Picts from the trip

Here are some pictures of our recent trip. My parents rented a house on Guames Island. All of my family met us there and we stayed for a long weekend. The house was beautiful and the view was great!

Carter got to roast his first hot dog and of course a marshmallow as well. After his first taste of the marshmallow he informed us, "Hmmm, I like it". You don't say?!

The beach wasn't quite what we were expecting. There was a shocking lack of sand. In its place were very large rocks covered with barnacles. Needless to say we did not do a lot of sun bathing. However, under the rocks we found thousands of baby crabs! It was crazy. Carter was thrilled. And so were the older boys.

Here is some of the boy's treasures. Some of the things we weren't even able to identify; they were weird!

After our trip north we headed back down to Boise with my parents. We stayed for about at week and a half. We saw our families and a few friends. Time always goes so quick and we never get to see everyone we want for as long as we would like.

Here is some pictures from the park there.

This is my attempt to capture how long Piper Rose's eyelashes are. They are really long.

Home Again

Well, we made it home again. We started our trip off on Guames with my parents and then followed them back to Boise. We stayed for about a week and a half. We soaked up a lot of sunshine and played outside all the time and spent tons of time with family. I am a little less then thrilled to come home to our cloudy city with a dead patch of grass to call a yard and no family. I think I am in need of a attitude change.

I will post pictures soon!

Fun in the sun with friends

Last week we had some beautiful weather. We enjoyed some time at the beach as a family.

Sun bathing beauty

We also enjoyed some fun times with our friends this week. Here is Carter with the twin, Bryn and Chloe.

Here is Carter and Charlie.

Post popsicle scrub down

Piper and Della soaking up some rays with SPF 50 on. Hopefully no rays got through.

My beautiful girl in her new sun hat

Carter and his buddy James-o did some jammin on the fence together.

The Last Month

I can't believe it has been a month since I last posted. We have been pretty busy. For Mother's Day we decided to do an very impromptu surprise visit to Boise. We just showed up and got some pretty good reactions from our moms. We stayed for awhile and enjoyed some lovely Boise sunshine. My sister Breanna came for a visit the following week. We had a great time. We went to the beach, cooked yummy food, went out to dinner, and talked a lot.



We have started undertaking potty training. Today was day one. So far so good. Besides the accident during breakfast with pee-pee dripping from the high chair to the floor, Carter did pretty well. We started out giving three M &M's for a treat, but had to decrease it to one because the kid peed like every 5 minutes.



We are still looking for a job. We are getting a little discouraged, but trusting God to provide for us. We know that He is faithful and will take care of us. We are very thankful for everyone's prayers.



Here's a few pictures:

Piper and her cousin Jaxon checking each other out.

Carter and Granny

Piper and Nana

A lovely Mother's Day dinner in the Goldsmith lush, park-like yard

Beach Day with Bre-Bre

I put the kids in the tub together for the first time. Carter thought it was great and wanted to wash Piper. Piper wasn't so sure about the whole thing.

Cute Quotes

Here are a few cute quotes from Carter-boy:

"I am nudey everywhere!"

Mom: "Carter, where are you?"
Carter: "I'm peeing in the curtains."
(Right after his bath he normally runs around naked for awhile. Unable to locate him, I asked where he was. After receiving that response, I located him. Sure enough he had wrapped himself up in my bedroom curtain and was, in fact, peeing all over it.)

"Daddy is Jesus."
(This is a serious fundamental misunderstanding which we hope to clear up. However it is pretty cute.)

Upon finding a small piece of plastic on his changing table he informed us, "I throw it down there. I could choke on it."

We went out to breakfast with some friends. The waitress came over to take our drink order. We went around the table and placed our orders, one of which included hot chocolate. Without missing a beat Carter piped up, "I'd like some hot chocolate too!"

Fun in the Sun!

Last week was beautiful here! It was so nice to have some sun. We did as much outside as we could.

We went down to the UW campus to enjoy the beautiful cherry blossoms.

We went to Golden Gardens park. It was actually warm enough to play in the water, which thrilled Carter.

Turns out that yoga on the beach is not such a good idea unless you want a sand beard.

Destined to be a plumber...

Piper Rose sporting some baby legs.

Random picture: this is what happens when I leave Carter alone with stickers. He thought that he was pretty clever.

We went to Ben and Jerry's for free scoop day. Piper was bummed she couldn't have a taste of my chocolate cone.

Carter's ice cream melted faster that he could eat it, so he resorted to drinking it.

We had a break through at the park...Carter went down the slide! It was the first time that he went down and actually enjoyed it.

I really don't think this baby girl could get any cuter!

Happy Easter!

Jesus is risen! We are so thankful to know Him as our Savior. He has conquered death and saved us from our sins. Jesus is amazing! We celebrated by going to church and watching people be baptized. Our church baptized 347 people that Sunday. It was so cool! Jesus is alive and saving people.

We also did some egg hunting...or egg "sneaking" as Carter says. He was pretty into it. He was even more into it once he discovered that there was "hot chocolate" (i.e. candy) inside.

It was a beautiful day on Wednesday so we drove up to Deception Pass and spent the day enjoying some sunshine.

It was a yucky day outside, so we had to settle for sneaking eggs inside.

A little man on a big beach.

I thought that I would just do a little relaxing in the sunshine, but Carter decided it would be a great opportunity to load me up with rocks.

I had to show him how its done!

I don't know what makes this so cute, but it is pretty adorable.