David's interviews

David has finished his interview season for residency.  He was so blessed to get 8 interviews.  We were so worried about him getting interviews because his score wasn't super great (although he improved so much and I am so proud of  him).  The interviews were at Casper WY, Cheyenne WY, St. Johns Detroit, MI, Southfield MI, Stanford, CT, Indianapolis, IN, Jackson TN, and Pocatello, ID.  The interviews went well and now we are to rank these options. The matching process will be March 21 and then we will know where we are to move, if we move.  I saw a direct blessing from Heavenly Father.  The month that the interviews started I paid extra in our fast offerings and we saw the Lord bless us abundantly with many interviews. 

Sold the house

We have finally sold the house in Charleston, SC.  We bought it in 2008 and only lived in it for 9 months before we had to move.  It is the right time to sell so I got a real estate agent and he was really good.  We sold the house in less than 2 months and we got what we wanted for it.  I paid off my parents, paid off Paul and paid off all of our credit cards!!!!!  It feels so good to not be in debt.  It went pretty smoothly and we are so grateful because it came at the perfect time when we weren't getting any more loans for school.  We truly felt the Lord's hand in helping us sell the house.

Christmas 2013

 This is a little kitchen set that I mad for Eliza.  I made it her style and I was surprised how much she liked it.  It isn't perfect but she has played with it.  She was so greatful for it.

 We cut down our tree again this year and it was so great.  It was a large tree and it was a perfect day to cut down a tree. 

 We had a great Christmas.  The kids got a lot of fun toys.  Fenton got a stuffed jaguar and a tent building kit and new boots and shirts.  Carter got Mr. Potato head, and Eliza got the kitchen set, but the best they got a mini trampoline downstairs.  They can go down stairs and jump to their hearts content.  I got new shoes and new tools. 

We have gotten so much snow this year.  we have been shoveling almost every day.  We got a huge storm at the beginning of January and we have had the snow for 5 weeks.  It hasn't melted.  We have had a new type of storm called a Polar Vortex and it is bringing polar weather to the US and really has screwed up the whole north east.  We have had 10 days of below zero weather.  We have had 4 days off school.  It has so bitter cold and unbarable.  When it is in the 20 we are excited and can go out with out getting frost bit.  We are having another storm right now.  Other places in the country have had 8-10 days off school since Christmas.  It has been a horrible winter and it is only the beginning of February. 

Tiff's birthday

 Tiff had a birthday in September so unbeknownst to her, her loving husband orchestrated the greatest get together of the Carter sisters of all time.  He got us all buddy passes to LA and we all met her there and surprised her.  She didn't know where she was going or who she would be traveling with until she got to the airport.  Then she rode on the plane not knowing who would be there to meet her, then she was super surprised to see all of her sisters and mom. 
We had such a great time with out kids, eating, shopping talking and just being together.  I love my sisters and look up to them so much.  I am who I am because of their example and strength. 
  Tiff got to show us around LA where she served her mission.  It was so fun to see her in her element and show us all of the cool things in LA. 
We went to the observatories overlooking the city, Hollywood Blvd, long beach, santa montica beach.  What a great weekend and it needs to happen more often!

Grandma and Grandpa Hirschi

Grandma and Grandpa Hirschi came and visited us for Halloween.  It was their 40th anniversary so they took a church history tour and then drove up and spent 6 days with us.  We had so much fun with them showing them Detroit, going to the Henry Ford museum, and going to Frankenmuth, Bronners Christmas store and to the awesome water park hotel.
The Henry Ford had some pretty cool stuff including Kennedy's limo, the bus that Rosa Parks stayed seated in, and the chair that Lincoln was assassinated in.  It had some great historical things, definitely worth a good 3-4 hour day.
We then went to up to Bronners which is the largest Christmas store in the world.  It was fun to walk around with Laura and see her eyes light up at all of the variety of celebrating and decorating for Christmas.
We stayed a water park hotel that was right next to Bronners and it was awesome.  The kids had so much fun.  David and I had so much fun.  It was very family friendly, kid friendly and allowed the kids to have independence in the water park that they LOVED it. 
Such a fun week with Grandma and Grandpa.  Thanks for visiting!

Fall 2013

 The leaves have turned some beautiful colors and in one day all of the leaves have fallen off so we have had some great fun in the leaves. 

Halloween 2013

 Halloween this year was great.  Eliza was a BYU cheerleader, then we have Luigi and Mario. 

 PIcs with their friends

1. This was such a cool costume at our branch activity.  The mom made it all by herself.  So stinking cool 

Our pumpkins this year.  Eliza did the witch, fenton did Frankenstein, then I did the spider web.  Carter just went to town with the paint bush but I thought he did a cool job!