My little Boy is 2

I never understood why parents would say "I wish time would slow down" until I became a mom. I have been looking at some pictures and it feels like just yesterday I was holding him for the first time. I feel so blessed to have him as my son and to have a husband that works so hard so I can stay home. Here are just a few things that make me laugh that Carson does or says.

1. Almost every morning when he wakes up he says "Mommy hold you, Mommy hold me" I have corrected him so many times that if he wants me to hold him he says "mommy hold me". It melts my heart every morning.

2. He has just starting saying Love you mommy.

3. Carries his toy cars with him everywhere he goes; this includes bedtime. I have to go in after he has fallen asleep and collect 7-10 cars. If I miss a few he rolls over them during the night and wakes up screaming. I try really hard to find all 10.

4. He loves to be with me all day. It does not matter if I'm doing dishes, making the bed, or cleaning.

5. If you know Carson well enough you know he goes by Carso. I don't know how that nick name started but it has stuck. It makes me laugh when people ask him his name because he replies Carso.

I love this little person so much and wish time would slow down a little bit.

Fun Weekend

On Friday night Carson and I decided to make homemade pizza. It was a lot of fun for Carson to put the cheese and Pepperonis on; he calls them "ronis". If you know Carson, you know that he never eats. Well while we were making the pizza I looked over and discovered that a big portion of the "Ronis" were gone. In my mind I thought did Carson really eat something that was somewhat healthy for him. I kept watching him to see if it was really true. YES! my child was eating some turkey pepperoni. It didn't last long but at least he ate something.







Saturday night we went into Time Square. We visited the Toys R Us store. This store is huge! We went on the ferris wheel inside and Carson got his picture taken with the giraffe. It was so funny to see Carson's reaction when we got to the Car section. He was grabbing all of the car packages off the shelves. He finally narrowed his selection down to a toy tractor.

First snow fall.

It snowed about 6 inches last night so Carson and I decided it would be fun to play in the snow. We called the Burr's and they came with us. Carson liked being pulled on the sled with his buddy Damon.
After sledding we went over to the Burr's and had yummy hot chocolate. What a fun morning.

Notice that Carson is still holding his toy cars even while sledding. He does not go any where with out them in his hands.

Love Long Weekends

Last weekend was so nice to have Taylor around. Every morning Carso wakes up and asks if Daddy is home? Taylor is usually gone before he wakes up, so my answer is the same "no Daddy had to go to work". Carso gets so sad. This weekend was especially nice for Carson. He loved waking up in the morning and having Taylor home to play cars with.

Taylor's parents gave Carson a gift card to the science center for his birthday. We decided to use it a little early, and go on Monday. It was a lot of fun. We went to a 3-d showing of the sun; Carson wore the glasses the entire time. He kept pointing, grabbing, and saying "balls daddy". I think his favorite part of the day was blowing into the giant bubble.

Thanks Grandma and Grandpa for the fun day.

Laguna Beach!

We all went to the beach and had a lot of fun playing in the water. Carso's favorite thing to do is feed the birds. It is so funny to watch him, because once he starts feeding one bird they all start to swarm him.

Disney Land

Taylor had to go to Brazil again for two weeks so Carson and I decided to go to Disney Land. It was a really last minute trip.
The trip didn't start off well at all it started with Carson throwing up five times on the plane and having the flight staff cleaning for over an hour and then him throwing up again.
The first day at Disney land Carson had a major explosion in his diaper. I don't want anyone to dry heave reading my blog but it had gone up his back and down through his socks and in between his toes. I rate how bad the diapers are on how many wet wipes are used, the whole pack was used on this one!! Other than the first two days we had so much fun with Grandma and Grandpa Warner and the DeWitt's. Carson tells every body that his favorite ride is the tea cups. He also went on his first roller coaster and loved it. He was barely tall enough. Thanks for the good times. Carso and I are still recovering from the crazy days at the Park.

My Greatest Find.

Last weekend we decided to move out of our apartment and into a smaller place. Yes, I know you are all thinking we are crazy, but the price tag is what did it for us.
Every time Taylor and I have moved we downsize. Our first place was a 1700 square foot town home with plenty of room. Then we moved to NY and lived in a 1200 square foot apartment. Now we are living in an 800 square foot apartment.
This past week I have been trying to find hiding spots for all of our JUNK!! I have been putting stuff in every corner and every closet. We had no more hiding spots and I still had piles of stuff that needed a home. I was getting so frustrated with everything especially the stupid 7 foot Christmas tree that had been lying in our hall way for the past week, which I have tripped and stubbed my toe on multiply times. Right after stubbing my toe for the who knows how many times and cursing this apartment I looked up and saw this...........


Yes, an attic. I got so excited that I ran and grabbed the ladder and crawled up in. As soon as I got up inside and looked around I could not believe what I was looking at. Tons of space. I ran to call Taylor to tell him about my new find. I reorganized our entire apartment and hauled tons of bins and most importantly the 7 foot stupid Christmas tree into the attic. Now our closets are not even full!!!! What a wonderful day.

Fun things we have done lately.

We went to Lee's Turkey farm and picked our own produce. Carson had a good time picking apples. Note to self never pick habanero peppers.

