A Glimpse at Brady...

So I had my last appointment with the Perinatal Specialist, Dr. Fowley, in Omaha today and I am still good to deliver locally! So nice considering Omaha is a two hour drive for us and I did not want to deliver there. This ultrasound was just like my others except that they did something SO INCREDIBLY COOL!!!! They took a 3D picture of the baby's face!!! Actually they took like 5 of them but this one is the one that turned out the least blurry. So now without further delay, I present a glimpse at baby Brady:

Look at those cheeks!!! This was definitely the highlight of my day! The crazy thing is that they took all his measurements and he weighs around 5lbs, 9oz which is fine except that I still have 7 weeks to go!!! Am I going to give birth to a mammoth sized baby...(The cheeks say yes.) or am I going to deliver two weeks early??? We will have to wait and see!

Little by Little...

...Our house will not be so ugly. This summer we will be starting a series of home improvement projects on the outside of our house. Our house is cute in a shabby paint peeling kind of way but I would really like it to be a lot more presentable, especially since we will be having a lot of family coming through. You may ask, "Carr family, why are you doing these things when you rent??? Shouldn't your landlords be doing this???". Well they can but they are gone all summer(literally) and they offered to cut a lot of money off our rent if we did these projects ourselves. We are not exactly the kind of people to turn down a smaller rent for a little sweat and elbow grease. So, kicking off the Summer Spruce Up, I put some flowers on our front porch. Not huge I know. But it really does make a cute difference.

Don't Touch!!!!

Pictures that make me happy.

My Primary Kids. I feel this picture is an accurate description of them.

It seems like Jackson always falls asleep on Ike and then Ike falls asleep too. I guess I just have a bunch of tired guys in my house.

When I said "Smile!" for this picture, he immediately folded his arms and wiped the smile off his face. He is perfect for every photographer but me!

This picture was taken in Finland on the Europe trip my family took last summer. I was just thinking about this moment this morning and I decided that sitting on that dock waiting for the ferry to take us back was possibly my favorite moment of the trip.

Family Photo Shoot!

Ike has a coworker who happens to be one of the most talented amateur photographers I have ever met. She takes really beautiful new born photos and she offered to take some pictures of Jackson for his second birthday. The photo-shoot ended up including some beautiful pregnancy shots as well as some sweet family photos. Here are my favorites from the shoot:

This one is my all time favorite.

The best part about the whole thing? She did them for free! We are so lucky to have this lady as our friend. She is really amazing.

Bowl Head.

Jackson has gone through some interesting phases in his short life. This last month he has entered into a knew one: Wearing mixing bowls on his head as a hat. I think it may come from watching all the taped New England Patriots games with Ike. I wonder if he thinks the bowls are kind of like foot ball helmets? Who knows.

Who really needs clothes anyway?

Happy Birthday to Us!

I remember when I was being induced with Jackson and thinking how fun it would be for us to have the same birthday. Now I realize that I lucked out! Jackson was born the day after my birthday and now we not only get to have our own special days but we get double the cake and double the ice cream!

My birthday!
We were going to drive the 45 minutes to Grand Island and go out to eat for my birthday but because we had stormy weather and tornado warnings all day we decided to stay in.

Started my day with some birthday Twinkies!!!

I got one of those awesome giant cup cake molds!!! I have wanted one forever!!

I made myself an ice cream cake. It turned out OK. Not as tasty as I was hoping.



Jackson's Birthday!!!

Jackson started his day with balloons on his bed!


Jackson in his "Birthday Suit"


I made him an Elmo Cake. Much yummier than my cake.




He actually opened some of his own presents!



Overall, I think 24 is going to be a great year for me and 2 is going to be a great year for Jackson!

Back from Hibernation!!!

I wouldn't say that I am "back from the dead" because I haven't been gone tooooo long. You know how some people get writers block? I feel like I have had blogging block. I have been so frustrated at myself every day that I let this lapse go on that today I said, "That's it! Get off your booty and write a blog post!". So that is where we are. Where to start??? I think I will try to post something about every day to every other day until I get caught up with all my recent endeavors. I don't want to do a "Here is what you missed..." post where I do a quick re-cap of everything in the last month because I have done a lot of cool things and I feel like they all deserve their own posts. So to start!

Trip to Utah!

Ike, Jackson and I drove the 14 hours to Utah to see his Brother Abe and sister in law, Ashley sealed to their adorable little boy Joseph. It was awesome! The trip made me realize how much I missed the mountains. It was a 4 day trip but we were only in Utah a total of 23 hours. Still, totally worth it.

What a gentleman! Ike pushed Jackson all around Temple Square.

I love these "Father/Son" photos.

Three generations of Carrs.

Before looking at me in this picture...please remember that I am 7 months pregnant...

Grandma Carr even made it to the sealing.

Jackson touching the Salt Lake Temple.


We even made it down to Provo to see Jared and Kara!



I told Ike on the way home that if we had the opportunity to drive 14 hours each weekend to go to a sealing and see family, I would do it every week.