Happy Birthday Carter!!!!

Wow!!! Where does the time go? It's hard to believe that it has been a whole year since our little (yet big in our lives) blessing joined us! It truly does seem like yesterday that I found out I was pregnant....went to the hospital....and brought home our little man. I won't say that I've already forgotten the sleepless nights, the trials of adjusting to being a new mommy and the moments of continuous crying (ha!) but I will say that the joy and laughter that Carter has brought to our lives overshadows any struggles along the way! Being a mom and having a family has been the most amazing experience and I can't wait to see what's to come....

"Birth"day - January 17, 2009

First family "portrait" :)

It's amazing how quickly our little baby boy has grown into a little man. I'm blown away everyday at how he explores, learns, and does new things. Carter is such a smart little booger... he's practically running (not just walking) around the house now, totally can anticipate our reactions and emotions to everything he does, eats like a big boy, has "mama" and "dada" down pat, and really "knows" the special people in his life that he loves so very much!

On Saturday (Jan 16th) we had Carter's first birthday party at Tumble Tots of Lexington and it was a blast!!! We had a massive turn out and so so much fun! Carter and all his birthday buddies loved the trampoline and all the obstacles and wide open floor space to just run and play and have a ball! He got soooo many awesome toys and clothes and thankfully a nice and big toy chest for the mounds of toys he's accumulated over the holidays and his birthday (thanks everyone!).

Happy Birthday "Mr. Man" :)

Trampoline fun w/ daddy

Tumble Tots gym

To everyone's surprise I made Carter's "dig-in" birthday cake. I (and Rob too) was pretty impressed with myself. In a taste test I realized that maybe I used a little too much cooking spray - ha! However, as you'll see below, Carter thought I did an excellent job and had no problem digging in...poor thing has no idea of his mommy's true cooking abilities :)

What a year!!! Happy Birthday buddy....we love you so much and can't wait for the many fun and exciting years to come!

Happy New Year!

Hello 2010!!! What a great holiday season this year with Mr. Man (one of my favorite nicknames for Carter - thanks Aunt Jenny)!!! Right before Christmas we had a little less than a foot of snow, which was wild for that time of year, and had such a great time just stay snuggled up in the house together and playing in the snow.

We had an amazing Christmas with Carter....he got soooo many toys and loves them all! Santa brought Carter a tool bench that he loves to dump all the pretend nails and screws all over the floor just as soon as we clean them up...it's quite the game! It's was too funny how everyone knew exactly what Carter would love.....cellphones! I think he got 3 or 4 of them - haha! Oh, and Aunt Heather & Uncle Joshy got him the coolest Little Tikes firetruck (of course since Uncle Josh is a firefighter himself) and it is to neat! Carter (and ourselves) are so blessed to have such amazing family to surround ourselves with during the holidays and everyday!

The only downer over the holidays is right before New Year's Mr. Man became really pitiful and was running a really high fever. We took him to the doc and after a 1/2 day of precautionary tests (since his fever peaked at 105 - yikes!) we learned that he had a double ear infection and some other bacterial infection....poor guy :( But thanks to antibiotics and Motrin he was back to the wild & crazy Carter!

We hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Check out all the pictures from over the holidays with the link to the right!