CARTER FAMILY

Well, school has officially started.  We have had lots of fun this past summer.  Here are some pics showing the family from the past 3 months.  Some highlights - anything to do with backyard, Shaylynn figuring out jewelry, Utah and 4th of July fun, cousins, cousins, cousins, Dylan Scouts, white trash gun fun (it was coincidence that the boys heads were shaved the day of the picture, promise).  We love our little family so much...The boys are in school Dylan 3rd Grade, Christian Kind, Shaylynn does play group, Camden (Cam-Cam, Cammon, Camboy, etc...) hangs out with Mom all day. Enjoy the pics, hopefully we'll get some more up soon!

We were finally able to get out as a family and ride motorcycles this past weekend.  A big thanks to Leif and Jacove for letting us come up to their property in the mountains and use the homemade track.  Between the 3 families, there were a whole bunch of kids cruising around having fun.  Even Natali jumped on the boys XR70 and cruised around.  She stopped long enough for a quick pose and was off again.  Generally we wear more than flip flops, at least helmets, but the picture is better this way. Dylan started riding the little XR70 last year and was very, very, very cautious.  In fact, I was pretty sure we were going to show up and the other kids might be a little intimidating.  It took him a couple of warm up laps and he was ready to go.  I taped one of his first laps, and lets just say this is night and day progress from last year.  His bike was beginning to think it only had 1st gear.  He was regularly in the higher 2 gears and ha...

Well, it has been way too long. Before the end of the year, we will update you on all the fun and shenanigans we have been up to this year. Camping, Disney, Dylan's Baptism, motorcycles, all the birthdays, baby #4, and all the other goodies. In the meantime, here are some pictures our good friend, Anna Hale www.boololophotography.blogspot.com , took for us. Hope all is well, check in again soon! Dylan 8, Christian 4, Mom, Dad, Shaylynn 16 months This is the face she would make when told to smile We couldn't get him to look and smile at the same time She is the cutest! The best kids, getting ready for a new brother We love her big blue eyes Christian's best attempt at a happy smile Dylan has been losing teeth left and right, just got his "glasses" and is probably the best 8 yr old in the world.

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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...