Birthdays, Camping, Etc.

Happy Belated Birthday to Rick!!!

(Don't worry I remembered yesterday, just didn't have time to blog...)

Rick turned the big 2-8 yesterday and we had a fun day celebrating as a family. Carson and I cooked him breakfast and let him sleep in, and then we opened presents, went to church, and then we cooked dinner here and had his parents over. Carson had a great time helping Rick open his presents (he calls them "Christmas")
I made Rick a quilt for his birthday with peices of lots of his old shirts, etc. Rick and Carson had fun hiding underneath it:)

Carson is developing his own style..... maybe mom's shoes might have to go.....

Since I am such a pathetic blogger, I am blogging these pictures of our last hurrah as a threesome a week late:) Rick and I decided to take Carson camping at a campsite about five minutes from our house. We loaded up our car with a tent and plenty of food etc. and headed off. It was sooo much fun!! Carson had a blast playing at the park, cooking hot dogs over the fire, sleeping in the tent in a sleeping bag with mom and dad, and fishing the next morning with daddy. The only not so amazing part was that the ground was a little hard for my 8 plus month prego self, but it was well worth it, great family bonding!!

Carson thought the tent was the coolest thing ever:)
He helped his dad collect some wood for the fire, we cooked breakfast over the fire in the morning, and had some s'mores.....mmm yummy!!!

Our trip to Boise

Okay I am officially the worst blogger ever! I am just now finally posting some pictures of our trip to Boise for Christmas, how sad! Expect it to get worse though in a couple weeks!!! Anyways, we had a great time with everyone (minus Rick) and had fun in the cold weather and snow. Here's some pictures:

We went bowling on New Years Eve, it was fun, even the babies mostly had a good time. Carson and I used the little kid way of bowling and rolled the ball on the floor, I didn't want to risk going into labor far from home and without Rick:)

Grandpa and the two grandkids:)
My mom and Carson bonded over a common hobby, cleaning:)


My little brother is 16 and had his eagle court of honor while we were there, I was very impressed with his speech!! What a big kid!
My brother in law Chris had his birthday while we were there, so we went out to breakfast to celebrate and I decorated this cake for him, I am still designated the family cake decorator:)


Carson had sooo much fun with Kate while we were there, he always wanted to know where she was, and he was usually pretty good with her, occasionally his friendliness was a little too aggressive and would scare her......

Carson was sick the whole trip mostly, and was not in the best mood most of the time, unfortunately, but he did have his moments of cuteness, mostly at night before bedtime:)

This sledding trip didn't quite turn out as Jenny and I had planned for the kids.... we had fun though:) Poor Chris though, he had to pull his 8 month pregnant sister in law around on the sled, thanks Chris!!!


Jenny was sooo excited to build a snowman, Carson loved to look at him too and was very concerned when he started melting...I'll post more pictures soon.....