Cassidy is enjoying her dance class. Her teacher is awesome.. She is a little shy, and just as coordinated as her mom.. So all that matters is she is having fun right?
She is in the Kindergarten-1st Grade class, and some of these girls can really move!
They say once your baby turns 1, the bottle, binky and blankie all become significantly harder to take away.. I keep trying to take Cody's bottles away, I have hidden them, packed them away.. and he keeps finding them.. 
Should I be happy she can dress herself?
Here is our little man dressed up in his cowboy duds! What a sweetie pie...
Here are our furry kids Saydie & Maximus, relaxing after a fun afternoon of sledding! Saydie is 10 yrs old and preferred to ride on the four wheeler with Rod, Max however had a blast chasing us and trying to herd the four wheeler!
I was just happy we actually had snow that stayed, deep enough to sled!
I dumped Rod & Sis out of the sled a couple of times and my tail bone still reminds me what a great day it was!
What an amazing Christmas! I was so excited this year. Our kids are at a really fun age where everything is magical and keeping secrets, buying presents for each other.. It was just a really enjoyable and relaxing day!
Cassidy's gingerbread house didn't come with enough frosting so we improvised and used what I had, which happened to be pink.. strawberry frosting.. It was soft so the Tupperware on the sides were actually holding the roof up, until it dried, which seemed like forever!
Santa's too busy on Christmas Eve, so he sends his elves to deliver Christmas Jammies.. Sis looks forward to it every year.. We go to Grandma & Grandpa Applegate's for a special family night themed around Jesus' birth, then come home, read the night before Christmas and take pics in their new Jammies! I LOVE tradition..
Grandma & Grandpa Carter usually come out Christmas morning to see what the kids got and visit! This year, Grandma & Grandpa Applegate came too and helped with Rod's surprise..
Cody was happy to get a 'his' size horse and gun, however it took him a minute to figure out how to use it!
Sis loved her border collie stuffie, for those of you who know her she thinks she is part K-9 so her daddy found the perfect gift! It was an amazing year, and as always, was over way too soon!
Every October we go on a Hay Ride and pick out pumpkins to carve. This year was perfect weather! Cody was big enough he could explore and pick the most rotten pumpkin he could find, and they had a little maze set up and some other fun activities for the kids to do!
This year Cassidy carved her own all by herself!
If it were up to Sis, we would grow pumpkins all year round and carve them for every holiday.. Don't forget to roast the seeds! She doesn't like them, doesn't eat them, but boy does she get mad if you don't roast them! Its all about the tradition..
Here is my cute little Jack-O-Lantern.. Sis was really excited for Halloween, it is one of her favorite times of the year. She looks forward to all of the spookiness of the season. We were quite surprised when she told us she wanted to be a pumpkin.. Needless to say, she was the cutest pumpkin ever!
Cody caught on to the getting free candy really quick! He has a major sugar tooth and was not shy when it came to reaching for the whole bowl! He was our cute little lion, thanks to my sis-inlaw.. It was perfect and warm!
The Deer hunt was a success this year.. Rod really enjoy this time with his friends and family. It is a tradition they have done his whole life. They woke up to a new blanket of snow which made hiking the steep canyons more fun!
Since now is the time of year when we put in for the tags, he is already getting excited and getting Cassidy excited to go again!
Rod took Sis on the elk hunt with him this year..
They brought the mules, stayed in the wall tent and had a really good time.
They had fair weather, not too cold.. Not too muddy.. Cassidy was quite the trooper too.. Rod hiked her little legs to death, up and down some of the steepest canyons. And she did it!
Although, she really had fun, when we ask her now if she wants to go hunting, she says "maybe when I am ten, then I can hike that far".. I think he maybe went a little too far?? I guess we will see when Hunting season comes around again!
