Todd Family

All just in October

2009-11-15T17:54:00.000-08:00

October was way busy so sorry if this is kinda long. We had Preston's blessing, a few Halloween parties, our anniversary, Joel's birthday plus just everyday work and family stuff. So here I go.
We Blessed Preston on the 11th. It all went really well. Joel did a really good job. The only bad thing was I got really sick the night before so it took everything out of me to get trough the day. But like I said it went well.

So I can't believe we've been married for 7 years. This year we didn't do anything real big. Joel's parents took Carter and mine took Preston for a night. So we went to dinner, went shopping, went on a hike watched movies and slept in the next morning. It was fun! These are pics from our hike!

My family had our tradtional Halloween party. It was way fun. Everyone dressed up really cute. Becca has more pics of everyone on her blog. So if you wanna see them all check hers out. But this is my cute family!

Preston was the cutest mummy and Carter loved being Dracula

It's not the best pic but he's smiling so I love it

Sorry this pic isn't rotated

Matt and Sarah filled this thing up and everyone guessed how much was in it to win all of it. Maddy helped Carter guess and he actually won. I would've felt bad about takin it cuz Maddy helped but Joel was actually the 2nd closest. So I figured Carter could feel like he won. His face was so cute.

The famous doughnut eating contest. I thought it was funny that Carter held onto the doughnut. He was just chillin eatin his doughnut as everyone was not using their hands.

Halloween day was fun to. We went trunk or treating. Preston was so good and just slept in my arms while Carter and I went around. Carter was cute and was so polite he'd say Trick or Treat then Thank-you in the cutest voice to every single person.

Family (well mostly Preston) picture's

2009-10-27T20:06:00.000-07:00

Ok I know it's been a long time since I updated. A bunch of people have given me a hard time. Sorry it's been crazy. But here are the pictures my wonderful friend Brooke took. She was so nice and patient. Preston was not havin it and I felt like I was going crazy. So when I saw how good they turned out I wanted to cry. These are only a few cuz I didn't want it to be to long. We took them when he was around 4 or 5 weeks old. And since he's almost 3 months old he looks different already. So I'll do another post soon of more recent pics. But here are my cute boys.

I just love my boyz. They are so cute!!

I always give Joel a hard time for not holding Preston's head up. So I know Preston does not look comfortable.

Awwww aren't we cute!

Preston is here!!

2009-08-07T20:15:00.000-07:00

Well as most of you know Preston is here!! He came on Aug 1st @ 1:44 a.m. He was 8lbs 11oz and 21 inches. It was a long night but all worth it.

This pic is when Carter first met Preston. He was really nervous and just sat next to me at first. I think it was cuz he had like 5 people standing there with cameras pointed at him. He warmed up pretty quick though.1st family pic!!!!! To bad I look so puffy from labor still.Isn't he cuteThis was cute we had just changed Preston's diaper so he was layin there. Carter came over and laid down next to him. He laid there for a few min. It was so freakin cute!Carter's 1st kiss to Preston! I just love my 2 boys!

An update on us

2009-07-19T18:45:00.000-07:00

It's been a busy summer for us. With getting ready for the baby, going swimming, to the park lots, working and all the that kinda stuff people do. So I didn't even realize how long it's been since I last put a post on here. So I'm posting just a few higlights of our summer so far. I put in a couple posts so scroll down (if you want) and check out Carter's b-day pic too. I'll still put in 4th of July. Just another day I've about all I can handle of posting right now =)

A big thing that has happened this summer is my parents left on there mission. They went to the Ukraine!! This is a pic of my fam at their farewell. We are getting big I know. This was awhile ago and my parents have been out for about a month. They are doing great! And starting to adapting to the Ukraine. We got a pic of Carter standing nicely but this is funnier. He likes to stand like that and say cheese. You can tell my Dad is laughing at him.

With my parents leaving we hung out with the fam a lot before they left. The night before they left we had a dinner at Sarah's. This is my parents saying good-bye to Carter that night. He didn't come to the MTC with us so this was his time to say good-bye. Of course I was crying while he was hugging them. Carter didn't really get that this was going to be the last time he saw them for a year and a half. So he just quickly hugged them, said I love you and got back to playin with cousins. But it was a sweet moment for me.

This is us at the MTC. It was so weird and cool for me to see my parents with name tags on. They are so cute!!

Since my Mom and Dad have been gone we've been able to talk to them on web cams and on the phone so that's been nice. And Carter keeps saying stuff about how Grandma and Grandpa are on a mission. And how they've been gone a long time. It's cute. So I'm grateful for the example my parents are setting for our whole family.

Of course we've gone to the zoo!

