Halloween 2009

It has been a long time since I have blogged, but we just got our internet back. It was broken for a long time. Chris was going nuts not being able to check his fantasy football team. But now we have internet again and it is a lot faster than our last.

This year for Halloween Carson was a lion cub. He was very cute. I also dressed up like a black cat. Chris went to the Badger game that day so he didn't dress up with us or go trick or treating. He missed out:) He did get home early enough for him to see us in our costumes though. Carson and I went to the grandma and grandpa's houses and also some great grandma and grandpa's trick or treating. We had fun. He liked carrying around his pumpkin.

The night before Halloween we went to my mom and dad's to carve pumpkins. Carson and my mom even carved a little one. They all turned out really cool.

Carson picking out his pumpkin to carve

My sister Jenna and her boyfriend Tucker

He liked digging out all the guts. He also liked trying to eat it too.

This one is Chris's. The most difficult. Trick or Treat!

Halloween night at my mom and dad's. My cousins Alexis (bee) and Alyssa (skeleton) stopped by for a treat.

My grandma Sabelko dresses up every year for the kids. It is always fun to see what she is going to be. This year she was an elephant.

Some more of my cousins. Charlie was Spiderman, Sawyer was Dora, Mya was a ladybug. She is also picking on Carson in this picture and Carson just takes it. He didn't know what to do!

Yeah!! Chris finally got a buck. He has been bow hunting almost every weekend since the middle of September, waiting for that big buck. He is getting a full head mount of this deer and also thinks it is going in the living room. I really don't think that is going to happen. So he was done hunting until gun season, which opening day is tomorrow. Good luck hunters.

Carson's 1st Birthday party.....It's a John Deere Day!!

Since Carsons loves tractors so much, we decided to have a John Deere themed party. Too bad he won't remember it, but we took a lot of pictures and video to remind him. We had a lot of family to celebrate Carson turning one. We had grandparents, great-grandparents, aunts and uncles, great aunts and uncles, cousins, overall we had about 30 people in our little house. Good thing we have an attached garage that we had a couple tables out there with a TV so people could watch the big, Wisconsin Badgers vs Minnesota Gophers football game. Go Badgers, they ended up winning!

I forgot to write in the invite to wear a John Deere shirt or green. Quite a few people did anyway. It was kind of neat. Chris, Carson and myself all had matching John Deere shirts.

It was a really fun day. Carson had a blast. We blew up the balloons while he was taking his nap so when he woke up and saw all the balloons on the ceiling he was amazed. His eyes got huge and he started kicking to go over by them so he could play with them. I think the whole day he had at least one balloon in his hand. It was really cute. All the kids liked the balloons, they were a hit. Of course Chris had to try out the helium!

I made Carson's tractor cake!! I was pretty proud of myself, it turned out pretty cute. Of course this picture doesn't do it justice, you'll have to take my word on that. My mom couldn't believe that I was going to give him the whole cake. But it is kind of a tradition with Chris's family. All that hard work and it would be smashed in a couple of seconds. Oh well. Carson really liked the cake and frosting. We stripped him down to his diaper and let him go. He went right to the tub.

He really didn't care to much about opening presents. He was pretty tired by this point but still I don't think he really would have cared. He really didn't like that he had to sit by me while other kids were playing with his presents. So after one or two gifts he just played with them. I got to opened them! He got lots of tractors, cute clothes and a cool thing to climb on. He loves to climb. Great gift for him. He also got a beautiful toy chest from my mom and dad. He loves to open and close that. It designed so that he can't pinch he fingers, very nice.

Carson sitting in his new Packer chair

Playing with a tractor, this one was Chris's when he was a little boy.

Cool wrapping paper from aunt Jenna. She used a paper bag and then stenstiled a farm scene on it. We don't know what to do with it. It took her a long time to do, so we haven't thrown it away. This is the only time I have saved wrapping paper, I promise:)

CAKE TIME!!

Carson had a little help blowing out his candle from his cousin Lily.

I forgot to put a birthday hat on him when we had cake so we did it afterward.

I thought it would be cool if we took a pitcure with the big John Deere, since all of us were wearing matching John Deere shirts. Cute, right?

I had a close up here but somehow deleted it when I was typing.

Pretty soon Carson will be riding with Chris in the tractor. Maybe not, it makes me very nervous.

Playing in the hay.

Happy 1st BIRTHDAY Carson

Happy 1st Birthday Carson!!!

He turned 1 on September 28th. I can't believe it has been an entire year already. He has grown up so fast and has learned so much. I remember the night I went into labor. It was right after my grandma's birthday party. Every year we go on a hayride for her birthday. A few hours later Chris and I were home and my water broke! It was kind of weird going on the hayride this year remembering what happened just 1 year ago. It was pretty cold on the hayride but Carson enjoyed it. We bring lots of treats for the ride, it is pretty fun.

He has been walking for 2 months already so he is pretty good. One of his favorite things to do is get chased. He can actually run away. It is so cute. One night we were both almost sweating. We could do that all night. He runs away and hides and we have to find him. He thinks it is so funny. He still loves to be outside, the cold doesn't seem to bother him. He loves to walk around by the tractors and cows. He is very curious and needs to check everything out and lots of times taste it, like below. He found a mole hole in our yard. That's all he wanted to play with, so I let him, until he started eating the dirt. He didn't think that tasted so good. That was another time he went straight to the tub. He had fun though. Boys will be boys right?

My brother Jeremy with Carson at our high school football game

Dad and Carson reading a book

Carson always needs something in his mouth. He loves this string. He will find it and put it right in his mouth and continue playing with the string hanging out of his mouth.

One morning the County was fixing the culvert across the road. There were a bunch of dump trucks, bulldosers, and other big, loud equipment. Carson loves watching things like that. We watched out the window a lot that morning and then we sat outside for awhile watching them. Great entertainment!

Carson's 1st Haircut!!

I couldn't wait any longer to get Carson's hair cut. He really needed his bangs cut for sure and I didn't want to cut those and not the rest of it. So I called my grandma and asked her if she would cut Carson's hair. She said she would give it a try. Carson doesn't like to sit still, she knows how active he is. But I thought it would be cool to have your great grandma cut your hair for the first time. It was a little bit of a challenge, he is so curious but she got it done and it looks great. He looks like a totally different kid. Chris was taking pictures and videotaping and I was trying to hold him still. He did not like the buzzer at all. He got scared by that but we were able to buzz a little bit towards the end. It is so cute, he has to be so much cooler now. I knew he had a lot of hair but my gosh. When we were done it looked like an adult just got their hair cut. I got almost a whole ziplock bag full of his hair.

Carson and his wagon full of blocks. He loves to go for rides around the house.

He loves his car. As soon as he gets in he is pretending he is driving, he steers and makes a car sound. As we are going he will put one arm out the window and have the other one on the wheel, just like his dad and grandpas.

This is the moring before his haircut. Look at all his hair!

What just happened, he is thinking!

All done and so so cute!