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Happy 3rd Birthday Sawyer!

Carter & Porter sneaking bites of the witches soup

cute cupcakes made by my sister Lauren!

the donut game: carter getting a mouth full

porter. kiley

lily.sawyer

ashly

my dad. brother jeff

pinata time: birthday boy sawyer (iron man)

bennett the magician

carter: buzz lighter

(he hadn't gotten his storm trooper costume in the mail yet)

porter the skeleton

kiley the 80's girl

maicy: hippie

hailey: witch

making a wish

sawyers new bike

Sawyer turned 3 October 21st! We had a fun Halloween Birthday Bash for him with food, treats, games, and Halloween costumes! Sawyer is so lucky to have so many family members living close by. Almost all of them were able to come to celebrate this little man. We had tons of fun! Sawyer had been talking about his party for months before. He was a happy boy when his party was finally here! Sawyer scored on lots of fun birthday gifts and a new hot wheels bike that he loves! We love you Sawyer so much, you are such a sweet and fun boy!

Bates Nut Farm

Carter

Sawyer

Gwen

In October we took a trip to our favorite Bates Nut Farm for some Halloween fall fun. We go there every year to pick out our pumpkins, eat some yummy treats, ride the pony's and pet the animals. My mom joined the kids and I this year. The kids loved the pony ride and petting the animals, and picked out some good pumpkins (which I forgot to download pics off of my i-phone of them in the pumpkin patch). It's always fun to start off the halloween fall holiday visiting Bates Nut Farm.

wallpaper

It's all finished.

I love my new wallpaper, and the added fun it gives my kitchen. I have a great husband who stayed up late one night to finish it. He made me one happy girl. Thanks Jono..love ya.

i still need to find something to put on the right wall and some cute pillows for the window seat.

kids eating area, we call it the kids bar.

little sawyer

loves her family

I love it when I find Gwen looking up at the pictures of our family, and just standing there staring at them. I love it even more when she gets on her tip toes and points out everyone in our family and says their name. She does this quit often. Im glad I caught her doing this...she must love her family...and we love her.

1st day of kindergarten

looking good and ready to go

showing off his backpack

cute boy

carter.sawyer

carter. mom

kisses

sawyer(love the face).Grammy.Carter

My mom was so sweet and came up with my sister to say bye to carter on his first day, and also to watch sawyer and gwen so I could walk carter school. It was a fun and exciting morning!

carter.mom: walking to school

waiting for ella

carter.ella walking to class

best friends: Ella.Carter

These two are way too cute together

silly boy

I can hardly believe that the day came for my little boy to head off to his first day of Kindergarten. It felt like this day was far in the future, but really it came so fast. But its also a good thing! Carter is so excited to be in Kindergarten! Kindergarten is 1/2 day here so we decided to enroll him in the pm schedule. It works perfect for our schedule. He is so lucky and has his bestfriend & neighbor, Ella in his class with him. They walk to and from school everyday together. It is so fun to see them excited about going to school each and every day. Carter loves his teacher Ms. MacMitchell, and comes home telling me new things they do and learn. We are so happy that he loves it and is doing well so far. Yeah for Kindergarten, we are proud of you carter!

Shark Boy is 5!

Carter finally turned 5!

Carter was so excited to turn 5. He had been talking about his 5th b-day for months prior. We decided on a fun SHARK party for him. He loves Shark boy and Lava girl, so i thought perfect, sharks it is. I had lots of fun planning out his party and thinking of all the details.We decided to do a big family party since we have all my family here and Jono has almost all his family here.Carters lucky to have most of his family around to celebrate him. I am so lucky to have my SIL, Ashly, who is absolutely amazing, make all the little shark design labels for the water bottles, bags, cute birthday banner, and T's. Everything turned out so cute!! AND...my sister, Lauren has some amazing skills at cake decorating!! A few years ago she took up cake decorating as a hobbie, and has become so good at it!!! She was so nice and sweet and made all of the adorable, cute, detailed Shark and life preserver cupcakes. They were absolutely perfect for the party, and gave it that perfect final touch. I guess I am one lucky girl to have 2 family members that have got some good skills! The party turned out so cute and lots of fun! We did fun water games, pin the fin on the shark, had a shark pinata, and had a BBQ.

It was a fun day celebrating our Carter! We love you Carter!

The party display

shark shirts, candy & shark cupcakes!

The perfect shark & life preserver cupcakes!!

so cute..thanks lauren!

Shark shirts for all the kids..just ironed on all the shark designs Ashly made!

shark water bottles

lily girl

The birthday boy!

showing off his shark

cute bennett

scarlett and her cupcake

playing pin the fin on the shark...my dad was so nice and drew that shark.

Birthday boy taking a swing

sawyers turn

owen

mason

the kids in their cute shark shirts...we were missing half the group.

Thanks everyone for making Carter feel so special!!