and Carson on Puff! Dave is in the back and he sat on the wrong side. You can see Ann Whitney, Kal, Todd and Jen.

Yummy strap! I bet all you moms out there are throwing a fit! I was behind the gate, what could I do?

Carson with Tyler Oldroyd! You should've seen these guys on the ride together! It was hilarous. They were doing fine, then the next time the ride came around Carson was hitting Tyler. Then the next time it went around he was still hitting Tyler. Then the next time it came around, Danielle and I saw Carson hugging Tyler. Then the next time it went around they were just sitting there as if nothing happened. Danielle and I were laughing so hard. Kids are funny. Tyler still wanted to ride rides with him after that. Kids remind me of goldfish.

I did this on my camera. I made everything go black and white and kept the stars yellow. I love my camera. Carson just happened to be in that cool picture...haha! No, he is making his cute face he makes every once in a while.

He loved the airplanes!

Every year I dread going to Usana Lagoon day because of the heat, lots of walking and the rides. I swear when I reached the age of 18, my stomach quit feeling okay after lots of rollercoasters and spinning in circles. Well, this year was totally different. Carson got to come and he was the happiest camper ever! He had so much fun that I didn't even ride any rides and I had the time of my life too! Well, I got to ride a boat ride with him and Puff the Magic Dragon, which I haven't been able to ride in years! I have pictures of me and my twin on that ride when we were little! It was a lot of fun to spend with everyone from Usana.

The New Face of Lowe's

Instead of it being Lowe's "Let's Build Something Together". It's Lowe's "Give Your Kids Screwdrivers To Play With". I love this picture. Carson feels like such a big boy helping his dad and papa out with getting rid of the doggy door! The house is coming along great everyone! It's been a slow process, but we've had tons of help from our awesome parents! I hope if anyone feels compelled to come visit us, that you will!

They're GONE!

So Dave and I posted our Chevy S10 and our Dodge Stratus online on KSL and we had phone calls on both of them within the first 10 minutes they were posted! It was great! We put them online around 7 pm and both of them were sold thenext day by 8 pm. It was nice to get a couple of extra bucks and get those cars off of our backs! We are so relieved that they are gone. If any of you are planning on selling any cars, do it on KSL! I think I deleted the picture of the truck and I'm mad...oh well. We are no longer rednecks with 4 cars anymore!

Annual Goblin Valley Trip

Every year on the Saturday before Easter, the Park family takes a day trip to Goblin Valley. Yep, we do the whole trip in one day. This year, Easter weekend was pretty rainy, so we went to Goblin Valley on Memorial Day. We have such a fun time watching all of the kids play in nothing but rocks and dirt. Every kids dream, right? Carson had a blast watching lizards in rocks and saying "oh crap" when Uncle Doug dropped his umbrella. That was the first time he had said it nice and clear. Considering Doug is a bishop, I was a little embarrassed more than usual, but oh well. At least it wasn't, "oh dit" like he's been saying lately. Carson surprises us every day and we sit and wonder where he picks things and words up.

We love going to Goblin Valley, but this year it took us 5 hours to get home because Spanish Fork Canyon was down to one lane for a couple of miles. So, Dave and I decided if we do go to Goblin Valley next year, we may do an over-nighter!

For some reason my pictures won't upload, so I am sad I can't show any, so Tiff, we'll need to talk!

I Can't Resist

I know I just posted a blog about the house, but I wanted to share a story or two with everyone. I know a lot of you know this, but if you keep talking to Dave while he is falling asleep, you can get some pretty crazy things that come out of his mouth. I remember one night when we were first married I was talking to him about work or something and he said, "do you know you can pump water from the Great Salt Lake to your house?" It was hilarious! He's said some other things like "write "the" above it" and I that was just said while he was asleep. He also screamed out the name Rosy because it was a name of the girl clown that was chasing him.

Two nights ago topped all of everything he has ever said. All of the sudden he just screamed out, "I'm Altima!"

I guess he's a nice, flashy Nissan or something, but that was awesome. It made me laugh and I had to share and embarrass the crap out of him. He'll deny it, but it's my word against his, right?

Closing

We can officially celebrate because Dave and I just closed today on our house! We are really excited and we are eager to get in there and fix it up to make it our own. I told Dave that no one can see it until we get it all fixed up, but what the heck! It's not going to be in the condition it's in 6 months from now.  All of you are more than welcome to stop by anytime you want! If you need the address, leave your email in the comments and I'll email it to you so some freak show doesn't come on here and read where we live.

Thank you all for being so excited for us and offering your help and we may need as much as we can get, even if it's way after we move in.

We Got It!

Hey Everyone!

I just wanted to let you know that the bank accepted our offer for the home. We are closing the 24th of April and possibly moving in on the 27th of April. We aren't 100 percent sure on that though. They said it could be May 5. We are in a lease for the apartments until the end of  June so if any of you know anyone who is looking for an apartment, we hope to find someone who can take our lease for 2 months and they can even stay in there longer.

We are really excited. I really haven't been blurting it out to everyone considering how scared I am. I will probably have to work more and so I haven't been to excited about that, but it will be worth it in the long run, I guess. We also might put our purple car (Mazda 3) up for sale if anyone is interested, let me know. I am more nervous than excited because it's going to be a lot of work, but we are excited to make it our own home though.

I just want to thank everyone for their excitement for us. I am really sad to be leaving the 12th ward. It's the only ward that I or we have ever had friends in. Seriously! We love our neighbors, but they are all starting to move out and go get into homes. I guess change is a good thing and it's something that we need to except in our lives. I don't deal with it well, but it will be good. I just want to thank everyone for their offers on helping with the home and we'll accept a lot of them, I am sure. We need lots of help. I hope everyone will come and see it after we get some things done and clean it up a bit.

EVERYONE IS WELCOME!!