Reply to Questions from Tyler and Zach, From Uncle Jared

I am not that much into Marvel Comics, except for Gambit. But I will share what I do know. Venom was an alien that took over a human, and after a while he "spawned", that is part of Venom broke away and joined with someone else and created Carnage. So you could call Carnage Venom's son. Sorry, that is all that I know.
Jared

Hey guys

Long time since I blogged. Things going well, I will give a bigger entry tomorrow. Love you guys!

Uncle Jared: Zach and Tyler were curious about who Carnage is and what is his story.

Christmas memories

Here is my favorite new Christmas tradition (which is a very good thing, because Eric and I are still just not totally agreed on how Christmas should be had. So any great tradition that can be created that we both love is a positive thing!!)

Christmas carols on Christmas Eve. It was the best. I wish the footage was longer.

And here is my favorite picture of these two cute cousins. Notice their "matching" shirts that their fabulous Uncle Ron personally picked out for them at Disneyland.

And look at this little boy--Christmas morning excitement has not left him with age!

As for any other pics, we were having too much fun to remember to drag out the camera! The one thing that we really missed, and could have made this the best Christmas yet would have been to have Nick and Jen and Tyler and Zach and McKayla and Brayden there. We missed you guys!

Happy Birthday Benjamin

Benjamin Nathaniel Carter was born at 3:42 pm on December 29, 2007. He weighed 10 pounds even and was 20 1/2 inches long. We are all doing great. We are so happy that Benjamin is here and healthy.

We had a fun New Year's eve at home. We stayed home and played games and watched a movie. Timothy didn't make it until midnight, but the girls did. We ate popcorn out of our new bowls. It was great. Hope you are all having a great new year.

Hey everyone,

We had a great Christmas this year. Thank you everyone for the wonderful gifts. We are excited to use the popcorn bowls. Hope you guys had a good Christmas as well. Your gifts should be there soon. Becky is going to be induced on Saturday. Hopefully we will have a new baby soon.

Jared, Becky, Molly, Emily, Tim, and Baby

APOLOGY

Sorry guys! It's too good! You'll have to scratch Bourne Ultimatum off of our wish list. We were buying Harry and High School Musical 2 and couldn't help it. So, sorry
-Eric

Happy BDay Viana

Wishing you a happy birthday: For the proper B-day wish, only a daughter of Eric would appreciate "Movie Quotes"

"If anybody asks we were busting mailboxes!"

"It gets painted!"

"You can be the toy that comes with the meal."

"We drew one of you dying because our teacher said it would be more dramatic."

"You were the one getting all fancy with the spices."

Christmas Questions

It is not really drawing names, but we would rotate families each year. That is this year we would buy for Nick and Jen, Nick and Jen would buy for Eric and CJ and Eric and CJ would buy for Ron. Then Ron would buy for us. We thought that this would allow us to get better gifts for everyone. But we will also go with that you guys want. Jared

Zach, I would have to say that I think Marvel has more heros, because of their whole "mutant" problem, developing people with abilities. They have several different Xmen comics and sometimes characters only show up once. That is my assumption. Although I do prefer DC.

Our Movie List and other random thoughts of nothingness

Basically we don't buy movies. The two newer movies we have are Ratatouille and the new Barbie movie. And guess what they came from Grandma. Thanks for your list Paco! Jared you can see the response in the commentsof yours.

Zach says:

Uncle Jared, Which has more super heroes Marvel or DC?

By the way Jared, my three boys are crazy for comic superhero guys and stuff, and I have said that you were the extreme authority in the family on the subject, so they may have a lot of questions for you.

Oh yeah, Thanksgiving was good. I had a Motions hearing today and got robbed by a judge who found against me without even telling me why. Oh that makes me mad. Because I am wrong a lot, but I at leat would like to know why I'm wrong.

Anyway, thanks for the blogging guys.

Jack Bauer Quote: "You are never going to get the bad guys without taking a few risks...now get me a hachsaw." Love it, new season starts in January.

Christmas Questions

We were wondering about how we are doing gifts this year. Are we still buying for everybody or are we wanting to start only buying for one family per year? Let us know your ideas. Thanks Jared.

After Thanksgiving!

Well, first of all I hope that all had a wonderful Holiday! We missed you all and thought of you over the break. We had a great time here in Utah with CJ's family! Now that Thanksgiving is over we now can focus on Christmas. We got a new Christmas tree, doubling the size of our former one. (We went from a 3ft to a 6ft). Anyways, the point of this entry is to encourage each of us to post what movies we already have (recently released movies, that is. I don't think we need Jared and Becky's comprehensive list--:) ), and maybe list some that we wouldn't mind (not saying that a present has to be that, or even a movie at all; I've just noticed that that is often a common theme.) So we'll start, but I also would love to see lists from Jared/Becky and fam, Nick/Jenny and fam, Mom/Dad and Grandpa Glen, and our brother Ron!

