I've been tagged

A couple of my friends have tagged me...and i thought this would be fun. so, here's what you do:

1. go to your 4th folder where you store your photos.

2. select the 4th photo (no exceptions).

3. post the picture with an explanation and link it back to your tagger.

4. tag 4 people do do the same.

Well, this is Hercules and Boo on Halloween a couple of years ago.  (I think 2005) I used to LOVE dressing them up for Halloween (and they loved it too, can't you tell!).  That year Hercules was Frankenstein and Boo was a Princess.  I'm so glad this picture came up because they hardly ever make the blog anymore!  

Baby it's cold outside....

so it's time for my puffy jacket!  Brrrr is all I have to say.  I mean, can it get any colder?  And the answer is YES.  Tonight it's suppose to be in the single digits.   It's so cold Aiden has to wear his jacket inside the house!  Just kidding, we were about to leave for Mother's Day Out.  

"Why does she always put this hood on me?"

"There, that's better!" 

Don't you love how Aiden has on his heavy jacket and no shoes or socks!  When I put them on before we get to the car he just pulls them right off.  It doesn't seem to phase him that the temp outside is in the teens.  So I usually just put them on when we get to where we're going.  Oh, and thanks Mimi and Papa John for my new coat.  I love it!  

Way behind....

Hey everyone!  Sorry I am so behind on putting up pictures from Christmas.  There are two reasons, 1. I've been busy (isn't that everyone's excuse) and 2. My small digital camera decided to stop working around Christmas....perfect timing!  So I don't have but a few pictures from Christmas because we only had our big camera there and I don't like using that one as much.  I will try to get more pictures of Aiden soon because he's been doing some funny things lately.   We did have a really nice Christmas and New Year's.  We were with the Carothers in Memphis for Christmas and then for New Year's Jonathan's parents came up here to stay with us.  Jonathan was off for about a week and a half, so that was nice.   Here are some pictures I did get from Christmas.   Maybe Margie will send me some more from her camera (hint, hint)...

Smiling BIG on Christmas morning.  

Aiden was definitely most interested in the food that was in his stockings.  Here he is digging into the raisins.  And Hercules and Boo are right there beside him just in case he drops one.  

We did a reenactment of the Christmas story.  Aiden was Joseph.   Doesn't he make a cute little Joseph?  Isabella was Mary and she was precious.  Brooks was suppose to be baby Jesus, but he was napping!  The dogs (that is Macy with Aiden) were the shepherds and all the guys were the Wise Men.  Ron was the narrator.  It was so much fun.  

Isabella opening up her stocking.  

Well that's all I have.  I know it's not much, but we're looking into what camera to buy now and if you know Jonathan he does lots of research before buying ANYTHING so it might be another week before we get another small digital camera.  Until then I'll try and get some pictures of Aiden with the other camera we have.  Like I said earlier, he is doing some really funny things now and we're just having so much fun with him.  

Merry Christmas from The Carothers

From our family to yours have a very blessed Christmas!  

Christmas Card Pics

We got pictures made by our favorite photographer for our cards this year.  We haven't had family pictures done before so we thought this was a perfect opportunity since we wanted pictures on our Christmas cards of the whole family.  Joe did a wonderful job again (he's the same one that did Aiden's fall pictures) and he has the best assistant (his wife Rhonda).  They are so sweet because I wanted the pictures outside (this was the first weekend in December), but I didn't realize it was going to be SOOOOO cold.  They were troopers and didn't complain once about how cold it was.  Poor Aiden was shivering!  That was when I decided it was probably time to go.  You know when Jonathan (the most hot-natured person I know) complains about it being cold that it's time to go inside somewhere warm!!!   So here are our pictures......(here's Joe's blog for any of those in Nashville)

Visiting Santa...

Last Friday Aiden and I went to see Santa for his first time.  We stood in line for almost an hour, but it didn't seem to phase Aiden.  He ran around checking everything and everyone out.  He had his blanket and some snacks, so he was happy.

Still checking everyone out.  Everyone else's kids waited patiently in their strollers or right by their parents side, but not Aiden.  I didn't even bother bringing in his stroller because I knew it would just be another thing I had to keep up with.   He would never just sit in his stroller if we weren't moving.  Oh well, he had fun!  
And finally, the picture with Santa. ( I had to take a picture of the picture because we don't have a scanner.)  Well he really didn't get the full Santa experience, which I'm kind of sad about now. He was actually sitting in my lap, but it looks like he is sitting on Santa's and they just cropped me out.  

Last week at the Carothers...

So we've been pretty busy lately (just like everyone else) so I haven't been blogging much.  But here's what we were up to last week.  (We went to Arkansas for Thanksgiving and I managed to get no pictures...oops!  But we had a great time seeing family and friends.)  

All Aiden wants for Christmas is my cooking utensils!  He has been obsessed with them.  He doesn't just want a few, he wants to play with them all.  He has the biggest smile in this picture because he's so excited that he can't contain himself.  (I think this picture is funny because Erin used to always make fun of me smiling and showing my tongue and Aiden is doing the same thing I used to do when I smiled.  So Erin, this picture is for you!!)

Aiden is finally fitting into these cute puma's I got him a couple of months ago.  I got them at a church consignment sale for $3!!!  Gotta love a bargain!  
This is him trying to make a get away while I'm making his lunch in the kitchen.  That little guy is fast.  We call him our little wild man......very appropriate these days!  
While Aiden was at Mother's day out on Tuesday I stood in line all morning for Rachael Ray's book signing.  This is me and my friend Julie with Rachael's newest book "Big Orange Book" or as Rachael likes to refer to it as "Bob".  I love her and it was so fun to actually get to see her in person.
You couldn't get a picture with her while she was signing your book, though.  You could only stand behind this robed off part to take a picture.  She signs like 1,000 books in 3 hours....crazy!  So I guess I understand why she can't stop to pose for 1,000 pictures as well!  
Then on Thursday we got our first snow!  Totally unexpected.  It started coming down around 4:30 and didn't stop till about 7.  It was so pretty.  I was bummed because we missed Jonathan's work party because the streets were too dangerous to get out on.  But I guess we always have next year!