Two years ago, Friday December 16, 2009  

McKynlee Joy entered this world and officially became apart of our family.

I cannot believe 2 years have come and gone.

She is growing up way to fast :(

We totally LOVE and ADORE this little girl!

I cannot get enough of her! 

She is silly, sassy and so sweet!  

She truly is the JOY in our lives!

Happy Birthday Beautiful Baby Girl!!!!

(It was so cute, she would sing Happy Birthday to ME in her sweet little voice, and if you listen close she totally spits out the candles rather than blowing them out:) 

It's the most wonderful time of the year...

I've always LOVED this time of year for many different reasons.

I love all the festivities, the pretty lights, the yummy treats, the (good) Christmas music

Looking out my window and seeing the snow fall in front of the lamp posts,

Drinking hot coco after a snowball fight, getting warm by of the fire place,

Seeing the kids excitement Christmas morning.

I love that it is the season of giving and serving others, 

But mostly, I love the feeling of pure joy and love I feel towards my Savior.

My testimony this time of year is always strengthened in very sweet and natural way.

I think of how amazing that night was when Christ was born.

I find myself imagining what it would have been like to have been there. 

I think of Mary, as Mother myself, and all that she went through,

 and some of the emotions she was possibly feeling.

Fear, Inadequate,Tired, Grateful, Joy, Pain, Love, Peace,

All those feelings any Mother feels during and after a pregnancy.

I know I did.

To be carrying the Son of God, the Savior of the World, I can't even imagine!  

I admire her so much. Her strength her courage her willingness and worthiness.

What a great woman!

When I think of my Savior, I usually think of his great example, 

 I think of his love and service to others.

I think about all the pain her went through,

all the those things he suffered and did because of his Love for me.

So this time of year, we have the opportunity to remember and reflect on his birth. 

I am reminded that Christ once was as a tiny little infant,

a new born baby, so sweet, so little so pure and so fragile.

When I think of him this way, the truthfulness of how REAL he is kicks in,  

and Heavenly Fathers plan just makes so much more sense to me. 

He's not just a spiritual being in up in Heaven.

He REALLY did come to the Earth.

His life REALLY did happened.

 He is as REAL as you and me.   

I KNOW he lives and I KNOW he will return to the Earth again someday.

My heart is full.

So this Holiday Season, I hope not to get caught up in all the craziness of things,

but to enjoy remember and reflect on what Christmas is all about.

The "NEW" Justin Bieber music video :)

At our Annual Haunted Home Evening with the family this year,
This was the winning video! The kiddos did such a good job! They're so cute!
I must say though, I am a little bit worried about McKynlee's BIEBER FEVER.....
she LOVES him!! Let the cute boy crushes begin..... oh boy!!!

6 years ago......

 6 Years ago....

I became Mrs. Carr.....

6 Years ago.....

I married my BEST FRIEND....

 

6 Years ago.....

We were HEAD over HEELS for eachother......

..... I am Happy to say 6Years and 2kids later....

We are still  CRAZY.....

and

CRAZY in LOVE!!!  

Kindergarten Here We Come.....

 Today was Druws first day of

KINDERGARTEN!

He has been so excited for this day to get here!

Me on the other hand,

i've been excited and also sad.

Lots of different emotions!

Yes....I did shed a few tears...

okay maybe more than a few.

Can you blame me?!

I just can't accept he fact that my little guy is growing up on me, and he's doing it

 waaaaaay to fast.  

Freeze button....

I wish!

So the morning went a little somthing like this....

Druw woke up on his own and of course earlier than usual,

(you would've thought it was Christmas morning in our house:)

he made his bed, got dressed, ate his breakfast and brushed his teeth...

All that in about 10 minutes tops.

He then kept looking at the clock asking if it was time to go to the bus yet.

For him the big hand couldn't hit the 5 fast enough, for me I wish it would've gone alot slower...sigh... :(

Of course 8:25 finally came around and we were out the door.

At the bus stop he met up with his buddies!

It was so cute watching them so anxious and excited for the bus to get there.

Then I watched him get on. - got teary eyed-

I blew a kiss and waved goodbye.- got more teary eyed-

Then I watched the bus drive away.... yup got even more teary eyed!

Once it was out of sight, me being the cool crazy mom that I am (you can decide which one:)

I got in my car and rushed to the school so I could get more pictures and video of him getting off the bus, walking to his class room, him with his teacher, sitting at his desk etc... etc...

He did such a good job!

