last good buys !!!! Two years Almost called for a big smooch...Bobby misses Cartie, I love his status last night on face book, 

EXPLOSIONS, FIREWORKS, CARSON I MISS YOU MAN......

Carson's favorite thing to do was shake out the gun powder for hours and pack it up into some other kind of explosion, he worked for hours on just the right combo,the fourth was by far one of his favorite's, i had a pretty hard time getting to the end of this holiday without having a few meltdowns. I cant believe some of the crazy explosions this kid has been behind, once they did one after the 8th grade graduation that was so bad that all the flashlights came out in the fields and the boys came running back to the house, this is when we lived behind the school, i was was freaked, i never in my wildest dreams would of thought it would of been that bad, we had to turn off all our lights in the house and just sit there until the heat went down. I started calling them the boom buddies after that one. 

    This was one of Carson's naughty habit's that i had to deal with his whole childhood.

He has a issue with fire that's for sure. i caught him behind the garage when he was in grade school stomping some out that he had started. luckily he had just got it out both time's i caught him. 

    His poor talking bird (skittles) died because of his ways, he was lighting a pencil with the plastic around it when he was little and it started to stink, i asked about the smell and Carson  generously asked to light my candles for me (to mask the smell of coarse) and then tossed the burnt pencil under the birds cage. Yes the next day the fumes had already had Skittles half dead by morning ,he went to the vet but never made it home. My friend  Dean was helping me by removing skittles cage and that's when we discovered the burnt pencil. Suddenly it all came back to me ,Carson and the smell and then his kind request to light all my candles for me. 

    So i guess I'm one of the lucky mom's and her little pyromaniac went on a mission ...  (Right)

OH MY HECK I LOVE AND MISS OUR MISSIONARY, HE SENT HIS E MAIL THIS WEEK AND THE FIRST THING HE SAID IS {HEY MOM I LOVE YOU SO MUCH}.THIS IS HIM AND THE GUYS IN HIS DISTRICT AT THE TEMPLE, HE SAID THAT THERE IS NOTHING LIKE A BUNCH OF MISSIONARY'S GOING TO THE TEMPLE. AND I KNOW WHY ,I CAN FELL THE SAVIORS SPIRIT RIGHT THROUGH MY SONS LETTERS AND E MAILS.HE IS ON THIS SPIRITUAL HIGH THAT IS UNEXPLAINABLE,I TOLD HIM HE IS SO LUCKY TO BE SO CLOSE TO THE LORD AND TO BE FEELING THE SPIRIT EVERY SINGLE DAY LIKE THAT,I BET THAT TEMPLE GLOWS WHEN THOSE YOUNG MEN OUR ALL IN 

THERE TOGETHER. CARSON SAID HIS COMPANION IS GREAT AND THE OTHERS IN HIS DISTRICT HE SAID HE ALREADY LOVE'S THEM ALL,THIS IS HIS COMPANION RIGHT NOW WITH HIM IN THE PICTURE,CARSON TOLD CANNON HE BETTER BE LETTING HIM KNOW WHO WON AMERICAN IDOL.

HE HAS ALSO ASKED HIS ARTIST FATHER AND BROTHER TO DRAW ALL THESE GUYS, HE SAY'S HE NEED'S SOME NEEDS SOME COMIC'S....

THANKFULLY WE ARE OVER OUR COMMUNICATION GAP ,IT WAS THE HARDEST THING TO GET THE LETTERS ROLLING,SEEMED HE WOULD MISS A LETTER I WOULD THINK FOR SURE HE GOT AND THEN HE WOULD NOT SAY WHAT I WOULD THINK HE WOULD SAY IF HE READ MY LETTER,I GOT A LITTLE UPSET WHICH WASN'T HARD TO DO CONSIDERING I WAS ALREADY A DISASTER. HE WAS SO CUTE IN HIS MAIL HE SAID GIVE EVERYONE A HUGE HUG AND KISS FOR ME .AND MOM I'M NOT MAD AT YOU, I LOVE YOU.              

CARSON IS SO HAPPY WITH WHAT HE'S DOING, HE SAID I'M LOVING MY TIME HEAR, HE IS SIMPLY AN AMAZING GUY AND I AM SO PROUD OF WHO HE HAS TURNED OUT TO BE ,WHAT IS IMPORTANT TO HIM IN LIFE IS SO AMAZING,AND BRINGS HIM SUCH PEACE AND TRUE HAPPINESS , I ACTUALLY FEEL A LITTLE BETTER, NOT BECAUSE I DIDN'T KNOW THIS BEFORE BUT HES ON TOP OF THE WORLD, HE HAS FOUND TRUE HAPPINESS AND IT'S THROUGH SERVICE & SACRIFICE,THAT'S SO AMAZING AND SO AWESOME TO ME THAT HIS HAPPINESS IS STARTING TO HEAL MY SADNESS. 

