The Clary Family

Sweet moments

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Carson's always thinking of his future; who he's going to marry, what he's going to do when he's a dad that I don't do as a mom, and what's he's going to be when he grows up. It's gone from pilot to fire man to police, to a doctor, even a "Big Apple"?! On our way to preschool today he decided he's going to be a Truck Driver, instead of Flash. (a super hero:)

At least he's thinking of his future!

Lunch Date at Panera Bread

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Jaxon and the Train

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Putt Putt Date Night

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Hiking with Family and Friends

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Time to put the markers up!

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Yours the Best Richard!

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What an Amazing cake;-). Thank you Whitney and Sharon for the fun idea!

HaPpY BiRtHdAy RiChArD!

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My handsome husband turned 31 today! Thank you Richard for all you do for us! We love you!

Sick Baby

2011-08-26T09:27:00.000-04:00

Jaxon has had a fever the last couple days from shots. As for now he's content in the lazy boy.

Beautiful Kentucky Sunrise

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Bottling Tomatoes

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Last night Richard went out and got me all the bottling supplies I need. This morning I finished picking all the tomatoes, and it looks like I have my work cut out for me.

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Tomatoes boiled and ready for peeling. I never thought I'd be doing this without my Mom or sisters.

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Passing down the heritage one generation at a time. Here is Landon and our neighbor Paige peeling the tomatoes. Carson was napping or he would have joined in on the fun.

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Yes, I only got 5 quarts, but I am as proud as ever!

Jack-o-lantern in August

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In Kentucky you can plant your pumpkins a month earlier, go figure they'er ripe earlier as well;-). The bugs were getting to them so we decided to just carve them.

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Just the boys

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Our little Jaxon is growing right up and cuter and cuter every day. My sweet, sweet child.

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McDonalds

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Carson and I went out on a lunch date today.

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And then he made a friend:)

Landon at the Dentist

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No cavities for either of them. Yay!!

Carson at the Dentist

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7 Year Anniversary

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For our Anniversary Richard and I had a nice fancy meal at the brown hotel where they topped dinner off with a fun dessert they lit on fire. After dinner we rented a two person tricycle and rode around Downtown Louisville. That's where we ran into our friend Lisa who took our picture. That night we stayed in the Crowne Plaza, thanks to a couple YW in the ward who stayed the night with our boys.

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My handsome husband finishing off what was left of lunch.

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Carson being Carson!

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My three supermen in front of the DC temple

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All fresh from my garden

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Landon's B-Day cake. It was a lot of fun to make.

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Boys are responsible for taking out the trash now. Yes we are slave drivers.

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Landon's first day of school

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Landon and Carson going swimming at the Grey's pool. Lots of fun!

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Super Jaxon!

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Three boys in a bucket!

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Landon and his trophy!

Carson and His T-Ball Trophy!

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I am trying out my new mobile blogger capability. If this works I just might start blogging more often.

Some fun pics.

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Enjoy!

All in a weeks time

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Landon Learned to ride his bike with No Training Wheels. It took a few tries, but he even learned to take off all on his own too, with out me holding the bike in place. The teddy bear is his preschool class mascot who got to spend the weekend with us. If you were to stop by, first thing, he'd proudly drag you outside to show you his new trick. Carson learned to buckle himself into his car seat. What a great thing! He feels so grown up now. This along with starting preschool, has brought all sorts of smiles. He calls himself a "school boy":)
Jaxon learned to roll over and is so proud of himself! I wish I had a video of it, the boys cheering him on and Jaxon's laugh, the whole thing:)

Kentucky State Fair

2010-09-26T18:14:00.003-04:00

One family activity the boys will never forget! They're always randomly bringing up "The Fair", the cotton candy, the rides, the games, the animals, and how they got to stay up "all night":)

Carson Hated this ride it set him right into tears, maybe it was a little much for his first ride. He mostly enjoyed the good food, Jaxon's company, and the motorcycles that we didn't get a picture of. But Landon was just getting started.

