Carson had his first piano recital. He played 'Away in a Manger'. There is video of him playing it at the end of this post. He has been playing now for almost a year. He is getting pretty good, but I'll be honest...it is a daily struggle to get him to practice. This is him with his teacher.
We had Cory's team from work over to our house for an end of year party. We had dinner, and a white elephant gift exchange that is always good fun. Thanks to my Mom and Allie for helping with the kids and the food!
Carson had a birthday, he turned 8! When I asked him what kind of cake he wanted, I was expecting to hear a favorite flavor. But instead he said "I want a Wii remote cake!" ???What the??? So Allie helped me make a Wii cake, complete with a remote. He was thrilled. And I made my favorite flavor, since he clearly didn't care about that part...chocolate!
That winter break was a long 2 weeks. So I had a project to fill some time when the kids were bouncing off the walls, rice krispie snowmen.
Now that Carson is 8, he gets to go to Cub Scouts! He looks so cute all dressed up in his uniform. He was very excited to finally get to go with all of his friends.
We had another night where I had to kick all of the boys out of the house because the Relief Society was using our house for their progressive dinner. Cory took the boys to the Magical Forest, I think they had fun...and so did I!
And Carson had a birthday party. He wanted a space theme. I had this vision of making him a cake that was a rocket ship, and I was trying to figure out how to make a cylinder shape cake and wondering when I was going to find three + hours to spend on said cake, when Cory said "why don't you just make a flat cake and put a toy rocket on top?" Hey, why didn't I think of that? Because I like to make things complicated, that's why. No, I like to make things special...but all too often I make things more complicated than they need to be. The boys were too busy playing with their rocket balloons anyway to even care about eating cake!
Another traditional project during Christmas...gingerbread houses! Except this year we tried for a gingerbread train, and it worked!
Cory took my dad and the boys golfing on Christmas Eve, they had so much fun, and I was able to get presents wrapped and a bunch of other last minute things done. Look how cute my little golfer is!
Fer cute!
One of my dad's favorite shows is "Pawn Stars" on the history channel. So he just had to visit the store while he was here in Vegas.
