David Archuleta Concert

I can now say that I've attended my first concert! YAY! Go me!! I went to see David Archuleta and the opening act was David Osmond, so I got to see two famous people! It was so much fun!!

Fly Swatting Pictures

Here are some pictures of Lexi doing some more Fly Swatter Painting in our backyard...She Loved it!!

And here she decided to do some body painting...

And here is a video

Then...later than day, Lexi and her friend, Dalyn went swimming in our backyard, So cute!

Fly Swatter Painting

For my class, curriculum for young children, we were assigned to create an art project for preschoolers and bring a sample of it for class next week. I decided that I would do a "Fly Swatter" painting and who better to help than Alexa?! She loved it! She thought it was pretty funny to dip a fly swatter in paint then WACK the paper with it! It got pretty messy but I think she enjoyed it! :o) And this is all for a grade?!? Can't be much better than that!! :oD

Sorry I didn't take any pictures...NEXT TIME!!

Back at BYU-Idaho

School started almost 3 weeks ago and we have been going ever since! We had to unpack the two days before school started and havent touched the remainder of it since...(whoops). I am taking classes mostly for my major, child development, and one for my minor/cluster, home and family. They are, Curriculum for young children, which I LOVE, Adolescent Development, and Infant/Toddler Development, which I also like! They are a lot of work, but I love learning about those sort of things! Pat is taking a bit more than me, but he is doing very well, and actually doing his homework!! ;o) He's taking calculus, a computer science class, english, racquetball, and world religions.

We have been taking Alexa to her friend, Brylie's house when Pat and my classes overlap. I then watch Brylie, while her mom does her online classes, the other days. It's been nice to have friends here already so we can swap babysitting. But it seems like many of our other friends are graduating and will be leaving soon :'o( But I guess that's what happens when you take a whole year off like we did. BUT... I should be graduating soon! Even if I go part-time, I should graduate December 2011, so the end is near! On the other hand, Pat just changed his major from business, to Computer Science and now has a ton more credits...but I'm hoping it will REALLY pay off in the end! We hope to get out of here before Alexa starts Kindergarden, if that says anything.... *sigh*

Carney Update

I know I haven't been very good about keeping our blog updated lately, so I guess now's the time to get caught up, and I'll try to not make it a novel...

First of all, we are now officially moved out of Iowa (but I wont say that I'm glad about that, because really, I'm not) :o( We left Saturday late evening and drove to Omaha where we stayed the night. It was only about a 4 hour drive which wasn't that bad. However, Sunday we drove to Colorado which took about 8 hours, and man, I felt evey minute of that!
We will leave for Rexburg (to finish school) in a few days while we rest up from our previous 12 hour trip.
I know I am definitely going to miss Iowa. I really, really liked it there and I loved the people too! Maybe someday when Pat and I finish our degrees, we can move back there? But who knows...

School will start April 20th at BYU-Idaho, which is right around the corner. It's been awhile since I've been in school so hopefully I will be able to keep up with the senior level classes I'm supposed to take! :o/ I'm still majoring in Child Development, and Pat has decided to change his major from Business Management to Computer Science, which means we will be in Rexburg for the next few years, but I think (and hope) that it will pay off in the end!

I know I've probably said this more than once, but Lex has been growing like crazy lately!! She's saying a lot more words now and will try to immate our words. She's definitely growing into an independent little girl! She's discovered the word "No" and will use it often!! She likes to play dress up a lot and try on new clothes! (or old ones that I'm trying to fold) Her hair is growing more and more out of control but she does have the PRETTIEST little curls in the back that I don't want to cut off, fearing that they might go straight, like mine did when I was little.
Her favorite animal, BY FAR, is a cat! She has her beloved stuffed "kitty cat" that she drags with her everywhere! and whenever she sees a cat, she gets all excited and squeals. Oh and she spent Easter with her cousin Amberly which was a lot of fun for the both of them.

Karena and Jason, (and Amberly) came up to Iowa a few days before Easter to visit Jason's grandparents who loved only a few hours west of us, and then decided to stop by good old Cedar Rapids to see us! :o) It was a blast. I'll try to post some pictures as soon as I can of their visit!

My hair-bow business has picked up quite a bit! I've almost had the same amount of orders in three months this year, as I did all of last year!! So I've been pretty busy making bows lately, but I love doing it, so I cant complain ;o)

Well that's us in a nutshell thus far... I'll try to be better about posting more frequently so I dont have to write another novel ;o) And pictures will be coming soon!!

New Words

So today while eating dinner Lex added two new words to her vocabulary!!

Being the terrible mother I am, I gave lex a couple bites of chocolate before dinner and of course it was smeared all over her face, but she loved it... then after eating a pretty good meal of stir-fry and rice, Pat said, Lex do you want some CHOCOLATE? Then Lex looked at him and said "Choc-ate"!! She's never said that before or even anything close! Pat and I looked at each other and busted out laughing!! Its was so cute and funny!! Then we started asking her to repeat some other words we were saying and she just kept saying "Choc- ate"... then we asked her something about how many siblings she's going to have. I said, How many sisters do you have, and clear as a bell, Lex said "TWO"! And she's never said that before either! Then I asked, How many Brothers do you have, and again she said "TWO"! So I guess that means we are going to have 5 kids!!! Pat and I were cracking up!! Then we asked what her brothers name, then she said "NO", in her cute Lexi way. So we at least got the numbers, but no names yet :o)

Lexi's Cooking Skills

Alexa is getting very good at her cooking skills! Pretty soon she will be cooking for ME! :o) Here are some pictures of her cooking pancakes the other day...they were very YUMMY!!!