You know you're getting older when a ride as simple as this gives you a rush, when you know that years ago it wouldn't have fased you.

remember the swings when you were just little?

If you look real closely Richard and Carson are in the Belly of the Dragon with Landon.This was my favorite part. Landon and I went on crazy spinning ride just the two of us. He's just growing up too fast.

And Jaxon had a good time too:)

T Ball

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We waisted no time getting Landon all signed up for T Ball. He started 2 weeks after we moved here and loved every minute of it!

Here he is with his trophy, and below with his new friend Eli.

Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory

2010-09-20T21:47:00.006-04:00

Richard's mom spent a week with us in August. One of the things we did while she was here was visit the Bat Museum. Here are all us sitting on an enormously large Glove.It was actually pretty cool. They showed us how they make the bats from step one to staining and branding them.
Here is the larges bat in the world. I wish I knew the stats.

They even sent each of us home with our own personal mini bats.

It's just his size

4th of July Campout

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So this is camping in Kentucky! The campsite was so pretty. You would cross this little bridge to get to the campsite where there was gravel instead of dirt, so we didn't even get dirty. And the ground was all leveled out for the tent.

And just about half a mile down the nicely paved road there's a lake . Jaxon hung out here under the shade for the most part and slept.
We built Landon and Carson a little shade tent while we were at it so they would have some nice cool sand to play in.

At the campsite Landon practiced building his famous card houses. Here's one in the making.
Jaxon was really good the whole time. He even slept right through the full first night. I think he likes camping as much as his brothers.
Just sitting around the campfire waiting for the photographer to pull out the marshmallows.

The boys haven't stopped talking about camping at the lake and the fire works ever since. If you call to talk to them that's all they'll talk about:)

We love it here

2010-07-09T16:16:00.004-04:00

So much has been happening this last month I'm not even going to try to catch up with the posts. But I do need to thank my Mom and Dad for flying out here to Kentucky with me and the boys and staying the week. It was SOOOOO Much Help. Thank you Mom and Dad! By the time they left, most everything was unpacked and put into place including the decorating:)

We love it here. We love the people, the Lightning Bugs, the trees, the Cardinals, and the huge pastures, it is so Beautiful here. I love and miss the mountains, but I walk around out here smiling, just because it's so pretty! We've made lots of new friends and try to keep busy. If I'm not at a play date, or a picnic at the park I'm at the "Y" (YMCA). Which is a place were you can workout, join aerobics classes of all sorts (today I tried Zumba), swim laps, or go the water park. I can leave my kids at the daycare while I do my thing (which they love and ask for daily), or take Jaxon to the daycare and Landon and Carson to the water park with me. We all love the "Y".

Yes, as much fun as we're having and as much as we love it here we still miss everyone back home:)

P.S. We have a Web Cam now!

Pack n Up & Move n Out

2010-06-27T20:33:00.004-04:00

Just after the blessing and partying Richard and his Grandpa (Thank you Grandpa) Jumped in the truck to head out for a 26 hour drive across country. They made good time with only one minor setback involving a 3 hour wait for a flat tire repair. They arrived in Kentucky late Monday night where they crashed at a hotel for a good night sleep. We loaded the truck Saturday morning. Thank you to everyone who helped with the loading, the cleaning, and the babysitting. There's no way we could have done this on our own.

So while Richard and Grandpa were on the road the boys and I stayed at Mom and Dads. We ran my final Utah errands, played with cousins at the park, and visited with family. We flew out early tuesday morning with Mom and Dads help. (I don't have any good pictures of the airplane ride.) But the boys loved it and were so excited to ride on the big airplane. They were really good the whole time. It was so pretty flying into Kentucky. It's so Beautiful here.

