Carson Turns 5!

Carson turned 5 last week and for his birthday, our family spent the day at an indoor waterpark called Splash Universe! He {and Kadence} had a blast! Carson absolutely loves the water and was not even afraid to go with his dad on the biggest water slide that is almost completely in the dark. He tried out every single water slide and activity they had. So much fun!





About every 5 minutes this huge bucket would fill up with water, then tip over and soak everyone!


Even little sis had a blast! There was a little water slide in the toddler pool that was just her size. She would slide down it all by herself, stand up, walk up the stairs and go down in again...over and over again!




Carson loves anything and everything Star Wars right now...Star Wars legos, movies, and light sabers. His favorite characters are R2-D2 and C3P0 so I made him an R2-D2 birthday cake. He thought it was pretty cool!






Happy Birthday Carson!!!

25 Questions

Last year, I started a tradition of asking Carson 25 questions after his birthday. Here are the same 25 questions, only a year later. It's neat to compare his answers from last year.



1. What is your favorite book?
A: Star Wars

2. What is your favorite movie?
A: Polar Express

3. What is your favorite food?
A: Peanut butter and jelly sandwich with chips

4. What is your favorite TV show?
A: Yo Gabba Gabba and Blues Clues

5. How did you like being four years old?
A: I liked being able to play with my toys.

6. What is your favorite color?
A: Green

7. What is your favorite treat?
A: Chewing Gum

8. What is your favorite song?
A: the Diego song

9. What do you want to be when you grow up?
A: Tractor driver

10. What is your least favorite food?
A: I like to eat everything!

11. What do you want to do when you're five? (Goals?)
A: Play with my Legos.

12. What is your favorite thing to do with Mommy?
A: Putting puzzles together

13. What is your favorite thing to do with Daddy?
A: Playing at the waterpark

14. What is your favorite thing to do at school?
A: Play with my friends

15. What is something Mommy always says to you?
A: No Thank You.

16. What is something Daddy always says to you?
A: Go to bed!

17. Where is your favorite place to go?
A: My favorite place to go is the restaurants.

18. What makes you laugh?
A: When I jump and dance to the sky.

19. What is your nickname?
A: Car-Car

20. What is your favorite toy?
A: My favorite toy is my new remote control car.

21. What makes you sad?
A: When Kadence breaks my Legos that I make.

22. What makes you scared?
A: When I'm in the dark or in a tunnel.

23. What is your favorite thing to do outside?
A: Play in the shade.

24. What is your favorite fruit?
A: Watermelon

25. What is your favorite restaurant?
A: Jimmy Johns

New Years Eve

We spent New Year's Eve at my parents' house to celebrate a late Christmas with my side of the family. This year each family was to come up with a game and a prize for the winner. Ryan and I created a Taste Test game. Each person had a to guess between things like Coke vs. Pepsi, Diet Coke vs. Diet Pepsi, bottled water vs. well water, Mt. Dew vs. Mello Yellow, etc.
Kim had the best taste buds and was the winner of the game!







Mom hosted a Price Is Right game where we had to guess the price of several kitchen items that she purchased from Meijer. I was the winner for that game. Aunt Susan and Uncle Keith hosted a gift wrap game where each couple had to wrap a Christmas present and see who could do it the fastest. The trick was that each person could only use ONE hand! Here's the presents each couple wrapped. I'd say we did a pretty good job!



Last {but most funniest}, Aunt Kim and Uncle Mike hosted a Wii Country Line dance tournament. Lots of laughs were had and Ryan ended up being the winner. He and Kim were in the final round together. Here are some pics from the game...




Getting ready to open presents!!!








Santa brought Uncle Keith a new nose...cup!


...and Aunt Susan too!!


Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. May everyone have a happy and healthy 2012 filled with lots of wonderful memories!

Christmas

We had such a great time over the holidays. This is the first time, in a long time that we didn't travel for Christmas and was able to wake up in our own home on Christmas morning. It was wonderful! Even more wonderful is that Ryan's brother and best friend came to visit us over Christmas. We all had such a fun time together.

The weather over Christmas was unseasonable warm. Carson woke up on Christmas morning and came running into our room saying, "It's Christmas!! It's Christmas!!! Let's go look at all the snow outside!" He thought since it was Christmas that there must be snow on the ground. But not this year. Not even a flake of snow...at least until later in the week.

Here are some pictures that highlight Christmas 2011. Aunt Melissa and Uncle Alan bought the kids matching PJ's.




The kids {and Aunt Melissa} decorated cookies for Santa on Christmas Eve to set out with a glass of milk.



Some pictures of the adults opening the presents on Christmas Eve after all the kids were in bed...




Opening presents on Christmas morning...












What a blessed Christmas we had!

Thanksgiving

We got to spend Thanksgiving with the Hiatts again this year. Susan and Keith hosted, and as always, the kids had a lot of fun playing together.

Look at all that food!


The turkey veggie tray...


Mike and Mom filling up their plates...


I think I need TWO plates!


The kids' table...


Ryan even managed to take a couple outdoor family pictures for us! Say "cheese"!!!