Many Faces of Carly

Here's a collage that I just love of Carly and a pic of her each month of her life! I love you Carly, you have made me smile everyday!!! It has been a wonderful 1st year, and it has flown by so fast. I love that each day is so special and I feel so lucky and blessed to have such a wonderful daughter I feel undeserving, I look forward to each new day with you...I can't wait! I have the best family ever!

Texas & New Mexico 1 Year Birthday!!!

Poor Carly!! Glad we had a chance to celebrate and have a Birthday Party for Carly right before we left Texas with my family! Carly got to eat her own cake and make a huge mess...BUT THEN we went to New Mexico on our way to Oregon and was there for her Birthday! (Clint drove the moving truck to Oregon with his Dad, while Carly and I made a vacation out of the trip) Carly was sick with the stomach flu for the first time ever on her Birthday...throwing up every 5 minutes!!! Not how I was planning Carly's 1st birthday to work out...It was still fun visiting one of our best friends the Brimhalls, at least Carly was able to look happy enough to take the pic with her strawberry cake (NM pics shown first) for a few mintutes and then threw up a few seconds later...poor girl...good thing she chowed on her Texas cake earlier, cause that was all she got! At least she got some cool presents!!!

Here are also some pics I took of Amy and her new baby Scout at 3 weeks old! He is so adorable and a good baby...I love new babies! It really made me baby hungry! uh-oh!

Goodbye Texas!

Today @ 6:30 we load up the truck to move to Oregon!!!

It's really hard to say goodbye to a place that you loved so much. My family moved here 9 years ago, and to me this move is so bittersweet. It's time for us to move on and leave so many great people, good memories, and my family. This is where Clint and I met, started a life together, and had our first baby! I feel so grateful for the times that we have had here, and all the people who helped to contribute to how blessed we have felt! We love you all and hate to say goodbye! Thanks to all of you who have been such great friends and have loved and cared for us!

I had to write a list of 20 things that I would love about Oregon and this move to make it easier....then of course I had to inlude a list of why I love Texas, but at least I made it shorter! lol I love Texas!

Here are some pics we took recently at a little pizzookie getogether with some of our friends to say goodbye! You guys are awesome!

20 Reasons to love Oregon!

Finally! Outdoor recreation
You can sit on the grass! No fire ants
No black mold…gross!
Holistic mindset (there may be too many hippies though)
Beautiful agriculture! I love the tropical plants that grow there!
Most beautiful Temple ever
Less traffic, smog, pollution, etc…
4 seasons
A new start ;) Always nice
Tap water you aren’t scared to drink
WAY less crime
Clint has a job!! Money! Money! Got to have it…(yeah to pay off our student debts) this should be number 1
Mountains
Clint parent’s nearby, and their HUGE ranch… 3 hours away
Closer to Utah, California, and even Alaska (for Clint’s sake), and other cool cities to visit like Seattle!
A change in Scenery
No more blistering hot, humid weather
Cheaper Airline tickets to states I like to visit (flying to Utah from TX is lots of $ I don’t have!)
Awesome Seafood/close to the coast
Lots of lakes for boating, skiing, wakeboarding, fishing, etc…

10 Reasons I will miss TX
Brick and Stone housing (its a million dollars for one of those in Portland!)
Awesome restaurants because that’s what I do here…eat!
Economy is great
Shopping is too
Southern Hospitality, the friendliest people live in TX (great friends!)
Bible belt, conservative (very different in Portland)
Texas pride…seriously what other state waves their flag everywhere? And it is the only state allowed to wave it as high as the US flag!
My family is here
This is where Clint and I met, started our life together, and had our baby!
The church is awesome here

Oklahoma

If you like the zoo, this is the best place I have been too! It's called Arbuckle Wilderness and its inbetween here and Oklahoma City- almost half way. Anyways, you drive through this wilderness and there are just wild animals roaming around and you feed them through your car...but dont get out! I have to admit I was a little scared and nervous of some of those animals, especially the bull looking ones with horns! Plus they warned us that some of them bite, like the Zebras and the donkeys! We fed everything from Ostrich's, camels, zebras, horses, weird bull/cow looking things, deers, and gazels! It was seriously the funnest thing in a long time!