Saying our Good Bye's

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Jaxon's Blessing

June 6th we blessed Jaxon at 4 weeks old. And afterwards had a little luncheon at my parents home. Thank you, thank you so much to everyone who was there to celebrate this new wonderful blessing in our lives. We are so Happy to have Jaxon with us. And thank you for being there to wish us well as we venture off into the world to start our new life in Kentucky. We will miss everyone,and getting together for holidays and special occasions. There are so many emotions both bitter and sweet wrapped up in moving away. Thanks to everyone for being there for us all of these year. We love all of you. And plan on seeing everyone back home for Christmas.

Landon's Birthday Party

Landon had invited everybody to his birthday party months ago and has been so excited about it that we couldn't possibly leave without celebrating. So we got him an Optimus Prime pinata, and Grandma Russell got him this Spiderman cake that he was so excited about. (Thanks Grandma:) He was so happy to have such a fun party.

Look at all those cousins he has to play with. We will miss that.

I wish I had taken pictures of everyone here. I forgot to in the midst of all the buisyness. Thanks for being there.

My Three Boys

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Mothers Day Surprise!

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JAXON NICHOLAS CLARY

If you're going to spend Mothers Day in the hospital this is the way to do it.

7Lbs 11Oz & 20 Inches

Born May 9th, 2010 @ 1:26 pm

The Nine Month Belly

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So here's the belly. And the best part is that within a few days he will no longer be belly. He may even have a name.

Landon and Carson are so excited about having a baby at home. I love to see them around other babies. Landon is really sweet. He'll look at me with the sweetest look on his face while he's playing with other babies and say, "Am I being good with him mom?" So cute. Baby always gets the first good night hug as they wrap their arms around my belly and give him a kiss. And after mommy and daddy's hugs, baby gets even more loves. They talk about baby all day and what babies can and can't do, what we should name him and why isn't he here yet. Randomly I'll hear from the boys room after they're in bed, "I know what we can name baby", or I'll over hear their little conversations like when Carson said to Landon "when I have a baby in my tummy, I'm naming him Bum Bum." It's so much fun to have kids around while I'm pregnant cause they're just so cute about it.

We're headed to Kentucky

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Here is a bottle cap fortune from Landon's drink a week ago.

A week later Richard interviewed for a job.

The company is Watt Stopper! They do lighting for commercial buildings.

They're buying Richard a car, he picks it out within a week or so. They pay for the insurance, maintenance, and AAA service. They're buying him a laptop, and a Blackberry. And they're paying to move us out there.

Yes, I can officially say all these years of school have paid off and prayers have been answered. We have a job! I never saw myself moving out of state, but I'm really excited about it. Scared, nervous, naive, and really excited to start our new life with our little family.

We'll be moving two weeks after baby's born. hopefully sometime the middle of May.

Easter Eggs

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Richard was leaving Friday morning to Rhode Island for a job interview, so we colored eggs together Thursday.

Tonsils Gone!

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He didn't get sick very often, and he's only had strep twice. But this little man can snore. Sleep apnea is why he had his tonsils and adenoids removed.

Here's Landon going in to surgery

Here he is just calming down after 20 minutes of just crying. It was so sad. Nobody warned me about the coming out of anesthesia part. He was so mad.

He chose a shoulder ride over the wheel chair, but there were still no smiles until grandma's showed up with gifts. Grandma Russell showed up with dinosaurs and Grandma Nelson brought a dart gun.

He's done awesome. The first two days I couldn't keep him down. Then he started to wear down a little, but he's back to his normal self wishing he could eat all his favorite foods. His voice has changed completely and we don't know if it will go back to normal or not.

But best of all, he no longer snores. He gets the rest he needs and feels better than ever.

Happy Birthday Carson!

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Birthday Spotlight

Yep, he's 3, can you believe it? This is my baby. My baby who get's excited over everything. He has so much energy he doesn't know what to do with it. Carson loves fruit snacks, the movie Cars, trains, shoulder rides, going to grandma's, and playing with Landon. He'll introduce himself as a different super hero every time. But he always has laser eyes and freezing powers with sound effects. Oh, and did I mention he can fly? He can often be found wearing cowboy boots and his super cape.

