My Wish

6 years and counting

Wow, I've been married to my best friend for 6 years! It's hard to believe. In some ways it feels like no time at all, and in other ways it feels like it's been forever (in the good way).
A lot has happened in these 6 years.
-3 apartments and 1 house
-A Geo Metro, Bronco II, Saturn, Grand Voyager and Grand Caravan
-An Associates, Bachelors and Masters Degrees+ a bunch of classes for me
-Working at Utah Youth Village, Utah Office Supply, Missionary Mall and AES Systems
-Sunday School teachers, Primary Teachers, Nursery workers, Primary Teacher, Nursery Workers, Membership clerk, Relief Society Secretary, Financial clerk, and of coures Home Teacher and Visiting Teacher
-Karl+Carrie+Kaleb+Von+Baby
and that's just a start. I wonder what I would add to that list if I did this again at our 50th Anniversary, or just in 10 years. I'm amazed at how blessed we are as a family and at how much love we share. It really is wonderful!

3rd Trimester

I was reading my pregnancy book last night and was surprised to discover that 27 weeks is the beginning of the 3rd trimester. It is such a relief to be that far along. This is my profile now:

Washing Sheets

During my mission I was really good about washing sheets on a regular basis. We only did laundry on P-day, and didn't have time for a lot of loads. So I washed my sheets with the towels every other week and my companion did the same on the other week. While I still try to wash sheets regularly, it just doesn't happen. So I have a curiosity question; how often do you think you should wash sheets? And; how often do you wash your sheets?

Awesome Vacation- Part 2

The second day of our vacation was very busy. We started out with breakfast in the restaurant at the hotel. Pretty good food. Kaleb's french toast was made with Cinnamon swirl bread. After breakfast we got in the car and went to the San Diego Temple.
Due to time restraints, and lack of babysitter, we couldn't do any work there, but we took some pictures and walked around. It really is a beautiful temple.


After the temple we went to LegoLand. It was tons of fun! There were lots of things made out of Legos. The boys especially enjoyed this. We had the boys on leashes, which was a great idea because we didn't have to worry about loosing them. I was able to go on most of the rides, which I was happy about because I figured I wouldn't be able to.
Karl was worried about me not being able to handle a long day without a lot of sitting, since that is usually when my stomach pains start. Luckily I was able to take a good break when there were a few roller coasters near each other that Karl wanted to ride.

Kaleb's favorite ride was called Volvo's Jr. Driving School. It had cars that were sized for kids 3-5. The kids got to push the gas pedal and steer the cars by themselves around an oval track. Kaleb loved it. He loved it enough that he talked us into going back and riding it again. They have another Driving School for kids 6-13 that he really wanted to go on and was disappointed that he couldn't. That one had a mini-town for kids to drive through, complete with lines on the roads and stop signs and lights.

Von's favorite ride was a helicopter ride. On this ride you get in a helicopter and can move it up and down and side to side. He couldn't reach the controls, but he liked going up high anyway.

We left LegoLand at closing time and stopped for dinner. I got to have an In-N-Out Cheeseburger, animal style, and Karl had some really good pizza. The boys were exhausted and were asleep before we left the parking lot at LegoLand. Luckily they had a snack a little before, so they weren't hungry.
The next morning we got up, packed up our room and left the hotel. We went to a nearby beach to have breakfast and found a place with a sign that said "Breakfast at the Beach". So we got to eat breakfast outside, about 20 feet from the beach.


After breakfast we had to hurry to the airport to get there on time. Luckily the lines moved fast and we got to our plane on time. The flights back went fine. The flight attendant on one flight even gave me a whole can of Diet Coke for a headache. That was really nice.
My parents picked us up at the airport. We stopped for dinner at Cafe Rio on the way home, which was really nice to not have to worry about dinner when we got home.
Overall it was a wonderful trip. There were quite a few times that it hit me how much fun we were having and how blessed I am to have such a wonderful family. It was definitely a vacation to remember!

Awesome Vacation- Part 1

A few months ago Karl won a trip to San Diego and tickets to see Trace Adkins and Toby Keith in concert. The trip was this last week and it was wonderful! This is what happened the first day.

