Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas Everyone! I hope you had a great holiday season. Karl, Carson, and I just got back from Utah - spending Christmas with my family. We had a great time. I was getting over a cold/cough so that wasn't fun. But everything else was great. We were able to relax, hang out, see family, and catch up. Karl enjoyed playing Halo 2 and we all had a great time playing X Box Karaoke (even Mom and Dad got in on it). The drive up and back really wasn't bad - just long with the breaks we had to take for Carson. Here's a pic of one of our breaks. Carson was helping Karl drive (parked in St George).

Carson's first Christmas was fun. He obviously didn't get excited over the gifts but he liked playing with the ribbon on his wrapped presents. Half way through presents he got tired though and took a nap while we all finished up. Next year's Christmas will probably be a lot more eventful for Carson. We took a few pics but there were too many distractions to get a great one. We also celebrated Christmas with Karl's parents the Thursday before. Overall - Carson got a lot of cute books (which is great), clothes, a Fisher Price nativity set, music, BYU football jersey (picture to come soon), and toys. He is a very excited young man.

While we were in Utah, Karl and I took a morning to go roam around BYU. I was surprised how much I enjoyed it. We just walked around and talked about old memories. It was also fun to see the new changes that have happened on campus. We took a lot of pictures and got one of the three of us by the Brigham Young statue. The only downer was that it was Christmas Eve so all the buildings were locked, but we still had fun. We also drove by all the places we lived. It was nice and chilly. But later that day it got real cold and dumped quite a bit of snow on us. It was fun to have a real white Christmas and the mountains were beautiful.

Carson is doing much better with the foods. It isn't completely frustrating now. Oh - he had his 6 month appointment. He weighs 20 lbs 6 oz and is 29 inches long. His old car seat is for up to 29 inches so we've switched to the new one Karl's parents bought him for Christmas. He is one big boy. He has also started scooting. He'll do one crawl motion (a leg or an arm) and then drops to his belly and does an army crawl. He sits up now too. I'll have to upload some video. My Dad also got us a web cam for Christmas - so we'll have to play with that and see what we can do.

Love Kasey

Pre-Christmas Update

Hey all -

Well we are getting excited for Christmas. We'll be driving up to Utah to stay with my sister and see most of the family. Vickie and Josh will be coming to Arizona - but we'll overlap a little bit. If you'd like to see us as elves - follow this link http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1381015856
We haven't really even had a chance to think about Christmas yet. We've had finals this past week and Karl's been sick...not a good combo. So we're just now catching up on everything else we need to do and I'm starting to think about Christmas shopping.

Carson never took to cereal so we've skipped it and moved to veggies. So far he's tried carrots, sweet potatoes, and squash. He's pretty much liked all three. Tonight I mixed some cereal in with his squash and he wouldn't eat it. I tested it and it tasted like squash to me so this kid is just too smart. He's sleeping longer through the night now but he still hasn't gotten back to sleeping all the way through. Once he likes to eat, it will be so much nicer. He's sitting up on his own now (as long as there isn't a really interesting toy just out of arms reach). He has an appointment next week so I'll let you know how big he's gotten.

Here's some more cute pics.
Here's Carson practicing to play Playstation with Dad.And this is first thing in the morning. He sits in his crib and plays after he wakes up. He's such a cutie!

Love you all - Merry Christmas!!
Kasey

Halloween Pics (A little delayed)

Hey - I just got the pics of Carson on Halloween so I thought I'd throw a few on here. He's scrunched into the chicken costume and then he's in his perfect ghost costume. Hope you enjoy.