(the longest post ever ) Our "crazy" New Years Eve & more

As you can see I'm still in the process of catching up. But I have to stick to it right? For journal purposes anyway.

I'm going to just make this a big entry to get up to date=>

With our new toy and family still there we had to put that to use. SOO Nathan put a wii tournament together for bowling. We had such a good time. Who would have thought that after it all it came down to Caitlin and "Tom Carver". We assumed my dad would be good but little Caitlin, who know she had it in her. In the end though it was dad who was the winner. It was so much fun though cheering everyone on and laughing at good bowls and bad.





After bowling on the wii we were all craving to go "real bowling" so we made a trip over to the "Y" to bowl as well. Once again dad smoked us all. Here's some more fun pics of the fam. Nathan had to work : ( so he was missed greatly. We also played a few of the other games there .
Ethan, I mean "Superman" was having so much fun with Jeffrey and Caitlin........
Here's Caitlin showing off her mad skills
The rest of us aren't as cute or graceful as Caitlin when we do it.












Making wonderful memories






Also Cait and I made sure we fit it in to have a little girl time. We were able to kick everyone out to a movie so we could have a little fun.




And of course I have to throw in some more wii pics......
and just more Random pictures







Here's a few pics of our "crazy" New Years Eve!! How crazy can you get with 2 little ones though? Plus the next day my family flew home to Texas, well all but my mom. She hung around to help me with our new addition (Shelby) Even with my family leaving early the next day we still managed to stay up and party all night.



We ate good food, played fun games and of course had the count down.

And even Ethan was a good sport, staying up all night, we knew he had it in him.
We had so much fun thanks to the Carver's for good times and great memories.

Carver Christmas

Slowly but surely I'm getting around to posting the rest of our Christmas fun. This is going to be dedicated to the Carver times at Christmas.
Now let me start out with pointing out these cute ornaments my little sister Caitlin made for us. There is one for me, Nathan, Ethan & baby Shelby....it's so cute, look close and you'll notice a pacifier in her mouth. Caitlin is so crafty! Thank you Caity.

Like I said before we were lucky enough to welcome both of our families here to Utah for Christmas. Of course we had to break up our time with them so we could make sure to have fun with both families.
The Carver clan stayed at our house Christmas eve so we got to wake up to a "Carver-Christmas morning". It was only part of the Carver Clan though : Mom, Dad, Jeffrey, Caitlin & Brent and Janeen, (who came down from Idaho)


We missed my brother Chris and Carrie and their families who stayed in Texas to celebrate and of course Bryan who's in Guadalajara, Mexico on a mission. Speaking of Bryan we were so excited that we all got to talk to him for a little bit on Christmas day and he's doing awesome.

Nathan and I decided this year we were going to buy one main gift for eachother........
Who knew that 3 little letters could bring so much fun, joy & laughter to a family!
That's right we got a " wii " for Christmas, that was our main present this year. (mine and Nathan's to eachother) He found a really good package on the internet that included lots of games and the wii fit which I am mostly excited about!!!!









More wii pictures to follow.......


Of course the best part of Christmas was watching Ethan get excited & open gifts. He's really into Bob the builder and trains right now so we made sure we accomodated for both.






And of course there is the infamous "Lightning Mcqueen" which to Ethan is "Lightning A-queen" Here's Ethan and uncle Jeffrey working on some Bob the Builder play-doh" He has such a good uncle.


One of my favorite gifts, which I thought Shelby and I would enjoy when she's a little older was "The Little Mermaid" I love disney movies!. Well.. come to find out it's a big hit with Ethan too. He can't quite remember the name "Ariel" so for now he just refers to it as "mermaid". I want to watch "mermaid"






It was so nice to wake up to a house full of family, it always makes things more exciting. I know Ethan especially loved playing video games with Uncle Bent & Uncle Jef-Jef. I know these pictures are all about the same but I love Ethan's expression so much in them I had to post them.

Neen was also very helpful with little Shelby while the boys played. We were also surprised to hear a big announcement from Brent & Janeen. They announced that they are having a boy!! We all had our bets going on what the baby was.
So my parents are just raking in the Grandkids. My older bro. Chris just had a girl, Mavery, then we had Shelby....Carrie is expecting twin girls and then 3 weeks later Brent will be having a little boy.

That makes 10 grandkids for my parents. And that makes 5 within a year. My brother Bryan is going to come home to 5 new neices and nephews, what a surprse!! Congrats to Neen and Brent !!! We're so glad the Carver's came up to celebrate Christmas with us. (more x-mas pictures to follow)