Our favorite little Carter!

Carter loves his bath!

I took this to show everyone that Carter really does have hair

Christmas 2009

The boys went shooting on christmas. Chris had to try out his new bow and James had to try out his new red rider beebee gun! Don't they look tough

Carter liked the wrapping paper the most

Dad teaching his boy the ropes!

Katelyn and Carter helping each other with thier presents

My Firemen

Chris took Carter to see the firetrucks. Maybe he will grow up to be a firemen just like his dad!

Oh Christmas Tree

Last week we decided it was time to go cut down our christmas tree. Chris's family needed to go get their tree as well so Bonnie and Nate came with us. So we bundled Carter up for his first outdoor winter adventure.
We got to our spot and started looking for two perfect christmas tree's. It didn't take long to realize that we had chosen a bad spot! It seemed that all the good tree's had already been found by everyone else, but nothing could stop our determination. We kept going further and further to find the our perfect christmas trees.
After about an hour or so we finally found them. The only problem is that Bonnie and Nates "perfect" tree happened to be 18 feet tall! They had a permit for up to a 20 foot tree but before we had left they wouldn't get a tree taller than 12 feet. That is why we didn't bring more help or a trailer. Anyway, being the determined people we are we (two girls, a 10 year old, and Chris) thought we could handle carrying a 10 foot tree, a 18 foot tree, and a 6month old baby over a mile through the mountain terrain to our truck (that didn't have a trailer.) So that's what we did! How we did it is we would all lift the big tree and carry it as far as we could before our arm would fall off. Then we would set it down and two of us would walk back and get the smaller tree and carry it past were we dropped the big tree, and then come back to the big tree and then we would start again. It was really cold so I tried to hold Carter in my coat as long as possible but it just wasn't helping us get very far, so we put him in his little back pack for the last little bit and the poor boy was so tired that he kept dozing off and his poor head would slowly droop to the side of the back pack. He was such a good sport about it. He didn't cry the whole time. I don't know how long it took us to get that tree out! It felt like forever. Then when we finally made it to the truck, the next challenge started. We had to fit both those tree's in the truck:) Well long after the moon and the stars had come out we finally had the trees loaded on our truck and we headed home. It was all worth it though, we love our tree's and we have another great Christmas memory



Becky, Chris and Carter searching for our Christmas tree.

Carter falling asleep in his back pack


Carter and Nate warming up in the car. Carter already wants to drive:)

Chris and his amazing tree packing skills.

Carter helping me put his first ornament on the tree

How to entertain Carter

Sometimes we have to be really creative to keep Carter entertained.

Tonight Carter was getting really bored watching me fold laundry. He kept trying to look into the dryer. I decided that it wouldn't hurt to let him get in, so I helped him in and he LOVED IT! His eyes were so big and he just went crazy trying to touch everything and discover this new place, and when I would say his name he would look at me with a big smile , giggle then go back to discovering the dryer. It was so cute!

SICK!!!

Carter has been able to fight off sickness until now! On Monday both carter and I got the flu and the past few days Carter has experienced his first fever. We decided that we don't like it! The only good thing is that we get to spend a lot of time cuddling.

The Mighty Hunters

Yesterday Chris and I went hunting for deerlies. We got up at before dawn and headed up the mountain. Carter stayed home with his Grandma Tanner. We hiked and hiked and hiked and hiked. We found a lot of good spots and just watched. After over three hours of hiking and watching we didn't find a single track. At about 11 am we decided that there were no deer in this forest so we went back to the truck to shed some layers , eat some food, and then make a new plan. When we got to the truck we discovered that the truck we had locked required a seperate key than the ignition key to unlock it and we did not have that key! After over and hour of trying to break in we decided it was time to give up and call Chris's mom to bring us the missing key. When Chris's mom got there we were sitting there talking to her. Chris turned around and couldn't believe what he saw....two doe's standing on the other side of the truck just looking at us! One was a small doe and the other a fawn. Even though Chris's tag allows him to shoot doe's Chris didn't shoot these ones for a couple reasons. One they were just a little too close to the road and two they were very small. We wouldn't of hardly got any meat off of them and that is whole point of hunting. So we just sat there looking at them. That was enough to convince us that there was indeed deer in this forest. So we continued to hike in search of them, but with no success. We didn't see another deer all day, but it was a beautiful day and we had a great time together, and I got a great workout! It's a miracle that I can even walk today:)


This is Chris staring at the deer.



Here we are waiting for a deer to come offer itself to us!



This is one good looking hunter