This is how I roll

Carter eats his cake

2009-12-27T16:40:00.000-08:00

Carters 1st but really 2nd Christmas

2009-12-25T20:58:00.000-08:00

here are some pictures from Christmas

Saturday Project

2009-11-07T23:06:00.000-08:00

Carter is really getting into everything now and his favorite thing is to play with our movies and the try to eject things from the playstation and throw the DVD around. So we had to stop it some how. We build some doors for our TV stand. Not bad for 20 bucks and about an hour and a half. Hopefully this will keep him out.

Carters first black eye

2009-10-16T17:36:00.000-07:00

Pictures

2009-08-16T19:36:00.000-07:00

Carter learned how to stand up in his crib... now he'll never lay down

We got a little pool for Carter... but more water ended up on us then him

Carter's first time eating carrots

Em caught us watching T.V.

Guitars Unplugged

2009-07-04T22:49:00.000-07:00

This is a video from Guitars Unplugged from last winter semester

Carters first photo shoot

2009-06-06T18:53:00.001-07:00

DRUMS

2009-05-27T19:01:00.000-07:00

Another Project

2009-05-24T20:55:00.000-07:00

Before ....

After......

Projects

2009-04-29T19:00:00.001-07:00

This is what we have been doing while I'm waiting for my internship to start.

I cut out some damaged hardwood floor and put some Marble tile in for my Sister in law Mary

I also put tile in Mary's bathroom

2009-04-05T18:02:00.000-07:00

Carter ready to go for a walk

Carter trying to put his whole hand in his mouth, I think he gets this from Aunt Mel

Thanks to the Cotton's for the awesome custom onesies!

He is just that cool

2009-03-22T21:19:00.000-07:00

2009-03-18T14:16:00.000-07:00

Carter has a check up today and he is doing just awesome. Carter is 25 in. long which puts him the 90th percentile, but only weighs 11 lbs 12 oz which puts him in the 23rd percentile. This is probably the only time in his life that he'll be tall.

Aunt Mechel made this hoodie for Carter and it looks great. Thanks for making it he loves it, it keeps him nice and warm.

Last Saturday my band had a show. It was pretty sweet, the best part was I was able to try out a new guitar for a new guitar company that is starting up, Anthem guitars. Their guitars are pretty sweet, so... if you're looking for a good guitar check them out.

some pictures

2009-02-22T21:26:00.000-08:00

Carter

2009-02-17T12:09:00.000-08:00

We went to Spokane for the weekend, it was fun. Carter had a good time.

Carter

2009-01-13T19:21:00.000-08:00

The Great Escape

2008-12-28T20:55:00.000-08:00

For the last three weeks of pregnancy Carter was trying so hard to escape. He would pull his knees close to him and then kick upward at the top of my uterus causing him to jam his head to the bottom of my uterus over and over again. He had been trying so hard to get out of there, he just did not have enough room! after three failed weeks of his escape, I went to the doctor's office at 9:00 on Christmas Eve and got my membranes stripped. I was already dilated to a 4 and 90% effaced. I was cramping all day and having some contractions, but I didn't think I was in labor yet.

When we got to the hospital at 8 pm I was having major contractions two minutes apart for hours but it wasn't going anywhere. They have had a few girls come in before that have had their membranes stripped and had contractions for three days before they had their baby, so they were worried that that would happen to me so they wanted to keep me there overnight and see how everything was in the morning. They wanted me to sleep that night just incase this would go on for a couple days so they offered me some vicodin for the pain but I was worried it might slow things down or stop them completely, So they asked if I would atleast take a sleeping pill. They gave me two sleeping pills by 11:00 and I probably would have slept better had it not been for the major back pain going on because of Carter's body being sideways.

After waking up several times I called the nurse in to check up on me and she said I was at a 5 now and without warning me she popped my water and it just gushed everywhere. I was so shocked she did that, that I jumped up a little. Now that I was in active labor they called the anesthesiologist to my room to explain the epidural and how they put it in just incase I changed my mind later and decided to get one but I fell asleep 4 times while he was talking! So Matt constantly was waking me up while he was talking, I felt so bad. I guess he was getting pretty mad about it, but they gave me two sleeping pills, I should have been out like a rock. And i continued to fall asleep while the nurse was trying to talk to me. My whole body was falling asleep and the hand that had my I.V. in fell asleep and cramped so I couldn't even move it for a while. My hands were just shaky because my body wanted to fall asleep and i hadn't eaten anything in a while but i did fall asleep between every other contraction on accident.

