CARTER FAMILY

Happy Birthday, Happy Halloween and Merry Christmas Welp, a ton of time has passed since our last post. I think I made mention of being a terrible updater in a past post. Anyway, this post includes Dylan's 7th birthday, Halloween, winter fun, setting up Christmas and some happy kids. Shaylynn loves to help decorate. She just played and smiled in her jumper as we put up the tree and decorations. She is getting her first tooth, so she is constantly biting her fingers. She has been so happy and the brothers love her to pieces. Christian found the old stockings in our Christmas bin and thought he would wear them around as he helped to decorate the tree. All of the ornaments were placed gently and neatly on the front lower half of the tree. Since this time, he has pulled off and rearranged every ornament he can reach. We have to have a kid friendly tree. Christian is doing great in Pre-school and loves his teacher Miss Patti. He loves to sing all the songs she teaches the kids, and ev...

Shaylynn fast asleep. She screamed through the meeting, but slept through all the pictures. Natali and Shaylynn Russell and Shaylynn Christian, Dylan and Shaylynn. They are such great kids Here are all of the current Carter Grandkids. Dylan, Anders, Christian, Shaylynn, Griffin Kelli Gunter, Shaylynn, Natali, Gwen Peggy, Rock, Natali, Shaylynn, Russell All the Carters, Rock and Peggy, Matthew and Becka and Anders, Russell and Natali and Dylan Christian Shaylynn, Rock and Courtney and Griffin, Jason and Jessica Lots and lots to update. Everything has been going great lately. The summer came to a close, both boys are in school. Dylan is in 1st grade and loves it. Christian just started pre-school wth Miss Patti and is so excited to be a big boy like his brother. Shaylynn is doing great, according to dad, because I sleep all night. Her patterns are better and Natali seems to be taking 3 kids in stride. We will post some back to school pictures soon. For now, here are some picture...

This whole summer I (Dad) have promised to take the boys camping. Well, now that summer is past the half way point, sister Shaylynn has been born and the boys have been reminding me lately of my camping promise. On Saturday I decided it was as good a time as any. What a great little getaway. With the last couple of weeks being so busy and full, the overnighter was just what we needed to create a lasting memory. We headed about an hour southwest of Denver to Pike National Forest and ended up driving on some dirt roads, looking for "Rascally Bears" and hiking all over. This is one of my favorite pictures. It captures both boys perfectly. Dylan was cautiously keeping Christian from the edge and Christian was purposely closing his eyes because he didn't want to be in the picture. We love both of them so much. Here are the boys "ghosting". Not sure what it means. Christian kept saying the night was "ghost" and they loved running around with headla...

We love the 4th of July. We have so many wonderful blessings because of where we live and love to celebrate the great country we are a part of. Thanks to all of you who have served or are married to those who have served this great nation. We spent the first part of the day in Genesee with Grandy and Papa Cole (Pops Carter's side). Every year they have a celebratory parade through the mountains and a small carnivalish party with swimming. This year it was a little overcast so no swimming. As you will see, the boys look forward to decorating their bikes in honor of the occasion. This was a fun memory growing up a Carter and we are excited that we are able to do it with the boys. The boys loved spending time with Pops, Grandy, Papa Cole, Careylyn and Gunner. Below are some pics to show the fun Shaylynn in her fun outfit. She pretty much slept through the whole thing. Christian, Gunner, and Dylan showing off the swords the magic balloon man made for them. Christian's ...

Born: June 22, 2009 Time: 3:26 pm Weight: 7lbs 2.8oz Height: 19.25 inches Dark Hair, perfect skin, stinky bum, hungry tummy. she is a Carter girl. She was 5 days late, so Natali's Doc had her induced. After a great labor, she gave us all a break and came out 3rd push. The L&D nurse was fantastic and made this our best experience, by far. The boys had a great time with Natali's mom, Gwen. Mom, Dad and baby enjoyed hospital food for 2 days. We will keep you updated as we go. We have lots of pics in girl outfits and will keep you regularly posted of our family news. Thanks to everyone who sent best wishes and cards. We feel so loved and supported. Love you all.

This is our attempt to keep you all a little more informed of our family's status. Well, at least some pictures. We are new at this, but hopefully over time we can be A+ bloggers. Russell and Natali