easter 2007

Easter was wonderful this year despite the cold weather. The meeting at church was great and then everyone headed on over to my Grandmother's house for lunch. Like I always say...good food and good company. Hope you all don't mind ALL the pictures of my boys. I thought they looked handsome :) When Spencer went to go put on his pink shirt though...he said, "Mommy, pink is for girls." So funny. Shaun let him know that sometimes it's okay for boys to wear pink :)

Here's the cousins with their stuffed animals for Easter.

And this picture, Ethan said that Carson was the only one of the "Wood boys" that would let him hold them. So we definitely had to record that one. :)

Coloring eggs and making cupcakes or eating cupcakes...one or the other.

easter egg hunt

On Wednesday for "preschool" we joined our friend Tammy Lenker's real preschool for an Easter Egg Hunt at the Children's Garden. The Children's Garden is right off of Highway 1 back in the woods where they have all of the Clemson Extension stuff. It was like a park and so cute...I didn't even know anything existed like that way back there. The kids all had a great time hunting for eggs, eating lunch, and then playing with all the other kids. Here's some highlights... I hope I'm not duplicating pictures Ashley wanted to use on her blog...I thought I had forgotten my camera so I asked her to email me some pictures and she did...so thanks Ashley!

Another highlight of the day was that Spencer found the prize egg...or something of the sort :) Pam had put some fun Halloween stuff in her Easter eggs that were hid and Spencer found the Bubba teeth :) What a prize!! LOL! We all had a good laugh. I tried to get Spencer to put the teeth in but he wouldn't...I guess this picture will do. Hope everyone has a great Good Friday!

easter egg hunt

On Wednesday for "preschool" we joined our friend Tammy Lenker's real preschool for an Easter Egg Hunt at the Children's Garden. The Children's Garden is right off of Highway 1 back in the woods where they have all of the Clemson Extension stuff. It was like a park and so cute...I didn't even know anything existed like that way back there. The kids all had a great time hunting for eggs, eating lunch, and then playing with all the other kids. Here's some highlights... I hope I'm not duplicating pictures Ashley wanted to use on her blog...I thought I had forgotten my camera so I asked her to email me some pictures and she did...so thanks Ashley!

Another highlight of the day was that Spencer found the prize egg...or something of the sort :) Pam had put some fun Halloween stuff in her Easter eggs that were hid and Spencer found the Bubba teeth :) What a prize!! LOL! We all had a good laugh. I tried to get Spencer to put the teeth in but he wouldn't...I guess this picture will do. Hope everyone has a great Good Friday!

a new venture

Tonight we had dinner with Brandon and Jenny and Mom. Some good ole hot dogs and mac and cheese...yummy! After dinner we tried our hand at some sewing...or Jenny tried her hand at sewing a bag I've had the pattern cut out for at least a year. She's just been a sewing fool the last little bit! Better watch out! We've been thinking about starting a little "business" with some handmade items...look for our new catalog in the next little bit...just kidding! We better just see how long it's going to take for just one of these bags and go from there!

Here's the finished product except for the handles...that's still in progress.

Anyways...life is still good. Mom kept the boys for me for a little while today so I could go get some very needed necessities from WalMart...like diapers and milk and formula. We didn't go out on our weekly shopping trip last Friday because we headed to Shallotte, so we definitely were running out of everything. Then I checked in at the house to make sure the boys were okay and headed out one more time to try and find some things for Andrew's birthday party next week. It sure is hard trying to find construction themed items. I looked in Michael's forever to find something with a tractor or a bulldozer or anything on it for invitations and was unsuccessful. I found some stuff on oriental trading but it was going to cost an arm and a leg for shipping in order for it to arrive here on time...so nevermind. Anyways...hope everyone had a great Tuesday!

let's go fly a kite

We went to Shaun's parents' house this weekend and it was absolutely wonderful weather! One of the highlights of the trip was flying the kite. Shaun's mom had gotten the boys a couple of kites for Easter and the wind was blowing so what a perfect time to fly a kite. The boys definitely enjoyed it! They also enjoyed their favorite activities of riding the tractor and feeding the horses.

