Childhood Dreams

The other day I was watching my cute little girls dance to Taylor Swift's song Love Story. (I tried hard to post the video but it just wouldn't work!) It was the cutest thing ever. And right now I am listening to them play house. They are the best of friends. I love those girls! So it got me thinking of when I was younger and I would listen to similar songs and dream about my future with my prince and our cute little family. I remember wanting to hold my little cousins when they were babies and they would just cry for their mom and I would think about the day when I would have a sweet little baby of my own who only wanted me and I was there number one. I do not appreciate it as much as I once thought I would. But I am sitting here feeling very grateful for my beautiful family who I do not deserve, but I am beyond grateful that I have.

So to sum up my thoughts for today. This....

is my dream come true! Thanks guys, I love you more than you will ever know!

Kortni's Big Birthday

Its not everyday that our blog gets to hear from me, but I did want to say its a very special day today because its Kort's Birthday today. We were able to go out last night to dinner and a movie and have a little personal time thanks to my mom. Thanks Mom we love ya. I took Kort to Texas Roadhouse and had dinner, and then we went and saw one of the best movies we have ever seen. We laughed through the whole movie it seemed like, and we were able to spend some time together without our kids. We love our children very much but also need some time with each other. I just wanted to let my wife know that she is the greatest wife and mother in the whole world. I am gone a lot with school and work I can tell that when I get home she has had a rough day with the kids but she is still in a great mood and being the loving mom and wife that she always is no matter what!!! I love her very much and wouldn't ask for anyone else to spend every day with for the rest of eternity. You know some say with kids you don't have a lot of time with each other but there is always time you can make even with the kids around. I love my wife very much and wish her the best Birthday ever. You are the best. Love ya tons Ty

6 Months Already?!!

Our sweet little Brae is 6 months old! I cannot believe it! Time just keeps going by faster and faster. I swear there are hours taken away each day while we sleep or something. Oh, we just LOVE this sweet little baby so much! She is now sitting up and loving it. She wants so bad to be able to move around, you can just see it in her face. She tries hard when she is on her belly to go. She kicks her legs so hard and tries to pull herself with her arms. Then she just gets real frustrated and mad. She is so freaking cute! Her favorite food of all time right now is sweet potatoes, she could eat that for breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day. She loves squash and carrots too. She does think she is big though and always thinks whatever you are eating is better, so of course we have to share! Otherwise she gets real mad. She loves waffles, french toast, and spaghetti. I swear she stores some in her cute little chubby cheeks. She is starting to talk baby talk a lot more. Of course her favorite word is dadadadadadada and occasionally I hear mamamamamam, but that is usually when she is crying. She has not at all been the best sleeper lately but we are working on it. She will not take a bottle very easily. Tyler got her to take one the other day while I was gone but she would not take one for Donna the other night. She absolutely will not take formula. She is funny. I have never nursed a baby this long before so it is kind of funny to me to see how she acts. She will literally stare at my shirt and start hitting me when she is hungry. When I ask her if she wants her milks, she gets really excited. She is such a little chuncher! I love her so much! Here are her 6 month stats: 16lbs 5 oz 25 1/2 inches long head circ 42

She is a very happy and healthy little baby! Here are her 6 month pictures....

And here are more pictures of course...

Lexi loves her baby sister!

They are always fighting over their baby!

Hadley loves to read to Brae

More bathtime fun, Brae loves the bath

Okay, so I thought it would be fun to do a little comparison with all of my girls when they were 6 months. I stared looking for pictures of Hadley first and I thought she looked just like Brae....then I got to Lexi. Oh my gosh, I seriously thought I was looking at pictures of my baby Brae. It was kind of freaky. So what do you get when you mix a little bit of Hadley with a little of Lexi? A whole lot of Braelyn!!

This is my sweet little Lexi at 6 months

15 lbs 7.5oz 26 inches long head circ 40 1/2

This is my sweet little Hadley at 6 months

18lbs 8oz 28 1/4 inches long head circ 44

And this is my sweet little baby Braelyn at 6 months

16lbs 5 oz 25 1/2 inches long head circ 42

Random Things...

Here is my cute Hadley posing in her new "peace" shirt that her Grandma Kunz found on clearance! She loves to pose for the camera!

This is how Tyler found Hadley and Taylor sleeping when they had a sleep over!

Brae just chillin' in the tub...she is getting so big!

Rella!!

