Christmas 2010

Ho, ho, ho! Merry Christmas! We had a wonderful Christmas full of relaxing, eating, family and lots and lots of presents, for Ethan of course. It was just Chris, Ethan and I on Christmas Eve and it was so nice. We went to the Christmas Eve service at church, had dinner at Olive Garden then came home to watch Polar Express before putting cookies and a carrot out for Santa and his reindeer.

Then Christmas morning came ... we were not sure if Ethan was going to run right by his presents from Santa or see them before coming to our room. He did the first. I think he doesn't quite realize that Santa brings presents and leaves them. He thought Santa was going to actually be in the living room waiting on him. It was dark while he tip toed out into the living room while saying "Santa ... are you there?" We were laughing and telling him that Santa was here last night and left him presents. Once the lights were flipped on he flipped out!

He got a race car track, just like he asked for ...

... Toy Story 3 and a Woody doll that knows when his hat falls off... Ethan got a kick out of that ...

... a stocking full of Smarties, which he LOVES, more DVD's and drum sticks ...

... and Lego Duplo's from mom and dad!

That's one happy boy!

Then after family came later that afternoon, we sung Happy Birthday to him while he got to eat a yummy birthday cupcake! I can't believe our little munchkin is 3 years old!!

He certainly got some lovin' from Aunt Liv

Even PawPaw loved Woody

Then we headed upstairs for some silly time watching Ethan dance to "Stuck Like Glue" and sing "Muffin Man" on the guitar.

More presents from the family!

Happy Halloween!

Halloween was wonderfully low-key this year. Due to the confusion of which night to trick or treat, Saturday or Sunday, thankfully my friend and neighbor Abbie told me HOA said our neighborhood would do it Saturday. I for one was thankful it wasn't on a weeknight where we had to work the next day. We headed outside for a few pictures before the sun went down, had some taco soup then headed out when the sun went down. I found his Halloween costume for $5 at a consignment sale and was pumped! I knew I wanted him to be some sort of racecar driver or Buzz Lightyear, but I couldn't turn this deal down. Of course, as you can probably tell, I made the hat and checkered flag. Nothing like a homemade costume! :) This year E really got into the meaning of trick or treating. He understood that we only go to houses with the porch light on and we say thank you after we get our treats. We were really only going to go to a few streets but he wanted to keep going and going. We did the entire neighborhood! I was exhausted when we got back and I think he was too. It was a great Halloween!

Happy Birthday America!

Happy Independence Day everyone! I hope everyone has a wonderful and safe weekend! I know we are excited to be home for the weekend and relaxing by the pool ... well not really relaxing. Just following E around the water park. Have a great Fourth!