CHRITSMAS

Well today has been a lot of fun the kids have had a great day and it's been nice to have all of the family around. Dell and Ellie had a great time opening gifts today although Dell didn't get as excited about his new clothes as Ellie did.


Sleepy Girl

Dell and Cousin Kayson

Building the Airplane

Bryton signing Thank You

New Shirt

Thanks Aunt Ivy

Rubberband Gun

Thank You Bella

Thanks for Buumble Bee Grammy

I love my new scarf Grammy

Color Wonder

Thanks Bella I love you!

Stocking Time

Let it Snow

We have had a ton of snow in the last couple of weeks and the kids have been begging to go out and play in it. Last week the little boy from next door came over and asked them to play with him and here are the results. Two frozen kids who had a lot of fun.

Christmas Pictures

I'm trying to be on top of things and get cards and pictures out early this year, because Christmas is going to be crazy around here with all of JD's side of the family coming to celebrate with us. Great Grandma Carter is coming from CA, as well as Cassie and her kids, then Mom and Dad Carter and Ammon from AZ, and JD's older sister Aunalies with her Husband and kids from KS. I'm not sure where we're going to put them all, but we'll make it work. We're very excited that they all wanted to come to our house for Christmas. So I took some pictures of the kids today so I can go make prints and get them in the mail, but here's a little preview of what's coming your way.

Just a Little Crazy

So in my last post I mentioned that I was finally able to get a new digital camera, and I liked it, but then came the Black Friday Deals and I had to have a better one. Target did a 2 day sale with the Kodak 10.3 Megapixel camera that I really wanted originally, but didn't have the $150 to buy it so I went with the lesser 9.1 Kodak. So there started my wild goose chase I called every Target from Ogden down to South Salt Lake and everyone was sold out. To say the least I was a little bummed, but I'm a "little" stuborn so Sat. afternoon I came home and called the stores again, and it was my Lucky Day a store in South Salt Lake just found 12 that they didn't know they had, so we loaded up the car and off we went. I got the Camera and I LOVE it, and it was only $89.99 cheaper than the first one I bought. So below are some of the pictures that I took when we went to Temple Square to see all the lights after our shopping trip. Enjoy and I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving.

Happy Birthday Ellie Mae!

Our sweet little Ellie Mae had her 3rd birthday yesterday. I can't hardly believe how fast the time has gone. She is a wonderful little girl and we are so blessed to have her in out family. She weighs in at a whopping 30 lbs and is 36 1/2 inches tall. Everyone tells us she's so little, but she's average for her size although I think she's going to be petite like her Aunt Aunalies and Aunt Cassie.

In other good news I have a camera again so I will be posting pictures from her birthday and more often as we go through the holidays.

IT'S A BOY!!!!

MASON ELIAS CARTER
For those who have not heard we have another baby on the way who is due March 22, 2009. We went for our ultrasound today and we are having another BOY! Dell is so excited he can't wait to have a brother. Ellie on the other hand is still insisting that she is going to have a sister. We are all really excited..

ABC's of me

A - ADVOCATE FOR: getting the HUGE blue spruce in my front yard cut down
B - BEST FEATURE: I would say my eyes, the only part I really like about myself
C - COULD DO WITHOUT: Morning sickness
D - DREAMS & DESIRES: Raise wonderful respectful, intelligent children and enjoy life with less stress.
E - ESSENTIAL ITEMS: Music, books, and my family
F - FAVORITE PAST TIME: anything with my family, volleyball, sewing, reading
G - GOOD AT: Cooking, listening
H - HAVE NEVER TRIED: Roller coasters, the thought makes me nauseas.
I - IF I HAD A MILLION DOLLARS: I would buy a house with property so my kids could have room to run and play and help my family get out of debt. And a really nice vacation somewhere overseas. Europe, New Zealand
J - JUNKIE FOR: Mountain Dew
K - KINDRED SPIRIT: Heather
L - LITTLE KNOWN FACT: I'd get a tatoo if I could decide on what to get.
M - MEMORABLE MOMENT: Getting married, and the births of my children
N - NEVER AGAIN WILL I: get married
O - OCCASIONAL INDULGENCE: ME time
P - PROFESSION: Mom and my husbands business organizer
Q - QUOTE: "The things you fear are undefeatable not by their nature, but by your
approach"-Jewel-
R - REASON TO SMILE: my family
S - SORRY ABOUT: not reading to my children as much as I should.
T - TAG SOME FRIENDS: April, Becca, Keri, Ivy
U - UNINTERESTED IN: Hearing lies and justifacations for the lies
V - VERY SCARED OF: Being left alone, and how to raise my children if something happened to my husband.
W - WORST HABIT: . I worry about everything all the time.
X - X MARKS MY IDEAL VACATION SPOT: New Zealand, Europe, Hawaii
Y - YUMMIEST DESSERT: Chocolate Island from Bahama Breeze
Z - ZODIAC SIGN: Cancer- I'm a true crab.

Sunflowers

For Easter my Mom got us some Giant Sunflower seeds, and now they have fully grown and I wanted you to be able to see how HUGE they actually are. Here are a few pictures of JD and the kids showing how big they are.

They have got to be close to 10 ft tall. They are just Amazing!

EXCITED

JD has been talking about getting me a new ring for our Anniversary and we were not able to do it then, but I went looking again today on this great website that makes lab created diamonds that are pretty much equal to mined diamonds with the exception of the price, and I found this awsome ring and bought it. The company has just created this new platinum and they are doing a super sale on the products in exchange for a survey in 6 months to report on how the platinum is wearing. I am so excited to get it and see how it looks on. The total weight of the ring is 3.8 carats. Go check out the website they have a ton of really great stuff at incredible prices.

http://www.diamondnexuslabs.com/

Long Week

So we've had a bit of a long week. Last Monday I went out to the Van to find that the doors didn't get locked the night before and that someone stole our portable DVD player and my Digital camera with over 100 pics of my kids on it. So with that said it was really upsetting to lose all those pics of the kids, but my Step Dad came into town on Wed, and brought his camera with him. So I'm now able to take pics. Here are a few that I got yesterday and I thought they were really cute.

We pierced Ellie's ears on Friday so she has these cute little pink earings in, and I think she looks so adorable. We called my Mom after we had them done and Ellie told her I have earrings in my ears and I'm so cute.

More Pics

It's taken a while but here are some more pics of our WA trip over the 4th of July

All but a few of the family Uncle Doug

Looking for Agates My Mom and Ellie

Too cool for her shades Can't get away from the swing

Uncle Russ kissin his fish he hooked himself

Dell and Uncle Russ JT and Fletcher Jailed

The Catch Cooked

Ready to Eat YUM!!!

My Mom and Dell Our Bella