Christmas activities

The weekend after Thanksgiving, we always head out to cut down a Christmas Tree.  It is the beginning of our holiday activities. 

This year, Carter was big enough to help out...

 Abby thought that this one was just her size.  She is raising her hand up just like Patrick and I do to check the height of the tree we are looking at. 

 

Ever since Carter was born, I have taken the kids to Build a Bear at Christmas to make a bear and record their sound at that age.  It was sad, but Carter decided that he was too old for this.  I knew my time was coming but it was so funny how Abby REALLY got into the whole thing.  Such a difference in boys and girls. 

Abby had her Christmas performance at school.  She was so excited and had been practicing so hard and loud.  When it was time to hit the stage.  She just stood there and that was it....

Carter and his friends at his Cub Scout Christmas Party.

I do a freezer meal swap with 5 other moms each month and we got together in December for our freezer meal swap and cookie exchange.  The kids came too and we had fun getting everyone in the same picture.

Abby has been taking ballet through her school and absolutely loves it.  Here she is at her mid year performance... 

 

November activities

In my attempts to get our family blog caught up, I am going to try and quickly jump through some activities. 

Carter's soccer ended in November.  He had a great time and scored 2 goals in his last game...  His smile is so much fun to watch when he is playing..

Abby went with several of her friends and their moms to see a production of the Little Mermaid at a local theater.  It was so good and the girls loved it.  We took them for ice cream after..

The month of October ended on a very sad note as my Uncle Steve passed away suddenly.  It was a shock to our family.  Here is a rare picture of the cousins together...

Halloween parties

 We also stayed busy with Halloween Activities. 

 At Boo at the Zoo with friends.  Our astronaut and Dorothy..

 Abby also ran into her friend Reese from school.

 There was the Halloween Party at Patrick's work.  Carter brought a friend and everyone had a great time  coloring, eating and going on a hayride...

 The traditional pumpkin patch picture.  We were a little late going to get one, but there were still a few to pose by. 

 Abby loves the book, Spookley the square pumpkins, so we had to make "square" pumpkins.  She had so much fun.

We carved a pumpkin the day before Halloween.  It is just too warm in SC and the pumpkins get rotten if you carve them any sooner...  Abby was way more excited about the pumpkins insides than Carter was...

October Fun

October is always a busy month for us.  We have the SC State Fair.  It is always a lot of fun, however the farm girl is me is always disappointed by the lack of animals and really can't count it as a "real" fair. 

Then we had Carter's Birthday.  I can't believe that he is 7 already..  We took 2 friends to Frankie's Fun Park for an afternoon of fun with friends.  They had so much fun. 

Silly boys playing mini golf, doing the bumper boats and driving the race cars.

Abby then played soccer.  It really is not her thing.   Patrick helped coach her team of 3-4 year olds.  All she really cared about was pink socks and purple shoes.  Oh well. 

September 2012

I am very behind in updating the blog.  I promise I will try and do better.  Here are some pictures from September.  I tried to put a picture of Carter's first day of 1st grade but it only would put the picture sideways...  Keep looking for more to come..  We have been busy these past few months.

Here is some fun that we had in September.  We went to the beach with Patrick's parents and his brother's family.  The weather was perfect and the kids had a great time in the water... 

 Carter really was happy in this picture, he just thought that it would be fun to show his enthusiasm for me taking yet another picture. 

We played miniature golf.  The kids favorite, while at the beach...

 Now onto soccer...  Carter and Abby are both playing this year..  Carter loves it but Abby is not so impressed by the whole thing.  Sitting with her friends is more her style. 

Stay tuned for October...

Visit from friends

I went to Hope College with my friend Kelly.  She still lives in Michigan, but we still have remained great friends.  Our kids get along so good too.  Carter and Chip are about a year apart and every time they are together, you would think that they see each other daily.  It is neat. 

 Her family came to visit us for a day and the kids had so much fun.  The girls thought that they would all sleep in Abby's bed.  Abby thought that was a good idea until she did not get to sleep in the middle.  Kelly's girls who are 5 and 3 ended up in Kelly and Chuck's room.

These sweet boys had so much fun doing just about everything. 

I had several more fun pictures but they are vertical and would not show up...  Oh well. 

Spending time at the lake

I am really behind in updating the blog, but thought I would catch up a little. 

 Our sister-in-law, Stephanie's family gets together to celebrate the 4th at the lake each year and we are always invited.  I would have to say that the kids had the best time ever. 

 Abby decided that she would ride the jet-ski with her daddy.

 This girl really is a mess..  Never know what she will do next.

 Carter also had lots of fun riding on the jet ski.  He even got to drive it a little

He jumped into the lake of the dock, more times than I can count.  He would jump in and pull himself up..  He is getting more confident and sure of himself every day..

I have several great pictures of the kids on the July 4th, however, they are vertical and blogger won't seem to post them the right direction.  Oh well, onto other things to blog about.