Carly Crosland

10 months. I seriously cannot believe how fast the last year has gone by... Holy cow! A LOT can happen in a year! Haha... Clara is just the sweetest thing. I know I always say that, but I just love this little squirt to death! She has been getting her top 3 teeth over the past couple weeks-- check them out in that picture! Haha- along with that awesomely green snot! I think the combo of being in the YMCA daycare a few days a week, along with getting 3 teeth left her with a mean cold! She was overall fine, but more snot has come out of that child than anyone I have ever seen! Other than that... nothing but good from this girl! She is the most consistent pooper I've ever seen. yep. Pooper. She wakes up for a bottle around 7:30am, then poops! Every. Single. Day. With. Out. Fail. Well, at least we know she's regular!  Clara is the fastest crawler I have ever seen! She is so quick, and can get to anything she wants! She loves standing at the edge of the tub and sp...

cute Lucy after church last week- she LOVES Lucky Charms, and all cereal really! sunday: so church is kind of like the social high-lite of the week... haha. They have read in like 20 new families the past 2 weeks. It's awesome. All of the friends I have made so far have all moved in within the last 6 months... We really like our ward so far! I bet it might be a while before we have callings though because there are SO many new members, but we'll see! We will be happy to be involved wherever we are called. Lucy I think misses her cousins Carter and Blakey more than anyone else! Haha. My mom is coming on Thursday to visit! Yay! And bonnie comes in a few more weeks, we wish they could bring Carter and Blake with them! Haha. We had a lazy Sunday, and made crepes for Dinner. We have 1 o'clock church, so by the time we got home after chatting after church for a bit,  it was like 5 and we were starving. I think we've had crepes like 6 times since we moved here....

I can't believe my little Lucy is 3! We had such a good day today! So glad it was Saturday... Lucy woke up to her favorite color- PURPLE balloons all in her room! She was so excited! She then came out and saw the new Easel we got her, and LOVED it, along with the darling little pony's from Grandma Bonnie! She was one happy camper! Lucy had swimming lessons this morning, and absolutely loves it! They even let them sit in the hot tub for the last 5 minutes of class every week... awesome!  Clara is SO cute, and on the move! I'll do a post about her later this week... 10 months this week! after swimming she took a 2 hour nap with her dad, (she stayed up until midnight last night because she fell asleep at 6pm for a nap while I was making dinner for the missionaries... love it when that happens!) after her nap, she got to test out her paints! Awesome! We finally got ready and managed to head out the door to Barnes & Noble! Lucy got a f...

This girl had birthday month... Seriously! She got a party before we moved, and another one yesterday! Yesterday we had 8 little girlies and their mom's over for a fun little random birthday party! I had met 2-3 of the mom's earlier last week, then on Sunday I took some invitations to church and pretty much handed them out to women who had 3 year old little girls... Seriously.... Conversations went like this: Me: "Hi, How are you? I'm new. How old is your little girl?" unassuming stranger: "Uhm She's 3" Me: "Awesome, I'm Carly. My little girl Lucy is turning 3 this week and we're having a party! Here's an invitation! Let me know if you want to come!" Haha... But really-- It was awesome. Here are some of the ladies- this was taken before Katherine or Jenny got there though Amy, Molly, Bev, Virginia, Jaymie, Amy, and Me the goods: aka- a random assortment of leftover valentine stuff from her earlier ...

Clara is seriously the cutest baby ever... don't even try to tell me otherwise! She is so sweet. Bless her... Lucy is driving me crazy... Bless her too.  She will NOT go to bed at night, I want a 3 bedroom apartment so badly... so so badly... Clara won't go to bed with one of us in there, Lucy wants one of us in there to snuggle with her, Lucy sings to herself, turns on the closet light, gets out of bed a million times, all waking Clara up, or causing her to not fall asleep. Clara falls asleep, Lucy then turns on the light and wakes her up... etc.. Basically Lucy won't go to bed. I know moving has been a BIG change for her, but it's driving me crazy! We need a serious bedtime routine week this week, because it's very likely they will be sharing a room for the rest of their lives... so we need to work something out now to make it work! Other than that.... (It's bedtime... can you tell?) apologize for the venting... that cute Lucy.... Anyway....

 This pretty much sums up our Valentines day.... playing at home, but so much fun! I love the picture on the bottom left... Tyler didn't even know Clara was in the picture then we looked at it, and boom there was Clara's cute little head!  A cute girl in my ward teaches yoga at the YMCA so I went to that in the morning and ran with her after--(I'm SO glad we are members of the YMCA, we have gone literally every single day since we moved in! And a bunch of cute girls from my ward work there, or go there too! It's awesome!) We came home and got out all of Lucy's Valentines Birthday Decor, and decorated our apartment and got to work on my mom's sugar cookies! Lucy was the best helper!  I was a little worried about making these, but they actually turned out great and now I have sugar cookies galore! Lucy got all sorts of Valentines! One of her new friends in our ward brought one over today, and Grandma Carrie sent her a coloring b...