One of the many reasons why I love Keith!

So for Valentine's Day we weren't able to be together since Keith is in MT right now (but Carson and I are going to SLC then MT next week to finally be with Keith!) Anyway....so Keith surprised me with a VITAMIX!! AH!!! One of the many things that I love about Keith is when he knows I want something he will surprise me with it no matter the cost....just like with my headboard I got last Mother's Day. I'm not a girl that has to be spoiled by gifts by any means but when there's something I really want but won't buy it for myself...Keith will.

 I've been wanting one of these very amazing but very expensive blenders for awhile. Everytime I'd go to Costco I'd see the demos and try the smoothies and want one so bad...and smoothies aren't the only things you can make in them you can also make things like homemade ice cream, peanut butter, soups, dough and many more things. These are used by Jamba Juice...so now I can recreate my favorite Jambas! And nowI can try so many green smoothies which is my favorite way to get my greens in. Thanks babe.

 

 

 

 

 

TWO!

I seriously can't believe our little guy is two already! Tuesday the 29th was Carson's actual birthday and I celebrated with my little guy by having dinner with my sis and her family then we attemped to go see Rise of the Guardians but Carson lasted about 30 min. so we went home but my sis and her family came over afterwards for cake.
Today Keith flew in to celebrate Carson's birthday with us & some of his cousins. We went to Planet Kid which is Idaho's largest indoor soft playground that is full of tunnels, ballpits, slides, rope climbs, cargo nets, and zip lines. Carson and his cousins had so much fun. They even allow the adults to go in with the kids and play with them. I was in heaven in the ball pit...haha it was pretty sweet.
Then we had pizza, cake, and ice cream & opened presents at our place after. What a busy but super fun day! Thanks to all who were able to come and celebrate with us!

the birthday boy on his big day!

he loooves books!

Let's see this boy is all--books, dvds, cookie monster "coookie" is what he calls him, elmo, daniel tiger's neighborhood, loves the water especially taking baths, loves to do things on his own now and insists eating with a fork or spoon, loves looking at pictures, loves bebes (babies) and goggies (doggies), loves doing his vocab words and knows about 20 of them, loves nanas (bananas), oranges, pasta, cheese, mini wheats, pb & J and grilled cheese. loves giving kisses and hugs, sleeping next to mommy and daddy, of you in his language means "love you", loves playing with his cousins and in nursery, loves to carry around ddds (dvds) and the "keys." We sure are lucky to have this little boy. :).

burying myself.

Brielle and Brynlee

little tyson was too tired to play



Keith and Zach had fun in the ball pit with the kids



skylee and brielle

opening presents

Carson, Brynlee, Skylee, Brielle and Jace

2012 Recap!

January- Carson's first birthday! We celebrated this wonderful day twice- once with my family, making it a combined birthday party with my dad, and twice with all our friends in Rexburg by swimming at the Marriott hotel we were staying at for work there in Rexburg.
We also had our weekend getaway to McCall where we went to Gold Fork hotsprings, the McCall Winter Festival, hot tubbed, watched movies and hung out.

March- I didn't quite like the fact that Keith left this month to go work out in Michigan and Indiana. He didn't get to come back until May.

May- My parents got their mission call to the Northwest Area South America Mission!
Keith came home and we went camping with family over Memorial Day weekend then headed out to Kalispell, MT.

June- We celebrated Keith's 31st birthday in the lovely Kalispell, MT--just the three of us :)
Carson and I headed to Boise for two weeks for Misti's mission homecoming from Paraguay, we also went camping with my family at Silver Creek for the annual Lewis Family Reunion.

July- We spent most of this month in Missoula, MT just exploring a new town together as a family. I probably made too many trips to TJ Maxx, Ross, and Costco since they were right by the hotel. Oh and those delicious Holiday Inn cinnamon rolls for breakfast....I had one too many.

August- Carson and I took another trip to Boise to spend time with my parents before they left for their mission on the 13th.
We also spent a weekend in Rexburg since Keith's mom and little sis were in town spending time with his siblings and doing things for the wedding in Dec.
We made two trips to Glacier National Park- once just us, and twice with Catherine (Keith's sister) and her now husband Kolton.

September- Our long awaited departure from Kalispell finally came and we were able to surprise Misti for her 23rd birthday in Rexburg on our way down to SLC.

October- We spent three weeks in SLC and went on many dates since we had Keith's family to babysit!
I spent my big 25 with Keith and his extended family in SLC and got to spend some time with the bestie Kathryn, we even took a trip back to Boise together.
The 20th was our annual Lewis Halloween Party and it was a hit!
Trick-or-treating on Harrison Blvd was quite the experience especially since it was a first for both Carson and I but we sure missed daddy.

November- Our trip to NJ for Thanksgiving was fabulous but seeing the island destroyed by Hurricane Sandy was not.

December- This month was full of traveling--Boise to Rexburg, Rexburg to Billings, Billings to Rexburg, Rexburg to SLC, SLC to Rexburg, Rexburg to Billings.
We had a lot of fun spending time with Catherine and Keith's family before the wedding.
Catherine's bridal shower and wedding were oh so fun! Dancing is always my favorite part of the wedding :)
Christmas Eve and Day were full of food, family, laughs, presents, lights, and fun. Keith sure spoiled me and I'm so grateful!
Our anniversary was low-key but nice just the two of us.
New Years was even more low-key with a good dinner, snacks, candy, a hotel room, and a bottle of martinellis.

2012 was a great year! Can't wait to see where 2013 takes us and what it brings us! (It's already brought us a cute lil' new nephew Tyson)

Hope you had a wonderful 2012 and an even better 2013!

Playing Catch Up!

Ok so it's been over a month since I've blogged but we've been busy traveling a lot and busy with Catherine's wedding and Christmas. So now that I have a little bit of down time I can catch up with some pics of our latest events.

Carson sure loved playing (laying) on Keith's parents dog Nala. He calls dogs GOGGIES!

This was what Long Beach Island in NJ looked like a week after Hurricane Sandy hit, trash, furniture, and sand everywhere.

Sand in the middle of the road washed up from the hurricane

Checkin' out the island to make sure it was still there.

The beach looked fine....this is where we go swimming in the summers when we come to NJ

I want this house it was on the island

Playing some football on Thanksgiving Day

Carson and Gma

Carson with his only cousin on the Penrod side

Eating Cheesecake

Keith told me I could put lipstick on him....we were bored

Eating out for Tennyson's bday

Krista, Aaron, Julie

Craigos with the sibs

Pics with the Grinch in Rexburg

Seeing Santa in Rexburg....Carson was scared again

Throwing Catherine's Bridal Shower in SLC

Out to dinner at Litza's Pizza in SLC for Keith's Mom's bday on Christmas EVE

Our lil' fam on Christmas Day

Waiting to eat breakfast

Opening his stocking

Keith got me my "small cereals" 

Carson's "ddd"

One of my fav perfumes!

My mirror you can't see it but this is what it looks like

Opening presents

Kolton and Catherine's present I made them

Carson's new hat

Catherine got a new laptop!

Carson's hat and scarf grandma made him

Christmas dinner at Great Grandma Penrod's.

Catherine mixing the drink

Cousin Lisa and cute little Macey

The fam (minus Julie and Tennyson) on Christmas Day

Whew! That was a lot of pics but that' what we've been up to for the last two months besides traveling to MT and back. Hope you all had a Merry Christmas and have a Happy New Years!