Labor day weekend at the lake!

This weekned we went to Kris' parent's lakehouse for the long weekend. We had a great time- excpet when I found a tick on Carter- yuck! I guess that's part of being amongst nature! As always, I'm better with pictures than words, so here is how our trip went!

Sonic ice kept Carer occupied on the way there until........

he spilt it all over himslef!

The backseat was full with a carseat and THREE dogs!

Carter spent a lot of time mowing the gravel

He loved to pretend to drive Aunt Kristen's car!


Hey it's Grammy

and Pa!

Pa hung a swing in the tree just for Carter!


This is fun, Pa!

What's this?

Let me see if I can get up here......

hmmmmm

just about there...

tada! Man, I'm proud of myself!

Driving the Gator with Pa.

Ohhh! The golf cart is cool too!

Ready to go!

Driving the golf cart with Pa........he veers to the left really bad!

I was hoping for a nice walk along the beach, but Carter and Aunt Kristen had a different idea.

Off with the clothes!


Wrigley and Fenway were in doggy heaven!

The water is great!

Wrigley was a little scared of the waves!

Maddie LOVES the water!

Wrigley and Fenway checking the beach out.

Fenway loved all the smells.

Carter loved the sand!

Since I didn't know Carter was going to get in the water, I didn't have a suit.......so he had his first skinney dipping experience. Don't worry- there was no one around- isn't that little bottom cute!

Okay, I'm done!

Fenway at the beach

and on the porch

I just happened to capture Carter falling with his lawnmower!

Driving the gator

We found some kittens a few houses down. They were SO cute!

Daddy took Carter on a golf cart ride.
Wrigley followed!

Driving the golf cart.........again

Where's Carter's tummy?

He did NOT like the lifejacket!

He fell asleep on the boat!

Carter and mommy

Cousin Mikayla

Zoe the boat dog!

Captain Carter!

Daddy dressed me......

This morning I was running late, so Kris kindly dressed Carter.......in this shirt that he bought Carter in Vegas. It goes with the Spamalot show that we saw, but I told Kris it was inappropriate for a 1 year old! Oh well, at least the only place we went in public was the park across the street from Mimi's house!





Uncle Colt

Walking with Siera to the park

Carter loved swinging with Sierra


Chloe loved running around with Justin and Ronnie


Of course Carter had to go UP the slide!

Worked for me!

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DFW Mama Bloggers Playgroup

Summer who I met for the first time Monday was kind enough to put together a playgroup for babies (all under 17 monhs old) and mama bloggers! I got to meet some familiar faces (it was so good to see Meredith and Reid again) and some new ones. Carter had a GREAT time! He loved "parallel" playing and loved all the new toys he got to play with. What a great idea! We hope to do it again soon!


a group shot attempt- whew that was hard to do!!



Carter loved pulling around this little dog.


He hogged this train- and kept running over people!





He loved pushing the variuos push toys. At times he had a little trouble sharing.....

I feel bad!

Today my sis in law came with me to the pool so I decided to let Carter go down the big green slide. The first time he did great. The second time didn't go so well.........

He fussed for a minute, but he was okay soon afterwards. I think we will wait until next year to try the slide again.

Necklaces

This is how Carter puts necklaces on- it cracks Kris and me up!