What's New With The Carter Family

As you may have read in a post earlier this year, Brandon began making wine last year. He started with an "Apple Wine"... and went from whole apples, to crushed apples, to some kind of fermenting mush, to actual wine that he bottled! Today we added a label to one of the bottles...and we had to document this special moment on film!

The weather experts have been predicting that this winter is going to be an especially cold one... that we should expect record cold weather, and more snow than we got last year (which was none). So it came as no surprise when, during the week of Thanksgiving, we had both of those predictions come true! The temperatures dipped into the low teens (can you say brrrrrrrr!) and the snow fell over the course of a few days! Jem was so excited to see the snow coming down...and on the first day he was waiting for Brandon to get home from work....and he had a special surprise, just for him.... haha can you guess what it was? Check out the video below...but remember.... "Dude, that was the face!" Over a 24 hour period, we went from this... ....to this..... .....to this! Jem was especially excited to go sledding down the road the next morning....and had a blast going down this semi-fast hill :) Check out this video of Jem sledding down the hill....can you say, "Super Fun!"?

We are ever so thankful that the powers that be FINALLY created a "Super Mario" costume.... because when given the choice as to what he wanted to be this year, MARIO was by far the preferred costume! All of you who know my son, know how engrossed and completely obsessed Jem is with all things "Mario". He eats, sleeps, dreams, thinks Mario....all day, every day. It was only fitting that he become Mario too! I love how he really seemed to capture the spirit of this fictional video character.... I wouldn't want to mess with Mario! Hold him back! This was a great Halloween - and my little Mario was the cutest superhero canvassing our neighborhood! "It's - a - Maaaaa ri oooooo"!

Craziness! Late last night, as Brandon and I were watching a show on tv, we hear this weird sound...like someone is throwing rocks at our window! When we go to investigate, we realise that the wind was howling, it was SUPER gusty, and the 'rocks' were in fact leaves and twigs being blown around and landing quite loudly and continuously on our sliding door! After heading up to bed, we lost power....and there was this eerie feeling outisde....it was dark and creepy and windy.... I swear, I wouldn't have been surprised if it were the end of the world as we know it! Fast forward a little to this morning....all calm and quiet.... really, the only visible proof that anything happened last night was the leaves that were EVERYWHERE. Take a look. P.S. I haven't forgotten about Halloween! I promise, it's the next post I'll be making....just haven't gotten around to editing the photos yet :) Stay tuned!

Mmmmm......... seriously........ is there anything better than the smell of fresh baked bread rolls? It makes my house smell so good - and believe me, they don't stay like this for very long LOL. A few seconds after I put my camera down I pried apart these little puppies and let's just say that they taste even better than they look! Mmmmm...... gotta love freshly baked bread! Seriously!