BiRtHdAy PiCtUrEs

Love this one!

I will never do this again by myself. I took these two to do there birthday pictures. What a nightmare!! It was too hard to pose, make them smile think of new ideas and I forgot to ROLL up Carson's SLEEVES!!! AHH!! I was so mad when I noticed! He looks off! Ellie's little face is all splotchy red from the day's earlier water park outing. I will not do that again, I didn't even think of a sunburn, I used sunscreen! Oh well... I will retake them when we get home from our trip but here is a sneak preview! My friend told me about this new place, I can't decide if I love it but it is new!

Happy Birthday Papa Mac

Papa Mac celebrated his birthday on April 16th. Mac is such a wonderful guy. We are so happy that he is in our family and so thankful our G.G. has him in her life, he takes such great care of her!! We hope you had a wonderful day! We love you!!

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This is right after we brought Carson home. Look how young Todd looks.

Carson Todd Houghton

April 13, 2005

7lbs 90z

20 in.

I can't believe my little Carson is already 4! It has gone by so fast. I remember bringing him home and I was scared to death because I had no idea what the heck I was doing. Luckily my mom came and slept over for a week and helped out all through the night. I remember I was terrified the night she went home, I didn't think I could do it. Carson was a HARD baby. He cried for 6 months. He had acid reflux. I would walk up and down our sidewalk trying to calm him down. I also ran our vacuum all the time till he got used to it and it didn't work anymore. I still remember the day in the car when I had a priceless thought to turn the music to static to help him stop crying and it actually worked, for a short time!! It was awesome! All in all it was a great learning experience for me, I know that if Carson wasn't the baby he was, I would never have appreciated a good baby and if I were to have another one like that(Lets pray no) I would know that I could get through it and it doesn't last forever! Carson is such a sweet, loving, energetic boy. He is always on the go and never crashes! He is very talented and coordinated. We had no idea he could even ride a real scooter till he came home before he was two on our neighbors. He is amazing! He loves kids. He has always been a people person. He loves to be outside playing, his new love is his new bike that he got for his birthday. I can't believe he is already this big, time goes by too fast. I am the luckiest Mom in the world! We love you Carson and hope you had a wonderful birthday.

Happy Birthday Haley!

She is so cute!

When I went down to Henderson for Keira's birthday, I took Haley's birthday/baptism pictures too. She did really great. It was so cold and windy that you could see the goose bumps on her arms in the pictures.

Haley turned 8 on April 16th. She will be getting baptized in May. She changed her date just for me. We are going on a trip and would have missed her special day. Thank you Haley for changing it, we are so excited to be there. Haley is such a sweet girl. Haley is full of life and not afraid to do anything. She loves to be with her family, cousins and friends. Ellie and Carson love spending time with Haley. She is always so nice to play with them. We love you Haley and hope you had a wonderful day!

BIRTHDAY PARTIES!!!

They were having so much fun.

Pirate Island is a fun place, the food just isn't that great.

These are all such good boys.

Carson wanted to go to Pirate Island for his birthday. I thought it would be so much easier to take everyone there instead of being at our home.....I learned a very good lesson...It is too hard to keep track of 11 kids in a busy place. I thought it would be slower at 11:00am but nope the place was packed. The kids all had so much fun. I was so happy to have some of the Moms stay and help. I could not have done it without them. Thank you!!

Noelle

Haley

Keira

They all got books from Nana and Papa.

ARRRR MATES!!!

He was so excited!

My mom put together a fun birthday party for all the kids. We had 3 birthdays to celebrate. Carson had a Pirate table with hats and swords, Keira had a balloon table, and Haley had a T-party table with fairy wings. The kids had so much fun and all the decorations turned out so cute. Thanks Mom for making this such a special birthday for all of them!! They loved it!

Ellie was so excited about the cupcakes!!

This was Carson's Birthday cake. It was all neat and nice and we took it over to the club house and it fell apart before I even got a picture of it. My family helped me try and put it back together, I guess he had a ship wreck cake! Carson still thought it was neat.

~ EaStEr ~

Ellie and Carson were so happy to have there Nana and Papa here. Ellie loves her Papa

The women, we are missing my sister in-law Delena

So sweet. Ellie has a huge piece of candy in her mouth!

Easter eggs at Papa Mac & G.G's

I sure love this guy!

Little Ellie was having a nap!

My whole family was able to come down for Easter. It was so nice to see everyone. The kids had so much fun. I can't decide if Carson really understands the Easter bunny thing.... he gets the part where he gets candy thats for sure! Ellie and Carson were so excited when they woke up because they knew they got to find there easter basket. We were going to make them wait to find them since we had 9:00 am church but Carson was too guick to find his in the tub. We had to help Ellie find her's in the pantry. I sure love doing this Mom thing. I love to see how excited they get!