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Thursday, January 12, 2012

A few good holidays

So my last post was from Halloween. This is by far a new record here on my blog, and not a good record - the longest length without posting. In fact, does anyone even still read this blog? Probably not. But I've long given up hope of anyone besides Gabe reading anyways, so I'm mostly recording things online just to remember them in years come. Still, I've done a bad job in the past few months. No excuses. If I were giving excuses, I'd blame it on my camera or computer. But I've had a brand new computer for over a month that works great, and a nice camera
that works just fine. Really, I've been busy with the holidays and trying to spend every spare minute reading files to make a little extra money. I should have been able to post a few cute pics.

So, here's to 2012, more blog entries. To start it off, I'll just give a few quick pics of the holidays between Halloween and Valentine's day. They are good ones, you know.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Our family gets to celebrate Hanukkah thanks to Grandad! Henry took his menorah lighting responsibilities very seriously. Maggie enjoyed some latkes and applesauce

Next up, Christmas! We also get to celebrate Christmas a couple of times - once with one side right after Thanksgiving, once at home as a family before we travel, and then with the other side of the family for the actual holiday. Three times the fun!

Some brotherly instruction about Santa. And our Christmas card this year! I love this picture!

So excited about presents!

Maggie digging right in and she loved ripping the paper

We decorated some sugar cookies when we went to see Santa at the bookstore. We also made a few batches at home

Gingerbread house construction workers

Maggie and Mommy Christmas Eve

Can we open presents yet????

Santa's toys Christmas morning! Trains and Jessie and Bullseye. Henry proclaimed "he came, Mommy!" and "I ALWAYS wanted a Jessie!" So sweet, excited and genuine!

Playing in the wrapping paper and being presents

Maggie Christmas Morning

Baby's First Christmas

Happy Holidays! Just a little late

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

halloween

A fireman and the little dalmatian dog!

love her cute little black nose

we made some ghosts to decorate the trees :)

Henry loved her little black nose too!

firegirl Maggie

and as promised, lightening mcqueen pumpkin

the day before Halloween, we went to a friend's Halloween party. we decided to use old Halloween costumes and save our Halloween ones for the next day. Maggie used Henry's little monkey hat and tail from when he was only 2 months old. Mommy as a tree!

And Henry in his Cowboy costume from last year - still fits!

Fantastic Halloween!

Saturday, October 29, 2011

Fall Football

our first game as a family of four!

Gabe and I went to the first ND game of the season, which went a little like this: 90 degrees +. rainy, cool, thunderstorm and the first evacuation in the stadium, hang out in Jordan for 2 hours, back to the stadium, play terribly, evacuated again, and about eight hours later, a loss. Crazy.

Gabe has enjoyed watching with his newest buddy! Maggie's football shoes are just too cute!

My babies sporting their jerseys

Aunt Allison and her friends and Becky and Dan came in to visit on a beautiful early October game. The old McGlinn RAs visited their old dorm - a walk down memory lane. One of the girls who opened the door mentioned "no one ever comes back to visit us!" Made us feel good, and still a little sad that the dorm is not old enough yet to have alumni come back and visit.

And of course, we've had a marching band or two!

Gabe was excited to go to the USC night game and I was excited to take Henry to a game this season! As we happened upon some last minute tickets, and with a cooler-but-not-too-cold-and-sunny day, we made our way to section A - 1! (This was very exciting to Henry to be in A - 1!) Headed there, it was really crowded, and I was pretty nervous about staying together. I had talked about holding hands and staying with mommy in the car and he said matter of factly, "I know Mommy I know." And he sure did hold my hand the whole way. I think he was pretty overwhelmed by all the people outside and inside the stadium too. He looked up with awe as we walked through the gates, clapped to the band, cheered "We Are ND!" and asked lots of questions.

One of the most interesting things (and what he said later was his favorite part) was when a Navy player got hurt. I'm not sure why he thought this part was so interesting, but it was memorable. The flyover was really cool, and so loud. Watching proudly

He enjoyed his stadium popcorn and water and we had a fantastic time.

One of my favorite parts was when I told him the players were headed to their lockers to get ready to play, and he said "at preschool we go to our lockers too." We lasted a quarter and a half, and held hands the whole walk back to the car. It was a wonderful time and I'm so glad we got to experience a game that he will be able to remember and talk about. And thanks Gabe for watching Maggie and letting us go!

Friday, October 21, 2011

and then we picked ourselves some pumpkins

but we'll probably just stick to carving. painting. and Mr. Frankenstein Potato Head-ing. but that will come in a bit.

Last year, Henry looked at all the pumpkins and pointed out the yucky ones. This year, he hopped out of the wagon and grabbed the first one he saw. "I like this one!" For the other pumpkin, we helped him examine some and choose a good one.

This little pumpkin was warm and snuggly with her mommy!

When we got dressed to go, Henry said, "I'm going to wear my pumpkin socks because the pumpkins will like my pumpkin socks!" I'm sure the pumpkins thought the pumpkin socks were great. A little preview of their fate.

And back home with all my pumpkins on the front porch.