That's what the last few months have been about. Carter had a busy and exciting summer. It started with his birthday in July, the Sin City Rumble in Las Vegas, and then his baptism in September.
Carter loves his summer birthday. We had family over for a swimming party and Gronni and Poppi's Pool.
He opened lots of presents.
and blew the candles out on the cake...
or at least tried.
Dang trick candles.
We did some shopping and it was hot!!! We hung out by the misters while Daddy took his time shopping.
Carter went to the top of the Stratosphere. He talked Dan into paying for one ride, The Big Shot. When he got up there it was a little scarier than he thought and almost chickened out. But there were lots of people up there talking him into and some influence from cute girls got him on there. The kid has some guts! I didn't even want to go up there.
This was the second day of shopping. He got a little bored so he started playing manequinn. He got a kick out of the looks on peoples' faces.
Carter competed in three events. His first was creative weapons. Carter worked so hard to get all his forms learned. He did all three in less than a month and nailed every move.
Good thing Grandpa was there to give him a lift.
His second event was his creative kata to music.
He gets so intense.
Tyler was jealous of the flexibilty of these kids. He was showing off his moves too.
Just making sure he's awake.
His last even was his traditional form.
Carter didn't place in this competition but it was a lot of fun to go a bigger competition and it's great experience for him. He's now preparing for another competition coming up in a few weeks. It has been really fun watching Carter learn karate in the last 2 1/2 years. He works really hard every week and really loves it!
