Family Vacation 2011

We went on Vacation to Colorado. As you can see we did a little bit of everything, it was a blast and the kids had so much fun. We went to Dorlores, Cortez, and Telluride (one of the coolest places I have ever been by the way).

Here are just a few pictures of our vaca.

Hello Blue Eyes!

Family picture on the way to Telluride, prettiest drive we have ever been on!

Playing at the Lake

Lake McPhee

Mesa Verde, so cool

He's 3!

I know a little late, but Carter celebrated a birthday on May 20th. I can't believe we have a 3 yr old! Carter woke up on his birthday and was so excited to see what his Dad had left him. He woke up to balloons and a Giant Kit Kat... 2 of his favorite things!

Carter wanted to go bowling for his birthday party, so that is just what we did and we had a blast!

Birthday Cake!

Bowling with Dad!

I love this picture, this is him getting his birthday present from Nana and Papa. His face says it all, he was so excited!

He is such a fun kid, he keeps us laughing all the time. I can't believe he is 3yrs already! We had such a good time celebrating his birthday! We love you buddy!

The Big 30th Birthday Suprise!!!

I pulled it off!!! I have been working on this for about 6 months, and I can't believed that I did it! I planned a surprise trip to Coronado, CA for Tracy's 30th birthday! Its quite the story buy I will give you the short version. I planned the trip back in January and had to slowly pay it off so he wouldn't notice. I even had to open a secret bank account and have small amounts of my paycheck put into this account, so Tracy wouldn't notice. Which if you know Tracy you will know this was quite the task, but he never even noticed. I told Trac that I had a work meeting that I had to be to on Friday, so I picked him up at work, meanwhile he was thinking he was taking me to work and taking the kids home for the night. Well instead we headed straight to the airport, and my mom met us there and took the car and the kids for the weekend. (So the kids got a vacation too. Carter was just as excited when I told him he was going to Nana and Papa's while mom and dad went on their "Date"). So after secret bank accounts, plane tickets and planning with the Englands (some of our Friends that came to surprise him and celebrate with us), it finally came and I totally surprised him!As I picked him up from work and he was so confused!
His surprise face!
Going to catch our flight, he still has no idea where we are going or what we are doing. I wouldn't answer any of his questions it was so fun!


The view from our Resort!
Beautiful!

And the fun began! Brandon and Megan surprised him at the resort, it was so funny, unfortunately I didn't get any pictures!


Just as the fun began so did the "Dares" between the boys! I can't tell about all of them...but this is the start of them. No that isn't a hot tub, its a water fountain, and yes that is Brandon sitting in it! These guys were a blast to spend the weekend with!

Laying by the pool!

View from our balcony!

The Beach!

A little bit too cold and windy for the girls!

Didn't stop the Boys!

They had fun doing just about anything! Yes that is them playing baseball with boogie boards and Seaweed!

Seriously I don't think we stopped laughing the whole time we were there!

Trac found a bike!

Ya, this is all Trac!

I love this picture, It really does sum up our whole trip! We laughed and had a blast the whole time!

Can't really explain this picture, we just decided to break out in a photo shoot while walking along the beach!
Then the boys felt left out..... and this is what we got!

These boys are dangerous together, but they sure are hilarious!

Pictures by the Bay!

More games the boys came up with!

Hang out by the pool!

One more picture before check out :(

Thanks again Brandon and Megan we loved every second of good food, good fun and good friends!

We had a blast and it was hard to leave but we were excited to get home and see our boys! We missed them so much! I wish I had a picture of Carter at the airport it was so fun to see him!

Happy 30th Babe, I love you so much!

The Bells

These are our Family pictures that we had done in November. It was a little cold but the boys did great.

Tracy is still working downtown at Zions Bank, he just got a New Job/Promotion, and is really enjoying it. I am still working for Primary Childrens and feel so lucky to have a job that I really love and still get to be home with my boys.

Carter will be 3 in may and is already planning his birthday party, a "Diego Party", should be fun. He has such the imagination and keeps Tracy and I laughing all the time. He loves being a big brother and is very good at it. He can't wait until he is a little older so they can wrestle. He has now, finally learned his ABC's took us a little while but he has it down. We have officially enrolled him into his preschool and he starts in August and he can hardly wait, he talks about it all the time. One of Carters favorite things to do is read. You would think he knew how to read, but really once you read a book to him once he has the whole thing memorized and can read it back to you. I can't tell you how many time we hear "one more book please!" He loves any kid of ball and with play with anyone who will play with him. He has a pretty good little arm and we can't wait to get him into t-ball! Carter has a definite love for Ice cream and frosting! I have no idea where he got that from. Carter is so fun to watch right now it seems like he is always learning something. We love him so much and feel so blessed to have such an amazing little boy!

Jake is now 7 months old and such an awesome baby. He is getting his first tooth right now and loves chewing on anything in site. Although he is not a fan of any kid of food right now, I have tried just about everything and nothing seems to really be interesting to him right now. So we are just sticking with milk for now. He is so close to crawling he will get up on all fours and rock back and forth but no official crawl yet. I expect it to be soon. He tries to sit but it usually only last for about 10 sec, so were still working on that. Jake is a great little sleeper now that we got his belly issues under control. He sleeps from about 8:00 pm to 8:00 am, Which is so nice for me who loves my sleep. In the mornings I usually find that Carter has woken up to Jake before me and has crawled up into his crib and playing with Jake. There are some mornings that I just stand at his door and listen to Carter talk to his little brother. Those are my favorite moments as a mother when I see their little relationship develop. They truly do love each other. Jake will just lay there and watch Carter for hours and laugh at what ever he is doing, which Carter loves of course. I feel so blessed to have these two little boys in my life! They are both so amazing and I can't wait to see them grow, but not too fast!

7 Month update! I know I am horrible at this!

Alright I guess it time to update. I know I am horrible at this. So here is 7 months of updates on the Bells. I just realized that all these pictures are in no order what so ever. I promise I will be better at keeping our little family up to date. But here is our catch up.

Jake Reid Bell

Blessing Day

Blessing Day Family picture On Jake's Blessing day Carter got stung by a Bee this is him showing you. Nana and Jake

The Bell Cousins,

So cute right!

We were lucky enough to have all of the Bells up for Jakes blessing everyone had a blast.

Carter, Claire and Heather

The kids wrestling, they had a blast together

Cookie time!

Carter playing with Alaster

Girls picture!

Lindsays baby shower.

Always helping Dad

Matching PJ's,

love my cute boys

Mickey PJ's from Grammy

I think this was one of Carters favorite days ever! We took trax downtown and Carter loved it, and at the end he wanted to say hi to the "Conductor" and she let him into see the conductor chair, he still hasn't stopped talking about it.

He was so excited about Santa's Milk and Cookies

Putting up the Christmas tree with dad

I don't know where he gets his love of ice cream!

Cousin sleep over!

It was so fun

Halloween!

New Mexico trip that we took in October, so fun, besides the screaming baby!

I think this is the only time he slept on this vaca, so glad he grew out of that stage!

(Random blessing day picture, Sorry!)

Well that was a short version of the last 7 months, hopefully I will be better with the next 7 months. These boys just grows so fast I can't keep up.