Carter-palooza (Carter turns three)

After a particularly mischievous morning, Carter took a deliciously long nap this afternoon, actually allowing Miss Ruby and I to do the same! I am therefore feeling extra warm and fuzzy and have decided to post another completely Carter-centered post! Oh wait, did I just focus on myself and Ruby being able to get a nap? Okay, it will now be Carter focused... starting NOW!

We celebrated Carter's third birthday while in Utah last month with an entire day of festivities, a "Carter-palooza" if you will. We got these awesome Salt Lake City Connect passes and planned out a day full of things we thought Carter would enjoy leading up to his big party. Grandma Linda even came along!
{we highly recommend the passes, especially since they will give you two days for the price of one right now!}

We began the day at the aquarium in Sandy.

We then moved on to lunch at the Lion House in SLC and a trip to the Discovery Gateway children's museum and just about got to the point that we'd had a little TOO much fun...We stopped at Costco on the way home to pick up Carter's birthday cake, swung by Grandma Linda and Grandpa Russ' house to pick up the rest of the party supplies, and headed to Scera park in Orem where we had a pavilion reserved. Luckily, Carter got a nice long nap on the long drive. We had ourselves a hot dog dinner with his birth family and our immediate and extended family. Afterwards, most of the guests joined us for swimming at the Scera pool. What fun!

We're so grateful for this little boy that made us a mommy and a daddy three years ago! We are also so grateful that Carter's birth family was able to join us for the first time in celebrating him!