Last but not least, Birthdays

All of the birthdays for the year are completed with these two wonderful guys! Garrett is in this picture with part of his family when they went to the zoo in Idaho Falls and they walked the penguin. This is the only shot I have of him in my library of pix. Sad huh. Happy #2 Birthday, big guy.

In 1983 I recieved one of the best Christmas presents of my life. Jacob Nicholas was born, on Christmas morning I put him under the tree and woke Chris up and told him that we had been given a baby for Christmas, Chris was very excited, too. Hard to believe Jake is 27!?! Happy b-day! Everyone needs to remind me when we see you to take the camera out and take pictures so we have up to date pix. Merry Christmas to one and all, Mom, Mary

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Man is it snowing here! We had plans to go to Lances for Thanksgiving but had to cancel due to the weather :(. We are so sad not to get to see them. But also relieved because most of the roads are closed here and other parts we would have travelled on. So I decided to blog. I also couldn't bring myself to show a pic of what it really looks like here. So for happier times this pic says it all.

Almost two weeks ago Carina and Stephanie decided we needed to draw names for the family Christmas gift exchange, so that is what we did. Truly there was no cheating going on 'cause Stephanie, Carina and I did the drawing, we left Chris out of it! With Bryce and Lance doing so well with the economy we didn't even bother to call and ask, we just assumed, hope that is okay. So Bryce's family has Chris' fam

Lances has Jeremy, who by the way just totalled his car last night going to Logan.

Chris' has Lances

Jakes has Dan's

Jeremy's has Bryce's

Dan has the Parents

The Parents have Jakes fam.

So there you have it. If you are in need of suggestions call the family you have and good luck on finding the most exquisite gift for the family you have with only $35! What a bargain!

November Birfdays

Brendan Ross was born the 16th of November to Ashley Ross. Jake met Brendan right after his mission and has claimed him as a son ever since. Brendan has grown so much over the past four years and has turned into such a nice little man. He was so kind and helpful this summer with all the younger cousins. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!!

Daisy Ann (do right) born the 30th of November to Chris and Carina. I love this picture 'cause this girl loves to be read to and now is reading a bit all by herself. She has grown into such a good big sister. Daisy tells me she really likes school and has lots of friends, too.

Sometimes Daisy still pulls this face. Maybe it is genetic?!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!!

And the Birthdays are. . .

Jeremy Rulon Carter was born on October 4, 1985. He was named after me and Jeff and also his Grampa Rulon Hughes, Jeff's grampa on his mothers side. Can you believe he is 25!? Wowza!!! Jeremy is working on his Masters of the Universe degree at the U in SLC. Oh, I mean his Masters in Finance. :)

Ezra Nicholas Carter born to Jacob and Ashley on the 14th of October, 2009. He is the last of the grandkids, for now. Unless any of you have any news for us. He is a redhead and a cute little boy. I'm sure he brings lots of joy into his home.

Happy Birthday, Boys!!!!

And by the way, Gramma Lois won the prize! A trip with her favorite children to Disneyworld!!! Wahooooo! (Jake forgot his own son in the list of birthdays :().

Halloweeeeen?

I know this is a bit early, but hopefully it will get everyone to think "Oh I should blog, again". Does anyone know whose birthday is next? Think October. Write in your thoughts and someone will win a prize for the correct guess. Hmmmm, what could the prize be? A cruise, a weekend for two, ......?

Today is such a Special Day...

It's Birthday time again.....Happy Birthday to YOU!!!!

Daniel James Carter born Sept. 7, 1988. Wow 22! One of Dan's favorite pastimes is to go camping and fishing. Of course he likes to go, go, go. We are so glad you are a part of our family, Dan!

Gene Richard Bell, aka mary's dad. He is the one sitting 'cause he just caught that whopper Lumberjack. Born Sept. 14th ???? Now when you are this old it is questionable whether I should say how old. But then again it is remarkable to make it to this age right! 1938 was the year my dad was born. Thank goodness for my parents otherwise I and you kids wouldn't be here!

Happy Birthday to YOU!!!!, (again) ;-)

Is it August already?

