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Carson's Market Day Raffle

Throughout the school year, the students are able to accumulate school dollars.  Then they have a market day where each student has to hand make their own product, determine their marketing strategy and pricing and run their own little business. Carson decided to hold a raffle for a bird house

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Playing in the Rain

The kids love playing in the rain...

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Braves

Carson's friend was going to the Brave's game with his Grandma, so he invited Carson and another friend.  Carson had a lot of fun and the Brave's won!

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Republic or Democracy?

Carson and I have spent hours discussing our government and its history -- explaining some of the motivations leading to the structure of our government.  His teacher has made a concerted effort to convince his class that we are a democracy. This evening, Carson and I spend quite a bit

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Carson's Brochure on Greece

Carson was assigned to create a brochure on Greece, with very specific content to be included.  So we decided to make it in PowerPoint, which Carson learned to use pretty quickly.  We had the entire thing complete, when his teacher told him that he could not use a computer for

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Sand Mountain, NV

A few months ago, the kids and I went exploring Sand Mountain with Grandpa Knight's Polaris.  Climbing in the sand was so much fun -- a new experience for the kids.  Carson just kept climbing and climbing until we couldn't see him any more.  That'

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Monster Truck Kids

Before leaving Nevada, we made one last trip to Scheels Sporting goods.  They had a new Jeep / Monster Truck display the kids could play on.

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Carson's City

Since each of kids has a city named after them, we figured we should visit each of them.  So before leaving Sparks, we wanted to get some pictures with Carson and his city.  We had a great time on our little trip. We started it out by hitting Doughboy Doughnuts

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New Shopping Opportunities

Carson and Dad have been enjoying some of the stores in the our new town.  Northern Tool had all kinds of great stuff.

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Celebration Bowl

To celebrate Tucker and Carson passing their Karate tests (in February), the boys and Keith went bowling.

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Grade One

(This was taken on the second day of school, Tucker shielding his eyes from the sun) The first day of 1st grade for Carson. A little sad, I did get choked up, just a little. I know, you're shocked, but I did get a little emotional - for

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Carson's Big Day

Carson's kindergarten teacher chose one student out of her whole class to be the recipient of an award for "outstanding citizenship, academics, and demonstrating respect, responsibility, and safety". These are pictures of the assembly where he received a certificate of achievement, along with a certificate to

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Kindergarten "Promotion"

Here is Carson's 'promotion' certificate, as opposed to 'graduation' certificate. I actually like the term 'promotion' better than 'graduation', cause he really isn't graduating from anything yet, is he? Carson had his last day of kindergarten yesterday and

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Cutie Baby

Picture overload of all the same thing, right? Well, I think they're all different and super cute, so I'm posting without limits!

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Excited to Spar

Carson just got some sparring gear to use in his karate class - he is so excited. He's been doing really well and improving his techniques.

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More Dressing up

We ended up staying home from church today cause the boys had really bad coughs, but since Savannah was already dressed, I had them put on their church clothes too and we got some nice shots!

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Halloween 2010

Here's Carson with Sydney and Owen on Friday night, just before they went to the church Halloween party. And this is Carson and Tucker with Keith just before going trick-or-treating. Tucker has this way-cool astronaut costume..... and Carson has a way-cool knight costume. But this was just minutes

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Who does Savannah look like?

Savannah - 4 weeks Carson Tucker Tucker I wish I had some digitized baby pictures of Keith and I to add to this post, but oh well. Here are some pictures of Carson and Tucker from their first weeks of life. I think Savannah is more Carson-looking. Comments AuntieM (Oct

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Carson in Karate

Carson started Karate today.  He had a good time.  It's a little tough to start with kids that have been doing it for a while, but he's excited to learn. He enrolled at Freeman's Shorin-Ryu Karate.  They seemed really good with kids.  He could

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Four Kids for Four Wheels

Sidney and Owen Forbush joined us for some fun on the atv.

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More Cute Pictures

Comments Andrea (Oct 13, 2010): Put up some more baby pictures!!! Justin, Kandice, Vince & Shelby (Oct 07, 2010): What a sweet little girl. I love the picture of her and Carson.

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Brotherly Love

Carson is such a good big brother. He's always looking for toys and giving them to Savannah. He's always interested in what she's doing. He always asks to hold her. She is so lucky. Comments AuntieM (Oct 04, 2010): That is SO precious! What

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Our Friend Christina

Christina had her 6th birthday party today. Here are the kids playing pin the tail on the horse. What a treat! There were real (nice) horses for the kids to ride! I guess this is an exercise to help the kids feel more comfortable on the horse, even without holding

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Buddy Bear

Buddy Bear is somewhat of a mascot in Carson's kindergarten class. Everyday in the first month, it is given out to a new student who shows he/she has good manners and pays attention in class. Then they take the bear home that day and 'have adventures&

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Star Wars Ship Motor

Carson wanted to show you all this spaceship lego creation. Comments AuntieM (Jul 22, 2010): That's a pretty cool ship engine, Carson! It looks really powerful and I bet it could make a Star Wars ship go really fast!