Friday, May 13, 2011

Thursday, May 12, 2011

Carter turned 4!

For Carter's actual birthday we took him bowling. We all had a blast! He is a cute bowler!

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I know I will get in trouble if I don't mention this, but for the first time in Nate and My dating and married life together Nate won and is very proud of himself!! :)
While we were having Carter's party, our neighbors horse had her baby. It was so amazing. these pictures are of the foal only a few hours old. So cute!Image
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We just found out that they lost the baby horse. They think that it was premature and was having some other issues. So sad!

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Dino Birthday Party

Carter absolutely LOVES dinosaurs so I knew that he would love having a super fun Dino party for his birthday. We invited all the family and had lots of fun things to do. I asked Carter how old he would be turning and this is the picture I got from it. Got to love little boys!

ImageBefore the party started I told carter that we needed to decorate and he said he wanted to decorate the party with his dinosaurs, so this is what he did. I think he had a career ahead of him. It looked pretty cute.

ImageOnce everyone arrived we decorated gift bags with all kids of Dino stuff and the kids loved putting stickers and stamps everywhere. Then we headed outside to "pin the T-rex skull" on its fossil, help the mommy T-rex put her eggs back in her nest with a relay race wearing dino masks and dino feet.
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ImageAfter that Nate told the kids that while he was doing yard work her found a bone in the yard. He knew it was not a dog or deer bone so it must have been a dinosaur bone. Each kid had a roped off section for their dig so we could discover what dino the bones belonged to (thanks Kristin for the idea). They had a blast digging and brushing off the bones. Uncle Pat and Uncle Ben (the Doctor's) helped them put the bones together. It was a T-Rex!

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While they were putting the dino back together the Volcano erupted! Nate built an amazing volcano that erupted, blasted off its top and then was a holding spot for each kid to do a Diet coke/Mentos eruption. It was pretty cool!

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My amazing sister came up with names and created super cute labels for all the food. It looked so cute!
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ImagePulled pork Sandwiches - Nate smoked them and they were delicious!


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After we ate we opened presents and Carter got a ton of great stuff. Cowboy gear, dump trucks, Dinosaurs, Sports stuff and a new bike.
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ImageChecking out the new bike!

ImageCarter has been super excited to have cake for his birthday. Nate of course wanted to make something cool! So we each made a cake for him. It was fun to do. Nate and I are not cake people, so the cake probably did not taste good, but it looked good and was fun to do. Nate made an amazing volcano cake with smoke coming out of it and everything edible except some toy dinosaurs. It was so cool!

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I made a cute Dinosaur! nothing fancy but cute.
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ImageThe funny thing is that he was so excited to eat his cake, but he took one bit and then was off playing. He was having too much fun! Love it!

Love for Mom

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