Quote of the Day

This quote actually is from yesterday, but I wanted Weston to have his moment to shine on the blog on his birthday. Anyway, my sister Janae was here and provided this quote of the day from a conversation with Cole.

Cole: See those tomatoes? See those yucky green parts?

Janae: Yeah?

Cole: They don't know any better.

One Year Old!

It's hard to believe that just one year ago this beautiful baby entered our home...

And look how big he's grown!

We love our little Boo Man! Happy Birthday Weston!

Lull in Ongoing DDO Data

This is an apology to those of you who may have been blindsided by the loss of daily diaper tracking information. My lame excuse is that I was in Hawaii with no first-hand knowledge of Weston's habits, and Karene was driving many hours a day through Idaho, Utah, and Nevada all week long. We will try to improve our reliability, and entreat your patience as we go forward.

(I'll post more about Hawaii soon)

Quote of the Day

After being away from Cole for almost 2 weeks, it's funny how you forget what it's like to have him around. Today he thoroughly restored my memory with a number of little anecdotes and Cole-isms. Here's my best recollection of one of my favorites:

"I'm not a grown-up yet. When I'm a grown-up, my head will go higher and higher and higher, and then I will be funny."

Word of the Day

Light-trick-ity (noun): The reason that the lamp comes on when you flip the switch. Thank you Cole for another night of entertainment.

Now You're in the Loop

This post is just to inform you about an exciting new feature on our blog: Weston's DDO Tracker! The DDO tracker can be found just below our family picture on the sidebar. Now you can have instant access to the information you really need, when you need it: how much Weston needed it.

Word of the Day

This is Cole's most recent and wonderful word creation:

HANITIZER.

This is what he calls hand sanitizer, and I think he's got a good thing going. Brian thinks it sounds like a political attack by Sean Hannity. Either way, it's pretty cool.

Book Review

I just finished Stephenie Meyer's new book, Breaking Dawn, and have written a review that I'm linking here. As a warning, I was disappointed by the book so my review isn't a glowing one, and it is full of spoilers. You can check it out if you're interested.

Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer

My review

Five Years of Bliss

It's hard to believe that it was already five years ago, today, that Brian and I were sealed in the Manti temple. I'm so happy to be able to say that this was definitely the best decision I've ever made! We've had a fantastic first five years, and look forward to many more together.

I love you, Brian!

Patchy Boo

Awhile ago we polled all of you, our faithful blog readers, as to whether you preferred the flesh-toned adhesive patch or the black pirate patch. We obtained some very valuable information from this poll.

1. We only have 6 faithful blog readers (two of which are Brian and I), unless some of you didn't vote.
2. The black pirate patch is the preferred option.

Unfortunately for you voters, the black patch has gone the way of the world. We compromised on functionality and appearance and got some cute adhesive patches, two of which are adorably modeled below by the Patchy Boo himself.

The patching experience has gotten much better since Brian discovered the key to keeping the patch on was as simple as washing Weston's face before we put it on. It sticks about 300% better and finally Weston can't just rip it off. We might survive the next year of patching, after all!

Saying goodbye...well...

It pretty much stinks.

We are a bit depressed around here today because we had to say goodbye to some really good friends of ours last night. So, I hereby dedicate this blog entry to our great friends and game-night rivals, Kirk and Jamie, otherwise known as Team Kirmie.

We knew we were meant to be friends when they moved into the ward a couple of years ago and we learned that not only were Jamie and I assigned as visiting teaching companions, but Kirk and Brian were home teaching companions as well. What are the chances?? As if that wasn't enough, we also discovered that we shared our anniversary...we both got married on August 2, 2003. Pretty darn cool, if you ask me.

Anyway, we invited them over for Family Home Evening one Monday night, and they generously offered to provide the lesson. Kirk, always the overachiever, supplied an object lesson that somehow involved putting a light bulb in water and putting it in the microwave to make it light up (kids: don't try this at home). We were duly impressed, and had such a great time playing board games with them that night that we decided to invite them over again, and again, and...well, you get the idea. The microwaveable light bulb became the trophy for our game nights, and a great friendship was born.


We added the trophy holder just a few months ago when Brian achieved his lifetime goal of winning a watermelon-eating contest at an Elders' Quorum party. Way to go, sweetie! We were delighted to discover what an ideal light bulb holder it made.

In any case, you can't tell by looking at this picture, but after two years and about 38 game nights, we ended at a tie...19 games apiece.



Here's our photo memory slideshow of the Carpenters...we wish you well at Harvard, and don't forget about your humble friends in El Segundo!!