From 2:30 when they popped my water until 4:00 I had dialated to an 8, then they checked me about twenty minutes later and I was at a 9 and just a few minutes after that I was keeping back the urge to push while they got the doctor over who had been opening up presents with her family. So she just took her precious time getting over there. Meanwhile it was just the one nurse, matt and me there. The nurse grabbed one foot and matt had the other while I pushed to get things ready for when the doctor came. By 6:18 am he was born. 7 lbs 8 oz and 19 1/4" long. Carter Matthew Mecham has atlast escaped that horrible place and probably decided he wanted back in where it was warm! I can't believe Matt held my leg up for the doctor and watched the whole time I was pushing. He did tear up a little when he saw his little boy come out. He has been so wonderful and is the cutest father ever. I am so thankful for the blessing that I was given before I went into the hospital. It was just what I needed. We love our cute little baby so much! And thank you so much to Mom Mecham for cleaning the basement and making it homie for when we got home, it was so nice.

The Cartster is here

2008-12-25T10:51:00.000-08:00

Here are a few picture of Carter

Wintery Wonderland

2008-12-18T09:09:00.000-08:00

This is what we woke up to seeing today.

That mound next to Matt is not a house.. It's the van!

This is how much snow was in our driveway this morning after Matt had shoveled three times yesterday.

Jesus wants me for a Sunbeam

2008-11-16T18:34:00.000-08:00

These are our reverent sunbeams. They were finally all there at once. This is their reverent "serious" picture. No really, we asked them to be reverent for this one and that's what they did. It's pretty much what happens every time we ask them to be reverent...

They are definitely a handful every Sunday, but we have so much fun. We are really going to miss them when we leave.

Cradle

2008-11-12T09:56:00.001-08:00

We built a cradle for Carter

Updates

2008-10-04T08:34:00.000-07:00

Here is a picture of the almost finished living room, I just have to put the base boards on.

Well it has been a while since we've blogged anything, so here is a little update

We both have been pretty busy. Em is working all the time at Wal Mart shes been moved to the Deli so she doesn't have to lift anything over 5 lbs. The pregnancy is going well. We are planning on naming him Carter, so Carter is very active and moves all the time.

Matt - for a while I was working 2 jobs, I was roofing in the morning about 6 - 12 and then went and did some random clean up job from about 1 - 5. but the construction is slowing way down and I kind of got laid off but now I just go to my second job earlier. I started school last month, and I hate school...

we are moving...... back to Rexburg, ID so it's not really exciting but we're both going to be going back to school there so we can finish our schooling. we both have about 4 semesters left to do. we're moving in January. I'm going to school for Construction Management, and Em is going for Music Education.

Fireplace

2008-08-07T20:12:00.000-07:00

after we torn the rockwall down this is what we did, it took a lot longer than we thought but it is now done.

We're having a BOY!!!

2008-07-28T12:25:00.000-07:00

He was a little embarrassed about this picture so he is hiding his face

Everything is going well with Em and the baby

Rock Wall

2008-07-04T23:31:00.000-07:00

We tore down the rock wall around the fire place
look here my sister in law posted it already so just enjoy her post

Em

2008-06-28T12:22:00.000-07:00

This is Em playing the Flute with Mandy Wiberg Playing the Piano

There Is A Green Hill Far Away

Thanks Nate for putting this on here for me.

Update

2008-06-09T17:14:00.000-07:00

We had our 2nd doctors appointment today. we were scared out of our minds cause of what happened last time. But everything is looking great. We heard the baby's heartbeat today, it was nice. Em is doing great she's almost 12 weeks now.

Baby Mecham

2008-05-19T14:40:00.000-07:00

Well probably everyone that reads this already knows but we're pregnant!!

We're due December, We are very excited
we think the baby looks more like me, what do you think?

Aliens!

2008-05-15T19:04:00.000-07:00

I was driving to work the other day and I saw this

Stuck

2008-04-19T22:58:00.000-07:00

Cool Stuff

2008-04-06T18:21:00.000-07:00

So my wife is the greatest ever! look what she got me.

We got Playstation 3, the only way Em would let me get it was if we got RockBand, so we did. and then we were looking for a TV just a nicer one but we didnt want to spend a lot of money. anyway we found a 56 in. HD TV for very cheap. and it works great. it was a lot less than a little TV so we got it. and its AWESOME !

POST

2008-03-26T17:34:00.000-07:00

I don't really know what to put not much is going on with us right now. school just ended for me so I started work again, and thats fun, I guess. It will be nice to get 2 incomes again. Em is doing awesome and just moved to the meat department of Wal Mart which gave her a little raise and full time. Emily got called to teach the sunbeams a while back and I help her after I teach my Sunday school class. I have a very small class but we have 9 sunbeams.

BUY NONE GET ONE FREE

2008-02-16T21:28:00.001-08:00

Today Emily and I went to the mall for a little bit to look at a few things. At AnchorBlue they had all their mannequins wearing this shirt saying, "Buy One Get One Free" So I thought the shirt was cool and asked if they were selling them. Turns out they weren't but they told me to come back on Tuesday after the sale and they'd see if they could give me one. anyway to make a long story short they ended up giving me one today, for FREE! and told me to come back on Tuesday to get another one if I want.
This Made my day.

