Cherry and the Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day

Well today it happened! I had my very first emotional break down as a mother.

It all started with a great nights sleep. Carter decided to wake up earlier than usual, but whatever, I slept thorough the night and I was ready to wake up. WRONG! He started the day with a fit that landed him in time out. The rest of the day has been spent with me saying "Carter NO", him not listening, then throwing a fit when I make him stop. I've never wanted to be the type of mom that yelled but I have found myself raising my voice all day, and I just can't seem to get through to him. Well we were in the kitchen looking for a snack, and he kept shaking his head at everything I pulled out of the pantry, so finally I gave up and closed the door. That was it, he had the fit to end ALL fits! He screamed and kicked and was a nightmare. Well he went to his time out spot, and I sat down a cried, and tried to remind myself of how much I love him. I've grown so used to the happy go lucky little baby that I had almost a year and a half ago that I don't exactly know what to do with the little boy I have now.

To add to my worries, I'm pregnant (as you are all well aware). Today is one of the first days that I haven't wanted to be any longer. My hands are full with the one I have. Although I want this baby so badly, I can't help but think I'm just not qualified to be the mother of more than one. What am I going to do when I have two little boys crying and throwing fits, when I can't even handle one? What am I going to do when I'm so exhausted I can't even think straight and one child won't take a nap?

Patience is something that I have learned through the years NOT to pray for, but I can't help but have the prayer in my heart that Heavenly Father will help me have more.

I am hoping every day that I will be ready when Carter's baby brother gets here. Not with clothes or a bed, or diapers, or anything like that, but emotionally. I hope that I am prepared to be the mother that I have always wanted to be.

If not, as the story "Alexander and the Terrible Horrible No Good, Very Bad Day" goes: I'll move to Australia!


(P.S. that is one of my FAVORITE childerns stories, if you haven't read it, DO! It's great when you are having a rotten day!)

It's a BOY!

Well I am 20 weeks along, so half way done! We found out yesterday that we are having another boy! I am super excited! I wanted another boy, although I would have gladly taken a girl! :) The Dr. hasn't exactly given me a due date. The baby's measurements are kind of all over, and about a week different than my girly cycle . So I'm due anywhere from the first of January, to the ninth. So I guess we'll see!

I have a few names picked out, but to tell you the truth none of them are my FAVORITE. The oh my gosh I just LOVE that name. So Do you guys have any suggestions? Here are my thoughts:

Gavin Paul

Dillon Paul

Parker Taylor

Chase Taylor

Max

Right now Gavin and Dillon are my favorites, but if you guys can think of better ones, let me know! Naming a baby is the HARDEST thing EVER! (Having grown up with a name like Cherry, I take naming very seriously knowing how it can affect a kid).

Seattle Fun!

So this summer Cody and I decided to splurge on another vacation because next year we are going to be seriously hurting for time together, and money.....So we went to Washington to visit his brother Curt and his wife Lacey. IT WAS SO MUCH FUN!!!!!!!! (Due to my inability to blog still, these pictures are in opposite chronological order....so start from the bottom and go up while looking at them, sorry, I'm sure I'll figure this out someday..)

When we first got there we couldn't check into our hotel for probably like 5 hours, so we had to just kind of bum around. We went to the water front, and Pike's Place market. It was REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY hot, and since we were both expecting rain, we dressed in long pants, and I was wearing a really warm t-shirt. STINK! oh well, we had fun looking at all of the shops, and being near the water. Carter LOVED IT! He liked all that there was to look at, and all of the birds.

Then we went to the aquarium. Carter really enjoyed himself, which was our goal for most of the day since it was so warm and he didn't have anywhere to take a nap. Cody and I weren't impressed with it though. We had just been to the Denver aquarium and that one has more to look at and is set up much better. But I got THE BEST salad wrap I have ever eaten in my life, so that made everything worth while for me! YUM! I want another one....

