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Carson's 1st Birthday

We celebrated Carson's 1st birthday last Tuesday. We invited all of our family over for a Barnyard birthday party. We ate pigs-in-a-blanket, chicken wings, veggies and chocolate milk. I had been planning on making this barnyard cake since he was born, but I woke up not feeling very well. Needless to say I was a little bit frustrated. Luckily I would have moments where I would feel ok, so after many hours of going back and forth between the kitchen and the couch to rest AND with a lot of help from Colin, we completed the cake and I think it turned out pretty cute.
This is the present we gave Carson. It talks and drives by itself. He is terrified or it!!
Cute little birthday boy!
Grandma Leah and the kids helping him open his presents.Here he is with his cake. He really didn't like it that much, but he didn't want to hurt my feelings so he was acting excited in this picture. :)

Trying to get a pic in his new Thomas PJ's, but he was too tired and ornery after a long night of partying!!

Here are the classic "waiting to go downstairs to see what Santa brought" pictures. Just ignore Colin!!

My parents and brother came over to see the kids open their presents. (that's who is taking the picture.)
Hayden opening her cash register...one of her faves!Tough man Carson ripping the paper off his presents.
The aftermath.

The rest of the day was spent up at Colin's parents. We ate Crepes for breakfast, then took the kids to see Yogi Bear(pretty lame), then came home took naps and played with new toys the rest of the night.

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve day we went sledding up by Aspen Grove. The snow was really hard and icy, so the sledding wasn't great, but it was still fun.


Audrey, Drew and Jozy.
We spent the rest of Christmas Eve at Colin's parents house. About an hour before dinner Colin took a nap and when he woke up he was not feeling very good. He only ate a tiny bit of dinner and then spent the rest of the night in the bathroom and wanting to die. I felt so bad for him!! When we got home he went straight to bed, so I had to get everything set up for Christmas morning. It was a lot of work, but so much fun. I think getting everything set up is one of my favorite parts of Christmas.
About a month before Christmas I saw this idea in a magazine. I thought it looked so cute and easy, so I decided to make it for Hayden for Christmas.
Made out of card board and LOVE!! :)

December Fun!

The other day we were bored so we went to the mall. We decided to go see if there was a line to Santa and lucky for us there was no one there. Hayden walked right up and asked him if he remembered going to the Christmas party and then told him what she wanted for Christmas...a shopping cart and food.
Carson was pretty thrilled with him too!!
Hayden also found some Barbie wrapping paper at our house that I had been hiding from her. So I told her Santa must have come to wrap presents and left a little behind. She believed every word and decided it would be a good idea to take it to the mall to give back to him.
We got hit with a lot of snow, so we took advantage and built a "snow girl."

Hayden's Performance

The week before the Christmas party Hayden learned the song "I Want a Hippopotamus For Christmas." So I decided it would be the perfect song for her to sing at the Christmas party. We practiced all week and she was all ready to perform. She has never really done anything like this before, so I wasn't sure if she was going to be nervous and sing really quietly or not even do it at all. But when it was her turn, she hopped right up there and started singing like she had done it a thousand times before. The only problem was, she wasn't singing the right song. She just started making up a song that really didn't make any sense and sounded like it was in a different language! :) She does this at home a lot and goes on and on and on and on..... I felt bad making her stop, but she was just as happy to sing the right song. It was a pretty funny/cute moment.