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Happy 4th Birthday Carson!

Today is Carson's 4th birthday! It was just too fun looking for an old picture of him, so I had to post all of these. 2 months old in the pic above. Only about 2 more months to go in that car seat.

Happy 1st birthday! The day before our sweet friends moved to WA.

Both of these were around 1 year. I see Holden in both of these.

Almost 2 years old, pre-haircut.

A couple days before 2nd birthday. Watching snow/ice outside.

2 years old!

Almost 3 years old.

3 years old and LOVING the backyard.

3 and 1/4 years.

Almost 4!

Almost 4 and ironing!

Carson, you had your first party this year, and had a monster truck cake just like last year. You requested no singing and no candles, lit or not (at home or at the party). You are sick of getting your picture taken so I don't have many from your birthday festivities at home. It snowed today in Texas though! So we'll have lots of pictures of that. If you lived in Michigan, you would get used to the snow and LOVE it! We love you so much, even though saying that you test our patience is a huge understatement. We love your passion for things you love to do, your energy, your love for your sister, and your laugh. I say quite often I wish we lived on a big piece of land so you would have all the room you needed to play with sand, dirt, bikes, geckos and anything else you could find. I think you really do love school, you love your teachers but you're just not sure about all that learning stuff. We think you're taking it all in but aren't ready to admit it yet. You really are a pretty simple kid. If it were up to you there would no errands, no eating out and no going to any of the other places I drag you. Just stay home and play! Wow! 4 years old! We love you!

Carson's Birthday Party

Today we had Carson's first ever birthday party. He will be four tomorrow! We invited his preschool class and a few of his other friends that we play with a lot. It was at a gymnastics place and these pictures are of Morgan and Carson in the huge whale bounce house.

Holden when they turned the music on.

Starting to dance and clap.

Carson wouldn't do the zip line or swing into the pit, but he loved the trampolines and the bounce houses. He paused very momentarily for a picture!

Morgan was into everything, surprisingly!

"I am a big boy too!" And I'll walk when I'm ready...

Carson in the other bounce house.

He requested a monster truck birthday for the second year in a row. We bought the cake and made extra cupcakes. My friend Mariah helped me spruce up the cupcakes and made adorable decorations.

3 out of 5 smiling isn't too bad...

Carson with one of his gifts from the party. Thanks a lot! :) The shirt came off about half way through opening his gifts and the pants weren't far after. Who knows!

Park in January

Want to blog...but there are too many pictures to go through from Thanksgiving and December and it overwhelms me! So here is a picture of Holden at the park today. I know my friends and family in Michigan were sledding today...but we were at the park. Makes me happy and sad at the same time.

Halloween and more fall fun

I have been wanting to catch up on my blogging (once again) before Christmas came and I was officially three holidays behind. So here are some pictures from Halloween and another fun visit from Aunt Cathy. No comment really needed on our cute Holden above...

Carson at the park. This is how he usually plays...with his bike helmet on because he is always going between the playground and riding his bike or scooter. The kid seriously loves anything outside...there isn't much he would chose to do over riding his bike to the park!

They have so much fun together!

Aunt Cathy and Holden. Go Bears!

Super Girl (again) and a construction worker. Neither one of them was particularly thrilled with their costume. Morgan changed her mind at least four times and Carson at the last minute was bummed that I returned the so-cheap-it-was-scary policeman costume and got this instead. But this costume is now in our dress-up basket so it was all worth it!

With our little monkey.

This is easily one of my all time favorite pictures of Carson. He is just SO happy here. This was at a petting zoo at the fall festival at our church. After we left, I regretted not letting him stay there longer. He was just in awe and in love with all the animals that he was able to see and hold.

And only becasue I don't want my children to not have any pictures of me when they are old...a picture of sweet Morgan and me before we went to a children's play last month.

Fall!

There is so much I have missed in my blogging, still hoping to go back and post about it for memories sake. But we are trying to act like it is fall here, even if the weather doesn't feel like it. Here are some pictures from one of our days of fall festivals and Halloween parties.

These were the best two of all of the group shots.

Holden.

Chris, Morgan and Carson starting to carve our first pumpkin.

Morgan getting dirty!

Carson scooping some seeds out.

Big boy Holden patiently waiting to go home to bed.

Walk to School Day

Today was Walk to School Day (we really should do it more often!). It was 43 degrees and fun!