We also checked out Bricktown in downtown Oklahoma, and went to their botanical gardens. I have to say, and I am sorry for any OK fans, but other than the wilderness there wasn't much else to see! Oh well we had fun, thats all that counts!

Bare Escentuals!

I love this new makeup! It is amazing...If you haven’t already heard about bareMinerals makeup it is a mineral makeup with 100% pure bareMinerals™. I absolutely love the way it looks! It’s fresh, has great coverage, looks natural, feels light, and makes you glow! I am really into finding more natural alternatives to makeup, that also look good. Between MAC (not so natural but awesome!) and this brand I have found it! It’s free of preservatives, talc, oil, fragrance and other harmful chemicals. I break out way less now!
“The formula provides impeccable coverage for every skin type and skin tone, and protects with a natural sunscreen.” Sounds like I am selling it huh? Well I have already got my mother-in-law, sister, and my mom converted to it…no more gross makeup lines and/or gobby junk on our faces ;) Their site at http://www.bareescentuals.com/

Dr. Clint

It's been a very busy week so I've been unable to post...Clint's parents came in town last wed to stay with us for graduation. We had Clint's graduation banquet Thursday night, a rodeo Friday night, graduation Sat morning @ 10 am, a Cowboys vs. Broncos game (yes we won) that same night...Sunday was dinner with my fam and then of course shopping and eating out in between it all... sushi & fondue...our favorite! What else do you do in Texas besides try out our awesome restaurants? So we had to take Dave and Donna! I have to say that I am so proud of Clint, it was a long haul but he did it, we did it! It feels good! Although Carly cried, or screamed with terror, to see her daddy in his cap and gown I am sure she is proud too ;) (She was freaked out!) We can't believe it is now over, Parker for us is OVER! We have 1 month left in Texas...we aren't sure if we will be able to take a little vacation like we wanted, most likely its time to just get ready to move and take it easy (if you can do both of those at the same time!)

Clint's Graduation Announcement

Finally!!! Clint is graduating from Parker School of Chiropractic on Saturday morning August 18th! Go Clint!

We made our own announcements (since the schools were SO expensive) and I took Clints pic...I think it turned out ok :) YAY! I can't believe that soon we will be packing up and moving on to a new life...we are excited, penniless, and ready....but again very excited!

She's standing!

Carly stood for the first time two days ago and I am a proud mama! We got one video of her standing if you want to see it at this link http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8542930364338154229&hl=en Go Carly!!!

5K

Abby and I ran our first 5K with RunOn Texas in Dallas this morning! It was awesome and we both came in under 30 minutes...I think we forgot our real time :) it's cool though...We loved it, so there will be at least one more before we move! I will be sad that I will be leaving my perfect running partner soon. We ran the same pace the whole time and helped eachother out tons. Clint, Dallas, and Carly were there to cheer us on, Clint thinks I should do a 15 K next...haha very funny!

Learning curve....

Just thought I would post a few more pics I recently took...I still have a lot to work on but its fun!

Carly's Photo Shoot!

So I had fun with Carly as my little baby model today and took a bunch of pics...she got really sick of me, Im sure you can tell by the look on her face! Anyways, I am loving my new rebel camera and I am really trying to get into this photography thing!

Happy 27th Bday Clint!

We had a bunch of friends over yesterday for Clint's and Mark Jensons Bday which were both on the 7th. On his Bday we went to Texas de Brazil....SO good...but expensive..but SO good.

Yeah I have no idea what happened to Carly...I claim no responsibility to the whipped cream all over her face, and head...all I know is she was having fun!

4th of July!!

This 4th was great...

The weather was so nice to let up on its rain for a little bit so we could bbq at the pool with some friends and we got some good tans going now ;)..later we went to the Vista Ridge mall parking lot with friends to watch fire works...