Carter thinks he is Adam Lambert

Lynette took some videos of the kids. I have no idea what Carter is saying or where he learned to dance. I am assuming that this video will come in handy when he is dating age.

For future reference, Adam Lambert is a contestant on the TV show American Idol.

Serena doing the peach punch dance

This is the video that Lynette took of Serena. She is holding peach punch packets and container.

We got a van!

2007 Dodge Grand Caravan SXT
Aleeya enjoying a nice spacious ride!

We finally broke down and spent the money and got a van. I am really excited that we were able to find one with relatively low miles, power doors and stow-in-go seats. We looked for what seemed like forever, but that way we knew when we were getting a decent deal.

Aleeya exploring the wonders of rice cereal

Aleeya is starting to eat rice cereal. She is not an expert by any means, and more ends up on her face and clothes than in her belly! She also really thinks it is funny to spit it out all over. I can't wait for foods that stain, like carrots!

Serena's crib closet

Serena is a true girl and she has a shoe fetish. It all started when she got snow boots from her Aunt Kimmie for Christmas. She went for at least 3 months with these being the ONLY shoes she would wear AND she had to have them in her crib at night.

She is now starting to branch out to other shoes, but they also now have to be added to the crib each night. She has her pink "butterfly" shoes, her "white" shoes, and her "soccer" slippers. She also has to have a book and her frog with her.

Don't even think about trying to get her to go to bed without one of these important items. She has a powerful set of lungs and knows how to use them!

We are currently in the process of looking for a big girl bed for her and I can only wonder what she will decide has to be in that bed with her!

Carter the Master Gardener

Carter with his amazing trees. He "planted" about twenty.

Carter with Serena, Aunt Staci and Aleeya

I have been participating in a garden group and I was trying to decide if I was going to go on Thursday. I asked Carter if he would like to go to garden group or to scoot outside while I worked on our yard of weeds. He said that he is a master gardener and that he had to go to garden group because some people are experts and he is an expert. I am sometimes amazed at the words he knows, as well as, his incredible sense of self-worth!

He really is the master gardener at our house, he took the branches that were pruned from our fruit trees and planted them in the garden. Apparently, he is tired of me not getting around to planting anything so he took the task into his own hands.

The power of Carter's prayers

Our lesson in Relief Society was about prayer and Bonnie Whitlock asked for examples of prayer we remember being answered when we were children, it reminded me about an experience with Carter's prayers.

We had an Oldsmobile that the transmission was going out on, one day I decided to risk it and drive to the store (I knew a ward member was going to be selling Girl Scout cookies there and I really wanted some, I was pregnant, so that is my excuse). Well, of course, after we got our cookies, the car wouldn't start. I decided to go to another store there in the complex and then try again. I asked Carter to say a prayer that our car would work so we could get home. He gave a great prayer and when we tried again it started.

So... Carter knew that when he prayed the car would work. Well, Taylor drove the car to work one day and it officially died for good. We tried many things to get it started, but it was done. At one point we did say a prayer, but it was time for the Olds. to be donated to charity.

The cute thing is that several weeks later Carter was saying that he missed the white car and that if we would have let him get inside the car and he had prayed, that it would have been fixed. I love that in his mind, since we were not in the car when we prayed that it didn't work. Who knows he might have enough faith that if we had put him inside the car, it would still be running!