2 pairs of shorts.....

Ben loves to wear "basketball shorts" and white T shirts. Everyday when we get home he goes into his bedroom and changes into his shorts and T. The other night he came out wearing 3 pairs of shorts. When Art asked him what he was doing he said " he was cold"! Thats our Benjamin and that's why we LOVE him!

Santa's First Stop

This year, since the weather wasn't cooperating and we weren't sure where we would be on Christmas Eve, we made a quick call to Santa and asked him to make us his first stop! So Santa did just what we asked & came to visit the Carnahan house on December 23rd! After eating a nice dinner, we told the kids we thought we may have heard Santa and we should probably go check downstairs! Sure enough, he came! He brought Ben a tool bench & some golf balls and Addison a Kitchen and a soccer ball!!

Here's the pretty display of presents Santa left

Somehow Addison beat Ben down the stairs

She was sooo excited with her kitchen

Ben was excited to get a Magna Doodle

But, his favorite present was 25 golf balls Santa brought!

It was like he'd never seen a golf ball before! This was one of my favorite
memories of the night! How something so small can excite him so much! If only he
could stay this sweet all the time!!!

Addison was much happier running around trying to eat the
paper......next year maybe she'll finally have some teeth!

Splish, Splash...Addy JUMPED into the bath!

Well the title says it all! I started up the kids bath as we do every night, I walked into the bedroom to grab their towels and I hear Ben say "mommy, look at Addy" And this is what I walked in on! We have always thought Ben was going to be our daredevil...but I think Addison might take that award!

I don't think she could figure out why we were laughing and taking pictures

I forgot to add that she had her clothes ON!!!!!!!!

Thank You!

I wanted to Thank all of you for your support the past few days! Art and I are so lucky to have such wonderful family and friends! You all mean the world to us! :)

Let it SNOW!

What a difference a year can make.
Last year Ben hated the snow..this year he LOVES it. He could not wait for daddy to get home from work so he could go out and shovel with him. Here are my boys enjoying their 1st snow of 2008!

Lets Bowl!

With Winter approaching, we started thinking about some fun things to do to keep the kids occupied. It's so hard to stay indoors when your so use to being outside, but one of the good things about Illinois is we get to see all of the seasons. Good or bad. So the Saturday after Thanksgiving, Devin and I decided we would all go do some family bowling! Unfortunately Addison had sit this one out but Ben, Carter, Reese, Art, Brian, Devin and I headed up to the SuperBowl. Dale and Jake came along to share a fun day with us and we are so glad they did! Jake is such an fun little boy to be around! Carter and Ben had a lot of fun with him!

Here are the 3 boys ready to go!
This is my best attempt at getting all 3 of them to look at me and say cheese. As you can see Ben was being the loudest, Carter looks like he's afarid of something and Jake is trying to figure out what is wrong with Ben and Carter!~
Although Pink is one of Ben's favorite colors :)~ The lightest balls they had were pink...so the boys all used pink balls! I guess they go nicely with their hott pink and green shoes!
Warning...Objects may appear bigger in photo's.....Or at least I hope so!
This is Ben's 1st ball...I think be may have knocked over 3 or 4 pins... he was very proud of himself!

Here's Jake and Dale hoping for a big "X"

Carter is truly a Fenza! He is so serious and competitive at only 3 years old! Poor guys was upset that he didn't get a strike all day....maybe next time Carter!