Merry Christmas!

The weather outside was frightful (due to the six foot snow drifts!), but we had a great second Christmas with Bubby.


What is going on?!?


Hmmm . . . what is in here?


For me?

Let's check this out . . .

Tape is way cooler than my presents!

Blizzard 09

SO, much to my chagrin, we have had a blizzard in Nebraska. It snowed about 10 inches and then the wind has blown it around like crazy. It is freezing and we are stuck in the house. We got out yesterday before it was too bad, but the roads are pretty awful now. Carter keeps running to the back door, banging on it, and saying "buh buh" and waving bye bye. Poor guy . . . He LOVED watching it snow and swirl around. He did NOT love the snow when we took him out in it yesterday (maybe because he took a nose dive off his sled face first into it . . .) We took some cool pictures of the huge drifts and D's handy work shoveling.

Off to the Christmas Tree Farm

Saturday afternoon we took a trip to the Prairie Pines Plantation in Ashland, NE for our first family trip to the Christmas tree farm. Although Carter J was a little unsure and didn't want to run around we had a nice time. The farm provided us with a wagon to truck him along in and then we found some bells to play with while we were waiting for them to load it. When we got home Dustin had to go get some new lights that wouldn't burn Bubba's fingers. Carter is fasinated by the lights!

I like to climb

After a little bit of Christmas shopping we decided to stop by the park on this beautiful day in November. Turns out Carter has decided to be a climber! He had a great time!


Up, up, up I go!






A smile of accomplishment!

Happy Birthday!

Carter J turned ONE November 2. We had his party in OP on October 31 -- he had a great time and got lots of fun presents! Thanks to everyone who celebrated with us. We are so happy to have our BIG boy in our lives!

And a card from Papa to celebrate the big day!

Rock a bye horsey

Carter has finally figured out how to ride the horse. This is special for me because this is MY horse from when I was little. We are so proud of our little mover and shaker.

Milk mustache

Carter is drinking WHOLE milk now! What a big boy.