Oh my sweet Rella! She is such a special little girl. She brings true meaning to the phrase "True Blonde." We just love her, she is such a crack up. Some of the things that come out of her mouth lately are hilarious. Her recent phrases are, By the way..... and Excuse me.... She says one of those phrases before just about everything she says. Today it was, "excuse me mom, those are eew, I wore those the other day" referring to the tights I was just about to put on her. She is so random. The other day it was, "excuse me mom, I am hungry" and "by the way, I need a rag to wash my face" she even told me "absolutely mom I want jam on my roll!" I didn't even ask her if she wanted it. I always tell her that she is my special and she replies, "you are my special too mom!" She really is a sweetheart, I just love her!

A lot of people ask me why we call her Rella so I guess I should have the story in writing. When I was pregnant with her I asked Ty what he thought of the name Brielle for a middle name. He said he liked it. Then he called me the next day and asked how his Rella was doing. I said "what? who?" and he said "oh what was that name again?" So then the name Rella was born, even before she was. Not a very cool story, but there it is. She used to be Lexi Rella, but some how it got shortened to just Rella....or Lexi B., Rellie, George, Henry....whatever you want to call her. Although often times she does correct you and say "I'm Lexi Brielle Carlson, that's my name!"

She just recently had a field trip to Arctic Circle with her preschool class, here are the pics...

Holidays!!

I love the holidays! It is my favorite time of year! This year was even better than last year because I got to enjoy it without being sick. This year for Thanksgiving we hung out at Tyler's parents. We usually go to the cabin for the weekend, but since we didn't, Hailee, Jenn, and I decided to try our luck at the Black Friday thing. It was kind of fun..maybe not so much fun that I would do it again , but we'll see. We were out all night. We started at midnight and didn't get home until after 6am. I was exhausted the next day. But I got everything I went for. Which is funny because we all talked about how we really didn't need anything and we didn't know if we wanted anything badly enough to fight the crowds. But fight we did, all night long! I did score a great deal on a sewing machine though. Which is really funny too because I don't sew and have no clue how to use it. But that is one of my many goals this year...I'm going to be crafty! We'll see how that goes.

For the few of you who look at this blog, keep in mind that it is like my scrapbook (since I don't scrapbook) so there is a massive overload of pictures...as always! So here we go...

We decorated a Ginger Bread Choo Choo Train

We saw Santa of course! And this year nobody was afraid of him. I love this picture!

We had our Kunz Family Christmas party...let the presents begin!

Lexi B. getting ready to open her present

Hadley has wanted that forever!

Lexi hangin' with her favorite person ever!

Audry, Kresta, and Hadley just chillin'

Dad, me, and Baby Brae...sleeping

Shelby, Mackenzie, Kelley, and the back of Willow!

The Fratto Family

Sweet little Brae woke up!

The Kunz Family

The Barker Family

Braelyn and her daddy



The Carlson Family



The senior Kunz family...we always laugh when we take their "family" picture because we are all a part of it!




Ty and the girls doing some crafts on Christmas Eve

We went to Aimee's house for Christmas Eve dinner

Grandpa Carlson dancing with his little girls

Christmas Morning!!

Ah, the coveted Pillow Pet

Lexi got her Zhu Zhu pets!

My cute girls in their Christmas jamies

Lexi had to have a Zhu Zhu pet this year even though she already has one...but her sister has two!

It is not Christmas without a Polly Pocket Cruise Ship! Last year it was the air plane

Baby Brae got presents too!

Dress Ups

Lexi put hers on immediately

Hadley listening to her Ipod from mom and dad....it is actually a cute Hello Kitty Mp3 player
she loves to rock out to Hannah Montana

All dressed and ready to go

My 3 favorite girls!

Brae opening more presents at Grandma and Grandpa Kunz's

Lexi got her all time favorite...Mickey Mouse Clubhouse books and figurines

Hadley got her baby! Lexi got one earlier that morning and you could tell Hadley wanted one too but she wouldn't admit it.

Uncle Dustin came up from St. George

Our official family Christmas picture

Me and Kayla in our matching shirts

This was suppose to be a picture of just dad and Dustin, but you know how my girls LOVE to get their picture taken

Now it is off to Grandma and Grandpa Carlson's house

her shirt says it all...

Tay could hold Baby Brae all day long...and any other baby for that matter

I do not know how Taylor and Lexi are not sisters. They look and act so much a like it is kind of freaky!

the grand kids waiting so patiently to open yet more presents

now Lexi has Hello Kitty toys like her sister....it is all about what the sister has

Hadley got Hello Kitty walkie talkies! Tyler got some for Christmas too (not Hello Kitty though) and when I was wrapping them Hadley said "that's no fair, I want walkie talkies too" funny how things work out isn't it? These were even purchased before that comment. She had never said a word about them before

Brae was pretty much just a long for the ride. Present or no present..whatever

Another picture of Braelyn and her Daddy

Hadley and Lexi opening their stocking

Yay more Polly Pockets!

