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!

The Drawing

Mom & Dad have Chris' family
Bryce has Lances fam
Lance has The Parents
Chris has Bryces fam
Jeremy has Dan
Dan has Jeremy's fam.
Those that we spoke with said they were fine with $30 for the family gift exchange. Hope this works for all of you, let me know if not.

Christmas talk already?

Well, Stephanie called today and wants to know if anyone is wanting to exchange family gifts this year, as we have done in the past. I spoke with Dan about this and he is for it, but said we spent $20 last year and is up for it to be a little more but not much more.

So what do each of you think? Let me know and if we all want to do it we will have the drawing on Sunday and then check back in to see who your family will exchange with.

I can't believe it is getting so close to the Holidays. Although the weather has been saying it is true since we went to daylight savings. Well it is after 5 p.m. and it is already dark, time for bed!

Love you all, Mom

Halloween Partay

Well, I don't have any pictures to prove it, yet, but I did my first party for my new calling as Activities Director for our ward. The first Halloween party for Teton 2nd Ward. It is now over and it was a great success! We had well over 100 people show and some of our older people without any kids at home came. Which is what I was really hoping for. We had games, pin a wart on witches nose, fishpond, cupcake walk and a donut eating contest. Carina, Daisy and Sarah came for a time so I do have witnesses. We used dry ice in the kool aid in punch bowls on the table and that was a big hit. I had no idea it could boil up and over the sides. I also made faces and hands to put in the punch bowls but you couldn't even see those. It is amazing how easily it all went together, but I certainly learned alot about asking people to help. Hope you all have a fun and safe Halloween. I'd sure like to see some pictures on your blogs of costumes and know what you have all been up to lately. Now get to blogging some of you slackers!!!

Lucky Number 13 (grandkids that is)

I hope by now you have all been called by Jake 'cause
It's a Boy!
Born on October 14 at 1200 hours even. 7 pounds 4 ounces and 20 inches long. I'm sure he is the cutest little thing, too. Of course 'cause he's a Carter.


Congratulations to the Jake Carter Family!!!!
And sorry to say the above picture is not of him. It is Jake when he was such a cute little thing!

Halloween Monster Mash

I saw this fun site on Micah's blog and made our own video. Hope you all enjoy!!!


http://www.monstermashup.com/f678b4

More eggs from the Carter Chicken Farm

Well, they just keep a comin'. Of course it has taken a week to figure out how to not get them to peck the eggs after laying, but that is all in the past. Dan went out yesterday and found two, then Jeff went out this a.m. and found two more. Notice the one to the far left on the top row. It isn't hard at all, it's more like a water balloon. So we cooked them up this a.m. and had sausage too. Mmm, mmm good that's what Carter's eggs are mmm, mmm, good!!!!