At least it's something...

Ok, so, I tried to do these pictures in order, but no, it just ain't happinin'.  I'll caption them all so you can tell when and where they were.  It's not the greatest blog ever, but at least it's something...

This is the beautiful sleeping Trey.  He is the best baby ever.  He doesn't cry he just kinda yells out "Hey" indicating he's hungry.  

This is on Trey's one month birthday.  I caught him in a smile, but clicked a little too late.  He does smile on purpose for ya.

This is Ally last week.  Als and Dans love to do monkey bars.  Ally can now go backwards and on this trip she did "one, two, skippy-do!"  She's rocking the kindergarten world with these skills.

Dans is no slacker on the bars either.  He is made like a mac truck and can handle the bars no problem all the way across.  I think their hands are tougher than their feet.

We went to Jamie's happy spot on the coast.  It was 75 degrees!  LaDon and Daniel dug a hole.

And this is Ally in the hole she and I dug.  There were sand dollars all along the beach and it was a perfect day.

Gorgeous!  You can tell the sun IS a star.

We were in Illinois for New Year's.  Burton has been in the hospital since Christmas day and is still there.

This is Jamie curling her hair to go have Michael Trey.  That is a lot of baby hanging out there.

Daniel loves his new little brother.  He's just a few hours old.

Trey on his arrival home from the hospital.  You can see he had hair up front then but now he's losing it.

This is just for your enjoyment.  Doug's on a diet right now cause with me gone so much he's getting a little pudgy.

This is Pikes Peak with Colorado Springs fogged in below.  Dad and I took 45 roundtrip  airline trips this year!  And we already have 2 for 2014!

Viana's baptism was GREAT!  It was so nice to be gathered.

The two special girls.  Both so sweet and precious.  Viana wore CJ's headband from her wedding.  I know we'll see them in white again in the future!

Welp, that's all I got till I get pics from Dad's camera.  Love ya all!

No New Carter, Yet.

I headed to Utah this past Wednesday under threat that a new Carter could show up at any time.  That would certainly be a great addition to the Carter "Zoo"

Ram sporting his Dino tail

CharlyAnn sporting her cute face

More Zoo mates

Trying the fresh pineapple labor inducer myth....it's a myth.

But when I left on Saturday this is what the new baby looked like.  Never fear he/she WILL appear!  Maybe it's really a turkey CJ's hiding in there and it's afraid to come out until after Thanksgiving.  If it waits that long CJ may call it a turkey!

Whenever the debut occurs ALL the Carters and all of us are SO excited to see who is in there!

Good Luck!

October in Backward Pictures

 This is the month of October, except backwards cause I can't get the pics to move, deirt I....

The last week found us in Tampa and then up to Raleigh.

The Hardings had VIP tickets to the Carolina Hurricanes.

It was evident we liked the food better than hockey...

Renee spoiled us as no one else in this world can.

We went through Newark on our way home.  The new Freedom Tower.

In the third week came a trip to Jamie's and a stop in Provo

Fall was farther along in Utah.  Sum and Andy live in a beautiful tree house.

We had some good time with Kris and not enough time with Billy (he had to work)

We took Ally to school.

In her Little Red Riding Hood coat because

the Lindes thought it was cold cause it was 57!

The second week of October found us in Illinois.  Fall was just setting in and it was gorgeous.

                                       

New display at the Springfield airport.  F-4 baby!

Need I say more?

We trimmed broken branches from trees.  Dad was very brave and handsome.

Home Sweet Home

Minnie's lost 100 pounds!  Our inspiration.

Dad was cold...he fit right in the neighborhood.

The first week of October found us returning Charina and Tyler to Texas.  It wasn't quite fall there yet.

We have no pictures of Texas....but we look like this.

Our Sweet Zoey Jae

Zoey Jae Hiatt arrived on Earth September 28th and returned to her Father in Heaven September 30th.

We miss her.  We have confidence we will be with her again, FOREVER!

Dad has a particular speech that he likes to entertain us with, frequently, that goes through all the family and how we are ALL teachers.  It is true.  And Zoey is no different, in fact she is the best teacher of us all.

In her brief time with us, she taught us so many things.  Not trivial things but things of deep eternal worth.  She taught us about faith and agency.  She taught about love and compassion.  She taught us about determination, patience, courage, perfection, gratitude, joy, and grief.  She counseled us all with tenderness about the eternal nature of families, the restoration of the Gospel and the power of the priesthood.  We know more clearly the love our Father and His Son have for us each day.  We know we are stronger than we think we are.  And above all we know if we strive and endure we too can obey the will of the Father and return to Him and be an eternal family.

Sweet Zoey, we love you and promise to remember the lessons you taught us and will continue to teach until we meet again.

Camping with Ram and CharlyAnn

After the Grand Canyon we headed to Monroe to see the Carters!

This brings back good memories of days gone by...

We loaded the car with CharlyAnn and Ram and headed to Capitol Reef Park.

We stayed up in the mountains (8,500 ')

There were lots of adventures

When the sun went down it got cold.

And we did my least favorite thing--Roast some dang sticky marshmellows.

We all snuggled in our "castle" as CharlyAnn called it.  And had a warm nights sleep.

The next day we hiked a mile and saw a waterfall.

We really liked rock climbing.

It is a beautiful place.

And the reward.  A trip to Bullies for onion rings.  YUM!