A family tradition

My family has a tadition of going and chopping down our Christmas tree. Since everyone was in town for Thanksgiving, we decided it was a great time to go.

We uaually go out to East Texas to get our tree, but decided to try a place a little closer to home this year.

They had a petting zoo. Carter like petting the pig!

Carter and Cody going on a tractor ride to the trees!

Carter and all his uncles.

This one might be too big Carter!

Here's one Carter's size!

Helping Austin saw the tree down!

Carter's turn!


Helping Austin drag the tree to the trator.

Austin, Carter, Cody and Colt

Decorating our Christmas Tree

When we got home from getting my mom's tree, Carter was so ecited to decorate our tree!

He carefully put ornaments on.



All done!

He had so much fun playing with his nativity scene afterwards!

Thanksgiving Day!

We went to visit my gandmother in Grandbury on Thankgiving. My whole family came as did my Uncle Jack, Aunt Donna and cousin Collins. Unfortunatly, I was not good about taking may pictures, so from this post it appears the only people there were my granmother, Carter, Colt and Kris.....I need to get better about this!! We had a nice time and Carter had a blast walking down to the river with my dad and running around my grandmother's land!

Carter and his great grandmother

Eating his turkey dinner.....though about all he ate was his roll!

Colt

Carter LOVES his uncle "Dolt".

I love these two boys!

Carter found a huge stick!

Carter and his daddy.

Adventure to the Zoo

Carter and I joined his buddy Jordan and his mommy to the Dallas Zoo. We decided to ride the Dart Rail there. The boys had a blast on the "trian."

Carter with his (my) ticket, best thing was, he was free!

We got on in Richardson, so we had a looong ride to the zoo! We got a nice tour of towntown Dallas. I got to see a part of the city that I hadn't seen before!

Ready to ride!

Carter LOVES Jordan, he want to be 5 just like Jordan!

Jordan and his mommy Melissa.

Still waiting.....Carter loves balancing on things!

He and Jordan made a game of it!

More fun waiting!

Riding the trian!


It took us right to the front of the zoo!

This guy was just chilling out!

Hello Mr. Penguin!

Of course I had to head to my fav spot, the giraffe feeding area!

Sooo neat!

Yummy!

Going on a jungle safari!

Taking a break!

Sitting on an aligator's head!

And then on a baby gorilla!

We ended the day riding Carter's favorite animal on the carosel, the dinosaur!

Pre-school Thanksgiving feast

I got to leave work for a minute to eat at Carter's Thanksgiving feast with him at his school. He was sooooo excited to see me there and made me feel so special.

My little turkey

Carter and his BEST buddy Cade.

After the feast we went back to his classoom and they sang the cutest "Indian Chief" song for us.

Veteran's Day Parade

Our city has the neatest Veteran's Day Parade every year. There is tons of participation, and I love the "small" town feel it gives.

Carter and Colt waiting!

The police led the parade.



A neat helicopter!