 His view out the MTC window, He sent these pics home with a letter and his Brazilian missionary's that left that day. He was very sad to see them go

           

         Carson Got His Mission Call

  

     This is Carson getting some last minute calls and texting in before boarding the plain, I am sure he will have withdrawl symptom's on the plain. I can just see him checking his pocket for it or thinking it's vibrating in his pocket. I think His mind will play tricks on him for awhile. 

The Air Port

This video is sad stuff, Our boy walking to the gate. When we got to it the tape went off and the water works went on, our whole family, well everyone that went, was sobbing, it was not fun, Cannon thought he was going to make it because this whole time he has just said how proud he is of his brother and what a great example he has been to him, well that didn't last. I don't think i have ever seen my son hug his Father that hard, and our last hug was very long but still not going to last me two years. I know Carson must do this and i know this will make his life and others so much more, but it really is a bitter sweet feeling because you know they will be so Awesome but that missing them part STINKS. Its just a long time to be without your family member, but the change would not happen if it was not a long time. And that change will be worth the sacrifice i know. 

What make's these clips so funny is the boys didn't know i was tapping ,and they were dead seriousMike and his girl friend came over for a last good buy, we stayed up until 3.00 in the morning and had a blast, we watched these clips about ten times and thought they were so funny I don't know if it was just really late or what, They finally agreed to let me keep them and post them. The first one mike and Carson were declaring their love for each other. LOL and the second one Carson was trying to show Mike his Blog and it always stops and skips on our computer, i think our computer is just so full, its frustrating but like i said they took it very serious and mike is a bust. The last one i was just trying to get a pic of them and they are all smiles until they find out the camera's rolling ...check it out 

This is Carson, His Goonie's ship he pulled from a yard sale ,and treasure box with treasure, Chunk and Sloth, on his Goonie's cake made by Jacob Brewster.
    I want to thank everyone for coming out to support Carson, I must tell you how much it meant to have so much support. 

Those of you that took the time out of your lives for him need to know how thankful we are to have such people in our lives, We thank you!!! thank you to those who went above and beyond and gave him extra funds to help with his mission, I wanted to send thank cards to each of you but with everything going on Carson made the deposit and didn't remember who gave him cash. I am so sorry, but so thankful to you all,it really added up and will be a great help to him. I will be posting more pics of his farewell.

      I Cherish these Three Smiles

                          POOR JUNE BUG

Carson got his VISA , He was so happy to find out he would be getting to go to the Brazil MTC. There was a chance if he didn't get that visa in time he would of had to go to Utah. He had to call Bishop and tell him right away. This was great news...His name tag was there too ,but he would not be putting it on until he was Set Apart to be a Missionary.

Carson's First Mission Report

Carson E mailed home yesterday,

   His first words are" Hello Family ,How is everyone ,I am doing GREAT',Says its been a week that he's been there. Boy don't we know that. It's funny ,my kids have all went to camp,been gone a week before, but this week has been different knowing it's going to continue for two years has made the last week a painful one. He's say's He's getting up every morning at 6.30 and going to bed at 10.30 so it's not easy to get used to and Mission life is hard. but he's enjoying it, He really likes all the guys in his district, there are about eight of them in total,He says Learning Potuguese is very hard but a fun process. He knows it will just take allot of work. They are around Brazilians all day long ,there are even two of them staying in there dorm with them, they try to talk to them all day long and says it's a good way to learn the language.He wishes everyone at home could see everything he is seeing there,the country is very different he says. He took a hour and a half bus ride to the Campinas temple, he said it was AMAZING, He wanted me to look it up on the Internet and i have , he's right, its amazing.  I got these two pics, so everyone could see what he is talking about .Carson said he was going to have a great time in Brazil and that Brazil was Amazing. I really needed to hear these things along with other's,  His words have brought me some peace and comfort I was in need of, My heart hurt's because i miss the kid so much, He's one of my bud's, I love having him around, We are close, He kept me company, He's more then my son, he's one of my best Friend's.A little moody, Fun Loving, Loyal, Crazy, very honest, dang good one. He is thriving. I love it, he will continue to thrive even more, as he does i will also get stronger,As the saying go's "He didn't say it would be easy, He said it would be worth it".  

Carson said He is not allowed to E mail outside his immediate family while in the MTC. I don't think he wants anyone to forget about him and wanted me to post his address so if you could drop him a fast one, or leave him a message on his face book if anything,I know he really would love to hear from his family and friends.

Carson loves his animals, this dog is so funny he keeps us all laughing we have a allot of fun with him.He has these big toys he drags around the house that are bigger then him and he doesn't like it when we try to put them away.

This City is massive, and so amazing. Pretty soon carson will be walking these streets.

Now that we miss Carson and need a fix fast, I have just the cure , I have just been waiting for him to leave for this one to be released. He can't kick my butt from Brazil now can he. I found this on my computer, Its him and wil ,and Cannon as the film director of this pointless dance, Its got to be one of my favorites ,yes i said ONE of my favorites. I do have some pretty good footage just laying around in my computer. 

(When the moms are away the boys will play).  

                          SAO PAULO BRAZIL TEMPLE

                                Night/Day

Carson and his escorts ( Johnny Mom and Dad )