For months we've been trying to decide what car/van/suv to buy for me. It would be our primary family car the one we drive to soccer, to the cities and to Target. It had to have a few pieces of criteria even for me to consider....It had to fit 3 carseats, just in case! In my car we can't take any of Hayden's friends anywhere, the seats just to fit in the back. I wanted captain chairs in the middle, with 2 carseats I don't want to be climbing over seats or taking carseats out to get to the 3 row, which is another need. And of course it has to fit all my photography stuff! Good gas mileage was a plus too, and we wanted something reliable. So first we wanted the Ford Freestyle(2nd picture...I goofed!) We looked and looked for one to test drive, finally found one at Sonju in Two Harbors so we drove up there and drove it, Jason didn't like it, the transmission was a cvt and wasn't to his liking. I also left not all that thrilled with it. Than came the Pacifica, but yeah its a Chrysler, enough said.

Mountains cost extra!

The beloved Freestyle...the fruit of many, many Internet searches!

Now this is the Nimble, Zoom, Zoom, Zoom Mazda5. Hopefully the newest family member coming sometime this month! Its a Mini-Mini Van and I am so in love! It drives like a car and is basically the size of one too but its 3 rows, fits all my criteria, 30 mpg and pretty cheap!

But I can't decide on silver, grey or red. I drove the silver one and it was fine, whatever as long as its not black or white i am happy!

Thanks to the websites where I borrowed these pictures from...they aren't mine so don't use them!

13 Months! Carson weighed in at 23 pounds 6 oz and was 31.5 inches! Both were at the 60th %. Dr. Kundel said he is perfectly healthy little boy! Carson has started blowing kisses with a little mwah sound at the end....so cute! He has 8 teeth now, 4 on top and 4 on bottom. He still loves his buffy and blankets(we have 4 in rotation) His favorite food lately is Strawberries and anything with peanut butter, things he didn't really have before he turned 1. He would eat strawberries all day long if I'd let him. He also loves pizza, oh soo much, he'll eat 2 pieces, sometimes more than his brother. Animal crackers are to a new favorite. He loves, loves being outside playing in the sandbox, playing on the jungle gym or even just walking. I had him at home alone one day and the stroller was in the living room and he went up to the stroller and tugged on it and than turned to me and yelled at me, he wanted to go on a walk! So we did. He may not really talk but we sure know how to communicate! We test him to see if he knows what the heck we are talking about, and always does the command or get what we tell him, pretty sure he just chooses not to talk. He does babble, and babble and babble. Its quite entertaining trying to figure out what he is saying! He says "WhatsThis" as one word a lot especially when he sees a dog or something outside. He also has fallen in love. With Elmo. He even hears the music and he literally runs from where ever he is and stands at the bottom of the tv and than says "yeahh" He loves that fuzzy red guy! Its funny how much a like Jason and Carson's personalities are alike sometimes. Both love to lay in bed in the mornings, they just can't pop up and go. Carson loves to watch people's reactions to him, loves being the funny guy!

Carson is in size 3 diapers, 12 month clothes(Some 18m shirts for cuteness factor!), 12 or size 4 shoes.