Mr. Travis - and some of the Fam (Thanks Lynds!)

Happy Halloween 2009!

Halloween was way fun. Gabe was a psycho, I was the Raven Goddess (with huge heel boots), Lucy the Sorceress, Trevan was Batman, and Travis was a skunk for the trunk or treat and then a little bear cub for the party. Yeah, Jesse and Kelsy had a WAY fun Halloween party with yummy chili and sugar cookies. We had some awesome NuSkin prizes with the games. I won 3rd place for my crazy costume. The kids had fun trick or treating, but little Trevan was scared of every “scary” Halloween decoration he saw!

Gabe's a Military Man?

Gabe and I have prayed – he has fasted – and we have gone to the Temple about our decision for Gabe to join the Army or Air Force. We are just doing our research right now, but we feel so far that that may be what is in store for us! Gabe would be a Mortuary Affairs Specialist.
He is a wonderful dad and husband. He will sometimes take Travis downstairs in the night so I can get a little sleep. I really couldn’t ask for a better soul mate.  He works very hard at a job that most people can’t do and doesn’t get near what he deserves in monetary means (hence – the military), but we love and appreciate him very much!

Travis Update

Travis is now 2 months old and is in the 95th percentile for his height and weight. We had to bust out the 3-6 month clothes the other day. I just love him! I can’t say enough how much I love being a mom and being able to raise my three beautiful children that God has blessed me with!

Trevan's News

I have been loving the time I’ve been able to spend with Trevan (with Lucy in school and all) since I don’t work as much anymore. I love how he says “please” all the time, “Mommy could you “flease” read me this book?” The child is really into super heros lately – hence being batman for Halloween. Trevan loves to play on Gabe’s keyboard he calls the “Fiano.” I don’t know what to do about his P sounding Fs!
He just loves his little brother Travis, so he will give him squeezes and try to hold him, which keeps me on my toes! Trev’s current favorite fruit is raspberries and veggie is celery (although he doesn’t always chew it up all the way)!
We started making sure we were having family scripture study and prayer this month in the evenings. The other day I heard Trevan playing with his toy (probably action figures) saying something like, “Get him Nephi!” He was also talking about Jesus, but I can’t remember everything he was saying. He typically says stuff like, “Jesus died? Why?” I have to keep trying to explain to him that it was a good thing that Jesus died for us.

Little Lucy Mami

Lucy is doing great at Kindergarten. She is learning to read and write so well – did I ever do that in Kindergarten? Seems like I started all that in 1st grade, but hey we got to keep up with the times right? Lucy was a Sorceress for Halloween. She only lost her costume twice before Halloween (which is why she was a ballerina for the ward trunk or treat), but we luckily found it! Lucy’s current favorite fruit is bananas or strawberries (with cream) and veggie is edamame (soy beans in the pod) or celery with peanut butter. Lucy loves to call her daddy at work almost every day and ask him three things, “What city are you in?” (usually he’s driving home), “Can you tickle me when you get home? I’d love it if you did” and “Can you throw me up in the air too?”
We read a Holly Hobbie book where she and her mom make springtime sugar cookies. Since the recipe was in the book we decided to make them together, and those were some dang good sugar cookies!

Travis's Blessing

My little buddy Travis was blessed on the 18th. Gabe gave an absolutely beautiful blessing that I loved. I didn’t let anything distract me from hearing this one! We had a delicious potluck afterward with wonderful family – thanks for coming every one!

Heidi's 30!

I turned 30 on October 12th! Way fun – Gabe took me to Mimi’s, which was DELICIOUS. Then we went to grandma Rappleye’s for the celebration. Got some new shoes, gift cards to eat (my favorite!) and other fun stuff. I especially love my Magic Bullet! Thank you Keri, Tawnya, Tepoe, Jess and Malia for going in on it! You are the coolest chix ever! My mother’s b-day was on the 19th – I made her cake as I traditionally do.

Whew, I feel BETTER!

Heidi Hold a Spider? Really?

Since my mom has been taking care of my Grandma Rappleye every day and saw how much she needed to have good food and company every evening, she had an idea that Cassi enforced to set up a dinner schedule where all the grandkids take turns visiting her and bringing her dinner every month. Last month we brought over pizza, went to the Bean Museum, and then to the BYU Creamery for ice-cream. That was the first time I had held a tarantula! It was a little creepy!

Little Mommy

Lucy is like Travis’s second mommy. She often hold him for me to shower or eat or something like that. One day she laid him on Trev’s bed and he fell asleep – for a few minutes at least! One day she set him in her Carebear chair and he fell asleep! Little angel.

What we've been up to!

New Carpenter Family Shot!

Oh...here's a better family shot!

Daddy empathising...

"Do I look like my daddy?"

Lucy ready for picture day!

Daddy made Travy smile the other day!

Did I ever mention how much Travis LOVES his big sister - and wonderful mommy helper?

Intruder in our garage - and he had a friend hanging out by our front door the other day too! Crazy EM black widows!

Trevan and his love of licking ketchup!

"I am one handsome little guy!"

Travis's Visitors

My dad's famous "football hold" that always soothes the babies - when he dares to actually hold them. ha ha

Travis with his friends! Too cute!

Thanks for the lunch ladies!

He was sick this week with a cold and his little nose wouldn't let me suck the junk out very easily, but he's starting to feel better today - yah! Yeah, that's what comes with being the 3rd child and having big brother cough all over you!

Here are some of our trial and error picts - trying to capture all three together...

Little Travis and Avery

Yesterday Garrett and Jayna came to see the baby with their little Avery. They are 6 weeks apart - and we discovered that Travis's hand and feet were a little bigger than her's! He is going to be my tall boy!

(love this one!)

Love My Three Kids!

Travis will be 2 weeks old tomorrow! Crazy - and he's just as cute as ever. His umbilical chord fell off today!

Lucy was so happy to hold him standing up! She’s such a little mom to him.


Thanks to everyone for all your help with dinners and my kids. Lucy has loved going to and from Kindergarten with her friends and Trevan has loved playing with his friends while she is there! Trev had Sylvan where his other superman shirt the other day so they could play superheros together.

The other day while we were cleaning Lucy found a Chuck E Cheese token. She went to Gabe and said, “Daddy, we are going to Chuck E Cheese’s for my next birthday, is that clear?”
She also got in trouble the other day and Gabe took her up to her room. When he went in to talk to her about it she said, “Dad, that is no way to treat a child!”

They have both have been loving Travis. The other day we were giving him a sponge bath that he didn’t like, so Trevan ran to his toys, grabbed some dinosaurs and ran back to us saying, “Here Travis!” At the time we were just trying to hurry and get him cleaned up so it took me a minute to realize what my sweet Trevan was doing to try to help his little brother in his time of distress. He also says, “He’s my baby brother!”
Then the other day I was taking a quick shower and asked Trevan to sit by the baby, but not to touch him. I heard him talking to him – I jumped out of the shower to see if they were o.k. and I saw Trevan putting all his soft stuffed animals around him saying, “Here’s the Tiger Travis!” and so on naming the animals for him! It was so cute!