I know every year the pictures are about the same. But Carter looks different each year. So we keep taking them.

So I'm realizing I don't take pictures as much as I should cuz that's all I really have. Oh well

Carter's Birthday!

2009-07-19T18:13:00.000-07:00

Well Carter turned 3 on May 6th! I know that was awhile ago but I wanted to make sure it was on here.
We had a swimming party at my parents. As you can see Carter got a lot of trucks and loved it. He was so cute when he was opening presents he would keep sayin "oh my goodness I love it" or "oh it's my favorite thank you". It was so sweet!
His scooter which he loves!

The best thing he said when he was getting presents was when Joel came out with his new bike. Carter said "Oh my gosh, I can not believe it" then he jumped of his chair and ran to it. It was so freakin funny that everyone was laughing!

And of course a truck cake!! It turned out to be a great party. Thanks to everyone that came!

2009-04-27T13:20:00.000-07:00

We finally got some new family pictures taken. My good friend Brooke took them for us. There were so many good one's I wanted to put them all on. But I only picked a few. So sorry if it's kinda long.

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Bowling!!

2009-03-21T17:40:00.000-07:00

So we finally took Carter bowling. We've been wanting to take him for awhile. I guess we never got around to it till now. We went to Fat Cats in Ogden. That's a fun place. They have all sorts of stuff there. We helped him the first few times. Then of course he wanted to do it himself. We got 2 games but by the second he just wanted to sit and eat his pizza. It was cute.

We played some mini golf too. But Carter didn't seem to into it. But he loved playin the arcade games with us.
It was way fun!!

It's a boy!!

2009-02-27T14:56:00.000-08:00

Yet another post with no pictures Sorry.
Yes we are pregnant! I'm sure everyone knows this already but I figured I'd make it blog official.
I figured I would talk about what we saw at the Dr. today. Obviously we saw a little pee pee! I'm 17 weeks now but even when we went in last and I was 13 weeks the Dr. thought he saw it but I was still to early to say 100%. But we saw it again today!! So Carter gets a little brother! We are way excited.
So I'm sure there will be more post in the fuure about me gettin more fat and more tired. But lovin it!

Content or just Lame?

2009-02-01T11:39:00.000-08:00

So this weekend Joel surprised me with a night away just us 2. I ask the question Content or just lame cuz of what we did. Let me explain.....Joel told me to not make any apts for work on fri or sat cuz he had something planned. We went down to his parents to drop off Carter then off to our hotel. He took me to the hotel Monacco in downtown Salt Lake. And he told me we could do whatever I wanted that night. Joel and I have been renting a t.v series on dvd and watching episodes whenever Carter goes down for bed. Here's why I'm not sure if I'm just happy and content or lame. Cuz of all the places I could choose to go for dinner I chose Chili's (even though Joel said don't worry about the cost). And instead of going out anywhere I wanted to go after dinner I chose to go to the store, get some junk food and watch the tv series in our hotel!! That is really all I wanted to do. So I'm just struggling with the thought that I might be turning into a really lame person. Does having kids do this to everyone? Please say it does. But I need to say thanks to Joel cuz he also signed me up for a massage the next day. So i got to go out to breakfast after sleeping in then go get a massage. So I loved this weekend! I'm just worried I'm lame. What do ya think?
Love ya Joel
And sorry no pics

Playin in the snow

2009-01-06T13:10:00.000-08:00

Every New Years Day my family goes up to our cabin and goes sledding. Carter got a couple sleds for Christmas so we were excited to use them. It was way fun. We had lunch before and hot chocolate after. Carter had so much fun! Carter's fav. part was standing behind this wall kinda thing that Joel built so the kids wouldn't run into a tree. Carter would stand by it and throw snow at everyone as they would pass by. He thought it was so funny.

Funny Story- So awhile ago the 1st time it snowed we were so excited to go out and build a snowman. Little did we know the snow sucked for building a snowman. We talked it up so much with Carter we couldn't just give up so we tried so hard (well mostly Joel) to make this sad excuse of a snowman. It was funny Carter kept calling it a baby snowman. That's him looking at it probably thinkin my parents suck =)

So much happened around Christmas. We went to my family on Christmas eve and had a dinner and did all the fun stuff we do on Christmas eve. Then Christmas morning we did our thing at our house and went to Joel's parents for breakfast. Nate got to call this year so back to my parents house we went so we could hear from him. Which was a highlight of this Christmas. Anyways I wasn't even going to post any pics cuz we had to many and I didn't even know where to start but when I saw this one I couldn't resist. This is the face Carter pulled when he came around the corner and saw all the presents under the tree. Priceless! You can tell how much fun we had this year just by the look on his face!!

Well we hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year!