Preston Carter born the 17th of August will be 6 years old. Two years ago we went to D.C. and everyone found out how much money in ones they are worth for the height they were. As you can see Preston was almost a million dollars then. I bet he is worth more than 1.5 million today!
Happy Birthday Preston!


Carina Hymas Carter was born the 18th of August. Does that mean that Preston is a day older than his aunt Carina? Hmmm. As you can see we need to find my newer pictures in this computer because that baby is Daisy. Happy Birthday Carina!
Let's all call these wonderful family members and sing out of key so they will have a laugh on there special day.
We love you two!!!!

July Birthdays

Okay so this month will be in better order for the birthdays. Jeffrey Bryce Carter was born on July 7th, 1978. Wow that was a really long time ago, just ask his kids! This is such a great picture of Bryce getting his doctoral diploma in dentistry. Way to go Bryce! Happy 32!

Christoffer Stephen Carter was born on July 15th, 1982. Wow that was a long time ago, too. I can't believe that I'm old enough to have such old kids.

Time has flown by so fast and will only get going even faster as we head into the future. I'm so glad that these two wonderful fathers are a part of our family!

Belated Birthdays

Of course I am still having problems getting the blog in the right order, too. Oh well, at least I try, right? So we will go backwards with Madison, born to Bryce and Amy on June 25th, 2002. WOW, that makes her eight years old this year and that is something special. Madison will be baptized on thursday July 15th, her Uncle Chris' birthday. Way to go Maddy Moooooo!!!


























Jeff of course was born on the 16th of June 1955. The oldest of 5 children born to Kyle Ross Carter and Eva Lois Hughes. He still swears he is only 39 years old and has anniversaries now instead of birthdays.

I am so sorry to have missed the June birthdays:( I tried and tried to get a picture of Taryn off the email and can't. So this picture will have to do. Taryn was born on the 15th of June 2007 to Jake and Ashley. She is quite the talker and can tell you anything and everything in just a matter of minutes on the phone. Wait 'til she's a teenager and those quick bursts of speech will be very long on the phone!!!

Love to all the June Partiers

Phonebooks?

I thought I should blog on this so Jeff and Dan can say next year "remember!?" Well, last week I was perusing the want adds, as I usually do every day, and I saw this add "Need people to deliver phone books locally". I thought I could do that and so could Dan, and hopefully Jeff will help us with his muscles. So I called and they told us to come to a meeting the next day, thursday, at 1 and they would get us started. How exciting to get a job the next day where you don't wait for weeks and then do a background check, take pictures of drivers license, s.s. cards, etc... So we went to the meeting and signed up for three routes 'cause there were three of us there. Then they had Jeff pull the pickup around and loaded a full pallet and filled the back with loose bundles of books in the back seat and Dans car was fully loaded. Then the guy says that is a little over half of what you will need. I wish I had taken a picture! It was incredible how many phone books that pickup could hold. So we drive slowly home. The guy told us a pallet weighs about 1800 pounds. In total we had about 3 1/2 pallets to deliver! I'll make this a short story 'cause it was hard brain work. We had to find the address' and deliver all these books. The sad thing was they put the address' in alphabetical order. What town in the U.S. does there streets in alphabetical order? For petes sake!


When we did the rural route in St. Anthony, which I thought was a city route, we came across some of the most dumpiest places on earth. What a dump! UGGGHHH! We kept thinking of Jeremy saying I just need a little trailer from the '70's and we'll be fine. Well, Jeremy you will see these the next time you come for a visit. My Goodness!

Here is a great site to go to in case you get one of these phone books and aren't sure what to do with it: http:www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pGvEGFkvNs


Well, until the next blog. :-)

May Birthday's

We have had a bad cold in our computer over the past week and haven't been able to post. My sincere apologies to Amy whose birthday was this last week. Send her a belated birthday wish anyway if you didn't get to her earlier. Our pictures aren't in the computer like they were before so I'm having a hard time finding most recent pictures, also. Sorry!

Okay so here is the line up for the birthdays:

Amy Nicole Bennett Carter May 5, 1982. Married Bryce April 21, 2001.

Caetie Cheney Carter May 11, 1982. Married Lance June 26, 2003

Andersin born to Lance and Caetie on May 13, 2004.