Well we finally got to check in to our hotel. We got showered and dressed more appropriately, and Carter got a nap. We were all bushed so we hung out there until it was dinner time then made our way to whatever mall was right by our hotel and had PF Changs...yumm!

The next day Curt and Lacey came down for a Mariners game (once again CODY forgot the camera! so no baseball pic.s) Carter again had the time of his life. He is a big fan of Uncle's and Aunts, so the more time he spends with them, the happier he is (me too sometimes!). We went to PF Changs again for dinner because Curt and Lacey had never been there, and well, we love it! ha ha!

Now that I'm trying to tell you all about our vacation all of the days are starting to run together....hmmm.....

I think the next day we rode the Ducks. They are a boat/ car that takes you on a land and sea tour of Seattle. It was super fun, except it was a record breaking hot day in Seattle the day we decided to go, and since it is an open vehicle there was no AC. This wasn't Carters favorite, he couldn't get up and move around, and it was HOT HOT HOT! So he was pretty grumpy for the couple of hours we were on the duck. Oh well, it was cool to get to see all of Seattle. Then we went to the Space Needle, which I had already seen but Cody hadn't, and when visiting Seattle, it's a MUST do no matter what, just because it's famous.

Curt and Lacey left the next day so Curt could go to work. So Cody and I decided to take a water taxi over to West Seattle and check out the beach. MY FAVORITE DAY!!!!! It was nice a cool, and I found a TON of sea shells! The water was freezing but Carter and I stuck our feet in any way! He liked to run around and be free to throw rocks and what not, so he was a pretty happy camper. We were going to find somewhere to get sea food (YUM!) but it's even MORE expensive in Seattle than it is near home, so we decided to skip the sea food, and we went to Red Robin instead! ha ha!

Well our last day in Seattle Curt and Lacey came to pick us up and we went to the Zoo. Which was even lamer than the aquarium. Then we went up to Bellingham to spend the next few days with Curt and Lacey. We went to the beach, played with their dogs, went north and Looked across the water at Canada, and mostly just relaxed.

It was an awesome vacation! We loved Washington!


Carter with Curt, looking at the star fish

In west Seattle

Pike's Place, heading to the water taxi's



Up in the Space Needle

Sweating on the Duck


At the Aquarium

In the basement of Pike's market

The Pier





P.S. Sorry to Luke and Sherilyn! We thought about calling you guys just about everyday, but we never exactly knew what we were going to do, or where exactly you guys lived! We are SO SO SO sorry we didn't get to see you!

Why God Created Husbands....

So this morning was just like any other Sunday morning. Cody had to work, and I told myself at first I wasn't going to go to church. Whats the point right when all I'll do is wader around the hall with a grumpy little boy? Well at about 10:30, I decided what the heck I'll give it a shot. So I got ready, got Carter ready, and we headed to church. Sacrament went well, he was way better than he usually is, but I was distracted the whole time trying to keep him quiet and happy, but never the less I thought what the heck let try sunday school....not so great. He was acting so tired so we went to the mothers lounge so that I could try to put him to sleep; maybe I could get something out of relief society....I forgot his binky....Crap, so sleep was out, but he was so worn out from crying that I thought he'd just sit on my lap during relief society....nope....he wandered all over the room, and just as I am cleaning up our stuff to make a quiet exit, he waders up to the front of the room, and I of course am not fast enough, and he starts banging on the piano (during a spiritual moment in the lesson no less...) great, so I go up there, grab him by the arm, and he SCREAMS.....my quiet exit became a noisy retreat....Carter won this time......but there is only 3 more months until nursery! SWEET!

And that is why there is a mom and a dad so one parent can happily enjoy at least one meeting during church.

Zoo, Aquarium, general update...you know the usual!

On Monday of this week Cody and I took Carter to Denver. We got to go to the aguarium and see a lot of different kinds of fish, it was my favorite. I think it was Carter's favorite too because he loved to get out and see the fish up close (through the glass of course.) We also went to a Baseball game(but I forgot the camera....darn!) And the Zoo. Carter liked the zoo but got tired of the stroller really quickly. The Animals were a lot of fun to see, and the weather was really nice, not too hot, but it wasn't cold at all, and it was sunny, so we got plenty of vitamin D! :) All in all it was a great 3 days!

