Carter's Birthday!

Carter's birthday was Saturday. He woke us up bright and early to open his birthday presents. He was pretty excited about getting Halo legos, a telescope, and a new camera. Then it was off to his basketball game. We played against a really good team, but Carter played really well and scored the only points for our team. We were happy to see him have a good game on his birthday. After the game he wanted to go play Halo with his friends. For lunch, we took him and his friends to Mcdonalds, and then he was off to play more xbox with his friends.
Christy's Mom and Dad came over that evening and spoiled him with presents. They bought Carter his own little safe to keep his money and important things in. They told him to look inside the safe, so he opened it up and found that they had put some cash inside for him. He was pretty excited about it. For his birthday dinner, he wanted to eat at Bella's which is his favorite restaraunt, so we met my family there and all ate dinner. Carter got to wear a sombrero while they all sang happy birthday to him. After dinner, we went up to my parents house and he opened a few more presents. My Mom and Dad surprised him with a bb-gun and Shandi & Emily surprised him with bbs, a cool target box, and some protective glasses. Their birthday card said, "You'll shoot your eye out!"  It was pretty funny. He was worried that he wasn't going to get a bb-gun for his birthday, so he was a pretty happy little boy. Carter got to end his birthday night by getting on his swimming suit and hot tubbing. I think he had a good birthday. We love Carter so much and we are so proud of him for being such a good boy! Thanks everyone that helped make his birthday so great!

 Carter and his new camera

 his own safe

 Carter's new DC shoes

 Birthday dinner at Bellas

 Carter and his new bb gun



Carter and the haircut!

Many of you know that Carter decided to grow his hair out this summer. With much hesitation, we decided to let him give it a try. He has had long hair for the last six months (and it has been driving Christy and I crazy for the last six months). Carter has had his moments where he looked cool with long hair, but overall we still prefer it short. He is too active and sweats too much to have long hair. Not too mention it was so messy and out of control in the mornings before school. I threatened to cut it when basketball started, but never did. Finally, the other night we coaxed him into wanting to cut his hair. We didn't force him into it, but made sure that is what he wanted to do. I couldn't believe how different he looks with short hair again. He looks like a little boy again. He says he likes having short hair again, and we are glad to hear him say that. Hopefully he will want to keep it short.... Here are some before and after shots...

 Carter the "shaggy dog"

 Look at all this hair! We could make a wig out of it!

Our handsome boy!

strong enough for a man, PH balanced for a Calee

Christy and I watched Calee go into our bathroom, grab my deodorant stick and start putting it on her armpits. We were laughing so hard. She has done it a few times now. I guess she has watched us do it so often, that she has decided she needs to now. I hurried and grabbed my camera and took a picture of her. oh well, at least she won't have stinky armpits...

all bundled up!

Man, it has been a cold week. A few mornings ago, I bundled the girls up and they looked so cute, I just had to take their picture. Calee looked especially cute because she is so tiny. Cambree decided she needed to wear her hood to her hoodie first and then put her hat over it. Silly girls!

Pink Kindle

One of the best gifts I ever bought my wife was her kindle. I bought it for her last year and she has used it nonstop ever since. She carries it around in her purse and she reads it every chance she gets. She has been looking at skins for it on amazon and when she saw this pink one, she decided she just had to have it. Anyone that knows Christy, knows that pink is her favorite color. Well this what her Kindle looks like now with the pink skin. It looks really awesome. I have to admit that the kindle is pretty amazing and Christy is getting quite the collection of books. Even though I have never been a big reader (except for all those college books), I have even thought about maybe getting a kindle. Nah..... I'm holding out for an IPAD...

Winterfest 2011!

This saturday was Ogden's 2nd annual Winterfest. They hauled in hundreds of truckloads of snow and covered 25th street and grant avenue with snow. They have lots of different activities friday and saturday. We decided to head down right after Carter's basketball game was over on saturday morning. We met up with Parker and Kari and walked around with them.It was cold, but the sun was shining and it turned out to be a really nice day. We watched skijouring (someone on a horse pulling someone on skis through a course), snowmobile drag races, and we even went tubing down the snow hill on 25th street. Our kids had a lot of fun and I am glad we were able to go.

 Carter and Parker at the Snowmobile drag races

Cambree and Carter ready to go tubing

 I had to try it!

right next to the action...

 Me and Cambree tubing down the middle

Cambree tubing by herself

 Parker and Carter

 Cambree striking a pose

 our little "Calee bug"

another pose...

Carter, just chillin...

 looking up 25th street

 I think I'll buy one like this and pull the kids around behind me...

Parker and Carter at the vintage snowmobile show

Be the HERO of your own story!

I was able to meet Carter and the rest of his 3rd grade class over at the Treehouse Museum on Thursday. It was fun to be there and spend some time with Carter. The new theme is "Be the Hero of your own story" and they got to learn all about heros and what it means to be a hero. They got to make their own books, make their own movie and even play a part in a play. It was awesome!

Calee's Birthday!

Calee's birthday was this last sunday. It's hard to believe that our baby is 3 years old. Everytime we would ask her what she wanted for her birthday, she would tell us the same thing. A new bike and a new baby bed. Well, we spoiled her and got her the coolest baby bed and coolest little bike. We lucked out on the baby bed. We found it at Target on clearance. It was regularly 100 dollars and we got it for 25. It has a baby bath, baby bed and little drawers to store stuff. Yeah we scored big! The bike is made by Diamond Back and is called the lil' della cruz. I saw it at Kents last year and put it on layaway for her birthday. She loved both. In fact she played with her new baby bath/bed all day on Sunday. We let her open some of her presents Sunday morning before we went to church and then later that night we invited friends and family over for her birthday party and she was spoiled with more presents. Calee also had a really awesome Birthday Cake this year. She has two cousins, Carlie and Megan that are quite the cake makers and made her a really cute pink lady bug cake. A big thank-you to Carlie and Megan! Thanks to everyone for making Calee's birthday so great! We love you tons, our little Calee bug!!!