Masen born to Lance and Caetie on May 27, 2008.

We are so glad to have each and every one of you in our family and hope your birthdays are wonderful and that you have a lovely party. If not lovely, then wild! Families make sure you make there special day special!

Since we call everyone for there birthdays and sing I'm just gonna put it up for you to decide if you want us to continue to sing or as Caetie put it "Don't give up your day job!" Take a vote and let us know, to sing or not to sing, that is the question. Leave your comments and we'll do what the votes say. (Of course I hope we don't have to sing) :-)

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT

Congratulations to Jeremy!

He is graduating next week with his Bachelors in Business. He has decided not to walk and so this is the closest picture to a graduation pic that I have.

Way to go Jeremy! :-) We are so proud of you.

The really big news next is that he just learned today he has been accepted into the U of U Masters Program for the fall semester. They will be moving to SLC in August. YAHOOO!!!

A big Thanks to Stephanie & Alexis for helping Jeremy get where he is at. They have been a great support to him over the past three years. Congratulations!!!

April Birthdaze

Eva Lois Hughes, born many years ago (1938), had another birthday on the 20th of April. She is the third child of Rulon and Eva Mace Hughes. She has two brothers and one sister. Lois loves going south for the winter so she can play Bingo without repurcussions from her gambling ways! She said several of you kids wrote on her facebook to wish her Happy Birthday and that was so sweet. Many more happy days to you Mom, Lois.

Jackson (?) Carter was born on April 24th, 2007 to Bryce and Amy. He is only three but I'm sure his parents think he is turning 5 because he is such a wonderful handful! Just look at that beautiful smile. He is such a livewire and so entertaining. He and Grandpa Carter are such good buddys when we go to Georgia. Happy Birthday Jackson with lots of love from The Carter Grandparents & your favorite Uncle, Uncle Dan!

Bull Riding Kid

I just saw this post on my Facebook and hope all of you can watch this. Studley Preston is riding a bull!!! A must see!
http://poundinghooves.smugmug.com/gallery/11840977_5u42w#837131080_oYujX-A-LB

This is way cool! And of course where is Bryce's video?

Happy St. Paddys Day

So I thought of all of you today and wanted to send me doing a jig. Just like I have seen Andersin and Alexis do. Let me know what you think. Should I go for Americas Got Talent with this cute dance?
http://sendables.jibjab.com/view/Wn1yhNGF5FEr3jjH
Hope it works for you.

March Birthdays

Well, here I am. I just had my 45th birthday on the 8th while in China. It was a bit depressing, being 45, 'cause now I am 6 years older than Jeff, since Jeff decided to stay perpetually 39. Life has had it's ups and downs but mostly ups. I am so grateful to all of my family. Parents, brothers and there families, sons, daughter-in-laws and grandkids. Yes, life is good!

Sarah Elizabeth was born on the 13th in 2009. What a cute and happy little girl. I know she is such a blessing in Chris & Carina's family.

My mom, Betty Lou Stephens Bell, doesn't she look great! This is her wedding day picture, 51 1/2 years ago. She will be 73 on the 15th. Many, many years ago in the preexistence she chose to have me here on earth. I am so lucky to have her as my mom.

Alexis Geraldean will turn 2 on the 18th. She is such a bright spot in her parents lives. I know Jeremy & Stephanie can't imagine life without this fast paced happy go lucky princess.

Ashley will turn another number on the 19th. (I'm not sure she wants me to reveal that number). Jake says what a great cook she is and also what a wonderful photographer.

Happy Birthday to all of us that share this wonderful month of March for our birthdays.

More pix of the trip

So I realize these should have been done first then the next blog second, so just read the next blog first then this one. Hey at least I'm blogging! Enjoy the pix. Now it's your turn to blog!

Madison & Preston at Karate.

Lance and Caetie's fun with the Wii.
Bryce's Family, what hams!

Panama Beach. Brrrr it was so cold. Who knew it could get so cold in Florida. Although there were lots of signs of global warming this year in the U.S. like 2.5 ft. of snow in D.C. and New York with frozen crops in Florida and the like! Yikes!!!

