We started off with a BYU game. We had two of the cutest BYU cheerleaders around, a party at our house - I think we got pretty close to maximum capacity, and an awesome Victory over Washington.
The next day, Hayden looked so stinkin cute in her Sunday best so of course we had to get pictures.
And Videos:
That evening we had a couple from our church over. I cooked some phenomenal fajitas - sorry I had to toot my own horn here. I tried caramelizing all my peppers, onions and mushrooms this time and it was oh so so so so good!! And almost as good as the food was our company. The husband is an under-cover cop and his wife is in law-enforcement as well (now she is in the academia side of things). We had cool story after cool story of all his experiences.
On Monday, after getting some projects done in the morning, we headed out to a great shopping area and went to lunch at a place called T-Rex Cafe. It was filled with animated Dinosaurs and aquariums. Carter thought it was one of the coolest places he's ever gone. Plus, he ate a TON of food.
As you can see, Hayden was pretty stoked to be getting out!
Carter in front of one of the aquariums.
If you're not careful, you might get eaten by a dinosaur!
After lunch we headed over to Cabella's where Carter loved looking at all the dead, stuffed animals and shooting the "rifles".
Then we hurried on home, to get to our Neighborhood BBQ. We ended up moving to one of the coolest streets in town. There are a ton of kids around Carter's age and the parent's are pretty fun, too.
This is in front of our neighbor's house.
Then yesterday, I threw a baby shower for a girl from our church at our house. Two of her favorite things are ice cream and oreos, so right away I thought I'd make her my friend Heather's mud pie that she raves about. I mean how hard can it be really?!? Yeah, for me it apparently is really hard:
First you start with a crust of a whole package of oreos, then a half gallon of chocolate ice cream with melted PB and hot fudge and crushed butterfingers. Then another half gallon of vanilla goes on that. I must have defrosted my ice cream too much because I ended up with Niagra Falls mud pie!!
This is an action shot of me freaking out trying to save my mud pie! Oh man, it was a disaster. But I got it in the freezer, let it freeze up, finished the rest of the topping, froze it again, took off the spring form thing and it didn't look too bad. There will be a picture below.
But before the shower could start, Carter had his first Soccer "game" as he calls it. Here they only have Bitty Soccer for 3/4 yr olds, which is just a 4 week long soccer clinic. But since he had a team (the green team) and a coach (parent volunteer) it was close enough to a "game" for him.
This picture is Carter 100% through and through: his determined face, stretched out arm, the only thing he is missing is his tongue sticking out.
Grandma had been gone for 10 days taking Whit out to school, so Hayden had to get her loves on now that Grandma is back in town. She sat there hugging Gma for at least 2-3 minutes. It was so cute!
After hurrying home from the soccer "game," let the baby shower begin:
My mud pie, Mary's fruit plate, Jolyn did cute fluff balls for decor and some fresh raspberry lemonade. We were set.
This sweet girl, Laura, who we were having the baby shower for, her mother saved not only Laura's favorite shoes, dresses, and blankets from when Laura was a baby, but also gave Laura some clothes and shoes from when Laura's mom was a baby. It was so sweet and fun to see these items that had lasted through the years and were in still such great shape.
Last, but not least, a video of Carter singing his sister an original song:
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Carter is SOOO TAN!!!
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