To all of our loved ones, family and friends, here is wishing you a season full of love and happiness as we celebrate the birth of our Savior. Merry Christmas!
We finally made it home to Idaho despite all of the snow and delays on the roadways, and are together as a family for the week. It was wonderful seeing many of you while we were away on our month long vacation. :) Thank you for your continued support and love. We miss all of you.
San Diego Zoo
San Diego Temple
This is the most clear picture we got of him opening presents.
Bring on the cake!
Hailey being all silly with Carter's balloons.
After the party when Carter got all cleaned up! :)
Finally Carter gets to celebrate his birthday appropriately and spread some frosting all over his face! We waited to have the party until Daddy was home this weekend. It was a lot of fun having Carter's little friends over. He enjoyed opening presents, although I think one would have been sufficient! He just wanted to play with it once it was opened and he could see what it was! He got lots of cars and trucks, which he was definitely needing. Happy Birthday Little Man!
Carter got his first hair cut by Dad (mostly) and Mom before his big party debut. He was so cute sitting still up on the bathroom counter while dad cut his hair. He didn't seem to mind the clippers at all! What a tough little guy, and so handsome!
It was very fun to help Hailey pick out a costume this year and get her excited for the big day. The biggest excitement was that she knew Daddy was coming for Halloween, so that was really the best part of our weekend, although getting all of this free candy was probably a pretty close second for Hailey! She was really good at walking up to the doors and knocking, saying "trick or treat" and holding her bag open with two hands. She mostly always remembered "thank you" too. :) It was nice that it wasn't snowing or freezing cold this year for Halloween night. We had a fun time together.
So, last Saturday the weather was sunny and gorgeous, so I thought it would be fun to take the kiddies to the Pumpkin Patch for round two. I don't know what I was thinking there. I sure didn't think that EVERYONE else in the whole valley might be thinking the same thing before I left the house. When we pulled up toward the farm I could see that cars were even parked on the main road! To give you an idea, when Tristan and I took the kids the first time, we were one of like 5 cars in the parking lot. I guess because it was only the second week in October. So, I thought "well, at least we don't have to hurry to be anywhere!" I found a spot and we enjoyed riding on the hay again, seeing and petting some animals again, and this time jumping in the huge blow-up jumping thing! :) Hailey always thinks she wants to jump in these, but when we get up to it she will never get in and jump. This time she was so brave and she jumped, and jumped, and jumped, got out, got back in and jumped, and jumped some more! I'm not sure how to do video yet, but I took a video on my camera that will hopefully work. Right now it is having problems, so I'll try to add it later. It was a lot of fun though and I was really proud of her.
Here are a few pictures that I took with the highlights of Carter's special day...
I realize it's been a while since I posted new pictures of the children, so here are our usual Sunday update pictures. They look so sweet in their pretty Sunday clothes. :) I can't believe how grown up Carter looked in his cute sweater vest. What a little man. Hailey got a new nursery teacher and has been going back to nursery by herself for the past two weeks! Needless to say I am overjoyed and forever indebted to Rosie Kessinger! Now I just have to try to wrangle Carter.
