May wraps up and summer begins- hopefully:)

The edwards house has been in full swing
the past month and we are sure ready
for summer! Lilly and Carter have
been loving the few days of sun we've had
and playing in the yard!
I know this summer will be filled with
sprinklers, digging in dirt,
and lots of Popsicles!
Baby edwards is also moving right along,
he'll be 30 weeks this weekend and
seems to be as wild as his brother-
we may name him ninja instead of Hudson!
Nick will be done with school on Friday,
and he's also the recipient of a
shiny new masters degree in
administration! Celina is wrapping
up her Sophomore year and has recently
begun working at a local burger
restaurant named Chattees and
she really likes it and is doing a great job!
We will probably be sticking close to
home this summer as Hudson's arrival
creeps up on us and we work on
the basement project to make more space
for baby swings and toys, but we'd love
any visitors who want to come our way!
We may make some short trips to
see some new babies,
camp or crash a wedding,
so maybe we'll see you out there...
until then we will do out best to keep
the pictures coming!
Carter has a new hobby...
Zebra riding!

Yee Haw

Preparing to saddle up!

Accessorizing and Carter wants in on it...

When she's not looking I'll sneak up and...

Oh how I love my handy husband!
He built me a window box for my shed and put
a cute fence around my garden!

Lilly and Celina goofing around!

Carter rocking his electric guitar!

Carter has mastered two new skills...
drinking out of a straw and

eating with a spoon and fork- without covering his
whole body in what he is eating!

Also now he is Captain Awesome ( sometimes I call him
Captain tornado instead:)

Graduation also happened this month, Katy and Daddy
both got masters and really cool gowns and hoods
to go with them! Congratulations!!!

Cruisin' around in the one day of sunshine we
had last month:)

Carter is also learning to drive the car, he's also recently
obsessed with taking the keys and trying
to unlock the door- which results in Daddy asking about the
new design on the side of the car...

Oh this meal require no spoon and lots of
face painting- forget the new-found skills
when you are having this much fun!

Carter busy rocking the chair while Lilly rides
along, I'm not sure she was enjoying his excitement:)

giggles and smiles

Carter is now 20 months old and he continues to
be such a joy to us! He loves entertaining
and being entertained! He loves
his poppa,playing outside, playing in water,
wearing sunglasses, standing in and
on everything, dancing, looking at the
world through any container
or lid or anything, and he is so very silly! He
has always been learning to share and to play
nice because we have had some changes
around our house. Three weeks ago we
moved Celina a 16 year old teen mom and her
18month old daughter into our house...
long story short is they didn't have a safe
secure place to live, so we prayed about
it and moved them in. I've known Celina for
a little over a year, and have
been mentoring her through the program I run for
teen moms... YoungLives
she is a sophomore in high school and a
great mom! She just got her drivers license on
Thursday and we are proud of her and all she
is striving to do in her life! Her daughter Lilly
couldn't be any more dainty and girly
and it's fun to watch Carter
and her learn to share
and how to play and love each other.
Yes our house is now twice as crazy, noisy
and messy but it's worth it!

Mom teaching Carter her signature smile...

Carter practicing the signature smile:)

Carter and Lilly dancing in the kitchen!

Lilly is a very silly girl and can get really hyper!

Lilly and her mom Celina

bubble bath time... Lilly loves bath time!

Precious moment...

then more silliness:)

Carter getting his dance on...

while we were downtown handing out water for
Bloomsday- my favorite road race that I
forgot to sign up for this year:( But we gave the runners
a drink and had a great time:)

Mr. Song and dance

While I was making dinner
they were sitting together eating snacks

Then they began dancing

Carter standing in a drawer

and his picnic basket...

Dancing in his car seat- oh yeah!

He has discovered the stool and can
now play in the water:)

Scrub, Scrub, Scrub

Mr. Explorer

Look at me, I can see through this container!

I love Krochet Kids and the cute hat they made me!!!

Hunting for eggs = so much fun!!!

A brother for Carter!

The Edwards Family found out a little over a week ago that we are having another
BABY BOY!!! We are super excited
and can't wait for Carter to have a little brother to
pal around with! The ultrasound was super clear because this little guy wouldn't show his face...
he was spine up and legs
apart so there wasn't much chance of keeping it a secret- we aren't the secret type anyways!
Some boy names we like are
Hudson & Easton:)

Here he is with his legs apart telling us
who he is!

Near the end they tipped the bed down and we got
a couple profile shots!

Here's a leg!

This one is sideways because it's easier to see his face
with his arm ... almost sucking that thumb:)

Carter these days!

Now we know what the medal is for...

we can tell the nice checker at Albertsons that
no Carter is not an Olympian after all but rather
that Carter's medal is for toy cookie eating!

New talent removing diaper and running away while
it falls off...

Funny big head baby picture that is so cute
kinda looks like a bobble head Joe:)

The stroller burrito baby

Carter is now giving a ham it up smile
and I caught one on film- well sort of
it's actually a jpeg but whatever...

"I'm a lion with mitten paws!" roars Carter

Carter is now driving, they grow up
so fast!

Getting ready to roll

Cruisin' in his hot ride, it's not a tractor
but the chicks still dig him!