Carter showing me the fish swimming. We liked the Dory fish! :)

Carter looking over the glass at the turtle, it kinda looks like he's in there with them! :)

Carter's brothers......hee hee hee!

Carter, Daddy and the elephants.

Oh yeah, and by the by.........Due the first week of January.( If you are thinking to yourself --how rude we are good friends with them why didn't they tell us? well we didn't tell any one except family, and like 3 people ( ON ACCIDENT!) so please don't be mad, it's just not something that we had been telling yet.....Sorry!)

Eternal families, Baptisim and Blessings.

This will be a pictureless blog because all that I want to post about, I don't have pictures for. Darn.....

Well the month of May was an interesting month for the Plaisteds(Peterson side really...). May 4th my Grammy passed away. My mom's mom. She had been sick for the past 10+ years, and it wasn't exactly a surprise, but it was all at the same time, meaning we knew it wouln't be long, but we expected some warning like her being hospitalized or something. It was a regular Tuesday for her and my Grandpa, they went to Provo to run errands, and went to Chinese for dinner, when they got home my Grandpa noticed that she was breathing a little funny and figured she was tired so he helped her to the couch so she could rest, ran outside for just a minute, and came back and she had passed on. It was extremely hard to see my Grandpa so upset. She truly was the love of his lfe. For the past two or so years he had changed her diapers, forced her into a diet to controll her diabetes, and continually tried to help her realize where she was. After all that hard work he told the bishop just the night before Grammy died that he would look after her for as long as he could, she was his sweetheart and he wated to do it and no one else. You may be thinking "well he married her for better or worse" but it wasn't even a chore for him. He would have done it for the next 50 years just to have her with him! He was so broken hearted at the loss of his sweet wife that he could hardly look at her in the casket. He used to tell everyone that he wated to live to be 120 years old; not any more. I think he is anxious to be with his sweetheart again, but that is understandable, and thankfully POSSIBLE!!!

Well from that experience I realized what it meant to be a spouse. Love unconditionally, serve, and most importantly the importance of eternal marriages. I know that my family is an eternal family, we can be together forever and ever. This may be the best gift our Heavenly Father has given us (next to repentance and agency, but you get the idea...).Horray!

Also on a lighter note, my nephew Isaiah got baptized on the 23rd, and my neice Emily got blessed the next Sunday. It was a busy weekend we went to Green River Saturday morning had family pictures taken, went to a baptisim, ate dinner, drove home, woke up at about 6am, went to a blessing at 8am, and celebrated the birthdays of Cody, KD(my neice) and Mario(my bro in law). So May had a lot of travel and emotional up's and downs. But all in all we made it out alive and well.

So until next time! Don't hate me if it's more than a month! :)

Happy Birthday Carter! (like 17 days ago....)

Well this post is a little late, but we celebrated Carter's first birthday a few weeks ago, and it was AWESOME! We had so much fun! I can't tell if his favorite part we the cake, the pizza or the presents! I think that he knew that the day was all about him because he was eating it up! He loved everything! I wish he could turn 1 every year! The excitement was just all around him! I'm so greatful for my little blessing, and I'm so glad that he is such a happy little boy! Mostly I'm just glad that he came to our family! Cody and I couldn't have asked for a better kid, and I wouldn't trade him for anything in the world, he's mine, and that's how it'll stay! :) :)

(The pictures are in backwards order, but I think you will get the point! :))

This is his ride, and walk toy!

Opening presents! :)

After the cake...He would have kept going had I let him, but I didn't want him to have a tummy ache on his birthday! :) The cake was alreay 3/4 of the way gone....

Us with the birthday boy!

Eating Pizza in the birthday chair!

Let me at 'em mom!

His cakes! The blue and white one is a pool ball. Laura did that one and the beach ball! SO CUTE!