One Week 'Til Christmas

I just wanted to catch up before Christmas because I'm sure I'll have a ton of pictures for you then.

Becky, Carlee, Rhonda & Larry
Out celebrating with Rhonda!

Carter and his first bulls eye.  The boy has wonderful aim for his age!

Now Grandma has more time for Beer Ball with the kids.....lol
At the Sports Page in Medford.

Kids having a blast!

and after pizza, we got to bowl a game.  here's carter waiting for his ball to be returned.

Carter hoping to get them all down.

Carlee getting ready to bowl her very first ball.

She was pointing, saying, "You get down there, ball!".  So funny...it only took a full 20 seconds to get down there.

Rhonda giving Larry a hug after she won the pool game.

Carlee and I going for a ride.

The kids enjoying the bath at Grandma and Grandpa's

look at all the bubbles!!

Carter enjoying the bath.

Playing in all the bubbles.

Julius shooting Grandpa's TV

Carter taking a turn at it.

Okay, I think Abe's gun beats out the BB shootin'.

Carlee and Grandma

Group pic of everyone celebrating Stanley's 96th Birthday!
Happy Birthday, Stanley!

The birthday boy!

Angie & Stanley

Stanley & Larry

The cutest super heroes I've ever seen!

Batman

Super Woman

Not sure who he is here.....he turned the mask around and colored the other side.
But still, so darn cute!

Hope everyone is ready for Christmas!  I wish we'd get some more snow, but also hoping for safe traveling as I have many people coming over Christmas Eve.

Merry Christmas everyone!!  <3

Skittles are awesome....

Last week I forgot to mention, Carter learned how to tie his shoes!.  Congratulations goes out to Carter!  We worked on it one evening last week.  It started off pretty rocky, but after I decided to get the Skittles out, he chose to learn pretty quickly.  :-)  
A "congratulations" also goes out to Carlee.  As of last Friday, she has finally decided to cooperate with potty training.  We've been working with it on and off since August, with no luck.  I started out bribing her with stickers, which didn't really work.  I went straight to Skittles, but that didn't work right away either.  Friday was the first day we went back to potty training and we started early in the morning.  By about 9 that morning, she had finally peed in the potty!  Without even mentioning Skittles to her since a couple weeks prior, she looks up to me after I've given her a hug and told her how proud I was of her, and says "I have Skittles."......which meant that she wanted the Skittles she earned.  I couldn't believe she remembered that!  So I did reward her with two Skittles and now we're down to one skittle (or if it's close to bedtime, she gets a great big bear hug instead).  I have to say, it's not been a full week yet and she hasn't had a pee accident in two full days (except #2, which will soon follow, I'm sure).  It'll be so nice to get rid of buying diapers!  Yay!  Carlee will be 2-1/2 next month, so I'm pretty happy that she's finally decided to work with me.  
Skittles work like charms in this household.  :-)

Carter on the 4-wheeler

time for crazy hat...

i think she looks pretty cute here.

Carlee

Grandma and the kids

the kids and Grandpa

Three Men & a Baby
Larry - Jay - Justin

Carter with a funny look in his one eye.....lol

Grandma with a pickin' nose Carlee

Grandma and Carter sharing a chip

Carlee wanting to share a chip with Grandma

Carlee wanting to share a chip with Grandpa too....

my little girl and I

Carter outside riding his bike

On Sunday, we had a big bear that was kicked out of the field by a combine and headed straight to our place and went through our sheds.  Of course I had to go and get the camera!  Only wish I would've taken more than this one picture.  Just after this picture, he was up on his hind legs for probably a good 10 seconds, but I just stood there staring.  Using the 4-wheeler and a gunshot, Jay chased him back into the woods.  It was a neat experience, but I'd rather not see him again here.  

our Sunday visitor

Carlee just a swingin'

Carlee posing  :-)

Gotta throw rocks in the pond

and now sticks.....

Good luck to all the deer hunters!  Hope you shoot the turdy pointer!

J

So long Indian Summer… L

Carlee sportin' Carter's old packer hat

Carlee in all the leaves

she was having so much fun....

Carter getting ready to throw a stick in the river

Larry & Rhonda sittin' in the woods

Justin and Carlee

Carter hiding from Grandma

Kids playing in the leaves

Piggy back ride time

Gettin' in one more round of playing t-ball before the cold comes

Carlee

Grandpa, Carter & Grandma ready to go work in the woods

Carlee loved walking in the rain this
morning with her very own umbrella

"Ooh a puddle, Ma!"