Carter Kids

Saturday, January 26, 2013

Traditions of the season

I love the fun traditions that we do as a family each year. Here are the highlights :)

Lee Family Christmas Party 2012

"BINGO" is always the best event of the night. Everyone gets into it and loves the fun prizes that mom has for them.

Nati's Christmas Cookie Exchange 2012

Natalie begged for some type of party to have with some friends.

We invited a few friends and their moms to join us for a cookie exchange, "Pin the Heart on the Grinch", and visiting. It was a fun party & my girl was satisfied.

Bunco Dinner 2012

Love being with these great friends every month. We have made it a tradition to go to dinner and exchange gift for our December Bunco. Super fun!

Gingerbread house

Braxton continues to decorate the gingerbread man while Nati does the tree and Dylan decorates the house. Love my silly little family!

Ornaments with Grandma Carter

Jason's mom takes all of the grandkids to the mall to get ornaments every year. The kids love it! We normally get the ornaments, ride the train, see Santa and eat lunch. This year we got ornaments, no train - super sad kids, you had to pay to see Santa - ridiculous, and had lunch followed by riding the carousel. It was fun but the kids were sad about the train and Santa.

Saturday, January 5, 2013

Say "Cheese" 2012

So Thankful

Thanksgiving 2012

2 & 1/2 happy kiddos :)

My 3 crazy brothers. Love them so much!

Hmm... Who's the mature one here?? Still not sure.

So blessed to have these people in my life.

This sweet lady keeps me smiling. Love my grandma!

All things Braxton

Braxton had a busy couple of months. He begged a begged to wrestle. Then when I finally gave in and signed him up he wasn't so sure about it. Mean mom that I am, I made him go once to see how it was. We haven't ever done wrestling before and both Jason and I felt a little clueless about it all. Well, he went and loved it. The first match was a little scary. His eyes got huge when the first kid came at him but he did great and won a lot of his matches.

He had his 1st Piano Recital in December. He played "The Crab" which fit him perfectly. He was so confident and did a fantastic job. He started taking lessons in January and has done so well. He loves to be challenged with it and is doing great. We are so very proud of him!

I had issues even thinking about buying him a singlet to wear. The wrestling world is something else...wow!

Braxton also received his Wolf Badge. He's still not sure about scouts some weeks but for the most part he does well. He is a Bear now and was in my den until a month ago when I was released and put in as a RS teacher. Whew!!