Goings on at the Cartier House

It has been a while since my last real post. Lately they have just been pictures of the house. Well, now that we are moved in and I finally found where Dan put the cord so I could download the photos, I had over 100. I only picked a handful of those but it was hard! They are all so cute (and, as you can see, mostly of Anne).

This first picture says it all. This was moving day and poor little Anne didn't get her morning nap. It made for a pretty cute picture though. This 2nd one is of Anne in her Daddy's Montreal Canadiens hat.

I love these pictures of Anne. This first one is of her "drinking" while sitting on Daddy's tummy. We don't let her drink by herself from glasses but we do supervise her holding them. It is funny to see her little mouth. The next one is of her wearing her Daddy's hair hat. She makes it look so darn cute. And then little Anne sitting on the couch in the front room after Mommy made Dad switch the couches around to see if she liked it another way. We didn't, so Daddy had to move them back. (Thanks sweetie!)

OK, are these not the cutest pictures ever?!? I love that my little Anne loves to pose for pictures and she just makes the cutest faces sometimes. So appropriate!

These photos are from our 7th annual pumpkin carving party with the Snows and the Browns. We have so much fun ever year. Now that there are 5 kids, it is a little crazy but it makes for great memories. My pumpkin is on the left...it is my version of Anne (two little bottom teeth). Mike Brown's is in the middle (he always makes a masterpiece) and Emily's is on the right! Great job everyone!

OK, this little cowgirl is the cutest in town, don't you agree? We got all dressed up in our western wear (we didn't really have any so we bought some) and went to our 4th annual murder mystery dinner with the Laxman family. We have so much fun every year!

This year's theme was a poker tournament in Deadwood. Dan won an award for having the most money. Granted, he was the outlaw of the game and played his part well, taking any and all money he found just laying around or in the pockets of those not suspecting. Little Anne was the center of attention for part of the night just because she is so cute! Next year, hopefully Nana can have a sleep over with her so mommy can get more into her part.

Well, we just wanted to show you a little of what has been going on besides the new house. More pictures of that to come later (don't worry Jess...I haven't forgotten).

Tagged

I have been tagged by Beau, This picture is from my 4th folder and its the 4th picture. I tag Jessica. Find your 4th folder and 4th picture in that folder and describe it.

This is a picture of Antonia with her uncle Travis from when we camping this year. Even though she doesn't look too happy in this picture (she just woke up) we had a ton of fun!

From start to FINISHED!!!

What a big weekend!

What a fun an exciting weekend we have had! Little Antonia is now 7 months old! She is such a fun little girl. She is learning new things every day. She loves to roll and roll and roll everywhere and anywhere. She also just started saying "Dada" after a few months of saying "Mama". We just love her so much!!!




Mom and I canned some peaches this past weekend as well. These 7 jars represent what I did all by myself for the first time while mom was gone to work! It was easy and even a little fun.






One of my most favorite things to do is to go camping over General Conference weekend. This year, we also went to my favorite campground...Shady Dell. We went on a little hike to see the fairy forest and also the little pond. We had so much fun, even though it was raining on us a little bit. I was really looking forward to listening to conference. It is just such a blessing we have to listen to our prophet and leaders.

Also this weekend was Vinnie's 18th birthday! I can't believe that my baby brother is now old enough to vote! =) After the priesthood session, we had cake and ice cream with the Passey's. Not a wild and crazy party for him but Anne got to stay up late so it was pretty exciting for her. And next year she can help eat the cake...even though Papa was giving me a hard time for "depriving" her of it now!

And the biggest event of all is that little Bryce was born yesterday. He is such a teeny tiny little guy. 7 lbs and 19" long. I know to some that may seem big, but after my little girl...he is pretty small to me. He is such a sweetheart and we are so happy that he has joined the family. We can't wait to get to know this little guy! His big brother Bracken came and spent the night at our house that night and it was fun hanging out with him! I'm sure he is going to have so much fun with his new baby brother!