Blue hair!

Today was CRAZY HAIR day at school... so; Carter and I decided we'd go with blue spiky hair.

Duke Gardens photo session!

A few weeks ago Josh took Carter to Duke Gardens for a photo session. The pictures are GREAT. Here is a sneak peak.....



My WVU boys! Love it.

You can go to the PICASA link to see them all.

Mini Santa!

Today I met a dear friend for lunch and she came bearing all kinds of GIRL clothes!! I'm talking 8 boxes worth. In the midst of all the pink stood a red Christmas dress that Carter just had to wear. Against Josh's wishes, on it went. Carter ran around the house for a good 15 minutes bringing us gifts - calling himself Santa! Too humiliating not to blog!

Ten on Tuesday!

1) Doing this once a week is WAY too much, or depending on how you look at it, our life is boring. So, I’m aiming for once a month.

2) Life as we know it was turned up-side-down. For those of you that don’t know, Josh has taken a fantastic job with a pharmaceutical company in Greensboro. Josh spends over two hours in the car every day… no fun! The job was too good to turn down, especially in this economy. So… overnight I became a single mom. Meaning getting Carter up, ready and to school (the hardest part on both of us), as well as pick up and dinner every day. I honestly thought it would be much harder on me than it has been. Week one went remarkably well, we are adjusting to the change nicely.

3) The big boy bed is still a work in progress. Josh’s new position has slowed it down a bit. We are hoping Carter is in his new room by the 1st week of December!

4) Once Carter’s new room is done we can focus on the nursery. I’m pretty sure Carter’s nursery was so done by this time with him. Poor little girl is already reaping the effects of child number two.

5) The word WHY is probably Carter’s favorite. I’m convinced he says it just to get my reaction. I’m trying my best to avoid the answer ‘because I said so’. Oh how hard that is!

6) Tis’ the season! Since this is the first Christmas that Carter actually ‘gets’, we are making it our mission to really get into the Christmas spirit this year. We will be pulling out the Christmas decorations in hopes to have them up before my Dad & Trish arrive for Thanksgiving. Last year Carter rc’vd The Elf on the Shelf from Nana & Granddaddy. We will be pulling him out a few weeks before Christmas, not too early though, I wouldn’t want the ‘coolness’ of him to wear off.

7) This little lady of ours sits way higher than Carter, making a trip up the stairs feel like a thirty minute workout. I don’t know how I’m going to make it another 3 ½ months.

8) I’d like to make a huge shout out to Nana… she has come to the rescue. Carter came down with a low grade fever on Sunday evening. I took him to the doctor on Monday morning and she thinks he has some sort of virus. Carter can’t go back to school until he is fever free for 24 hours, so he is spending some quality time with Nana while Josh and I work. THANK YOU NANA!!

9) We’ve had our pictures taken for Christmas cards… I can’t wait to see how they turned out this year!!

10) Off to bed I go… It is late.

Halloween 2009

Carter had a lot of fun filled activities planned this year for Halloween. On Friday he had a parade at school.


On Saturday morning he had a costume play date with Noah (I forgot the camera).

Saturday afternoon we had a neighborhood parade - Grandma joined us. Carter got juice and chilled in the wagon.


Then Saturday evening we ventured out for some trick-or-treating. At first Carter wasn't quite sure; but, once he got the hang of it he was all about getting more candy!!

I think the highlight of his evening was actually giving out candy to kids who knocked on the door, then waving good-bye to them!

Trip up North!

Since Carter had never met my Mémère, I decided it was high time to make the trip. So, we bought tickets a few weeks ago - and off we went. We flew to New York on Saturday, October 24th - visited with The Rogers, then drove to MA on Sunday. We spent Sunday visiting with family - and enjoying the New England weather. It was surprisingly mild. We drove back to MA after visiting Mem and spent another night in New York with our friends! It was a short and hectic trip - but well worth every second.

Here are a few highlights of our trip. For all pictures, check out the Picasa link.

Carter's 1st plane ride and he gets to sit in the pilot seat - how cool.

Gerry joined us early on Sunday for a play-date. They had so much fun together!

Auntie Gail & I with the boys!!

As you can imagine, Carter was a bit sceptical of Mem at first. He warmed up a bit and shared a truck with her!

She thought that was very special.

Love it... 89 and going strong!

On the way home we decided to put our good camera in the carry-on, jic we'd get lucky enough to get in the cockpit again. This time the pilots didn't get up - but, let Josh get a cute shot of Carter chillin' with them!

Auntie Chris' visit

Before we left for our trip we were fortunate to sneak in some visit time with Auntie Chris. Her, Mom & Mallory went to the State Fair before they came to our house! Carter really enjoyed his corn on the cob!! Thanks grandma!

Auntie Mallory!

Carter is teaching Grandma his new dance moves... don't ask!! Let's just say they gave us all a good laugh!

We celebrated Auntie Chris' 60th birthday! Happy Birthday!