I've got to say, I think I might just have the cutest Kindergartner out there!!

He may be growing up,

and doing it way to fast,

BUT

 He is growing up to be a great kid, 

And I couldn't be more proud of him!

I sure do love this little guy and i'm very lucky to be his Mom!!!

Easter Pictures

I know it's waaaay past Easter, but I just got these pictures so I wanna make sure I put them on the blog!

Isn't that a cute bunch of cousins???

(Wish Mikey was in it, then it'd be complete)

As you can see, My parents are VERY proud Grandparents to 10 grandkids all under the age of 4!

Thats soon to change to 11- Sheri and Nick are having a baby girl in October! :)

  My little STUD

   We couldn't get a picture of just Sis, yup....she's stubborn in soooo many ways,

but I sure do love my little diva!!

TeMpLe DaY

Today I was able to spend a Saturday afternoon at the temple with my Mom, Dad and Emily!

What a GREAT way to finish off the week.

It's always funny to me how CRAZY the day seems to be when you're planning on going to the temple.

Satan works double time on ya trying to make sure it doesn't happen.

I'm so glad I went and was able to support a family friend of ours who went through for her first time.

What a sweet spirit that was there.

I'm so thankful for families and that they can be eternal.

I really couldn't ask for anything better!

We took a few fun pictures while we were there.

Couldn't pass it up since it was such a nice SUNNY day.....

we haven't seen much of those the past month so we took advantage of it!



(PS... I thought i'd mention that since today was "supposed" to be the end of the world,  I thought it was funny and ironic that I would've been in the right place at the right time.haha! )

Thank goodness for the Gospel and for the knowledge we have.

Sad for those who don't and who actually believed today was their last!

Our Little Cardinal

As you know, we love sports in our family.

Always have and probably always will.

Baseball of course is Nates all time favorite.

 He's been a Atlanta Braves fan his whole life,

so much in fact Andruw was named after a player off the team.

We just signed Druw up for T-Ball and he is so super excited to play!

Although he's not a "Brave" he sure does make a cute Cardinal!

And I must say McKynlee makes quite the cute Caridnal fan!



Accidents happen....

 A Trampoline

+

A wobbly one year old

=

.... yup.... a broken leg!

Sad I know.

Funny, because the cast is almost bigger than she is.

Cute because she just figured out how to walk on it and boy is worth seeing.

(We joke and say that she looks like "Tiny Tim" and that if we gave her a little bucket and let her walk around that sucker would get filled up so fast with cash,haha. :)

So, Am I a bad Mom that I think it's sad, funny and cute all at the same time???

Ok, well maybe not a bad Mom, that's a little harsh, maybe just a little warped...haha.

Serious though, it does break my heart that she has a broken bone.

It makes me even more sad that I was away when it happened and couldn't comfort her right away.

But... ACCIDENTS happen i'm sure this is just the first to many many more.

Oh the joy of parenting!!!

REX LEE RUN

Last Saturday our HEOOP group- blogged about in a previous post-  

(and also Kevin and Nick) ran in the Rex Lee Run.

It was so AWESOME to be able to do this as a family.

It was a run for cancer which holds a place near and dear to our hearts

because Nicks Mom, who we all ran the race for, is a 4 time cancer survivor.

She sure is a fighter.

We we very happy and proud to run with her name on our bibs.

We also made our shirts specially for her.

It has her logo on it that says

"EOLU MAU" which means "LIVE LONG"

What a GREAT run this was and what a GREAT cause it was for.

Kev and Em both did the 10K- ya they're pretty much AWESOME...

While the rest of us (Mom,Fia,Me, Sheri and Nick) did the 5K.

We all did such great job and finished before all of our pre set goal times.

Sheri of course walked it, being preggers and all she didn't want to push herself,

she just wanted to finish, and her sweet hubby, who btw is an avid runner and just ran the Arizona Ragnar a few weeks ago, stuck by her side the whole entire time.

My totally amazing Mom took 3rd place in her age category.

She even has a Medal to prove it :)

She seriously rocked,
even with a sore foot and all from an intense shot she had to get

just days before the race, she literally only finished minutes behind me.
WAY TO GO MOM!!!

I'm so so SO proud of our HEOOP group.

We have been so good sticking to the program and cheering each other on all along the way.  

I LOVE these girls and i'm so happy to have them in my life.

( I wish Lena and Kate could join us... you know I love you girls too! :)

Today...Goals were reached, accomplishments achieved, tears were shed and memories were made!

Can't wait to do another one!!!! :)