April Stuff

June is almost upon us, so it's time to post pictures from April.  First up was Carter's birthday.  He actually slept thru the night and we had to wake him up in the morning.  He was pretty excited about all the balloons outside of his room.

He got cupcakes for snack at school and got to be the center of attention.

Next up, Gigi and Ru joined us for some pizza!

And Gigi made him a Gecko cake!

Gecko and Owlette saving the night!  (It's one of his favorite shows, PJ Masks)  Avery loves to help him pretend to save things, although I typically have to play one of the evil villains and get punched.

We also took a trip to the zoo with the Heisingers for Carter's birthday.

The kids had a fun time running around and seeing the animals.

Monkeys!

The kids also joined a neighborhood watch type program riding the streets and keeping everyone safe.

 I love the look on Carter's face, focusing so hard on hitting the apex of his turn at 0.5 mph.

Carter also continued his work as a fashion icon.  I fully expect this to be what you see out on the PGA tour in 3 years or so.

 And of course, we took a trip to Carowinds.  This was just daddy-daughter to ride the big rollercoasters.

March Stuff Part 2

We did so much in March, I had to break it into 2 posts.  I would have done 10 posts, but I didn't.  

After Avery's birthday, Carowinds had their opening night so we headed there to check out the action.

The kids had a blast on the new playground Carowinds added.  It was quite the zoo and it was interesting to watch Avery try and protect her little brother from the mob of crazy kids.

Down the slide!

 About to get scrambled!  Carter has the funniest laugh on these rides, just cackling the entire time like an evil genius.

Family ride!  (Actually they said we couldn't ride 4 people at a time despite telling us that it was ok, so we had to separate.)

Then mommy took Carter home and Avery and I rode some big kid rides, now that she is a couple inches taller.

Fun night with my Boogie Bear!

Then Avery had her birthday party.  She said she wanted her two best friends to go with her to the mall......to Build a Bear...  You thought I was going to say walk around and talk to boys. 

Hunter, Lilly, and Avery making their bears.

 Easter weekend was quite busy as well.  There was no school on Friday, but we both had to work.  I took some time off and took both of the kids to Carowinds by myself. 

Riding all the new little kid rides!

Family fun!

That weekend Lily had her birthday party on Saturday.  They both ended up wearing tiedye shirts...

Carter was all about those cupcakes.

 They had a trampoline and a fire pit to do marshmallows...  Carter was pretty occupied.  Where did his shoes go....

 Then on Sunday, we ended up going to the zoo with the Heisenger's.

The kids were pretty into it.  Other than the walking.

There's an animal out there somewhere!

March Stuff Part 1

Got behind again.  Oh well.  What did we do in March?

We took a trip to Taylorsville to check out the cows!

Carter was a good helper (some of the time).  Avery got to go to the high school and learn a cheeer from the cheerleaders.

 We celebrated Anna's birthday with a pizza making party.  Carter is dilligently adding every single ingredient available to his pizza.   The entire serving of cheese, the entire serving of pepperoni, and the entire serving of sausage.

 Madison just focused on eating the pizza.  Smart move...

 Carter showing Uncle David how to make his silly putt make a fart noise.

Carter and Avery enjoying their pizza's.  Carter ended up picking most of his meat off of his pizza, but this party convinced Avery that she could eat more than just cheese pizza and now requests sausage.

The girls ended up going and getting their nails done afterwards.

We also went to Vass for the Heisenger's gender reveal party.

And it is a....

It's a girl!!!

The kids got lots of trampoline time while in Vass with Papa.

 Avery has graduated from riding Bucky to riding a full size horse with some help.

 Carter got some work on his swing in the backyard.  It is really amazing to watch him play golf.  He swings left handed and can hit it 15 feet with the back of the club.  Then he will walk up to it and hit if 15 feet back playing right handed.

 We celebrated Avery's actual birthday with donuts for breakfast!

 And she got a surprise visitor at lunch (me) and I brought chocolate donuts with chocolate icing and chocolate sprinkles.

Pizza for Avery's birthday!