Another highlight of the week/weekend is that we got high speed internet through the satellite so we can get things downloaded a lot faster...so maybe I can blog a little more :) Oh happy day for me!! I was sooo excited!

This morning we had preschool and Ashley did a great job. Even though sometimes we feel that the kids aren't really paying much attention...at least we are exposing them to letters and numbers and having fun activities for them to do! And we, the moms, definitely enjoy having one another to talk to while the kids are eating lunch and playing.

Spencer and Andrew have paid a lot more attention to Carson these days and this is one of my favorite pictures. Spencer wanted to feed Carson so I let him do it and he did such a great job! He stayed in that same spot on the couch until Carson had drank the last drop. Andrew asked Spencer to do something and he said, "I can't...I have to finish feeding Carson." What a sweet brother (most of the time)!

I'm not quite sure if you can see Andrew's goose egg very well that he got on his head last Monday...from falling head first onto the bottom step. It's almost gone all the way down now just with a little bruising. Just gave us a good scare :)

I guess that's it for today. Hope everyone had a great Monday! Go to Jenny's blog to find some cute pictures of the fun girls night we had at her house Friday night.

first day of "preschool"

Good grief...has it been that long since I posted??? A whole month. I am such a slacker. We make time for the things we want to do so I have no excuses for not keeping this thing up to date. Anyways...we'll just start with today...








First day of what we have titled preschool. Pam, Ashley and I decided a month or so ago to get the kids together for some learning as well as play time. This week is my week to "teach" and I thought it somewhat of a success. We learned about cows and the square today and then on Wednesday will be the letter "A" and the number 1. The "teaching" part only lasted about 35 minutes, but I think that was enough for their first day :) Emery, Jessie, Macy, Spencer, and Andrew all had fun playing together if nothing else. Don't they say that's how kids learn most of all is through play :) And we can't forget about Carson...he enjoyed being held by Pam for most of the time.




Carson's still sleeping through the night...Yay!! It sure does make for a happier mama! He's such an easy going baby. The smiles have turned into giggles these days. Every day is a new and exciting adventure in the lives of Andrew, Spencer, and Carson. Never a dull moment.

If anyone wants to see what we have been up to the past month or so...go to Ashley's blog. Some of Spencer's birthday pictures are on there, our days at Bounce Around and the zoo are on there as well. I'm glad she is on top of things when it comes to updating :)

Hope everyone's doing good! If I only do a picture a day...I'm going to get caught up :) We've taken some cute ones that deserve to be "published" on the internet. Have a great Monday!

carson's blessing day

We had Carson blessed at church a couple of weeks ago and it was wonderful. Most of Shaun's family was able to attend and all of my family was able to attend so it really made it special to have everyone there. We really do have wonderful families that support us in everything we do. After the blessing, Grandmother had cooked a feast for everyone at her house. It was so great to be able to spend time with family and friends...while enjoying wonderful food! Here's some pictures from that special event.

Here's the gazelle pose, perfect leg form. :)

And here's ready to hurry up and get the pictures over with pose.

After everyone had just about gone home from Grandmother's that Sunday night...Spencer, Maddie and Will decided they were going to make 'bunk beds' out of the coffee table in the living room. Pretty creative if I have to say so myself.

happy late new year!

I guess it's a little bit past Christmas time, huh... I will post some pictures another day... We did have a wonderful Christmas and a great New Year. We spent Christmas here and New Year's at Shaun's parents house. Spencer is still asking "Santa Claus" to bring him a rabbit and sit it on the couch (that's where we placed all of their toys they got from Santa this year). What a crazy kid. What's even crazier is that he thinks he talked to Santa one night (Brandon) and promises that Santa is going to bring him a bunny rabbit so he can hold it, when he says his prayers at night by himself, he asks Heavenly Father to tell Santa to bring him a rabbit, and he wakes up every morning and says he dreamed about rabbits. All this talk of rabbits came about because Mom read Spencer the book "The Velveteen Rabbit" one night while she was keeping them and it hasn't let up for weeks. If Santa were to bring a rabbit, it would definitely be a stuffed one because we don't have a great track record for keeping live animals...especially bunnies.