Weekend Project

2008-01-26T15:28:00.000-08:00

Last weekend we had a little weekend project of painting the laundry room. It was fun.....

Here's Em getting readying to take the old wallpaper off

Mom vacuuming about 20+ years of dust and who knows what else

Me painting

Again

Ryan came and helped out

The reason we painted the room was for Mom's new washer and Dryer

DRUMS

2008-01-20T16:24:00.001-08:00

Em let me get an electric drum set!! how cool is that? Now I can learn to play the drums and record them with the songs I write. I'm way excited.

Em Likes them too

Weekend Project

2008-01-20T16:01:00.000-08:00

Gingerbread Houses

2007-12-26T23:28:00.001-08:00

We made Gingerbread house as a family it was a lot of fun. everyone made one but I only have a few pictures

Here's Dad with his

Jenn's

Nate and Tyler
Em and Me
You can't see it but I framed the inside of the house so its up to code

FLUTE

2007-12-01T20:08:00.000-08:00

So I got Em a Flute for Christmas. Shes been needing a new one for a while now and we found one for a really great price... and I'm a sucker for good deals and gave in and bought it for her. shes getting all her presents early this year.

First Snow....

2007-11-27T23:20:00.000-08:00

well it snowed last night, the first snow of the year.... I don't really like snow

Em has never driven in the snow so this morning before I went to work I took Em out to drive around in a empty parking lot so she could get used driving her car in snow
Here she is just about to drive away

Here she is leaving before I could get in the car

and here she is having fun driving in the snow

CHRISTMAS TIME!!

2007-11-25T20:57:00.000-08:00

So it's now time to celebrate Christmas, we put our tree up the day after Thanksgiving. its a little tree but we're little people, so it fits. It was the only one we could afford last year, but we love that 3 foot tall beauty. We're really looking forward to having our family around especially Mel, Gary, Tyler, Halle, and Owen. I just love the feeling this time of year brings. I hope everyone enjoys this Christmas season.

GPS

2007-11-24T19:01:00.000-08:00

Emily has a horrible sense of direction so I bought her a GPS Navigator. I got a really great deal on it too. its retail is over 300 and I got it for just over 100. But its pretty much the coolest thing ever. I would recommend getting one. I feel a little better with her driving now.

Tag?

2007-11-11T14:45:00.000-08:00

Well Jenn tagged Em and Me, so I guess we're suppose to write 6 things about us.. well since we share this blog here it goes:

Emily -

1. I played Ice Hockey. I was the meanest girl out there. I even took out my coaches on the ice and duct taped them.
2. I hate gravy beyond all belief, even the sight of it makes me want to puke.
3. I have a very hard time remembering to zip up my zipper when I wear a belt or have 2 buttons on my pants.... it must be that third step I just dont get.

Matt -
1. In my free time I like to play guitar, watch tv and play on the computer all at the same time making it IMPOSSIBLE for Emily to be able to do anything.
2. I Got a job because of my clean-cut good looks.
3. When I was 3 years old I lassoed the fireplace and pulled it out, it is still broken to this day.

I wrote for Em and Em wrote for me. Well I guess thats about it. we don't really know anyone on here that hasn't already been tagged so I guess we're still it or something....

Serious

2007-11-11T14:38:00.000-08:00

I told my class last week that I would be very serious this week with them, and stop going off topic. So I wore a suit and parted my hair. how can you not take someone with their hair parted serious? ......
It didnt really work, I think they took me even less serious this time

Sunday School

2007-11-05T18:48:00.000-08:00

I was called to teach the 14 and 15 year olds sunday school class. I have fun doing it. My class is very small last week I had the most ever, 4 kids.
I'm very easy to get off topic and the kids have learned that so a lot of times I'm only teaching for a few mins and the rest of class we're talking about everything but the lesson. I asked of the of girls that never really comes to say the closing prayer I think she didnt like the fact that I asked her to say it, because she made fun of me during the prayer. she said " thank you for the lesson, even though it wasn't really a lesson" it was pretty funny

This Is My Class (I asked them to act like they are learning)

I tried to take a picture with My class but I was late

I made it this time

CD

2007-11-01T22:11:00.000-07:00

While I was in Rexburg Trevor and I put a CD together there are a few song on our purevolume page listen to them. let me know what you think.
This is a CD cover Nate designed for the band

2007-10-29T07:51:00.000-07:00

This was me and trevor playing Hard To Say at our acoustic show. I couldn't fit it all on one.

Show in Rexburg

2007-10-28T19:57:00.000-07:00

This weekend we went to Rexburg so I could play a show with my old band Madeline Walks, and it was amazing! it was so much fun.