It's a beautiful day!

I just wanted to report that it was 65 degrees here in Sacramento. Boy are Carter and I enjoying the warm weather. Those of you back in Kentucky are wallowing in several inches of snow and ice. Can't say that I am sorry to have missed that. It has been so much fun for Carter to play outside so much while we are here. He will sorely miss it when we leave on Saturday.

It has been such a great time--I'll post pictures when I get back.

Sacrament bread

This was just a silly story that I thought I should write down somewhere. You see, Carter doesn't eat bread. At least not the by the slice, white kind. He has branched out to eating some buns and rolls but plain bread is out. So he has never been willing to take the Sacrament bread. This sunday his grandma was holding him and was determined to make him eat the bread (I never worry about it). She bribed him with fruit snacks. She said if he ate the bread, then she would give him fruit snacks. He protested at first and kept quietly saying "No like it, No like it" and squirming in her lap. But after a little more coaxing from grandma he put it in his mouth. He chewed for a second, preparing to not like it then got a very surprised look on his face. He proceeded to shout out, "I Like It!"--once again very surprised at the whole thing. Of course the room was totally silent when this happened. It was hilarious.

Somersaults

We are starting to work on somersaults with Carter. He had a blast at his great-grandma's house trying to pull it off. His cousin Samantha helped show him how. The picture is mid-flip.

Christmas Stuff

Uncle Coleman was here fore Christmas. Carter must have remembered him because he took to him immediately. I will always remember him saying, "Chocolate Milk Coleman".

Nate and his siblings got their dad a car for Christmas. Cool, huh! It was a total surprise. Here they are on Christmas Day.

Carter loved opening presents. For at least three or four days after Christmas he kept saying, "Open more presents"

Nate's mom got Nate and I a Kitchen Aid for Christas. I was really excited and have already made cupcakes in it twice.

Here Carter is opening all the Airplane stuff he got from granny.

Opening presents in nothing but a onesie. Of course the excitement on Christmas Eve was that Carter threw up at his great-grandma's house. He started choking on a piece of candy and up it all came. I only had his pj's with me so he ended up just in a onesie. It didn't bother him at all.

Here we are Christmas morning in front of the tree. Santa filled a stocking for Carter too. He learned about Santa this year, but luckily he is still young enough that we didn't have to try too hard. He was royally spoiled by his grandparents and both sets of great-grandparents.

Holiday Junction

Our Museum Center has a really fun train display for Christmas. It has a little train the kids can ride, toy trains to play with, and Santa is there. Carter loves trains right now so it is a huge hit. He would ride the little train around and around all day if I let him.

This ones for Granny!

This is the Christmas package that Granny sent us. Carter loved the airplanes she taped to the side of the box. He had tons of fun playing in the box and he loved the two airplanes he got to open already. Christmas will be fun this year. He brings presents to me and says "Open", Help"

Fun with the Fam!

Here is Carter, Nate, and Ben (Nate's Brother).

Carter loves Thomas the tank and all things "choo-choo-train". His grandma got him a sweatshirt. He loves it and asks to wear it all the time.

Here is one of the most recent pictures of all three of us. Carter always seems to have his mouth open, whether he is smiling, laughing, or not.