Friday night Fun!

Carter J LOVES hot dogs, so Dustin decided we should have hot dog roast in our back yard last night. He fired up our fire pit and we got prepared.

Carter was very excited, until he realized it was hot next to the fire. Then, Dustin was all on his own.

Finally, Carter enjoyed an evening bath -- hair style courtesy of dad! :)

Grandma Sherry got Carter a new train station.

First, he had to help dad build it.

Then we had to put it in our HUGE train track already set up.

What more could a little boy want? :)

Enjoy the "All Aboards" and choo-choos!

End of summer catch up

As summer drew to a close I was busy trying to soak up the lazy days.

We spent some time painting . . .

even our faces.

After playing with our neighbors t-ball set we decided Carter needed one of his own. He LOVES it. Although he purposely hits the tee more times than he tries to hit the ball.

Our last weekend before school was in full swing we were lucky enough to have a cook out with some good friends.

Here is Carter enjoying dinner with Brandon.

About 8:30 the kids decided it would be a good time to hop in the pool.

Then we made some s'mores.

At the end of the night, when the kids were overly tired, Kate played Ring Around the Rosie with the boys. She is amazing with the kids.

And last, but not least Carter showed us what he's been learning at school lately, by reciting the Pledge of Allegiance (well, his version at least).

Plant a seed and watch it grow!

SO, Carter has a book about planting seeds and watching them grow. The other day he asked if we could plant some seeds. So, I got some seeds and dad helped do the dirty work!

Do we have everything we need?

Daddy and Carter started putting dirt into the pots.

Then Carter made holes for the seeds.

He worked with Daddy to get those teeny, tiny seeds in the holes.

Then we took them out back and gave them a good watering.

We were back out today to water them again!

Happy Fourth of July!

We spent our first 4th in Nebraska this year. We had some good friends of ours over and enjoyed BBQ and watching the kids play in the pool and shooting off some fireworks and playing with poppers.

Carter's favorite firework was the one with the parachutes. He loved chasing them down!

After a while everyone was hot and sweaty (notice the hair). So we decided to take a bomb pop break.

Then we traveled to another neighborhood with our friends to watch some CRAZY fireworks (and I do mean crazy, we had shrapnel falling on our heads.)

This is Carter with his beloved Kate enjoying the fireworks.

And then the biggest event of the night . . . Carter got to have his first, very own sparkler (or sprinkler according to him). This, of course, scared me half to death, but it had a VERY long stick and he LOVED it.

We had a great day celebrating our countries independence.

Splish splash

Our afternoon was spent taking doggy drinks from the pool . . .

Throwing fish out of the pool . . .

Getting back in the pool . . .

Throwing them back in . . .

and splashing around!

We also checked out the new sprinklers next door.

It was a great way to spent a HOT afternoon.

Congratulations Logan and Lisa!

This last weekend Uncle Logie got married to Miss (Aunt now) Lisa. This was Carter's very first wedding and had the honor of being the ring bearer. Although it took two and a half hours and many, many jellybeans; he got (mostly) dressed and made it down the isle all while being super cute! I was very busy chasing the very handsome and very busy ring bearer, so we didn't get a lot of pictures, but here are some so you can see how cute he was.

Pants -- check, Shoes -- check, Tie -- check, Vest -- check, the fancy button up shirt and jacket just weren't in his dressing plans! :)

Some very handsome Widner men

A pretty good shot of mom and dad (in the nursery, where Carter and I spent most of the wedding playing :)

Checking out the shoes he just ripped off his feet. I don't blame him, they didn't look very comfortable.

Most of the reception Carter spent dancing the night away. He did stop for a hot second to let Grandma give him a spin around the dance floor.

AND here is what he looked like the rest of the night!

We had a great time and wish Logan and Lisa all the best. Thanks for letting Carter (oh, and Dustin too!) be a part of your big day!