Taylor's family came into town and we went and saw the church sites. We went to the sacred grove. It was so much fun because we decided to go camping in up state NY. It was absolutely beautiful.



Us at NY Yankees game. It was a fun game because of the great ballpark snacks. Taylor loves the hotdogs


I really wanted to experience the Macys Thanksgiving parade while we were in NY. We had heard that you could go the night before and watch them blow up the balloons. We went with our friends the Hafans. The subways were so packed that you were completely smashed up to the person next to you, behind you, and to the sides of you. It was nuts. As soon as we walked up out of the subway there were more people in this little area then I had ever imagined. It took us over an hour to walk one block because of pedestrian traffic. To give you an idea of how many people there really was they had multiple NY city cops directing pedestrian traffic. He would motion people to stop and then let others come into the stream of people. It was a nightmare! We opted not to go to the Parade.

Happy Halloween!

This year was a lot of fun because we were able to spend a part of Halloween in Utah with Carson's cousins. Kiffin threw a kids Halloween party that was so fun. She had a spooky basement and bobbing for apples. The kids had witches brew punch, and candy apples. What more could you ask for. Carson loved bobbing for apples he thought it was the funniest thing to pick an apple up with your teeth. I think he bobbed apples for about 10 minutes.


Our friends Misti and Troy threw a Halloween party. We had a good time, the soups were amazing. Taylor gave his best in the donut string contest but didn't win. Better luck next year I guess.
On Halloween day Carson and I along with about 10 other friends went to the Ragmuffin parade. It was tons of fun with lots of kids. I knew we were in NY when they had a section for the dressed up dogs. After the parade we went trick or treating. Carson loved eating all of the candy. He had such a long day that in between stores he fell completely asleep, but he would not let go of his sucker that was in his hand.

Carson did not like carving the pumpkins he kept saying scary, scary! It was really funny because we both tried to get him to help clean out the pumpkin and he wanted nothing to do with it.

We Love you Mia.

On October 17th we delivered our beautiful little girl. Before going into labor Taylor and I knew what the outcome was going to be; the doctor had done many ultra sounds but on the last one they could not find a heart beat. She was delivered at 5:35 PM. She was beautiful! We named her Mia Kaycee Leishman. We wish it was part of Heavenly Fathers plan to have her stay with us, but that is the only thing that keeps us going. We know that we will be with Mia again. We buried her in the Orem cemetery next to my Grandma Pyne. That was the best place she could be, because I know my grandma is taking good care of her. We love you Mia.

Kids Corner

Today Carson and I went to Kids Corner. It was the funnest place. They had a little town for kids. Carson's two favorite spots where the grocery store and Charlies Pizza. At the store he could weigh his food and check out by scanning it all. He loved pushing around the cart and filling it full of pretend food. We spent about an hour at Charley's Pizza. Carson made pretend pizza and hamburgers. When he would pull the pizza out of the oven and hand it to me he would say hot mommy. He loved wearing the hats too. The post office was fun where he put stamps on letters and mailed them off. If any of you come out to see us we will have to stop by kids corner and spend a day. I know we will be returning.

Funny Little Boy!

This is how Carson had to leave the house the other day. I have never laughed so hard at him because he held all of them.He was running all over the house with his shirt half way off thinking it was the funnest thing.
Everyday without fail Carson has one of Taylor's hats on and he can't see so he runs into the walls it is funny.
He loves his Car slippers and has worn them outside once or twice.

It's a Girl

Last week I went in for my ultrasound and we found out that we are having a little girl. We both new on this pregnancy so if they would have told me it was a boy I would have been really surprised. I can't wait to start shopping for girl clothes and everything else she will need. We are so excited to have her coming into our family.

I've Been Tagged

4 Jobs I've had-
1. Full time mom
2. Started my own business
3. Worked at Cards Magazine, doing the photography
4. Was a server at Red Lobster

4 Movies I could watch over and over
1. How to loose a guy in ten days
(I'm not a big movie person)

4 Places I've lived
1. West NY, New Jersey
2. Orem Utah
3. Quenca,Ecuador
4. Rexburg, Idaho

4 Favorite TV shows
1. The Bachelor
2. Lost
3. Prison Break
4. CSI

4 Favorite places I've seen
1. Maui
2. Ecuador
3. Lake Powell
4. I still Love NYC

4 Favorite foods
1. Cheese cake
2. Prophets cake
3. Bajio Salad
4. Cheese Soup

4 Websites I visit weekly
1. bank account
2. Email account
3. Friends Blogs
4. Anything to do with Bills ( I swear it is a weekly thing)

4 Hobbies that I enjoy
1. running
2. photography
3. anything outside with Carson
4. Hanging out with Taylor (It has not happened for a long time, with everything going on)

4 Friends to Tag
1. Tanis L.
2. Mom L.
3. Melissa H.
4. Kesseli G.

Having Fun at Grandpa Pyne's

We have been in Utah for about a month now, it was supposed to be a week! We went up to Grandpa's house and Carson loved getting on the slide. Dax wanted to try going together down the slide, lets just say they went flying! I tried to grab them like you can see in the picture, but was a little too late. That was the last time down for Carson.

We ate peaches and sat on the patio. You got to love peach season at the Pyne's