Lighting Festival

Our little town has a lighting festival the day after Thanksgiving which also includes a Santa parade. The weather was SO nice. Normally going to these is near torture. So bitterly cold. Not this year, it was probably in the high 40s! James was very excited to see Santa. He was a little bash full, but you could tell he was taking it pretty seriously. Knowing that if he didn't tell Santa what he wanted he might not get it. Sweetie face. Ada on the other hand, wouldn't even look at him once Caleb brought her closer. One of those numbers where Caleb would try to set her down on his laps and she gripped on to Caleb so hard and kept raising her legs higher as his lap got closer. Besides that they both had a great time. They also got a little cousin time in with Jacob and Cade.

James' Birthday Party

James' current obsession is Legos. Anything Legos. It was only apropriate to throw a little Lego twist into his birthday party. We all had a great time with wonderful family and friends. We are so lucky.

The little Lego gift bags, full of fun and yummy things.


Lego guy cups, made by yours truly. I wish I would have taken a picture of all of the cups, they were all different guys.

Trick or Treat!

Holy shmoly James had a blast last night trick or treating. He knew exactly what to do, except at the first one he didn't knock he just went right on in. It was someone we knew so it was ok LOL! He dressed up as Rambo.

James in his costume.

At the first house.

With his cousins. James, Lucas, Jacob, and Cade.

His loot!

Just a tad excited to dig into it.

p.s. I have been given a great idea from my friend Melissa to join NaBLoPoMo (National Blog Posting Month). So, for the next month I will be posting everyday! Or at least trying to! Hopefully this will get me back in the grind of posting on here and taking more pictures!

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What a nice Memorial Day weekend!

We didn't technically go anywhere. I really felt a strong urge to get up Saturday morning and road trip it up somewhere. That didn't happen. It was SO beautiful. Saturday, after my 3 hour long nap, James and I headed over for a little boat ride over at my aunt and uncles with a few of my cousins. It was nice, I think James liked being out in the boat. I didn't bring my camera so there is no pictures of that, but as you will see, I think I have made up for it with a crap load of other pictures.

Sunday, with the still strong urge to drive with the windows down and sing loudly to good music, Caleb, James, and I headed out on a mini road trip. To be quite honest with you I don't even know the name of the city we ended up in, but we found a really cute little park.

Above is a little critter that stared at us for a while when we pulled into the park.

Looking for fish.

After the park, we headed to McDonald's to grab some dinner. We ate it a a nice little park on the river. I don't have any pics of that either. After that we went over to Caleb's brother Than's house for a bon fire. They had this little wagon James was obsessed with. **HINT HINT BIRTHDAY PRESENT*** LOL! He got to stay up late and eat smores. It was his first time eating them. Caleb made him one and handed it to him, he opened it up took the chocolate out of it and threw the rest in the fire. Kids and their chocolate!

They had a real jack ass of a neighbor. I am pretty funny aren't I? It seems there is donkeys everywhere in James' life.

James with his cousin Jacob.

Plus his cousin Cade in this pic. James was too entertained by him to look at the camera.

Over a week late...

I know I really slacked the last couple weeks, and Christmas was in there and a handful of other holidays. This is a makeup post, it contains our Christmas pictures. We did a lot, these are just from three of the things...

Christmas Eve: My Aunt Amy's

My cousin Rox and I

The little kids table :)

Caleb and I

Mick and James

One cool kid

Christmas Eve night: James' new kitchen

Christmas morning: at home

James seeing his kitchen with huge eyes, he loves it.

What a mess

Christmas afternoon: G-ma and G-pa's house (I was at work, yes I had to work)

James playing with G-ma and his cousins Jacob and Cade

Trick or Treatin

We took James out for his first trick or treat last night to homes of family that live around here. He had fun, he was very very tired toward the end though.

This is at Great Grandpa's house with all of his cousins. Ezra, James, Jacob, and Cade.

James with his skeleton G-ma and V for Vendetta G-pa (his costume was really good)A tired James with Ezra and G-ma.
Can't wait until next year!

Baby Jacob and Family/ photo of the week

Yesterday Caleb was home and so I took advantage of that and went and visited my cousin Marianne at my Aunt and Uncle's new home. The babe is absolutely beautiful with TONS of beautiful dark hair. The new house is amazing, right on a lake with a sandy beach! James has been getting some molars in, so he was home with his daddy running a slight fever...poor kid! We will be back over there to swim!

Baby Jacob

Jacob Robert

My cousin Sarah's super cute blondie Gabe
some lake toys :)

This is also the photo of the week post...I love the first pic of Jacob!