Addiction

I have an addiction. But really. The other day, this conversation actually happened:

"Keith, have you seen that navy and white striped shirt of mine?"

**He walks over to our closet**

"You mean this one?"

"No, not that one."

"This one?"

"No, that's a dress."

"Oh, you mean this one?"

"No, it's almost the exact same as that one, but the one I'm looking for fits me better..."

OKAY WHY DO I OWN THIS MANY NAVY STRIPED ITEMS OF CLOTHING??

Keep in mind, this picture only includes navy and white striped items. I have significantly more things that are just plain navy or navy and white of some other pattern.

Seriously though, I know it's bad because when I looked at Gracie's side of the closet, I realized she already has a nice little navy stripes collection of her own going on. 

She sported some stripes today at church, in fact. Isn't she the cutest??

Soo, it looks like ill be avoiding purchasing anything navy and white for a while.

Does anyone else have wardrobe color issues?? Or is that just me?

Visitors

My family and Keith's brother Trevor came to visit us this last weekend for Grace's blessing. It was way too short of a trip! I wish my family could come visit every weekend!

 

We took everyone to eat at Babe's Chicken, which has southern comfort food like fried chicken, chicken fried steak and anything else containing five million calories. They have the BEST biscuits and the sides are all unlimited (as are the calories, I'm sure). So, you get the point. It's delicious. 

After Grace's blessing on Sunday, we all came back to Keith's parents house for lunch. I made kalua pork, rice, chinese chicken salad, pineapple and rolls. Keith says this is the classic "Carter family event" meal (which is kind of true). Basically, it's what we make anytime we have a family event and are feeding a big group. But it's always delicious! Unfortunately, I didn't take any pictures of the spread.

Grace also watched her first Superbowl on Sunday, without pants, I might add. (Is there a better way to watch football?) She's way ahead of me, though. I'm pretty sure I didn't watch my first Superbowl until I met Keith in college. 

Grace, Paige, Grandma and Grandpa watching the game.

  

When anyone comes to visit or when I'm on vacation, I have a hard time squeezing in any activities that don't involve eating, but we did manage to go to the Sixth Floor Museum in downtown Dallas. It's a museum all about the assasination of John F. Kennedy. The museum is inside the old schoolbook despository where JFK was shot from. It was actually pretty interesting, even though I already knew mostly everything from watching too many JFK conspiracy specials on the history channel.

 Grandpa and Paige listening to the audio tour.

Grace thought the museum was a bore.

This is just above the sixth story window, where JFK was shot from. 

 There is a white x permanently marked on the road, where he was assassinated.

The best part of the weekend though, was that Grace got to see her cousin, Paige! I love that they are so close in age. I can't wait until these little girls can have cousin sleepovers and go to EFY together and do other fun cousiny things. I wish they lived closer to us!

  

Thanks for coming to visit! We miss you guys!

Blessing

 My family came into town this last weekend for Grace's baby blessing. It was so fun to see everyone! Keith did a great job on the blessing and Grace was a champ. She didn't even cry once! (During the blessing, that is.) The rest of sacrament meeting was another story.

 I wish I would have gotten more pictures of Grace in her dress, she looked way too adorable. I think I may have to stage a post-blessing photo shoot to show how cute her dress is.

So happy my Dad and Trev came to help bless her!

Jensen fam

Carter fam

Grandma Carter with cutie Paige

 Grace and Grandma Jensen 

Grace Olivia

We had a baby...two months ago! (whoops.) Having a baby is crazy. I'm actually pretty impressed with myself for getting a blog post up within two months. Also, forgive me for conveniently disappearing from all social media outlets over the last nine months. There's something about putting on thirty pounds that doesn't make you eager to post photos of yourself. Here is a little recap of what you missed in the last two months:

Grace was born November 20th (on her due date). She did not inherit her punctuality from me. 

Lovely little Grace. One day old.

Coming home from the hospital.

1 month old.

First Christmas! (at Grandma and Grandpa Carter's)

Clearly, she was VERY excited about opening her gifts.

I can't believe my little girl is already two months old!

 And now, for a more accurate depiction of the last two months, I present the following photos:

This.

And this. 

We spend LOTS of time bouncing on the exercise ball. It's Grace's fav.

But honestly, we couldn't love our little girl more. I know I might be biased but I'm pretty sure she's the cutest baby ever. Don't you agree?