Thanksgiving Celebration

We went to St. Louis this year to see Mitch's parents and his sister's family. As always, she had quite the feast for us! I think Julianne had fun entertaining her younger cousin's, and they had a good time with her as well.

While we were waiting on the turkey to cook, we took the kids down to a park to let them play. It was a really neat park and they enjoyed the swings and the various toys.



The weekend after Thanksgiving, Mitch's parents came to Cincy to see the kids a little more and check out the house. Will latched on to his Papa and loved all the attention he received and or course Nana spoiled them both as well.

They brought a really cool horse from Aunt Joanne that the kids just loved. Morgan thinks she's big stuff sitting on it!!

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To see all the pictures from the weekend, click on the "Carson Family Albums" on the right.

Dinner with Friends

Since we've had Morgan we haven't had a ton of time to see our friends. So the last few weeks we've been trying to catch up with friends and spend some time with their kids. It started a few weeks ago with my friend Mary and her husband John and their new adorable baby boy, Jack. He's too young for Will or Morgan to really play with yet but he is such a sweet baby.




That same weekend, we finally had Leigh Anne and Steve over. Their son Ethan is only about 8 weeks older than Morgan. He made his blog deput when Morgan was first born and they came for a visit at the old house. In the picture below, I think Steve was trying to figure out what it would be like to have twins :)


Just yesterday, we finally got together with Tatum and Jose and their girls. They were so sweet and drove in from Indy to spend the evening with us. Nadia and and Will got along great. I was actually kind of shocked because he's usually so shy with people he doesn't see very often. This picture was one of the very rare times that they were actually sitting down quietly playing. They chased each other around the house giggling the rest of the evening.
Sonia and Morgan are only a few weeks apart so it was really cute to see them together. They don't really play together yet but it was neat for Tatum and I to see all the things that they are both doing.

Growing up

Lately it's hitting me hard that my babies aren't babies anymore. Will is definitely a toddler hitting the terrible two's and Morgan won't be a baby much longer the way she's getting after her brother. They play so well together now and it's fun to watch. Whatever one does, that other has to do as well.


Morgan was looking pretty cramped in her infant car seat so this week we bought her a new car seat. The kids LOVED playing with the big boxes! Who needs toys when you have boxes to climb in and out of all night long!

Pump it up

Last week, Kailyn had her 6th birthday so she celebrated with a party at Pump it up. For those of you that don't know it's a really neat place that has two separate rooms with all different kinds of huge blow up slides, mazes, etc. Even though Will was a little too young to enjoy all the different things, it was a fun day. Plus my brother's family came in town so it was nice to see them and catch up! (of course I didn't manage to capture any pictures of them)








This is Nathan getting ready to joust another kid at the party!

Catching up

Since video's take a little longer to uplaod I've been letting them pile up the last few months. I know the Oklahoma grandparents have been patiently waiting so here you go!

This one is from early fall when Morgan decided to "chase' me down the driveway.

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Will was not a big fan of the ocean when we went on vacation but Mitch tried a few times to get him used to the waves. Maybe next year we'll actually get him past his ankles!

Morgan loves to jump so she therefore LOVES her doorway jumper. Here is a video of her doing it all by herself....

and one with a little help from her big brother...

We babysat Alex a few weekends ago and the boys had a blast. Here are two of the many ways they entertained themselves that evening!

Happy Halloween

A few days before Halloween we finally had time to carve a pumpkin. Will was a little hesitant at first but then he dug both hands in and had fun digging out the pumpkin seeds. When Will went to bed I finished carving the design!

Thursday night we realized we hadn't even tried the kids costumes on yet so we weren't sure if they fit. Luckily they both fit great. Will was a pirate and Morgan was a cute little mouse. Morgan didn't seem bothered at all by the hood but she didn't like the gloves covering her hands!

Trick or Treat!!

I took the kids around on Friday and Mitch sat with the other dads in the middle of the court and handed out candy. Will did so much better than I expected! He had practiced saying "trick or treat" for 2 weeks prior but of course he was too shy to say it that night. I did manage to get him to say "thank you" a few times though. When we made our way back to Daddy to show off the candy, Will finally got a little curious and opened up a sucker. I think that is when he figured out that helping yourself a bunch of candy is fun!

The Great Pumpkin Patch

Last weekend we took the kids to a local pumpkin patch and apple orchard. Kailyn decided to go with us so she could pick some apples for her mom. Well when we got there we found out that it was closing in a half and hour so we were a little sad that we only had time to do the pumpkins. Will and Kailyn had a great time on the hayride out to the huge pumpkin patch and picking their own special pumpkins!

Family Vacation

We just got back from a week in Ft. Walton Beach, Florida with some friends of ours, Mike and Kelly, and their children, Ryan and Ava. We had a great time despite the fact that I took two trips to the Urgent care...Morgan had an ear infection and both Will and Morgan ended up with Hand, Foot, and Mouth disease.

These pics are of the kids just goofing around at the condo. It wasn't a huge place so the four kids were kind of climbing all over each other all week but they loved every second of it.

The majority of the time was spent enjoying the sun, sand, and water. Will had a blast playing with all the toys in the sand with Ryan and Ava. They even got their dads to dig a huge hole and tunnel in the sand one of the days (of course I forgot the camera that day).

The weather was really nice for the majority of the trip but we had 2 rainy days that made the kids go a little crazy. To prevent the adults from going insane as well as the kids, we tried to find things for them to do. The men took the older kids to the Air Force museum one day and then we all went to a really neat Children's Science museum the other day. They loved them both because they could touch all the cool stuff!

On the last day we were there the guys decided they wanted to golf. Kelly and I didn't think we could handle all 4 kids at the beach by ourselves so we decided to take them to this really neat outdoor playground. All the toys are made of this soft rubber so they can climb all over them without getting hurt.

*** To see all the pictures from the trip, click on The Carson Family Albums on the right. ***