Gap Casting Call

Gap is doing their annual casting call auditions. We put Carly's picture up on the site and want your help to make her the "Fan Favorite" Go to the casting call website, look up her pictures and then vote for all her pictures. The website is:

http://family.go.com/gapcastingcall/galleries

and our Member ID is wjerg001 so you can look up here pics. This is not one of the pictures- we didn't want them to think she has a mustache!

You can vote 1 time per day so make sure you go back every day and vote. The voting ends on November 17th!

Happy October!

On Monday we made our annual trip to the Pumpkin Patch. We found some lovely pumpkins and enjoyed the kiddie entertainment!




Maybe next year Tyler wil be old enough for the rides!

Cousins!

Carly and Tyler had a lot of fun getting to know their cousins in Utah. Well, their second cousins, first cousins once removed, second cousins once removed... I'm still not sure!

We went to the Discovery center at the Gateway mall. Carly loved sitting on the horse. I had a hard time getting her to share or eventually leave!

Here's the garden with a nice sweet onion waiting to be picked! (I couldn't help myself!)

While we were in Utah, we went to the zoo with our cousins. The zoo had a baby elephant, three baby tigers, a baby giraffe and a baby snow leporard. The kids loved it!
We weren't sure who the monkeys were in this picture!

Carly had a lot of fun with her first cousins once removed. :)

The zoo had a really cute animal merry-go-round. They didn't have shamu but Carly did find a dolphin.

Tyler was such a good boy but didn't seem to care too much about any of it!

Fun in Utah!

We were lucky to be in Utah when the leaves were changing colors. We don't get big seasonal changes here so it was a special treat for us!


We also were able to get together with our friends from dental school, the Calderwoods. Cody has an amazing office with an amazing view. And our kids really enjoyed playing with each other. We wish that we lived closer!

Dinosaur Museum

While we were in Utah, we checked out the dinosaur museum at Thanksgiving point with my grandparents. It was a really neat museum and it was so fun to see Carly try to understand how big these dinosaurs really were. She was a little scared and we had to keep explaining that all the dinosaurs died a long time ago.

Carly enjoyed digging for dinosaur bones. Maybe she'll be a paleontologist when she grows up!

Temple Square

A few weeks ago, we made our annual trip to "Mecca" aka Salt Lake City. We took the kids to Temple Square. I had forgotten how beautiful it is. There are a dozen waterfalls and the flowers were fabulous! Carly loved seeing all the brides around and wanted to give all of them hugs!





My sweet boy!

Disneyland Again!

In September, we went to Disneyland again. We had passes that were for three days and we only used two days before. We decided to go up and get our moneys worth.


Carly turned into a daredevil over night! She went on the Toontown Rollarcoaster twice!

Firsts for our family!!

On August 27th, Carly had her first day of school ever! My little baby girl started preschool. I was all prepared for the separation anxiety and tears. We arrived at school, Carly gave me a hug and walked into her classroom and didn't even look back! I called her name and waved to which she smiled and waved back. So much for separation anxiety!!


On September 1st, Tyler celebrated his first birthday! Yea! I made him a Winnie the Pooh cake which he enjoyed. We had the grandparents over and ate cake and ice cream and opened presents. He's such a sweet, cuddly boy. I hope this next year is better than the last with no hospital visits!!

Pictures!!

Due to recent comments from family and friends, here are a ton of pictures! And I do mean a ton! Enjoy!

One of Tyler's new favorite activities, playing with Carly's stroller. Don't tell Carly!

Sweet boy! I've had the hardest time getting a picture of him smiling.

Checking out his new cousin.

Eating his new cousin. So tasty!

Sleeping peacefully, loves his daddy, I love this picture!

Carly's Ariel birthday cake. Made by ME!! Yes, I'm proud of myself!

Carly and her BFF Kaylen. I have the hardest time trying to get Carly to look at the camera!

Carly is so excited to open her birthday presents!

Carly chose to go to the beach for her birthday. She loves to play in the sand, can you tell?

Carly loves her little brother! Tyler loves Carly as well even though his face doesn't show it!!

I got this castle for Carly for her birthday from Michaels. I planned on helping her put it together. I thought it would be easy. Nope! I pretty much did it all myself and it took me all day!! Never again!

We took Carly and Tyler to Disneyland for the first time! Carly talked about Goofy constantly the day before but freaked out when she got to the front of the line to meet him! Hilarious!

The happiest place on earth and dream come true for Carly!

Carly's first ride was It's a Small World. She was a little apprehensive about the whole thing until she saw Ariel!

Tyler's new girlfriend, Snow White! She was quite enthralled with him!

One of Carly's favorite rides was the merry-go-round!

Tyler was a great sport and went on most of the rides. Here is Brandon and Tyler sleeping in line for Pirates of the Caribbean.

Carly was so excited to meet Minnie Mouse and see her house in Toon Town.

We had to get the family picture in the entrance to Disneyland. It's a tradition!

Carly got all of the characters to autograph her book.

Carly was so so excited to meet Ariel. She was shaking while she was waiting her turn. It was her most favorite part of going to Disneyland!

King Brandon at breakfast with the princesses!

Carly on Dumbo with Grandpa B. She loved Dumbo!

Tyler snoozing on the 4th of July while waiting to ride the train.

It was so hot on the 4th. I could not get the kids to cooperate for a picture. Tyler wanted his hat off!

So sweet. Snuggle time with Daddy!


I'll try to be better about posting pictures in the future. No guarantees though!

Diet Coke-aholics Anonymous

I am a diet coke-aholic. It has been three weeks since I gave up drinking diet coke. :) Yes, I finally decided that I needed to get rid of the diet coke in my life. I do allow myself to have one a week as a treat but I must say that after 3 weeks, it doesn't taste as good anymore! Please note for all the diet coke lovers out there that I gave up diet coke for health reasons. Most of you lucky people do not have the health issue that I do and can drink diet coke in peace. I, however, feel a lot better when I don't. So farewell sweet, dark, bubbly drink! May I find another drink to replace you. Any suggestions?

Update and Pictures!

Here is the briefest way I can think of it explain what we've been up to. (I also like it when people do this on their blogs.)

-We're all currently healthy and no one is in hospital. Yeah!
- Restarting potty training after brief siesta due to hospital stays. I loathe potty training!
- Tyler in the 5th percentile for weight and 3rd percentile for height but taking leaps and bounds everyday.
- Tyler loves his bungee bouncer and squeals and babbles as he bounces around.
- Carly is really into movies right now. Shrek and Ice Age are her current favorites.
- Carly talks and sings all day long no matter where she is. The best are her made up songs as we're shopping.
- Brandon finally got his surround sound and I'm hoping the neighbors won't hate us. :)
- Brandon turned the big 3-0 last month. He doesn't seem too concerned about it.
- Lastly, we're just enjoying summer and looking forward to a few little trips we have planned!

Here's a whole bunch of pics. Enjoy!

Saved by the Bell reunion!

For those that don't know- Jimmy Fallon is trying to do a Saved by the Bell reunion. He had Zack Morris on his show last night and it was hilarious. I know you all watched Saved by the Bell and will even stop while flipping through the channels now to see if you remember the episode! (and we do remember every single one!) Mark Paul Gosselaar and Jimmy Fallon are great in the clip so enjoy!