We love you so much Carson and all the smiles you bring into our lives.

Happy Birthday Little Bom Bom!

Danger Zone!

2009-10-05T10:30:00.002-04:00

It seems there are benefits and not such benefits to moving into a previously burnt down apartment. This is just today's findings. We've found well over 300 nails in our driveway. Luckily only 3 in out tires.

The boys first noticed them while we were moving in and lined all the nails and screws they could find along the back door and practiced their counting. Once they got to about 67 nails I started worrying that I had an endless collection in my drive way. Well, I did, and just recently I finally found a magnet to pull up the rest of my collection. Crazy!! I've noticed I've got a bunch in my back yard just up against the house that I haven't taken the time to pull up yet.

Who needs a girl?

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Landon has insisted on painting my nails for the last week. Finally I had to use this as his incentive for being good while my clients were here. Needless to say, he is very proud of his work and noticed it's starting to come off and wants to fix them for me. We'll see what my nails look like next week:)

He calls them my Halloween finger nails. Appropriate, no?

Amazing?

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Yeah, I grew this watermelon starting from seed next to my kitchen sink! I just picked it out of my garden tonight and was so excited I had to show everyone. A litte proud, well yeah. All of my hard labor is officially paid off.

Quick update on the last three months and lots of Exciting News!

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Let's just skip what we missed and pick up where we are...

Okay, well, I guess there are a few main events worth catching up on.

There are no pictures, so if you're not planning to read it, just take note of the final update:)

- We moved! (2 months ago) Grandma's home where we were living "Sold". Only, it didn't. So we moved into a nice little duplex. Everythings brand new becuase it burt down about 5 months ago. I even have a dishwasher:) Life is good!

-My brother Nick came home from his mission end of July! And he pulled off a Nelson, he's engaged. They're getting married end of November and moving into grandma's home, that didn't sale. We're all so excited, we Love Ashley.

-My sister Katie and Jordan have moved back from New York selling Security Systems. Now that we've moved we live just around the corner from them, and we're in the same ward again. Just like old times.

-We celebrated our 5th year Anniversary August 12th, can you believe it?

-I quit cleaning homes and am now doing toenails. My blog is: twittertoes.blogspot.com. So I've spent lots of time perfecting my recently discovered talent for art on toenails.

-Richard graduates this December!!!! And is now thinking about Law School. We'll see what the future holds for our growing family.

-Yes!! Our family is growing. We just found out there's another little baby on it's way:) Landon are Carson are Both excited! (It took Carson a little convincing:) Baby's due May 13th! I need to schedule my first appointment, so if anyone know's of a good O.B. Close by let me know! Mine's on a mission till February and hasn't decided yet what his plans are when he gets back.

Preschool Graduation

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The first part of May Landon Graduated from Busy Bees Preschool! His teachers were Emily and Megan. They worked so hard for their graduation practicing every class to learn their songs. And that's all Landon could talk about for weeks. We were so excited to go and see them perform all these songs. But we didn't expect all the emotions that came with it. We were so proud of Landon and that he did so well in school. He made new friends, he always came home so happy and feeling all grown up. He became such a good helper at home just because of preschool. And to see him there performing was amazing, for one thing, we didn't think he would do it, but he did, and he couldn't stop smiling:) All of these emotions of being so proud of him, and loving him so much just flowed. We're proud of Landon.

Bobby the Banana Man

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So, by the way, Richard started working at the new grocery store here in town as the front end manager. I spaced posting that wonderful little change in our lives. He's been working there since the week we came back from Vegas (a couple months ago) And this is Bobby, he came to visit for Grand Opening. Bobby was there for a few days, so needless to say, we were in the grocery store every day for those few days. The boys just couldn't stop talking about Bobby.

Isn't he just the best banana ever!?!

