Pre-school Party

Photos from Patrick's Pre-school Christmas Party

Merry Christmas

December 2010

December has been a busy month so far, but we're not complaining! Last weekend was the Yuletide Festival at Patrick's school. He was so excited that we were in "his gym". I volunteered Saturday to help set up and then again on Sunday to help with the Santa pictures. Patrick helped me to bake a few things for the bake sale.

Cousin Mark came with us and I think it was good for both of them to have moral support when it came time to sit on Santa's lap. The Santa that helped out at the festival actually lives on our block. We think we are pretty special to have one of Santa's helpers just a few houses a way! Cousin Nora saw him over Thanksgiving and got her picture taken with him.

It really is a fun event and can't wait for it again next year.

Thanksgiving 2010

We had Thanksgiving at our house this year and these are the only pictures we took! I'm sure my Mom has some so we'll have to edit this later. Patrick and Nora had a great time together. Patrick shared his toys pretty well for 3+ days. We did some shopping, met up with Mark and baby Claire and just had an all around good, relaxing weekend.

Veteran's Day Weekend 2010

We headed down to San Antonio during our long weekend over Veteran's Day. We had a great time seeing everyone and looking for armadillos (too bad we didn't find one). Patrick enjoyed the extra attention from his cousins, Aunts and Uncles and of course his Meme and Papa and Patrick and Charlie stocked up on their cowboy gear.

We had a great time at the zoo and riding the train! It was wonderful weather and made it hard to come back to a cold Thanksgiving and the coldest December on record in a long time, Ugh. It's going to be a long winter.

Halloween 2010

So here it is almost Christmas and we haven't posted about Halloween....anyway, we had another fun time at our neighborhood Halloween party this year and trick-or-treating with our neighbors. Patrick chose to be Buzz Lightyear this year. I was hoping for a cowboy, maybe next year. Charlie filled in as the cowboy this year, ha.

Patrick and his buddy Jonathan.

Patrick and our neighbor "Captain America"

We went to a Halloween party at our co-workers house a couple of neighborhoods over. Patrick had a blast once the power ranger "Jack" took his mask off. Charlie dressed up as a cowboy that night too. Dan, our co-worker said later he didn't know whether Chalie was in costume or not, ha ha. The kids/parents got to carve pumpkins. I think Patrick's is the second from the right. Halloween has really become a lot of fun again seeing it through Patrick's eyes.

Patrick wasn't too sure about all of the "scarey" Halloween decorations people put out. He asked a lot of questions about the skeletons coming out of the ground in front of the house a few blocks over. It finally became less scarey when he had to have an x-ray for a sore leg when we were up in Michigan visiting Great-Grandma Goss. The emergency room let us take the x-rays home with us and we explained that that was his skeleton. Every few days he likes to get out "the pictures of his skeleton".

Pumpkin Farm - Part One

Tractor race.

Hey Mom...look at me.

Dear Family-

The Pumpkin Farm is great fun. I enjoyed racing a pedal tractor, riding the grain train, riding "Brownie" the pony, running through the corn maze, climbing tractor tire mountain, sitting on a real combine, feeding/brushing the farm animals and jumping on the giant orange pillow. Below are my photos taken by my mom, dad and grandma. I hope you enjoy the photos.

Aunt, Grandpa, Mom & Dad

Do I see a race track?

First things first. Green is diesel...yellow is regular.