Sunday, June 6, 2010

Our 4 week trip to AZ

Carter's first trip to AZ
Wow what an eventful month it has been. Carter and I spent the past 4 weeks in AZ with the family. Logan was there for 2 weeks and spent the other 2 weeks in Provo studying for the MCAT. Here is a little recap of all we did in the past month.
Here we are at the airport, it was Carter's first time on a plane, which you could have probably guessed since he's only 4 months old. He did great on the plane. He ate and then slept through the majority of the flight.
The three of us stayed with my family and spent as much time as we could with Sterling before he left on his mission on May 12th. We also blessed Carter on May 9th. Which I posted about last month. Then, Logan went back to Provo to study and I stayed home for 2 weeks without him.
Sterling with his 1st nephew, we miss you Sterling! By the way, he is doing really well in the MTC he has about another month there and then he'll leave for Singapore.
Carter on his blessing day
While I was home my sister Nicole got married. This is our family at her wedding in Prescott. Congratulations you two!
Carter at the wedding, we love his cute little old man face
In the last month Carter has learned to grab onto toys and bring them towards his mouth. He can also pull his binky out and put it back in his mouth, it's pretty funny to watch him do it. He can also roll from his back to side.
So, this picture may seem random but another fun thing I did while in AZ was chop my hair off. I cut off 12 inches! This picture was right before I got it cut.
And here is my new hair cut. It's pretty short, but I'm getting use to it. It's fun to have a change.
Carter's favorite toy at Nana's.
Nana watching Carter when we went to F1 raceway with Dad
Papa with Carter.
My dad would hold Carter almost every night and watch the NBA finals with him. Carter already likes basketball and he's only 4 months old, ha ha. We have a feeling he'll be pretty tall since Logan is 6'3", so basketball is probably in his future.
Carter went swimming for the first time, if you can call me holding him the water swimming. But, sure we'll say he went swimming.
Please ignore my 5 chins in this picture and just look at Carter's adorable face.
Logan took the MCAT on May 22nd and then he was able to drive down and spend time with the family. It's such a good feeling to have that test over with! He has been studying so much for it and we're really happy to be done. Now we have to wait 4 weeks to get his score.
After getting ready for the day while Logan was watching Carter I came into my room to find Carter tucked into our bed like this.
I just started cracking up, it was hilarious. Carter looks like a little boy all ready for bed.
Logan likes doing funny things with Carter when I'm not around.
Next, we took a trip to the Grand Canyon with the Walter Family. We had so much fun. Here we are on the train ride to the Canyon.
Carter is not always happy, but he's still super cute even when he's crying.
What a view!
This place is gorgeous
Look at that face, he looks like he's thinking "why do I have to wear this stupid hat"?
We took a tour of the Canyon and saw all the good lookout spots


After the Grand Canyon we went to the Walter cabin in Heber for the weekend.
This is Carter's excited face!
And this is who he gets that face from.
My goofy husband, love the hat!
Now we are back in Utah after an 11 hour car drive with Carter.
AZ was awesome, we love going home and spending time with our families, it's always a blast.

On Friday night we went to Sundance because some of my mom's side of the family was in town. Summer time in Utah is gorgeous.
And this last picture I took today of our little man in his Bumbo.
We love you Carter
Carter is 4 months old, 13.8 lbs and 24.5 inches.

4 comments:

Katy and Lorin said...

Carter is such a cutie! Glad you guys had fun in AZ!

Mike and Alecia said...

It was so much fun seeing you. You'll have to plan another trip down here soon. And Carter is even cuter in person. I'm glad I finally got to see him!!

bdoyle said...

Oh my gosh, your hair is soooo cute! I love it! And Carter is completely adorable, of course. :)Glad you guys had a fun month.

Skousen Family! said...

Natalie!
Carter is so cute! he is so big.. I had my 3rd baby on the 28th of Jan. he is only 12 pounds... we are working on getting him some meat on his bones! Your family is so cute. You are a cute MOMMY