Easter Weekend

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Friday night we colored eggs together. But Landon's favorite part was peeling and eating the eggs. He was so excited when I told him he could eat the ball inside:)
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Saturday morning the had come. This year he decided to leave all the gifts in one basket. It was fun to see Landon divvy them out and say, "Here Carson this is yours".

At noon on Saturday we had a party at mom's. Here are all the little kids patiently waiting to run after the eggs.

Sunday we had an Easter dinner at G&G Russell's with an egg hunt there too. She got all the great grand kids one of these cute buckets and filled the eggs with all of kid's favorite snacks from grandma: Fruit by the foot, and fruit snacks. Carson was so excited! This was his first egg hunt because he slept through the first one at my mom's. He had to show everyone at least four times so they could all see what he had found.

And Sunday night the Easter Bunny came to the house to visit! Landon Loved it, Carson didn't But he accepted the egg. So there's all about our wonderful Easter.

Primary Party

2009-04-17T21:00:00.002-04:00

This was Landon's first Primary Party. All the kids got to dress up as bugs. And since I was there to do the face painting Carson got to come too. Landon was a beetle, and Carson was a bumble bee. There were some darling little bug costumes, lots of bumble bees. There was face painting, seed planting, and treats, I made the chocolate pudding dessert with Oreo's and gummy worms.

Hahah, what a mess!

St. George

2009-04-15T22:25:00.005-04:00

On our way home from Vegas we stayed a couple nights in St. George. We drove around snow canyon, rode bikes, went swimming at the condo we stayed at, we had dinner at Pirate Pizza, And on our way home we went to Johnson's Farm Dinosaur Museum. We used mom and dad's time share for the condo we stayed it and it was really nice. My favorite part was the kitchen, it had everything you'd need.

We also ate at a buffet there in St. George where they had little octopus'. Richard thought he'd put one on their plates. Of course they at that over the pasta and vegetahle:) Once it got to the point where they were chewing the tentacles saying how they were like gum we had to take em from them. They were grossing us out. Maybe if we responded like that with everything they ate they'd start eating more.

Here we are visiting an old pioneer home

And letting the boys run off a little bit of their energy before we go into an art museum.

And this is Johnson's farm where Farmer Johnson found dinosaur footprints on his land and turned the farm into a museum. Very Cool!

Diggin for bones

Tyrannosaurus Rex. It's Huge! This footprint was actually found in Mexico

In the background in you look real closely, you can see footprints just bigger than your hand. Or maybe you can't, but that's what's there.

Trip to Vegas

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The end of February we went to see Matt, Emily, and Madelynn, our friends and neighbors from BYU.
Landon and Carson were thrilled to see Madelynn.
Kisses all around

The weather was perfect! We left snow for 70 degree weather. It was nice and sunny. Luckily, we loaded our bikes and trailer not knowing how the weather would be.

Madelyn waiting patiently for her ride
Of course they're picking their nosesMadelyn and Carson were inseparable. in most of the pictures if one of them was in it the other was too.
This picture I just love Carson's smile, and poor Landon, so inconsolable.

We had lots of fun. Thank you Matt and Emily for making our stay so nice. All the great meals, monster cookies, our own room, and every thing. Next time, just let us win one round of UNO?
You guys are the best. Thanks for being such good friends.

Wrestling

2009-04-14T15:04:00.003-04:00

We started Landon up in a wrestling class. Before they went we layed out the rules; No hitting, kicking, biting, or crying.
Landon and Daddy practicing their stance.He can get daddy on his back, but what about the real challenge?
All right, go at it!
As he got ready to wrestle he looked at this kid and said. "I'm going to beat you up". Landon handled the loss pretty well. The boy was quite a bit taller than him.

We wanted too keep it up but the next class be would have been able to make it to Richard had started a new job that interfered with practice time. And lets just say I'm not taking two toddlers to wrestling practice. The grocery store's crazy enough.

Valentines

2009-04-14T14:23:00.005-04:00

For Valentines I made Richard this sign. In December for one of our family nights we came up with this saying so I put it on a board where we could read it.

