Carson's 5th Birthday

Today is Carson's Birthday.  He was so excited about his birthday that he couldn't sleep the night before.  He came in my room and stood on my side of the bed at 11:30 PM telling me he can't sleep.  Then this morning he was running around the house and got dressed all on his own.  After he was dressed he told me he was going outside to see if anyone was here for his party.  I told him his party was at 1PM and no one will be here at 9:30 AM.  He couldn't sit still!  He also has a hard time realizing that he is 5 now.  I guess that could be confusing when for an entire year he told people he was 4 and now he has to tell people he's 5.  But he said he is a big boy now.  Carson had a Monster Jam party-we prepared for it this entire week and he told me exactly what he wanted at his party and what kind of cake.  I even made him pass out his own invitations.  Here's some pictures of the party today.

 Here's the Grave Digger Cake that I made.  It was lots of fun making-so much better than buying a cake and cheaper too.

 First the kids started off with designing their own monster truck.

 Then we did races in the Monster trucks that Chris and I made.  They had an obstacle course where they raced each other.

 Then they did Freestyle racing where they just got to beat up the track and destroy stuff.  Then we stacked up the boxes and the kids crashed through the boxes while in the monster trucks. 

 Singing and cake

 Presents next.  All the kids wanted to help with that!  Some of the kids wanted to bring Carson's presents home with them.

Carson with all his stuff he got.  He looks pretty worn out from all the excitement in this picture! 

Then Chris took Carson for a cruise in the Duster and they went all over town, but Carson slept!  Then after dinner we took Carson out for ice cream.  It's a tradition of ours that on the kids birthday we take them out for ice cream.  Instead of DQ like we usually do, we went to KiwiLoco and got frozen yogurts instead.  Carson didn't mind either way-he still got his chocolate "ice cream" and got it all over his face too.  So much excitement for one day-but I know he had a great birthday and can now tell everyone he's 5.  Happy Birthday Carson!! We love you Carsonboy!!!!

My Birthday

It was nice that we all had the day off.  We went ice fishing with my family.  Nicole and Jason were here and it was a beautiful sunny day.  Yeah it was cold, but it was a nice day. 

 My Dad caught most of the fish, but had more fun making the holes with the auger.

 Carson caught a pretty big fish on his pole. 

 Here I am basking in the sun!  And I actually did get sunburned.

Here's a picture of Chris and Jason with the kids watching the planes take off nearby.  That was pretty neat to watch the planes flying so close. 

After ice fishing we watched the Rose Parade and ate lunch. Then later we went to Olive Garden in Idaho Falls with my parents.  Then it was too late to go out shopping, so we did that the next weekend.  Chris always tries to make my birthday a big deal for me.  He's so sweet about that.  I went shopping at Kohl's and got some clothes that I can wear for awhile during the pregnancy.  We had a fun couple weekends.