December 2010

Happy Holidays!

Our beautiful Emma in her Christmas dress:

Megan and Zachary had fun at a BYU Christmas party

for families, while Eddie took Joshua to his Jr. Jazz

basketball game.

Eddie and I also enjoyed a couple dinner parties

in December with BYU and also a law firm.

At a friend's wedding:

Eddie's way of putting on Christmas lights:


We loved our fresh grand fir tree:

Joshua and Megan had a combined concert at

their junior high school.

It snowed during school break before Christmas, so of course

the kids enjoyed sledding - Megan brought her friend.

The kids thought it was funny to give Emma the

remote as she sat on the couch with them.


Zachary and Megan had fun ice-skating at a

friend's birthday party.

Enjoying a cousin's birthday party.

We had a fun "Feliz Navidad" Christmas Eve party

with aunts, uncles and cousins, and Pop-Pop.



At home we acted out the Nativity story with the missionaries.

The missionaries were great fun, and came over on Christmas, too.
We opened party crackers that the missionary from Wales brought

over, which had musical whistles inside that we played songs with.

We got to enjoy some time with Pop-Pop on Christmas morning.

Emma wearing "Baby's 1st Christmas" sleeper:


The day of the tragic fire which burned down most of

the Provo Tabernacle - Megan really wanted to see

it. We saw a picture of Christ that got burned all

around the painting, except on Christ's body!

November 2010

We saw Jon Schmidt at a benefit concert in Sandy -
here he is playing upside down and backwards!

Joshua is "kicking back" with Emma:)

We just can't get enough of Emma!

Joshua played a Jr. Jazz basketball game against

the mascots of several local teams - Cosmo is there!

Watch out, Joshua!

These masked people are Megan, Grandpa Larry,

and Joshua, who went skiing with Eddie at Alta.

We had a fun Carter family dinner at our house before

we left for California for Thanksgiving with the Copas.



This is our view of the road while driving to

California - the snowstorms were some of the

worst seen in years!

We had to stay in Reno since the pass over the

Sierra mountains was closed. We enjoyed the

hotel pool - Emma's first swim!

Eddie and I (and baby Emma) enjoyed our

15th Anniversary at a hotel in San Francisco.

The Macy's tree in Union Square.


Happy Thanksgiving!

We enjoyed 6 Flags Marine World Park - this picture

is a little backwards, but go BYU Cougars!

We enjoyed the dolphin show.

Zachary had fun on this ride with Gramma.

Gramma took this nice picture of us by her tree

we helped set up for Christmas - Happy Holidays!

October 2010

Emma's Blessing Day

Emma was so beautiful in my sister's blessing
dress that Megan also wore. Joshua held the
microphone for the blessing, and Emma was
good and didn't fuss. Grandma was so nice to

write down the blessing for us.

After the blessing in front of our house:

Joshua and Megan hiked to the "Y" with Grandma

and Grandpa - Grandma's first time ever!

We all have so much fun holding Emma!

Joshua had fun hiking to the "Y" with his scout troop -

he took this picture from his phone of the view from

the top of the "Y" looking down over Provo.

We had a couple days off of school for Fall Break, when

Joshua went on a campout and rock climbing trip to

southern Utah with his scout troop - he loved rappelling!

The rest of us spent a day at Trafalga/Liberty Land

in Lehi where we enjoyed mini golf and rides.


Megan was a great driver, but scared me at first -

I can't wait until she drives a real car - yikes!

Zachary enjoyed going to Pumpkinland on a

school field trip.

Zachary had a fun costume parade at school -

he's wearing Joshua's old knight costume, which

used to be Uncle Canyon's costume!

His school also had a fun Halloween carnival -

here he saw his friend was also a knight.

Eddie took Joshua, Megan and Zachary on the

Heber Creeper for a Haunted Train ride. Eddie

and I enjoyed it last year with friends. Lots of

spooky tales were told and spooky creatures

wandered through the train and outside.

We had fun trunk-or-treating with our old ward.

Megan did a great job carving pumpkins and setting

up our trunk!

Then we had fun at an indoor party with our new

ward. Joshua was a skier, Megan was a beautiful

cat, Zachary was a knight, and Emma was the cutest

angel - wearing Megan's baby costume!

We visited Eddie's aunt and uncle on Halloween

Sunday - we're so glad his aunt is doing better!

We hosted a fun family get-together Sunday evening.

I had fun making yummy treats:)