And once again Richard went ahead and out did me. All of this was a surprise and Richard did it all. I did tell him about this sweater I found at Nordstroms I'd been looking for all season, but he went and found it with out me even knowing. Thank you Richard. Happy Valentines:) It's just too bad I didn't get this posted in February:)

Craft Day W/ Katie

2009-04-14T12:04:00.002-04:00

Katie and I found family blocks like these at Quilted Bear and decided: "We could do that". Well yeah,we could do that. But we thought we could cut the wood too, so we stopped by home depot to get the wood. Long story short; We broke moms saw blade, Sat outside our sisters home not daring enough to break here blade to and knew she was busy, had another sister try out a skill saw on it, (duh!) and when that didn't work we went to a place where they'll cut wood for you and ended up spending just as much to have the wood cut as it would have cost to buy it all made and fancy:) But I'm really happy with how they turned out. I'll have to add Katie's when she gets hers all finished.
Katie laying hers outMindy laying hers out

Sixth Photo Tag

2009-02-11T12:24:00.002-05:00

Here are three of my nieces, Savannah, Lydia, and Brynlie. We're all at the park for a combined family night. Richard and I were the ones who put this family night on. We had three legged races, water balloon tosses, and of course, that turned into a water fight:) I love that my family gets together once a month for family night.

Now here are the tag rule I got:
1. Go to your documents/pictures.
2. Go to your 6th file. (For me I thought it meant the sixth folder.)
3. Go to the 6th picture.
4. Blog about it.
5. Tag 6 other friends.

I tag Katie, Jodi, Tami, Justine, Jen, and Claire

Carson's Birthday Spotlight.

2009-02-11T11:57:00.002-05:00

Carson has brought so much happiness into our lives. Just look at that sweet face. So I thought that for Carson's spotlight I would mention just a few of his loves in life.
Carson loves his brother. No matter what Landon does to him, he adores him, and has to do everything he does. If Landon has a stomach ache, so does Carson, if Landon is excited about something, so is Carson. The love there is unconditional.
Carson loves trucks, planes, cars and trains. Even from inside Carson hears every plane or train from miles away, he watches out the window off and on throughout the day just to watch all the trucks and cars go by. And he gets sooo excited.
Animals are another one of Carson's many loves. He plays like he's a puppy daily. And when you ask him if he's a puppy, he says, "no, I kitty, meow meow". When we're just driving around he never misses an animal. He mentions every horse, cow, sheep, or llama, we pass.
Mostly, we just love how excited Carson gets about everything in life. We love our baby boy. Happy Birthday Carson!

Carson's 2nd Birthday

2009-02-09T15:30:00.003-05:00

Carson and his train cake. He's been waiting for this for way too long now. yeah, this is the least blurry of the bunch, I was struggling:) For his birthday he got a new pair of "birday shooooess", Hot Wheels, toy lizards, a ball, coloring book with crayons, a Mickey sound book, and a color wonder set. Thank you everyone for helping make his birthday so much fun for him.
Grandma Nelson gave Carson this lawnmower that says a few different fun phrases.
Here's Carson, Micah, and Landon playing with the balloons. Abe would throw a balloon up and the boys tried to see who could hit it first with their balloon, this was obviously the highlight of the night.

Night at Temple Square

2009-01-29T10:17:00.004-05:00

The beautiful Salt Lake Temple
It was So ColdWith Christ
We rode the Trax from Sandy and the boys Loved it.
Carson looks really tired here, but he just sat there next to the window watching everything pass by the full time.
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Before Temple Square we ate at the Myan. Here we are at the Myan just waiting to be seated.
The diving show is awesome!

Carson and Landon
Landon Carson Mommy

Landon Carson DaddyCarson digging in
Richards sister Denise came with us, so much fun.