Thursday:
My mom drove us to the airport. We had to do a layover in Phoenix on the way there, but it was pretty short, so it just gave the boys a chance to get some wiggles out. We arrived in San Diego with no problems at all. Once there we did a bathroom stop. I waited outside the bathroom with the boys. After a few minutes Kaleb decided he needed to go potty too, and couldn't wait. So I took him to the women's bathroom and hoped that Karl didn't come out while we were gone. He did. When Kaleb finished we went back to our waiting spot and waited for another 20 minutes. Finally I asked a man to check for my husband in the bathroom. He did and said no one answered to Karl Prince. I decided to take a chance that he had left and gone past security and that was why he wasn't there. So I took the boys down the escalator and past security. As we were walking I heard my name over the loud speaker: "Carrie Prince, please meet the rest of your party in the baggage claim area." So I walked to baggage claim and Karl was waiting for us with our luggage. He had actually paged me twice, but I hadn't heard the first one. I was so happy to see him!
We went from baggage claim to catch a shuttle to our car rental company. Once there we were a little bummed at our choices of cars. They had 2 midsize cars to choose from; a white 2-door beetle and an orange Dodge 4-door. We were hoping for a bit more of a selection. We chose the orange car and headed to our hotel.

Our hotel was really nice. It included Valet parking which was really nice to take advantage of. When we checked in we were told that Show-dog records (who was paying for our trip) had decided to pay for both nights in the hotel instead of just one night! We were thrilled about that. We were only a block away from Wendys and Quiznos, so we went to dinner and then got ready for the concert.
The drive to the concert was pretty congested and I knew it would be worse afterwards, so we paid a little extra for parking so we could get out faster. That was definitely money well spent.
The concert was really good. I'd never heard of the first opening act, and while his music was ok, it wasn't good enough to remember.
Trace Adkins was next and he was awesome! Karl and I both really enjoy most of his songs. He even sings "our" song: One Hot Mama. Unfortunately we only got to listen to about half of his songs because we had to go get in line for our meet and greet with Toby Keith.

After the meet and greet we went back to our seats. I was pretty surprised at how good our seats were. The ampitheatre was at least double the size of the Usana in SLC. We were in the lower orchestra section, row J. That means that we were 10 rows away from the stage, less than 30 feet. I talked to some people around us and found out our seats were worth $137 each.
When we got back to our seats we decided it was time for a treat so Karl bought a big tub of popcorn and a soda. Kaleb said the popcorn was his favorite part of the concert. Karl and I were surprised at Toby Keith's part of the concert. He added a verse or two to some songs that I think he would leave out if performing it in Utah. After awhile the popcorn was gone and Von fell asleep. We decided that we wanted to beat the rush out of the parking lot and left a little before the end. We were so glad we did. Some other people had the same idea, but not enough to slow down the traffic. We got back to our hotel in about half the time it took to get to the concert.
We were all exhausted and slept well all night (even the boys)!

Facing my fears, aka "Return to Joe's Valley Road"

About 9 years ago I had a really bad driving experience on Joe's Valley Road. I would explain the whole thing but that would take forever. So instead I'll give you the basics. Driving to Ephraim, but missed the turnoff and ended up in Price. Decided to take Joe's Valley Road to get to Ephraim to save some time. Ended up stuck in snow on a deserted road and had to walk 7 miles before someone helped me. Got the car unstuck, then it died. Dad met me a few hours later and we got the car started and got back home.

Awhile ago we found out that Karl's family reunion was going to be at Joe's Valley Reserviour. My initial reaction was "No Way". Since then I changed my mind and we decided to go. Karl found many routes to get there, but only printed the instructions to one, which ended up being Joe's Valley Road. It took awhile to find the road in Ephraim, but eventually we were able to. It took a REALLY long time, but we ended up at the reunion, and were only an hour late. During the drive I was able to point out to Karl where I had gotten stuck and where I walked to.
It sounds silly, but I'm glad that we went that way and were able to make the drive successfully. I feel like that's one thing I can cross off my list of things to be scared of.
Next time I think I'll drive there through Price though.