CHRISTMAS

Christmas is my favorite holiday. We always have a great big prime rib dinner cooked by my mom on Christmas Eve. Then on Christmas day we open presents and go over to Chris' parents house. Carson was so fun this year. He didn't quite get santa, but he was excited and knew something fun was happening. His favorite present is a McQueen car from the movie. Chris finally broke down and bought him something other then model cars!

DECEMBER

Shoveling snow

Making a gingerbread house

Christmas sweater party with Jim and Gina

HALLOWEEN

Our Spooky Halloween porch with dad's little helper.

Dad and Carson getting ready for the trick or treating

Mom and Carson going to the parade at school

Our family of skeletons. Notice the baby skeleton on my stomach!! We had to include our baby on the way too!

80's Prom Night

Our neighbor threw an amazing Halloween party themed "80's prom" It was hillarious. Everyone got decked out and partied like it was 1984!

CORNBELLY'S

We went to CornBelly's with the Kukihikos a couple weeks ago. It was so fun for the kids. The weather was awesome and it was a great fall night.

The big kids chair!

Lost in the cornmaze. We had to cheat a bit because a stroller and cornmaze don't mix that well!

On the hayride with everybody.

The jaws of terror- actually it was pitch black inside-very disappointing!

Fall Fun and Firsts

Carson's first day at nursery. We were so excited. No more trackmeets at church!

Carson's first haircut. He needed one so bad. In this picture he is crying hysterically. We finally got him to calm down by reading him a book. Then he was awesome.

Hanging out at my parents cabin. It is almost done. They have been working nonstop all summer. It is looking really nice and actually inhabitable now ( you should have seen it when we started the remodel job it was SCARY)

Carson got a automatic motor bike from Jim and Gina- he liked it for a minute but then was confused. He will figure it out soon. He just wanted the helmet off his head and then he was off to the park.

Chris had his birthday on Sunday- he is getting OLD!!! Carson was having a blast until everyone started singing and then he got really scared and bawled really loud. Chris was trying to calm him down. Everytime someone started singing happy birthday he would freak out and start bawling again. It was actually pretty funny-in a sad way!

UCLA Blowout!

Chris and I went the the UCLA game last Saturday. It was awesome. My parents had to leave last minute so they called us about 2 hours before the game and gave us their awesome seats. We were smart enough to leave Carson home with a babysitter this time!

Discovery!!

Carson did this for like 20 minutes and he laughed when I would tell him to stop.

Football Game 2008 Northern Iowa

We went to the opening football game for BYU. Last year we took Carson when he was a baby and he screamed the entire time because of the noisy crowd. Well for some reason we thought this year he would love it. The game started out great. We had awesome seats on the 50 yard line. About 5 minutes into the game Carson wanted out. The rest of the game I was down under the bleachers. Carson somehow found every parked service vehicle and wanted to play on them.

Chris got to stay by himself & only came down when he got a SURPRISE call from a good friend of his. Adam Womble who was in town on a 2 week leave from Afganistan was @ the game. He called Chris and Chris came running down with excitment as he did not know Adam was home. The game was exciting but Chris was maybe more excited about seeing Adam.
We chased Carson around the stadium for the remainder of the game & he ran from golf cart to John Deere tractor onto other car type vehichles. We learned our lesson and are not going to bring Carson to another BYU football game for like 5 more years!

INTO EVERYTHING

Carson has been so fun to watch lately. He is so interested in everything and tries to copy everything we do. He favorite words right now are hi, bye, shoes and hot. It is so funny to hear him try new words and realize he understands what we say now. It is also scary to think that we have to start being "Good examples" or he will copy our bad habits too!

DON'T ASK!!!!

Carson Houdini

This is what we were dealing with every night. Carson magically discovered how to get out of his crib (basically flinging himself over the edge and us hearing a loud boom.) So then we decided to move the porta crib into his room with higher sides. It worked for one night. Then we would hear grunting sounds and a plop. Carson would then grab his blankie and binkie and calmly open the door and procede with a huge grin on his face into our bedroom. We started calling him CARSON HOUDINI because we had no idea how he was escaping.

Then Chris heard the grunting one night at four in the morning. This is what he discovered. Carson in action. He tried to act mad but laughed the entire process.

NEEDLESS TO SAY WE DISCOVERED CRIB TENTS!!! Now we can sleep!

Summer

--Summer is flying by. We love being outside and enjoying family and friends. Here we are up at the cabin
--Chris' sister is in town so we had a pool party with the cousins
--Carson watching his first parade. He loved EVERY minute of it!
--At the lake. Carson was thrilled the whole tube ride
--Dad and his boy at the ballpark