Poll

Please vote in the poll on the right. :)

Joshua wants me to do my hair like Hayley Williams, the lead singer of Paramore. Specifically like this picture. I'm not sure about it. I definitely want to do something fun to my hair, but that's kinda...bright. So I don't know. Maybe I'll just do the black and pink again??

What do you think?

Carr Family Reunion

(The cousins got bored and decided to see how many people they could fit on one chair in the lodge...or something like that)

This year was my mom's parents' 50th wedding anniversary. To celebrate we had (almost) everyone to a big lodge near Altamont, UT.

Grandma and Grandpa have 11 kids...plus all their kids...equals a lot!

There was a ton of fun stuff to do. We went swimming in the pool every day, Joshua got to go rock climbing and paintballing, and we ate lots of good food!

Everyone decorated a cupcake to look like themselves.

Mike getting a ride on my dad's shoulders.

Mike trying to climb the rock wall like everyone else.

When Joshua got down from the wall he was too tired to even stand. Mike had to help him up.

Joshua climbing the rock wall.

Ugh

Nothing great is going on right now. Nothing terrible, but nothing great. All I can think of to post would be a huge venting post, but not everyone needs to know all the details, so I won't do that.

I can't even get a good picture of Mike these days. If you can actually see his face in the picture, its a picture of him reaching and asking for the camera. Other than that, it's a blurry picture of the back of his head.

Hopefully my next post will be some good news.

Me and My Husband

I stole this from Jen...hehe.

♥ What are your middle names? Michael and Alayne

♥ How long have you been together? 4 years next month!

♥ How long did you know each other before you started dating? a couple of days...a week before it was "official".

♥Who asked who out? We both just wanted to see each other again...

♥ How old were each of of you when you started dating? I was 18, he was 22.

♥ Whose siblings do/did you see the most? His.

♥ Do you have any children together? Awesome Mike. He's 2.

♥What about pets? One huge dog.

♥ Which situation is the hardest on you as a couple? Money.

♥ Did you go to the same school? Nope. We went to rival high schools, but he was out of high school before I even started, so not a big deal.

♥ Are you from the same home town? Not really, although we lived pretty close to each other when we met.

♥ Who is the smartest? He thinks he is...haha!

♥ Who is the most sensitive? I think we're about equal there.

♥ Where do you eat out most as a couple? Applebee's...

♥ Who has the worst temper? He does, but only if his team lost.

♥ Who does the cooking? If anyone cooks, it's usually me. Not that he can't cook, he just doesn't very often.

♥ Who is more social? He is.

♥ Who is the neat-freak? Unfortunately, neither of us are!

♥ Who is the more stubborn? We both are.

♥ Who hogs the bed? Mike. haha

♥ Who wakes up earlier? I do. Mike wakes ME up.

♥ Where was your first date? We played tennis at the park, got slurpees, and went to Barnes and Noble! haha

♥ Who has the bigger family? I have one more sibling than he does, and more aunts, uncles, and cousins.

♥ Do you get flowers often? Maybe twice?

♥ How do you spend Christmas? However we feel like it. The last couple of years have been Christmas Eve dinner with my family, then sleeping over at his parents' house. Who's to say we'll do that every year though...

♥ Who is more jealous? Hmm...we're about the same...not much jealousy, but enough.

♥ How long did it take to get serious? A week...maybe

♥ Who eats more? Joshua. I don't eat much.

♥ Who does/did the laundry? I think he's done one load in the last year...so yeah. I do.

♥ Who’s better with the computer? Probably me. :)

♥Who drives when you are together? Joshua. I'm a terrible woman driver and he lets me know sometimes. So...I don't drive with him in the car.

I tag...

whoever wants to do this!

Our Summer So Far

Waiting for Grandma and Uncle Tim to come to our house:

Getting started on potty training:

Then, Mike's favorite part of the day: taking Dom for a walk and letting him drink from the hose when we get home:

"Mo' bah-band?"

(translation: "More rock band?")

Mike's new favorite activity: Singing on Rock Band!

An Update

A friend of mine told me she was disappointed that I hadn't updated my blog in a while...so here we go...two blogs in one day! We almost didn't get to go on our trip to Washington. Joshua didn't get the time off approved at work. Then...a week before....he got laid off. Nice huh? It's a small company and they're just going downhill. So, since I had requested work off a long time before, and gotten it, we went on the trip. Now we're back to real life trying to figure out how to make some money! Joshua's going to come back to Applebee's (again haha) and hopefully we can make it through on that until he finds another job.

On to better (I guess) news...Mike is growing up! The other day, we walked into my parents' house, and he walked straight up to my dad and said, "Oh, hi Grandpa!" First of all, when did he start speaking in complete sentences, and second...that's his first time saying the word Grandpa! He surprises us with something new every day. He also loves baseball. He'll set a ball down on the ground, golf-swing at it with a bat, then when he taps it he throws the bat and runs off somewhere. haha! I guess he watches his dad play softball more than I thought he did!

Um...I can't think of anything more to say...so that's all you get, for now!