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OK so it's only been like 2 months since my last post...sorry about that.  Well, everything is going marvelously (that sure is a word).  The house should be finished in less than a month...yep you read that correctly...LESS THAN ONE MONTH and we will have our own home, we will be home-owners, Carter will have a home... :D  They poured our sidewalk today, we've been working on our rock on the outside of our home, we got carpet on Tuesday...yep.  It's super exciting.  Here are the latest pictures since I haven't added any since...I don't even know what the last ones were so here you go.

 Our Cabinets and hardwood floors in the kitchen

 More cabinets

 Master bath

 Counter tops

 Master bath

 Carpet in the living room

 Carter's room

 Study

 Guest bath lights

 Master bath

 Ugly linoleum that is getting replaced with tile when we move in

 Front entry that's way dirty!  This was like almost a month ago

 Kitchen before cabinets

 Exterior lights

 My dining room chandelier that I LOVE

 Lights that are pretty much everywhere else in my house because they were cheap

 Rock that you can barely see because of the stupid sun

Close up of the rock.  I did this wall all by myself :)

We also have a beautiful deck in the back that John and I built.  It doesn't have the railing yet...hopefully Saturday and then I will post pictures.  Our open house is set for the 23rd of June.  If you can make it, you should totally come because it's going to be off the hook (yep, totally just said that).  

Carter is getting SO big!  I can't even handle it!  When he turned 6 months, we got some super cute pictures done. We had a million taken, but these are some of my favorites.  Enjoy :)

 The personality of Carter :)

 Our Little Man

 He is like 100% personality!!!

 "Squash Face"

We are the same child...are we not??????  This is me when I was little!  I can't believe how much we look alike...it's uncanny to me!  The end lol.  

Carter is great though.  He got his first tooth AND started crawling on the same day, May 16th.  Now he has 2 teeth on the bottom and is no longer "snaggle tooth".  He is so cute with his lil chompers :D  He also crawls all over the place and is absolutely adorable.  He is seriously SO much fun right now.  I could sit and play with him all day long.  He talks up a storm (usually "da da da da da da", "ma ma ma ma ma ma", "pa pa pa pa pa" etc.  He is funny.

This is the 16th when he got his tooth.  I was trying to take a picture but he just wasn't having it.  I got this cute one in the process though :)  The next picture is of us at my friend, Bree's, wedding.  This is before we danced during the "mother-son" dance :D

 

 

 He recently started this thing where he rips his socks off...and EATS them...yep.  These are from today

He is too funny!

John and I are both doing great.  I started school again this summer which has been great.  I am taking Elementary School Music, English, and Sign Language.  I absolutely LOVE my classes!  English is kinda hard because it is online (remind me to NEVER take an online class again).  But my other 2 classes are GREAT!  I have always had a great love for music and sign language has become a new passion of mine.  I started the class 2 weeks ago and I could probably carry on a decent conversation with a deaf person at this point.  I have a great teacher and I am going to pursue ASL :)

My weight loss has gotten to a total of 45 pounds lost since the first of the year.  I'm going to take a "fat pants" picture right now...please excuse the fact that I have no make up on, my hair is wet...get over it ha ha.

I honestly CANNOT believe I ever fit into these pants...in fact, these are the pants I was wearing when we took Carter's 3 month pictures.  They were TIGHT on me then!  Makes me sick!  I'm so glad I have been able to stay consistent with my weight loss.  Only 25 more pounds to go until I reach my goal and I know I can do it because I've already come so far!  I'm taking a kickboxing class at USU in the fall that I'm super excited about :)

John is doing great too.  His brother has a friend that works for this computer company and I guess they're hiring and Steve told his friend about John and I guess he is way interested in having him apply for the job.  It pays way better than his current job but we're not sure it has benefits and if it doesn't, there's no way he could switch.  I asked him how he felt about it and he said, "I'm thinking about it".  Typical John...but that gives me hope that he really is at least giving it some thought.  It would be nice for him to be able to work with computers.  He really loves them and I think that's probably what he will end up going out in.  We'll see how that goes but I'm not getting my hopes up.  He really is happy at his current job, I just think he would really enjoy working with computers.  

Anyhoozer, this is getting extremely long...for those of you who are actually still reading ha ha.  Good night and happy Memorial Day!  We're taking a family trip to my dad's grave on Monday.  It's been way too long since I've been up there and I'm excited to just sit and think about him for a while :)