The girls...and Carter feeding their babies

Lexi showing Brae how it is done

Mom and Dad Carlson

I do exist! I am never in any pictures unless it is a family picture because I am always the one taking them. I actually had to ask Ty to take this picture. Isn't my baby so cute?

The day after Christmas, enjoying the presents...

I just love our Lexi B.

They just look so beautiful. Especially Lexi with all her make up and her boobs hanging out!

Another photo session with my cute little chubby, she looks like she is hiding something in those cheeks. Cute little chipmunk!

how about a side view

I just can't get enough of her

her fists taste almost as good as her food

Showin' off the new Christmas outfits!

Hadley got new "peace" earings

Lexi's new necklace

Have you ever been to Whoville? That is where she is from

Then it was off to the cabin to celebrate the New Year!! We had so much fun!

Brae thought Kylee's little car walker was the coolest thing ever!

SLEDDING!!!!

Hadley is all ready to go

After walking back up the hill, before she would get on here sled Lexi turned around and said "okay take my picture"

Now she is ready to go

One of Hadley's many wipe outs

Watch out here comes Lexi

Hadley's turn, with Mya trailing behind her!

Takin' a break

Snow Angels

My sweet girls

Brae had to stay inside the whole time because it was FREEZING! Seriously it was only like 9 degrees.

This is Rose aka Hadley. I nick named her Rose because her rosie cheeks would not go away. She was outside for hours

Rose is kind of a nerd! She asked if she could take off her pants because she was hot but would not change because the insisted that she was going outside again. Underneath her pants she had on black tights and blue soccer socks. She walked around the cabin like that for a while, despite being made fun of.

As part of their New Years celebration the kids lined up Dominos just to knock them down. It was the highlight of the night.

At approximately 8:15 pm the kids paraded around the cabin banging pots and pans and yelling "Happy New Year!" Then it was off to bed so the moms and dads could party! It was great!!

But we were not done sledding...

Lexi and her best friend Carter

Cute Cousins

Hadley and Taylor

Family picture...minus me and Brae, she was inside and I was, yep you guessed it, taking the picture!

Well that concludes the holiday festivities. It is hard to believe that 2010 is over. We had such a great year and were blessed in so many ways. Our sweet little Baby Brae joined our family and we are so thankful for her. She is happy and healthy and just so much fun. I can't even remember life without her. She is such a special blessing. I am so thankful that she made it here without any problems. We truly are blessed. The girls just love her to pieces. She has the sweetest little smile and gives the best kisses ever!

Then there's our sweet little Rella. She is such a little lover. She is always coming up to me and kissing me and telling me she loves me. She can always tell when I am stressed out and always gives me extra love...and extra love from her means a whole lot of love because even without the extra she is a little excessive. But I love it. She is so sweet. She started preschool this year and is well on her way to growing up and she is so excited about it. Of course as a mom I am excited for her and very sad at the same time. Where did my chunky little baby Lexi go? I am just thankful I get to be here to watch her grow. We are so blessed to have her in our family.

Ah, Hadley....she is such a sweetheart. I do not know what I would have done without her this past year. She was such a great help to me throughout my pregnancy. She got her and Lexi breakfast every morning and cleaned up the mess. I have always said that she was such a hard child but I have to admit she is turning out pretty great. She has such a sweet heart and cares so much about other people. I love to have conversations with her. Her Christmas gift to Jesus this year was pulling His weeds. Somehow I am not surprised because the girl really loves to pull weeds. She loves to help out and willingly accepts resposibility. I cannot believe how mature she has gotten. She loves Kindergarten and is doing great. She cannot wait for 1st grade so she can eat lunch with her friends. Another sad moment for me. Hadley has wanted to move on to the next step since the moment she was born. I love her so much. I would be lost without her. She has blessed my life in so many ways. I love watching her learn new things. She gets so excited when she figures something out. She is learning how to read and she loves it. I am so blessed to have these three beautiful girls in my life.

Tyler is great too! I cannot forget about the only boy in the house. He has worked so hard this year to get through school and should graduate this Summer. He is the best husband and father anyone could ask for. I am so glad he picked me to spend eternity with. He makes me a better person. I am so thankful for him and his willingness to support our family so that I can be home with our girls. I could not ask for a better life. We had a wonderful 2010 and look forward to an even better 2011!