The one about Carter (mainly for Meme)

 So what has been going on with Carter?  Well, he is just an awesome seven year old.  He seems to be developing a personality just like his Daddy.  He has started to look forward to the weekend so he can sleep in and have no school.  He usually asks me starting on Tuesday "Can we have the weekend now?"   Mike has said jokingly that any day now he is going to be telling us that he just wants to be happy. 

He is on the verge of tying his shoes, and we just signed him up for Boy Scouts.  He was really looking forward to shooting arrows and rock climbing, but apparently these things aren't done on the first meeting (misleading boy scout flyer, ha ha).  He is enjoying football, and so proud of his jersey.  His teacher called from school to tell us what a good kid he is and how she wished she could have a classroom of 25 Carters.  "You must be doing something right raising that boy!" said his teacher, but I think we just got lucky with such an awesome kid.

Meme, here are some pictures from Carter opening his birthday presents:

A camo grabber, it put a huge smile on his face.

As soon as Mike got home he told him "I got a grabber now too, and its better than yours!"

So many awesome camo things:  spiderman camo shirt, camo notebook, camo shoelaces and a camo wallet.  This was also a big hit.  He was so excited to have some quarters (there is a vending machine at school that sells erasers and pencils and it only takes quarters.)  Thank you Meme for the awesome birthday presents!