Christmas Tree and such...

Hey Gang,

Sorry about not updating. I have been pretty busy getting stuff ready for Christmas, working, and all that. Here is the scoop since the 30th of last month. Courtney has been working, I have been working, Maddie has been getting older, Ruby has been getting fatter... and that's about it.

No, in reality we have been having a lot of fun. Courtney is getting more baby big (almost to that uncomfortable stage) and is about half way done at this point. Maddie is doing great! She is talking up a storm, reading like you wouldn't believe, and generally enjoying herself.

I turned the old age of 26 on the 9th and we celebrated Christmas with my sister... more on that later.

Anyway, not a ton to say... now on to the pictures. By the way, you'll notice that Maddie got a new wagon from Nana and Granddad... yeah... she is obsessed with it. She can climb into it and out of it (sometimes) and loves to pull books into it and read or be pulled around the neighborhood in it.


















The next post will be Christmas stuff... but I'll save that for another day! Cheers!

Yeah Yeah...

I know I've been slacking. I'll update soon.

Thanksgiving in MV

Hey All,

So, after sifting through about 250 pictures from this past Thanksgiving Weekend I think I have come up with the "blog-worthy" ones... though the pictures are somewhat out of order... Dare I say that the best pictures are at the bottom?

Anyway, on Wednesday the Tulare Carters drove down to Mission Viejo to hang out at 23982 Carrillo Dr. for the last time. My parents are moving to Massachusetts in a week and thus ends a page in the history of the Carter family.

So we went down and spent the weekend with my parents and had a blast! On Turkey Day we had an AMAZING meal prepared by my mother... and did I say yet that it was AMAZING? Well it was! We also celebrated our family Christmas as we will not be able to do that in December this year. Maddie was spoiled with tons of books, toys, and even a new radio flier wagon which will be featured in future posts.

On Friday I picked up James Lo (an old friend from Wyoming) and my dad, my sister, James, and I all went to the Ducks game. We had great seats and the Ducks shutout the Chicago Blackhawks 1-0. After that James and I went to Los Angeles and had Mongolian BBQ and Boba. We came home and hung out with my family before going to the Irvine Spectrum and watching the film "Australia" which I highly recommend.

On Saturday we had lunch and then came home! Check out the pics below!

Who does she look like...

Who does Ms. Maddie look like? Lets take a look at those old pictures again...