Christmas Parade 2010

We braved the cold and attended the Christmas parade. The kids loved all of the fun floats.

Cate and Will were in the front row the entire time.
Thomas came out for a little bit.Will, Gavin, Cate and Trine

Thomas was much happier to be inside the warm office with his sweet friend Allie!

The Train Museum

The boys and I spent most of Saturday morning and early afternoon at the Depot and the Train Museum. We all had a great time!Watching Thomas the Train go around and around.
The boys headed over to the exhibit that was interactive. There were lots of buttons to push that would move the props, make smoke come out of the trains and buildings, blow whistles, and more. It was all very impressive!Thomas was in "button pushing paradise!"
To the right you can see a dome (or bubble as the boys called it). They could crawl under the table and stand up in the dome to get a closer look at the train tracks and all of the accessories. Will liked seeing his breath on the dome almost as much as he liked seeing everything else!

One of the activities was for the kids to push a red button and it would swing the cow over the train tracks. When the train got too close it would stop. When they pushed the green button the cow would move out of the way and the train could go past.

Just a few pictures of some of the other scenes.

One last look at everything before heading outside.
Thomas pretty much has the "smile for the camera" thing down. Will? Not so much! He had a bad case of the sillies!March, march, march!
Thomas singing a few Christmas carols.
Sweet boys!
Will wasn't quite sure what to think of Santa up close and personal.Ok, that's a little better.
What great smiles out of both of my precious boys!

Ralph Stewardson

Ralph (aka Elf on the Shelf) made his first appearance in our home tonight. We read the book and explained that Ralph would be talking to Santa every night about whether they had been naughty or nice that day. Let's just say so far so good. Both boys went straight to bed after songs and prayers and they were instantly quite and asleep very soon!

Trimming the Christmas Tree

The boys had a great time trimming the tree. After they had covered the bottom 1/2 of the tree they decided to hang some ornaments UNDER the tree! I had to move lots of ornaments up after the boys went to bed, just to balance everything out.

Thanksgiving 2010

The boys made turkey shirts to wear on Thanksgiving day. Thomas was proud to show his off.
And Will? As you can see he wasn't in the mood to have his picture taken. Too bad ~ I did it anyway!
In the car on the way to lunch at HPU ~ Thomas was still all smiles.

I was actually able to get a goofy grin out of Will, too!

Thomas and Will's favorite part of lunch was entertaining Gus. They were pulling out all the stops of silliness to make him laugh!

Gus with Uncle Sam ~ he has totally mastered the skill of clapping!
Will giving Geyer some advice ~ kind of a scary thought!
Josh and Do Do enjoyed their lunch, even though they were being crowded by a little turkey.
Amy, Gus, Paw Paw, and Kirklyn kept a close eye on everything.
Big smiles from all 4 big boys ~ Thomas, Gray, Will and Luke
They were all happy to give me their best silly faces, too!
Up the stairs with Thomas leading the way.
Once again, the posed picture ~
And the silly picture!
Amy and Kirklyn had fun watching the boys being silly.


Here three of MANY pictures I took of the 7 cousins. Maybe next year will be better........
My 2 favorite turkeys in the whole world!