Already have, or will have (so you wouldn't need to get these)
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Spiderman 3
Meet the Robinsons
Santa Clause 3
Ratatouille
Pixar Shorts Vol. 1
High School Musical 2
Pirates of the Carribean: At World's End
Harry Potter: The Order of the Phoenix

Don't have yet, and won't be buying (so if you wanted, these are possibilities)
Peter Pan in Return to Neverland "Pixie Powered Edition"
Shrek the Third
Live Free or Die Hard
Cinderella II "Special Edition"
Walt Disney Treasures: Disneyland Stories, Secrets and Magic
Stardust
Bourne Ultimatum

I think that this will be valuable for us to know about you guys; kind of the reason why we did it. So I hope to see lists from all of you as well. And if you don't know what will be out it's easy to search Disney DVD releases on Google and you can see there what will be available (or other non-Disney movies too can be found by searching DVD releases...). Our list is actually comprised solely of new releases, but if there are some others that you've been dying to have, go ahead and put them on your wishlist.
Thanks
-Eric

So we got the movie Spiderman 3 and this mask came with it. We thought it was funny having Superman pajamas and a Spiderman mask. Jared wanted to try it on, but it was too small:) We are all doing great and hope that everyone else is too.

Here are the pictures from Halloween. I finally was able to get them posted. Unfortunately you don't get to see Emily and Timothy with make-up on. Emily had princess make-up with glitter and Tim had curly mustache, pointed beard and bushy eyebrows. It was super cute.

Halloween

Hi all,

We are finally getting our Halloween pictures posted. We had a fun Halloween. Molly was a corpse bride, Emily was Aurora, and Tim was a pirate. Jared was Obi Wan Kenobi. I was the great pumpkin (at least that is how I feel). Anyway, we went to downtown Ellensburg and went trick or treating at the shops. Papa Murphy's was giving out free personal size pizzas to the kids. It was cool. We also went the the stake trunk or treat. It went from exactly 6:00 to 6:30. We had to be out of the parking lot by 6:40 so that the youth could come and have their dance. Then we went to about a blocks worth of trick or treating to houses on the hill and the kids were done. It was cold. We then went to a pizza party at a friends house. After that we went to another party at another friends house. It was a full night, but we had fun. The kids have waaaaay to much candy. Tim would eat it non-stop if we would let him. Anyway, here are some of the pictures from Halloween and also some of us carving pumpkins.

Tyler, what is going on in level two of Jedi Knight? What part are you struggling with. Our disk got stepped on and broken so we can't look it up.

We hope that everyone is doing great. Have a great day.

Jared, Becky, Molly, Emily, and Tim

The pictures are not uploading right now, so we will try later.


The kids say Hi to everyone:)

Halloween Pictures

HEY GUYS, HERE IS THE LOW DOWN. LIFE IS GOOD, STILL AWAITING TO MOVE, WHO KNOWS WHEN, BUT WE SAW OUR FRIENDS HOUSE AND IT IS A NICE PLACE SO IT WILL GOOD TO EVENTUALLY GET IN.

HERE ARE THE HALLOWEEN PICTURES.

MCKAYLA WAS SNOW WHITE, SHE LOVED THE DRESS AND THE SHOES, UNFORTUNATELY WE DIDN'T GET ANY PHOTO CLOSE UPS OF THE SHOES.

ZACH WENT AS SPIDERMAN:
TYLER WENT AS VENOM
BRAYDEN AS HARRY POTTER. IT WAS REALLY HIS IDEA, NOT MINE.

LOVE YOU GUYS HOPE ALL IS WELL.

Halloween in Provo-Dreams came true

We had the best Halloween!! I'll let the pictures do the talking!

(Hopefully you true Disney Carter's recognize me as Buzz Lightyear and Viana as Mira Nova from Buzz Lightyear of Star Command (the blue face and red hair should be a give away))

Happy Haunting

We had a fantastic night at a community Halloween carnival. It was so much fun seeing Viana enjoying and participating in one of our favorite holidays. It brought tears to my eyes just thinking of it. And to make it even better, they had a Harry Potter room. Check out this cool stuff and the sorting hat sorted Viana into GRYFFINDOR!! We were so proud! And Brooke got in on the Acromantula action as well. Good times had by all. Viana's definite favorite was the cake walk. Check it out!

This is Tom Riddle's grave being visited by acromantulas

Here's CJ as Ginny Weasley at the Whomping Willow, with a FLYING CAR and Viana in a cute tutu with fairy wings.

Click here for good times

Here's all the publicity that we got for winning the grand prize of the photo contest.

Message to Uncle Jared

Tyler writes:

Why are you not writing on the blog ? I am playing Jedi Knight disk #1. How do you beat level 2? luv ya

We have new beach portraits!

Hey gang, things are going well in Delaware. Preparing for the move and Halloween, we took the other day before it got too cold to sneak down to the beach for some photo shooting. This is one of our favorites, we will be putting more up shortly. Hope all is well.