Carly Crosland

i don't really like potatoes. unless you count french fries. never really have. i am usually a pretty good cook. and have never really had a kitchen 'catastrophe' yet. but i never cook potatoes. today i was going to make mashed potatoes. a fabulous recipe filled with cream cheese, lots and lots of butter, and half and half. sounds good right? well. i cut up the potatoes before church trying to save time, and came home to this. this is when my sister cheryl would say, "my mom never taught me how to cook mashed potatoes". Sorry mom. but i guess you never taught me what happens after you cut potatoes. you probably thought it was common sense. just like tyler did. mission mashed potatoes: FAIL. Lucy has officially slept in her bed for a full week now! i seriously am in shock it was this easy of a transition... now to get rid of going to sleep at night with a bottle... she doesn't have one for naps, so I think she will be fine, but sometimes if she wakes up sup...

i spend probably at least a good hour everyday reading blogs and well basically looking at cute kids rooms/nurserys. so lucy and baby's room should be cute right? with all the research i'm doing, you would think it would be. i'm hoping things will come together.... but all i can think about is how her closet doesn't have doors on it, and it's driving me nuts that you can just see the massive stuff i have stored in there. ugg. wishing i could paint the walls... goodnight!

i have really sucked at posting lately... that's really all. and taking pictures... i thought with my new camera, i would be snap happy. But all i seem to get is little lulu playing in her room! but anyway... for what has been going on! friday night me & meg headed up to ogden to see heather and her new sweet baby girl Lily! i forgot to pull out my camera until the end of the night when she was sound asleep, but she seriously is so darling! i love babies... me and meg... both like 25 wks prego... please excuse the fact that i look like death. i'm not even sure why i'm putting that picture up.... to document my belly i guess. and the biggest change as of late... Lucy got a big Girl bed! I was seriously having huge doubts on how this whole bed thing was going to work out, but she LOVES her bed! She has slept in it the last 4 nights, and is currently taking her first nap in it! It helps that she thinks the bed is way cool, and does NOT want to go back into her crib. ...

i think she is cute. she is turning into such a diva. she's just taking a break from watching nemo... we watch it pretty much everyday. please note her little horse in the background. she got that for christmas, and carries it around everywhere.

lucy will be 2 next month! i can't even believe it. she truly is in her terrible twos.  that little girl is so full of herself sometimes... lately she has gotten into glaring at strangers- not just like a dirty look, but like head down and down right mean! today she broke down in tears because someone looked at her wrong in costco. it's almost comical. she used to like smile and wave to people... she still does on occasion, but she can be a b-r-a-t. i think because it's just her and me all the time she is used to having 100% of my attention, and usually getting what she wants, mainly because i'm just home all day to play with her- she is not quite sure how to wait for things, and we are trying to teach her patience and tell her no more often! she is such a girl, and seriously checks herself out in the mirror after she gets ready and her hair done. it's so funny- she is a show off, and always puts her hands on her hips and looks at me with her head tilted with this l...

realizing i had quite the vent session late last night. please ignore. those baby hormones... =)

i find myself doing more of these posts. i am exhausted, and so tired, but my mind just won't stop thinking. stupid mind. so hopefully if i write down everything i'm thinking i can go to sleep. because i have to get up at 6:15am tomorrow for cheer. ugh. speaking of cheer... we had another competition saturday. my girls really did so well! seriously everything in their routine improved, but they dropped the ending stunt- blah. well- they took 3rd last time, so we were hoping for improvement, and well after all was said and done i thought they would take 2nd or 3rd again- but ended up getting fourth. well after going over the scoresheets i saw that we got a difficulty score of 17/20- and last time we had a difficulty score of 19/20--- uhm, how did that change when our routine didn't change? your difficulty score should not change unless you water things down- which we did NOT! i was so confused and it didn't say in which categories we got docked in- ie: stunts, tumblin...

 we had  fabulous new years! we met some friends for dinner at the blue lemon in downtown slc, and spent the evening playing games and laughing at the oborns house! lucy loved playing with little tatum! he is seriously such a stud, and loved cute babies milo and lula!  mike and lindsey martineau jentrie and little lula all of our midnight kisses! cute chase and katie

 just cute jane playing with all of her new christmas toys this past week. she seriously love her little kitchen and table and chairs. we have been great at tea sets. best part of christmas- we had these growing up and my mom made me, shawn, and cheryl all our own a couple christmases ago!     cute lulu watchin her 'boovie' on the couch! she has started this thing when she wakes up from her nap, but doesn't want to get out of her crib. she just wants me to stand in her room and let her keep cuddling with her pillow! a family party at my mom's house last week! cute cousins the brock's were in town!