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Carson’s first birthday!

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On August 11 we celebrated Carson’s first birthday. Yay, Carson!

He loved his cake. It was pretty much the first sweet thing Carson’s eaten in his life, so no surprise there. :) He had angel food cake, strawberries, and whipped cream.

This is Josh, Carson, and me on the big day, after the party.

My sister Brenn (who was visiting that week; so fun to see you, Brenn!) helped me make this sign. It was funny because I left out the “h” originally and neither of us noticed until it was finished. But then I said, “No, I have to fix this! I’m going to reuse it next year!” so we added the “h” in with some fancy cut-and-paste. ;-) Carson did enjoy looking at his sign and pointing to it excitedly all day.

And Carson with all his presents. What a spoiled boy. ;) But seriously grandparents on both sides, thank you so much for making Carson’s birthday special! Though none of these pictures show it (sorry for the bad photo journaling!), the Lymans were actually there for the party and we all had a blast. Thanks for coming, Lymans! And happy birthday, Carson!

Halloween 2011

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Happy Halloween! For his first Halloween, Carson dressed up as a cuddly (or rather, cowardly) lion. I was Dorothy and Josh was the Scarecrow – yes, okay, mine and Josh’s costumes were recycled costumes from two years ago. A Halloween costume faux pas, perhaps, but hey, they were economical. (Actually, my Dorothy costume was recycled from several years ago…I think this is at least the fifth time I’ve been Dorothy in my life…oh, well…) Anyway, using recycled costumes was worth it because Carson the Lion was so cute. :) Check out more pictures at this post.

So dressing up was a lot of fun! I recently got a sewing machine, so I was going to attempt to make Carson’s costume, but I’m so glad we found a low-price one at Walmart instead. I know I’m not quite that pro yet. :) I did make a hat and some other improvements for Josh’s costume, so at least I did some sewing! (The nice thing about sewing a scarecrow costume is that you don’t have to worry about straight lines since it’s all supposed to look scraggily anyway.)

On the Friday before Halloween, Josh’s company had a family Halloween party that we dressed up for and went to. And holy cow! What a party! It really just consisted of waiting in line to take a tour through the intensely decorated building, but in line they had cotton candy, popcorn, ice cream, soda, jugglers, magicians, and guys with snakes and tarantulas as entertainment.

Yes, that’s a real tarantula, inches from Carson’s face. They guy put it up there before we could do anything. So there, Carson’s not cowardly at all.

Actually, Carson was too sleepy to be cowardly. He slept through pretty much the entire thing in Dad’s arms.

At the end he woke up, but by then he was ready to get home, get a bath, and get some food.

It was fun to get out, see lots of fun Halloween costumes, chat with some friends, and walk through the awesome building, which, seriously, was intense. Parts were more like a haunted house (but they always had shortcuts to skip past those. Good thing, because Paige Carson got scared). Lots of fun.

And we also celebrated Halloween this year with the very first pumpkin Josh and I have ever carved together! It turned out great, thanks to Josh’s pro handling of the carving tools. I was better at scooping out the pumpkin guts; that’s always been my favorite part, anyway.

So all in all, a great Halloween! Complete with leftover candy since we only got four trick-or-treaters last night.