It really is curly...

When my mom washes my hair, this is what it looks like...... I'm not sure I like it:)

Which one doesn't belong?

Remember Sesame Street. The game about picking one picture that didn't belong? Well here you go....Which picture isn't little D? (hint....the one that is Carter:)

Kindergarten...here I come!

Carter's first day of Kindergarten finally arrived! He was so excited. He had to wait a whole extra week past his big brother. I usually always take Camden on his first day, but Carter insisted he ride the bus. I had only been home from the hospital for one day, so I didn't fight him about it. Darin did drive to school and met him at the bus and made sure he made it to his classroom Ok. Darin said he was a little nervous, but once he got settled he was all smiles. I still can't believe I have two kids old enough to be in school!

First photo shoot.

It's rough being so cute..... I dare you to not fall in love!
My cute neighbor took some great photo's of this little guy. To see more click here.

*below the preggo post you will find loads of new posts I finally got around to posting.

Meet Little D...

Our sweet little Dawson Andrew came to us on Tues. Aug. 31st at 2:30 p.m. He weighed in at 8 lbs. and 1 oz. and was 20 in. long. His labor was as text book as it could be. I went in at a 4, they broke my water and had me on pitocin by 8:30, my epidural was good by 10:30 and after a few episodes of Lost and playing a few games on Darin's phone, by 2:00 I was ready to push. Once the doctor got there I only pushed through a few contractions and out he came. He definitely looks like one of our kids....most like Carter but as the days have gone by, I see a lot of Camden and Myah as well. I am sooooooo glad to not be pregnant anymore and just love to hold and kiss him and amazed to think he has come straight from heaven! Hopefully we don't corrupt him too soon :). Here are a few pictures. We just love him to pieces and are so glad he is finally here!

Welcome to the world little Dawson!

Feeling fully cooked!

10 years ago today, Darin took me to our little spot, pretended that he was going to break up with me and then got a smug look on his face and asked me to be his wife. Over the laughter, I happily said YES!

Fast forward 10 years to the same day and I gladly get to say....I'm DONE!!!!

Not to being married to Darin....that would be silly....but to looking like this!

(tried to find my skinniest pose...gave up and thought what the heck, I might as well remember what I looked like from all angles!)

We are on our way to the hospital to meet this new little man. I was hoping he would appear on his own, but 39 weeks is all I am willing to give him! Check back again in a couple days to meet the newest Chase member! (and about 10 new posts I tried to finish yesterday...I'm nesting what can I say....just didn't quite finish all I wanted to!) Wish us luck and keep this over worried mother in your prayers! :)

Camden's first day of school.

I can't believe Camden is already in 2nd grade! Where did my baby go? He is quite the handsome little fellow. He was a little nervous to be starting a new school this year. Luckily he has a neighborhood full of friends starting with him. We are hoping for a great year!

Here comes the bus! One good thing about the new school, is that we are further away than last year. That means a free bus!!! Last year I paid for him to ride in the morning and had a car pool in the afternoon. With a new baby this year, I am super happy that we have busing to and from school...for free!

See you later!

Family reunion

We had our annual Chatterton family reunion. It was fun as always seeing family, eating yummy food and playing outside. I only got pictures of the fun on the slip'n slide. It is always fun playing with cousin's!

Funny girl....and boys!

Myah's favorite way to get us laughing! What a funny little girl!
The boys are quite entertaining as well!

Boating fun!

This year was monumental for our family....Camden actually went boating! He has been sooooo fearful for the past three summer's so the following picture is really quite amazing....I think that might even be a smile on his face! Carter got a pretty big kick out of it as well!
Myah on the other hand...I think she is taking after Camden. Boating was definitely not on her favorite things to do list. We got her in the tube a few times, but the boat was nothing but tears. She especially hated it when her dad went skiing. She I think was sure he was going to DIE!

I only got a couple trips in the boat. The last I thought might put me right into labor with all of the choppy water....maybe I SHOULD have gone boating more...at least at the end :)!

Summer vacation...St. George

Being pregnant in the summer definitely had it's pro's and con's. It is much easier to go places with a baby inside of you than outside, unfortunately it also makes you much more tired as well. I didn't have a family trip planned for this summer and time was running out. Since my parents have a condo in St. George, it seemed like an easy, fun and inexpensive family vacation. St. George does have a few flaws however....it is called July, and that is when we chose to go. It was a whopping 112 the entire time we were there. If we were lucky it dropped to 1o3 by 11:00 p.m. Being 8 months pregnant only made it worse I am sure, but I think all of us were pretty toasty. Good thing for us there was a pool. That is where you found us all day, every day while we were there. Swimming is actually a great thing when your pregnant....once you are in the pool you don't even feel pregnant....it is great, until you see your reflection and then you want to pretend you didn't see it or just hurry and get back in the pool so at least you didn't feel pregnant once again. The kids had a great time. All three of them turned into little fish. And once they got over the fear of the diving board, that is all they wanted to do. Especially Carter. He loved it! So all in all our little family vacation was a success. Other than the long car ride and the air conditioning fiasco (our ac broke in the van...not so great in 112 degree weather...not to worry, $700 fixed it fabulously) our trip was a success. Nothing like lazy summer days spent with the ones you love! Here are just some of my favorite pictures. Notice they are all swimming....seriously it was way to hot to do ANYthing else!