Day Trip to Antelope Island

I love this picture...,why...look at Morgan!

 Her expression I can relate to on this trip...that is kind of how I felt at times on this little day trip.  I think we really need to do this stuff more with the kids and maybe we can train them to behave better in the car!

 This is what most of my pictures look like of Mike.  This is him saying, "stop taking pictures of me, get the kids only."  And this is my reply to him, "We are going to want to look back and see us doing things as a family and if I leave you out you will regret it."

 The kids had a random day off awhile back and Mike decided to take the day off too so we could go and do some exploring of our area.  There are so many amazing things to see here in Utah. We will have to come visit this place more when its warmer and there are more buffalo to look at.  This is one of the 3 that we saw....not terribly exciting but we can say we came and saw.

 Tatum was not really feeling the white buffalo.

 However, Morgan loved all the little statues of them.

 It was really fun to watch her try and coax Tatum to go pet it.  He really was not sure of them.

 Carsonator doing his thing.

 Cole checking out some of the displays there.

Morgan finally got Tatum to touch the buffalo and she was very pleased.  She is such a cute mother hen.  She is going to make an incredible mamma one day.

This year we are really going to try and make a better effort of having fun together as a family.  I feel that saying is true that goes.."families that play together stay together."

Carson is 8!

Here is my boy!  He is such a sweet, cute, spiritually sensitive, smart, strong, little man.  I look into his big brown eyes and just fall in love all over again.

This is Carson getting what he wanted for his birthday.  I love seeing the kids so happy!

Checking out his new ride.

Still checking it out....I feel bad because his birthday is in January and we never get to do any fun outside things for him like we do for the others.  And now that he had this bike...what is he suppose to do just sit and look at it.  I should have posted the pictures of him riding it around the house and all the kids following him from behind.

Carson and Tater checking out the cake.

Love how Tater is so intently watching the candles. And Carson blew them out with one breath.

Now we switch gears to the BAPTISM.  

These pictures are what Mike took of him a few days before he got baptized.  Carson was really excited for the big day.  When we talked about it you could tell he was really taking it all in.

The day was a whirlwind and when we got there to set up there was another baptism going on so we had to wait for awhile...grrr!  That threw me off and I totally spaced taking pictures of him in his white outfit!!!

Here is the family that came.  It was cute he had Max give a talk, which was really good!  Carson was very persistent that Max be there... so we changed the date to ensure that he would be in attendance with us.

There are so many great things about this kid.  I am so excited to see how he will grow and develop.  He

I love you Carson very much!  Thank you for being so good.