Dinosaurs!

I awoke to the sound of Abigail shouting from her room this morning..."Mommy, I need you!", so I climbed out of bed and went to her room. When I got there I asked her what was the matter...her reply was..." Mommy, I fell off the dinosaur!" I just about died. She had been dreaming about riding dinosuars and believed that she had fallen off. The entire morning she was OBSESSED with dinosuars and insisted I show her a dinosaur. Her favorite book to read is "I Love you Stinky Face"- which has a couple pages that refer to being a dinosaur

...but Momma, But Momma, what if I was a meat eating dinosaur, would you still love me then? If you were a meat eating dinosaur, I would make you a mountain of hamburgers...etc.etc..

the story goes on and on and is really cute- if you can get by reading it sporatically, however it is a nightly ritual at our house and I am thinking that book is the cause of her anguish this morning!! Hopefully she wasn't riding a T-Rex!

Fun and Phoenix!

We took off to Phoenix all set of adventure and not knowing what to expect. Traveling on an airplane with limited space for a rambunctious 2 year old sounds a lot to me like a recipe for disaster! All things considered by the end of the flight, we were quite impressed with our 2 little girls. They handled the flights to Phoenix and home very well! (It helped a little that a guy in the seat in front of us gave each of the girls a 1,000,000 dollar bill... and told them to buy all the toys in the world if only they would have a good flight... needless to say Kalleigh was hooked and totally believed that she had the key to her future in her hand... She was awestruck!



Our adventures in Phoneix included climbing a mountain called Camelback as a family. Talk about a workout. I think the person who faired the best was Abigail. She traveled the entire way up the mountain on Weston's shoulders. Everyone else woke up the next morning in dire straights... and reaching for the BEN GAY... Talk about incline, boulders, and adventure... Kalleigh loved the climbing and joined Grethe, Habte and Jon Buchert on their next climb up another mountain called Squaw Peak... She was quite the mountain climber- telling everyone along the way when they commented on her that "She was a good FARM GIRL!" It was so cute to watch her enjoy the climbing, scenery and being outside in the Phoenix sun. She is growing up so fast. Sometimes when I look at her, it is hard to believe 5 years ago-almost 6- I was pregnant with her at this time...anyway back to Phoenix... We went to the Phoenix Zoo, and African Safari park, toured a beautiful town called Sedona, swam, went out to eat, went shopping... and the fun continued until it was time to come home.



We had a wonderful time with the girls and my family and can't wait to go back to the condo again!

This post didn't come up right away....I had problems with it at xmas time... and just figured out that it was saved...so here goes...

Christmas Celebrations!

Christmas at the Carr household was filled with lots of presents, smiles and squeals of delight. Big ticket items on the girls' xmas lists were...Abigail: Mermaid; Kalleigh: Stuff a bear workshop and a stuffed dog in a dog carrier... Nothing too pricey... or super hard to find... So that was good on Mom and Dad's part!! By the end of the celebrations... everyone was full of christmas cheer and delighted with their gifts. We survived traveling from Grandma Carr's house and Bedstemor and Bedstefar Bornhoft's house. Which makes for a SUPER LONG night.. but fun was had by all! After all the festivities of xmas eve, xmas day was spent playing with new toys and celebrating my Dad's birthday. Then it was back home and time to pack for Phoenix!! We took off for our time in the sunshine on Thursday... and had a ball! (More to come regarding our adventures!)
We are very thankful for all of our xmas adventures and for the opportunity to travel to Phoenix as a family.