Asparagus

Growing up my family would go for a drive and pick asparagus. I have always love to eat it and now Zac does too. He had never had it until we were married (crazy, I know!) and Carson is a fan too. All along the road by our hay field there is a bunch growing. We picked it a few times for dinner and it was delicious.

Carson and Logan

We have gotten to watch my nephew Logan a few times while Niki went to work and have had fun. Carson LOVES babies (sometimes a bit too much) he played toys with Logan and wanted to give him his bottle and helped me feed him some baby food. Carson even snuck a bite and said "yuck."

Last week Logan had to have surgery to drain an infection in his leg and now he has a picc line in his arm that will give him antibiotics for the next 5 weeks to clear up the infection. It is a staph infection....scary! We are so glad that he is doing better and he is much happier now that he gets to be at home.

"Eye a tiger"

Carson loves to play with Zac's Rock Band. We played one night while my family was here and Carson sat in the chair and started to play.....He always sings Eye of the Tiger. I am horrible at it but I can set it to easy and play ok. We have a broken guitar and Carson will wear that while Zac plays, it is pretty cute to watch.

Gearing up for swim lessons

Carson and I are going to do a mommy and me swim class at Thousand Springs Resort for the next two weeks (anyone want to join us?) He has only been swimming a few times so we took him a few weeks ago and he loved it. I ordered a new swimsuit and they sent me the wrong size :( I hope they get the correct one here by tomorrow.

Getting ready to get in the pool......He was fascinated by the water and just sat there watching.

Cleaning up the clutter

I found a blog (http://cleaninguptheclutter.bogspot.com/) and the lady's goal is to dedicate 15 minutes a day towards cleaning up an area that is cluttered. This would be in addition to the regular housework. I thought that it was a really good concept and I have been trying to implement it at our house.

I would LOVE to have my house look like the rooms you see in magazines, but I doubt that will ever happen. I love not having clutter, I think it looks better and it is less stressful for me to have things put away. That being said my kitchen table is a stopping point for many things in our home. Zac always asks why we bought this nice furniture if we are just going to pile it with stuff. I am working on it but that project seems to always be there. Over the past few months as I have cleaned different areas in my home I have accumulated quite a pile of stuff. I am planning a yard sale next month at my parent's house. Zac's mom has some things and so does my grandma so we will see if we can make some extra cash.

We have almost lived here a year and for the most part the walls are still bare. I really want curtains in the bedrooms and some vinyl wall art/sayings. Hopefully I can make some money at the yard sale to get them.

So for today I spent my 15 minutes on Carson's room. He has A LOT of toys and scatters them all over his room. When I pick his toys up from around the house I usually just dump them in his room. Well today I went through all the toys, took out broken ones, put some clothes away that were too small, picked up all the books, and vacuumed. It looks much better now...he will probably have it messy by the end of the night, but in a week or so that can be my 15 minutes of cleaning up the clutter!

Carson found his old Halloween costume and hat/gloves from last year and wore them all morning.

Playing at the Park

Last week I took Carson to a park in Twin Falls and he loved it. There is a really good park in Castleford just a few miles away from us but last summer/fall he was still kind of little to play by himself. He didn't want to leave when it was time to go!

Beautiful Day!

We had such a beautiful day outside yesterday. After Stake Conference Zac set up some chairs on the front porch and we brought Carson's toys to the front lawn and just enjoyed the day. I tried to read a book but Carson doesn't stay in one place so I was running after him. We have 5 kittens that run all around and Carson loves them. He loves them a bit too much and I hope they are all still alive when it comes time to give them away. He thinks it is so funny to send them down his little slide. We are trying to teach him to be soft and not pick them up but it isn't going so well.