Cristmas Lights and Christmas Tree's

2008-12-18T17:08:00.000-08:00

Well every year I get all these cute Christmas cards in the mail. I just got 4 more today. And every year I feel bad I don't send one out. So I'm sayin Merry Christmas and We love you to everyone on this. I know it's lame so maybe I'll get my act together next year and send one out.
But thanks to everyone that's sent my fam one

Anyways the Christmas lights in Layton are awesome! Anyone that live's around Layton I strongly suggest you go see them. Of course is was cold but worth it. This is me and Carter (if you can't see us) in front of the train.

It was a lot of fun! Thanks to Joel for takin the cute pics and tryin to keep us warm.

So we went to go get our Christmas tree the other day. Carter had fun playin in all the trees. I was just cold and wanted to pick one quick.

It was cute he just followed Joel around pretending he knew what he was lookin for.

Decorating the tree was interesting. In about 2 secs Carter and I both broke a class ball. You can't really get mad at your kid when you just barely broke one to. But we got through it.

And Carter's favorite thing to do these days is to sit and watch his train. The only way we can get him to stop watching or not start in the 1st place is to say the train is sleeping. He's so freakin cute!

Well I hope everyone is enjoying this fun time of year even though it can be busy!!

Twilight!

2008-11-22T18:18:00.000-08:00

On Fri. me and some of the girls from my family went to go see Twilight! We've all read the books and were excited to go. I know there are some mixed feelings out there about the movie but we all really liked it. I know I'm going to see it again. After the movie we all went out to eat and talked about all the difference's between the book and movie. It was way fun. And I have to give Joel thanks for that night cuz he offered to have all the kids that didn't go to the movie over to the house for a little party of their own. Of course Matt (Sarah's hubby) brought Davis and helped out to. Joel's a stud!!

Our busy week

2008-11-02T17:01:00.000-08:00

The reason I say it's been a busy week is cuz on the 24th we had the client retreat, the 25th was our anniversary the 27th was Joel's bday on the 30th we had a halloween party the 31st was halloween(obviosly) Carson's baptism on the 1st and all the days in between were filled with work or friends coming over to hang out. It was way fun though!
My mom had surgery earlier this month so I offered to have the family Halloween party at my house this year. I don't have a whole lot of cool pics my sisters took most of them cuz I was busy taking care of other things. So hopefully they'll post em. We did lots of fun stuff we had mummies for dinner and lots of scary food. We did a pinata, bingo and a doughnut eating contest. It was way fun! Thanks to everyone that helped me out!
Here's a pic of Carter. Joel got him to stand in the Heisman trophy position! Obviously he was a football player this year! He's so freakin cute!

Here is Joel's pumkins that I thought were funny. It's one throwing up from drinking to much and the other one is looking at it like ewww. Joel's the coach if you can't tell. At the trunk or treat thing we went to on halloween one of Carter's friends from church was a football so we thought that was perfect and had to take a pic! Carter had fun going around trick or treating. He got tonz of candy. After the trunk or treating was over we went to our house and some friends came over and we all partied it up! So Halloween was fun! Joels Birthday and our Anniversary

For Joels bday his friends made him a cake. What's funny about this cake is that Joel is a Chargers fan and Josh is a Broncos. So it was funny. On Joels bday we had my sister watch Carter so we could go out on a date. We ended up just going to dinner cuz his friends wanted to come over and hang out so we had some people over and partied! So our anniversary was 2 days before Joels bday. I left my camera at his parents house when we dropped Carter off so I don't have any pics. But we had a good weekend. On the 24th we went to my Dad's client retreat that he does every year. It's at the Grand America hotel and this years speker was Frank Abigneal (I'm sure thats spelled wrong) the guy that the movie "Catch me if you can" was about. That was really fun. He was way good speaker. Becca got a pic of us with him so hopefully she'll post it. That night we left Carter at Carols cuz we were leaving the next morning to Park City. That was way fun we shopped, sat in a hot tud and slept in it was way nice! So it was a fun anniversary! Not as cool as last year (it being a cruise and all) but still nice to spend some alone time together! So yeah the last week was way busy.

Pumpkins!!!

2008-10-22T20:17:00.000-07:00

Tonight we carved our pumkins. Joel was a champ and did all the dirty work like cleaning out the pumkins and cleaning up. While I got to do the fun part of cutting out the eyes and stuff. Carter had a good time till we put a candle in the pumkin for some reason that stressed him out.

When we were done Carter was givin his pumpkin hugs and kisses. It was so cute!