My second Painting

2009-01-23T21:14:00.002-05:00

This one was for James and Becca. Also copied from one of Jon McNaughtons. I've started my third painting but it's not near as detailed as this and my first one.

Proud Mom

2009-01-23T20:48:00.002-05:00

First of all Landon was King Bee this week at preschool, meaning, they were celebrating his un-birthday. They get to wear a crown and be the class helper. They're also supposed to take in a poster of themselves. This was my first time getting to make a poster for my kids. I think I can get used to this homework thing. And Hopefully we'll get to make a Valentine box next month:)

Landon's First Progress Report Card, and here is where the proud mom thing comes in; Landon is top of his class in recognizing and writing his numbers. In studies, most 5 year olds don't do as well as he did. He knows All of them and can write them all too. Go on take a closer look:)
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Changes with the Clary's

2009-01-22T10:13:00.003-05:00

Richard quit Vantage. He worked for Vantage four and a half years and has now reached the end of classes they'll work with. That means he's almost finished with school and only has day classes left. He put in his 2 weeks notice New Years Eve so last Wednesday was his last day.
He's now working at Telos, a residential treatment facility. It's a school (home) for teenage boys who are depressed. He works nights so he can take all the classes he needs to to hopefully graduate the end of Summer semester:) with his bachelors in Political Science.
Though it's been crazy getting used to a completely new schedule. It's such a relief for all of us, to have Richard working only one full time job and only taking 12 credits. Hopefully the stress level in our home will lower this semester.
Thank you Richard for all of your hard work. It's not easy working 2 jobs and taking 13 credits. You're Awesome.

Christmas

2009-01-21T22:12:00.003-05:00

SANTA!

The boys were so excited to go and see Santa, but Landon warned me ahead of time. That he was only going to look at him "I just won't sit on his lap mom" . Not even a high five but Carson enjoyed it.

Here's Landon getting tickets to ride the train, "two tickets please" He was so excited!

Just waiting for the ride to start.

Once it started going, it went fast and Carson started crying so they stopped the train and I got to get on with the, that was the best part:)

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Two nights before Christmas Santa came to our home for a visit.

Landon was lots more excited to see Santa this time. Look at his happy face:) This was the coolest thing for him to see Santa at his home. We were sitting around the table eating dinner when Santa came walking through our front door ringing his bells.

Carson wasn't so excited this time to see Santa, but he sure loved that candy cane.

After Santa left this is him trying so hard to set his candy aside while he finished his dinner. Look at him eyeing that candy as he picks up his roll pouting cuz he can't have it. And he's trying so hard to mind when he sure doesn't want to.

Christmas morning this is what the boys woke up to. I feel bad I didn't even take pictures of the boys unwrapping gifts, we just video taped it all. First thing, Landon and Carson both took off into the tent and through the tunnel. It took Carson about fifteen minutes of play time before showing any interest in what was all wrapped up waiting for him. I love Christmas with kids. They make it so much fun. The look on their faces, the excitement and anticipation waiting for Christmas morning, gingerbread houses and snowmen, all the candy and singing, the whole season is wonderful watching the kids enjoy it.

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Frosty the Snowman
No, Carson's not happy at all to be out in the cold, but Frosty is, and Landon is very proud of his Snowman.

Slumber Party

2008-12-16T18:50:00.003-05:00

This last weekend Richards sister Denise brought Kayla and Tommy over so her and Thomas could celebrate their anniversary. Despite all the craziness of 4 kids under the age of 3 against me, we all had a little bit of fun.
Four little monkeys jumping on the bed.Here's Tommy Carson and Kayla
This playroom saved me this weekend. Kayla kept sneeking off to play all night long after bedtime:)
Quiet time. It looks so peaceful, but it really only lasted about two and a half minutes before they started jumping on the couch:)

What a tub full!