Lance was really wanting this tree out of his backyard so they could play ball and not have this tree in the playing field. What He-Men!!! Yeah!!!

The Travelin' Carters

Our January to mid February trip was just awesome. We went to some pretty great places. Our first stop was Lance & Caetie's. Oh what fun! Of course it wouldn't be a proper visit if we didn't get in some Wii. Even if it wasn't friday or saturday, which is when they usually turn it on. We must be special. We also were able to sit in on one of Lances lectures. Good job Lance. It is amazing how fast the kids are growing.

Our next stop was Bryce & Amy's. We ate at this great Japanese restaurant that cooked the meal right in front of you. A must eat place when you go. We also had our teeth cleaned and checked. Which is always a nerve racking experience for me but this was really a good experience and I will be able to do it without gas from now on. Jeff and Dan both had cavities, and Jeff had his filled. Dan will have to wait, only so much time in a day. Bryce's new office is very professional and friendly not to mention the detail to decorations. Very Nice!!! Good Job Bryce. We also went to Chuck E. Cheese which was an experience all its own.

We then went to Panama City. Bryce and the three older kids went with us for an overnight stay that was colder and rainier than Georgia.:( We tried to go on the beach but it was so windy we almost got blown away!

Dan found a lot of entertainment on the beach. One was feeding the seagulls with bread. It was quite scary. We also found lots of sand dollars and other assorted shells. This was the best beach I have been to in years.

Jeff also enjoyed feeding the birds off our railing on the 21st floor

Our next stop was in Ruskin, which is across the bay from Tampa. Bryce said that Panama City is the redneck riviera, but I'd have to say Ruskin is it. The resorts we stayed at were fabulous. Very clean and with everything you need. Ruskin was nicer and had it's own private areas for beach, tennis, etc. Definitely a place we will book again. We went over to Disney for a day of fun and it was the Disney experience. Dan bought this hat at the Rockin' Roller Coaster and thought he looked awesome in it, (he hasn't taken it off since, just kidding). The grandparents also came down to Ruskin for the week with us and hopefully they enjoyed our company, 'cause we enjoyed theres. Too bad we couldn't get them to go to Disney with us, Dan wanted them to go on all the wild rides!

February Birthday

Wow! Laycie is 4 yrs. old this month. She is growing up so much. We had the opportunity to visit with her and her family this month and it was so much fun. What a wonderful little girl she is.

She is so smart, too. She learned to crochet while we were there.

I just have to tell this cute little story about what a little lady she is. We were going to dinner and she got her purse and put her camera in and then she was ready. She took several pictures during dinner and then showed us what a photographer she is. She did a great job!

HAPPY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY LAYCIE!!!

Love, Nana, Grampa and Uncle Dan

January Birthdays

I was thinking that it would be nice to remember everyones birthday with a special blog each month that someone has a birthday. This way if you have any special memories of that person you can blog on here and they can look and see how special they are to you.

Lance Crawford Carter was born January 9, 1981. It is hard to believe he is 29 years old. Time has flown so fast. I met Lance when he was 3 1/2 years old. He was a chubby fellow who sure liked to be with his dad. I'm sure this was a difficult time in Lances life for adjusting to a new family with Mary (me) as a new parent and two smaller "brothers" to get along with. Bryce has always been Lances constant companion in all there travels as children. Lance was usually really quiet in school so one day when I went to parent teacher conference I was so glad when the teacher said Lance was quite talkative and needed to be a little quieter in class. What a relief to know that he could finally express himself in class.

Lance is certainly no longer the shy guy but has children now that are. Kids are a wonderful tools to help us learn and grow and Lance has certainly taught me a lot about parenting.

Stephanie Geraldean Undhjem Carter was born January 19, 1990. She came into our family by way of Jeremy dating her in the winter of 2006 in Logan Utah. She has a quiet disposition and tries to get along with everyone. I think Stephanie has quite a zest for life. She isn't afraid to try anything. Her parents gave her experiences in skiing, boating, shooting, kung foo (with her black belt) and numerous other encounters throughout her life. I know she loves Jeremy and Alexis and takes good care of them. We are so glad to have Stephanie be a part of our family!