Tending Cooper

The other day I got to watch my little Nephew Cooper. He was so fun to have at our house. Kali played Play-dough while Cooper watched and laughed. They are to cute together. Grandma Carter is now watching them both one day a week together so they have really started becoming best friends. So dang cute how they follow each other around & just how excited they get to see each other.



Tell me these two are not so cute!!

Cookies

Kali is so into helping me with WHATEVER I am doing!! She wants to pour, stir, bake, roll, frost you name. Yes is sure does make baking cookies take way more time that it should but I sure enjoy her helping me. She is getting pretty good at frosting especially after making homemade oreos for our BYU party...


With a little tasting in between of course.

Nightime

Yes still has the binky at night...and at naps....I know I really need to get rid of it. But I just can't do it yet!!

One of my most favorite times of the day is bedtime. When kids are in there pajamas they just look so cute. When they are asleep they look so innocent. No matter what has happened that day or how busy we have been putting Kali in her pajamas is something I really look forward to. I love to rock her in the chair while either singing her a song or telling her any story I can think of. I love when I walk out of the room and she says, "Mom love you" if I forget to say it first. These are the very special moments I wish I could put in a bottle. I love listening to her & Brian talk to each other or sing songs. Brian loves putting her to bed & I am so thankful he will take the time to rock her or lay by her at night...Because I know these are the moments he will never forget.

Wayne County Fair

This summer we had so much fun camping & going to the Wayne County Fair, Rodeo & demolition derby...We camped near Johnson Lake which is close to Fish Lake. We had such a great time and are hoping to make it a tradition. I wish I would have taken more pictures. We slept in a little 4 man tent & ours was the smallest of all the tents (but lets be honest our camping is at the Marriott) Kali kept saying, "my tent is the smallest" it was so cute. My sister-in laws (Tiffany) family is from Liman and it is the cutest little town. Also Brian's mom's parents are from Loa the next town over so we were able to stop & see Great-Aunt Margori. Kali took the best bubble bath she had ever taken. It was so nice to sit out under the stars each night and just relax.



Kali & Great Aunt Margi at 91. Kali had the time of her life in this bathtub with this many bubbles...

IN-N-OUT

Well as most of you know IN-N-OUT is coming to Provo...My husband couldn't be more excited. I guess there will be no more reason to go to St. George or Vegas now, right?

Petting Zoo

Earlier this summer Kali, I & Cory decided to head to Thanksgiving Point to the Petting Zoo. What a great deal. $2.00 on Tuesday I thought there would be so many people there...but to my surprise there was hardly anyone. It was such a fun time & Kali loved riding the Pony's. She wanted to ride on the little one.

Long Over Due

I haven't blogged in so long..I am getting back on it...So I have tried to put everything we have been up to in the last month & a half..So I hope you enjoy getting caught up...I sure did :)

My Girl

Kali has been growing up so fast lately...She is now talking in practically complete sentences and cracks us up with the things she say's and picks up on. So we are spelling many things these days. I haven't done a post on her being potty trained...She has done so well. She has been potty trained for about 3 months now. She got potty trained about a week after her 2nd birthday and has done great. She now has been waking up dry for about the last 3 weeks...I am so proud of her. She gets so excited when she does nice things...She is very loving...Always saying, Mommy I love you sooo (with the drawn out so) much!! It truly does melt my heart and I love being a mom more than anything. She is my little side kick & I wouldn't change it... I love you kali!!

She is really enjoying Nursery & is a very big helper to the teachers...She loves singing time & is really picking up most of the songs..We sing all day around the house...and her favorite song is "We Are A Happy Family" at times she will just look at Brian or I and say...Mom (Dad), We Are A Happy Family....with a big smile...

Her sharing is coming along...Now that we have a little Nephew to share with it has been nice teaching her to share. She doesn't always want to but we are hoping this comes to...Thank goodness Cooper is a good sport and doesn't care to much yet...She say's Cooper is her Best Friend!!

She is a born mother...and loves all of her baby's...she plays with them, watches out for them, feeds them, disciplines them, she leaves them and say's she is going to work, or she leaves them at Primary & say's, "don't worry mom will be back for you"...lol It is all of the things we do with her and it is quite amusing to watch. Crazy what kids pick up on.

Spanish Fork Rodeo

The Pratt family has made a tradition of going to the Spanish Fork Rodeo...We love it....it is so nice to get out and do something a little different sometimes. Brian, Seth & Kali wore there cowboy hats and we had a really good time. It was so windy that I didn't get many pictures...but we still had a good time. I got my arm slammed in the port a potty door and it is still tender 3 weeks later...There is something with port a potty's latley!!

Kenny Chesney

Kenny Chesney concert was awesome!! It was at the Rio Tinto Stadium and it was a blast... It was so dang hot that day I thought we were all going to melt.. and the Stadium ran out of ice... (Who runs out of ice when they know it will be 95 + degrees that day)...But it was still really fun and we had a great time.

Blog

Kali is really into looking at Blogs latley...She always says, " Mom me look at pictures"? So I open up to my blog or someone else's and she scrolls down to the bottom until there are now more and then she will say, "more again mom"!! I can't believe she can run the computer already and on second note....she can run the I touch as well...

Kyle Fairwell

We went out to Tooele for my cousin Kyle's mission fairwell & his little nephew Grady was really enjoying all of these cupcakes...He would like the frosting off and then go for another one. I couldn't resist taking some pictures of him..

Helping Grandma & Grandpa Pratt

Kali loves to help my mom water flowers..My mom & dad are really good at keeping there yard looking nice...They just never know when they are going to need to do a wedding..lol

4th of JULY!!

The 4th of July is a big deal in the Carter family. We do the Provo parade in the morning...BBQ & swimming at Nate & Tiffany's in the afternoon, the Leishman part late after noon....they we skip away to the woofelball game with the WHOLE Carter clan at Grandview or Westridge were ever there is less people...then back-over to the Leishmans for popcorn, snowies and fireworks...it is a really fun day...

What's more American than ICE CREAM

Marci's B-day

Marci was born on July 3rd...So she always has a fun birthday weekend...Marci is such a great sister & aunt. She just got accepted into the Nursery program at Snow College and will be leaving us soon for school. We are all so proud of her. She graduated from Southern Utah University with her bachelors and has been working at Crump Insurance for the last year...Oh I almost forgot...Marci, Brian & I went and got a spray on tan for her Bday present...Brian was Hawaiian Tropic, and I was a tan gone bad...Note to self....no more spray on tans for me...I wish I had pictures...

Kelly Clarkson Concert

We went to the Kelly Clarkson Concert before we left for Disneyland. It was a raining night but we all had a really good time. I decided that Kali truly does love music...she loves Rockin Out With Her Dad....Or they also call in Jammin..She will nod her head and really get into it...I love it.