Preschool

2008-12-16T18:38:00.002-05:00

Landon started his first year of preschool last month.
First day of school picture
The first few times he tried to play sick and always told me he would be mean to all of the kids. I would pick him up from class and he would break down in tears. I felt so bad and didn't know what to do to help him enjoy school. But one day I went and sat with him through all of show and tell before I handed him off to one the teachers, Mrs. Megan. I don't know what happened, and why he didn't throw a fit, but he stayed.
When I went to pick him up he was all smiles. They gave him the treat bucket to fill for the next class, and he couldn't wait to go back with treats for all his friends. When I dropped him off he went in there, he sat for circle time, looked at me and said, "You can go mom":) I am so proud of my big boy. since this day Landon has been so sweet. He feels more like a big boy and helps Carson out so much. I love the new version of my Landon:)

Hee Haws Farm

2008-12-16T18:16:00.006-05:00

Back Tracking

It's almost embarrassing to post about Halloween in December, but here it goes:
For a day activity in our ward we went to Hee Haws Farm and we had so much fun.
Landon as a cow and Carson as a puppy
Well, most of us got our heads poked through Landon and Ryan are the ones on the left who's hair you can see. Then it's Ethan, Carson and Mindy.
The slide was by far the best part of Hee Haws! I felt like a little kid again climbing up those huge hay bails all the way to the top of the slide. It was huge!
Here's Ethan on the left coming down and then me holding Landon and Carson on my lap. Carson hated it the whole time, but it grew on Landon.
Carson just wouldn't stay in his costume for long, it was really warm that day.
Landon, my little cow boy on a tractor
Landon and Ethan finding their own way out of the corn maze.

Landon out in the pumpkin patch .Carson was way past due for a nap.

Finally, our family pictures.

2008-11-20T19:01:00.008-05:00

So here are the long awaited family photos taken about a month ago.
Since our move we've all been very busy with painting, yard work, unpacking, school, work, jobsearching, and settling into our new home. There's still so much to do but I'm finished dolling up our home for a few days and I'm taking a little break. Here are some of the family pictures my sister inlaw took about a month ago.

Richard and Landon
Richard, Landon, Carson, Mindy

Carson and Daddy

The two of us

Playing on the swings

All of us together

Arm in arm

So in love

Yeah, he's the best!

My boys

Carson

So sad

Hahaha!

Look at carsons mouth:)

Landon and Mommy

Daddy and Carson

One day they'll learn to smile

We're MOVING Again

2008-10-23T22:39:00.003-04:00

It's only been six months since we've lived here in this little apartment that I just love. But we've decided to move into my grandma's old home. She passed away this last Easter so the home has been rented out. My mom and her siblings have been renting it out and recently put it up for sale. We're not buying it, just moving in until it sales. So it could be long term or sort term, we just know that whenever it sales we'll have to find a new place. I'm very sad about leaving my new friends here at these apartments, but happy to know that we'll keep in touch. This home we're moving into has three bedrooms and is much larger than the places we've been before, so we'll get to use all our furniture that's been in storage for so long. But my favorite part is that we'll be by all of my family. We need to be moved out by the 31st. So we have one week. Wish us luck:)

Mom and the Boys

2008-10-22T17:55:00.005-04:00

My sister in law Becca has been practicing photography. And we were lucky enough to be the ones she practiced on. I think she's great. These are just me and the boys, but we'll have some family photos to post soon:) Thanks Becca!

Landon, Mom and Carson

Landon

Carson

Carson and Landon watching ducks

Carson

Carson and Landon holding hands

Carson

Carson pushing Landon on the swing

Landon

Carson

Great Grandpa Hays' Funeral

2008-10-22T17:23:00.006-04:00

Landon and Richard went to California together for Grandpa Hays' funeral last month for four days.

Here is uncle Brad, Rick, Randy, big Rudy and little Rudy.

While they were there they decided to camp instead of stay in a Hotel. Landon loved it so much he couldn't finish a sentence he was so excited.

They went fishing but Landon said the fish were hiding, they had no success.

Richard will have to post more about their trip when he has a little time. But for now, here are a few pictures.