Last week we went to the pumkin patch. It was way cool they had tonz of fun stuff to do. The slides were huge. If you can click on this pic to enlarge it you have to Carter's face is priceless! This big one was mine and Carter's fav one! You'd get goin pretty fast! Thats us walkin up.Carter loved the maze! He was running the whole time sayin "dis way, dis way" After we did all that stuff we went on a hay ride and then got to go pick out 3 pumkins. Carter had fun pickin out his pumpkin!

Carter's so Funny

2008-10-13T15:37:00.000-07:00

So funny story with one of Carter's baths. At 1st Carter was having tonz of fun. When he was playing with the bubbles he went to wipe his face and got it all over himThen he got freaked out and this is his face that I thought was so funny!! He was stressin out cuz he couldn't get the bubbles off. It's probably nothing new to those of you who have older kids. But I got a kick out of it.

Nate Leaves

2008-09-24T17:25:00.000-07:00

Well Nate left today. It was a pretty rough day. I know some people think I'm being a baby. But I've gotten really close to Nate and I'm just going to miss him. Of course when we were all saying bye we were all crying. Nate did find a way to make us laugh. At lunch we were joking that you can tell who the new missionaries are cuz they look like a dear in head lights. He was pulling faces to show us what he meant. But after he said bye to all of us he looked back as he was walking off and gave us that look. We all laughed a little. It was so Nate. I'm so proud of him and he's going to do a great job. Love Ya Nate!

Doesn't he look so cute with his name tag!!

Nate's Farewell

2008-09-24T17:02:00.000-07:00

Nates farewell was really good. We are always joking around with Nate. So in church when he spoke I was very impressed. He sounded so mature and so ready to serve a mission. He did so good. I'm so pround of him. Tonz of people came to. And of course a bunch a girls. It was a really fun day. But of course there was a lot of tears.

I had been trying to get a cute pic of Nate and Carter for like a week or 2. Every time I try this is what happens. Nate thought it'd be funny to pretend like Carter was crying cuz he was going to miss Nate so much. So Nate pretended he was crying cuz he was going to miss him to.

The night Nate got set apart I finally got a good pic of Carter and him! That was the last night Carter and Nate saw each other. It was way sad for me to have Nate say bye to Carter. Carter doesn.t get it of course. He loves Nate so much!

Hanging Out With Nate Before He Leaves

2008-09-24T15:51:00.000-07:00

Since it was Nate's last night of Monday night fooball for 2 years we thoght we'd make it fun. Koji, Dan, Sarah and Matt all came over. Sarah and Matt gave Nate this sweet helmet. He was laughing when he saw it. He loved it!

Cater loved it too!

Joel and Nate usually make steaks when he comes over so Joel got him a 35oz steak. It was huge! Matt said he'd give him $10 if he ate it all. Nate got really close but couldn't do it. It was a really fun night!

The Sat before Nate left Becca, Phil, Matt and Nate came over and hung-out. So of course we got out Rock Band. Everyone got into it. It was way fun!

The pictures of us playing Rock Band never shows how much fun we have!

A couple weekends ago we went up to the cabin with some friends. Which we did a bunch this summer. But with Nate leaving soon we invited him to. I was glad we did cuz it gave him a chance to go up there one more time. Plus it also gave us a chance to hang-out with him! We had a lot of fun playing games and as you can see making s'mores!

Nate was funny he needed a jacket so he went into my parents closet at the cabin and came out with one of my mom's really old, dated jacket. Everyone thought it was funny!

The Last 6 to 7 months

2008-09-05T15:10:00.001-07:00

I figured since I just started blogging I would put in a bunch of stuff that has happened over the last 6 or 7 months so everyone has something to look at! So here ya go!

For July 4th we went up to my family cabin for the weekend. They have lots of fun stuff at the park like the "big big slide" as Carter called it. And the race that Becca and I got killed in by all the little kids. Carter loved the fireworks this year too!

Carter got his 1st haircut!! I know, he's like his mom and doesnn't have much hair so it took till he was 2 to have enough hair to cut. He was awesome though. I think cuz he see's me working on other people so he was excited to get his turn.

We didn't miss one Boston game during the playoffs since that's Joel's team. But it was so cute cuz when the game would get close Joel would get nervous and stand up. So Carter would go over by him and stand there with them. My men are so cute! Joel was pretty stoaked when Boston won!!!!

Carter is 2!! On his birthday (may 6th) we took him to the Hill Air Force Museum cuz he loves planes. He kept saying "pwane, pwane!" It was fun!

For his birthday Joel and I got him a little four wheeler. It was so funny cuz when he pushed the button to go, he hadn't learned how to turn yet so he kept running into everything.

Back in April we went to Disneyworld. It was way fun. Carter loved seeing all the characters. He ran right up to the little einsteins. Just like they were his best friends.