The past month or so has been a little busy...not too bad though. Yesterday was the most chaos we've had in a while. A couple people in our ward died and I had obligations for that and time I got done finishing those obligations about 6:00 last night, Shaun called from the 76 station in Lugoff and said that our vehicle wouldn't start. Good timing when you have three kids in the car and they're all a little sleepy, huh. Thank goodness he had just gotten them milkshakes for a treat! :) After the stop for shakes, he stopped at the gas station to get gas...turned the car off and that was where they sat for a good 2 hours. When I got there to help jump start the car, he was a little out of patience...when I opened the door, I heard why. Spencer was screaming and Carson was squirming about to wake up and Andrew wasn't quite sure what his next move was. We took them out of the car and I asked Shaun if he thought the firefighters at the fire station would let the boys just look at a fire truck for a few minutes so they could be occupied for a little bit until Brandon could get there with his friend Kevin to help us fix the car. Long story short...the firefighters were so nice and let the boys sit in a fire truck, look at all the cool parts and hoses...and we even got to see the fire trucks and firefighters leave to go put out a fire. We got our own personal show. The boys were ecstatic...inside of course...because they're so shy they don't really show their emotions to other people. But thanks to the few Lugoff firefighters to help us have a little bit of sanity while we waited to get our car fixed. Shaun finally got home about 10 last night...along with Brandon and Kevin, who had so graciously driven him around town to get a starter, get the parts, and fixed our car, saving us hundreds of dollars....can't thank them enough for their generosity! So a big shout out to them!! :)

Hope everyone's doing great and had a great holiday season. Sorry we haven't kept up the blog scene lately. I guess other priorities have take the place of me sitting down and keeping this up to date. When it rains, it pours around here. Have a great Monday!

christmas pictures

Taking Christmas pictures this year was quite the challenge, but we finally got through it and many of you will receive the final product soon...Here's some of the rejected pictures as well as some of the runner-ups. Hope everyone is having a great week leading up to Christmas!

random pictures

Daddy and Carson taking a mid morning, or a mid afternoon, or a mid evening nap.

Andrew was playing and all of a sudden I looked down and he was fast asleep on his frog chair. Wish I could do that sometimes :)

Andrew and Spencer showing off their advent calendar that they got from Scotland. Thanks Uncle Ted! They sure have enjoyed waking up every morning to a piece of white chocolate :)

Finally got a picture of Andrew "holding" Carson.

carson, carson, carson

I just can't get enough of Carson! Sometimes I just sit and hold him for what seems like hours. I've seen how fast Spencer and Andrew have grown up and I just want to cherish the little baby stage that Carson is in. You forget so quickly what a tiny baby feels like. Like I said before...you don't think you could love another one like the first one, but the love just keeps growing with each child. There's tons of pictures that I want to post...but we'll see how much time I have before Carson needs to eat again. He is so perfect. Heavenly Father must have known that I needed a little break after Andrew and his colic :) His perfect nature could change at any moment, but we are definitely enjoying it for the time being.

We had lots of visitors Thanksgiving weekend and I really enjoyed it. Shaun's parents came on Friday and stayed just until Saturday. They were wonderful ... especially Greta, Shaun's mom. She cooked dinner for us and took care of the boys for a little bit so I could get some rest. So thanks to her. Ainsley, Shaun's sister, loved holding Carson...I think she enjoys being the aunt to 4 boys and a girl...and at the young age of 15 :)

Here's some of the other visitors that we've had...

Scott, Janette, Leighton and Madison

Dad and Janet

Angie (one of my roomates at BYU) and her husband and baby, and their sisters

I'll have to post more pictures later...this computer is just taking too darn long.

On a funny note...Spencer comes up to me today with this pair of whitey tighties on his head and says ... "Mommy...like my hat?" He and I both had a good 5 minute laugh over that one.