Santa

Santa drove through our neighborhood to say hi to everyone. 

Peaceful sleeper

christmas photos

some pro pics of the beautiful kiddos

Gingerbread house

kids made a gingerbread house (from a kit, with help from mom).  a certain boy ate most of the gumdrops when mom wasn't looking. but we were able to improvise with items from the pantry.

gumdrop boy was beyond disappointed that we were not going to eat the gingerbread house.

Carrying wood

we burn a lot of firewood.  we have a fire most nights now that is cold out.  that means we need to procure lots of firewood to burn.  a couple weeks ago, a friend of grandpa's offered up some cured wood he had on his lot and we jumped on that chance.  we drove over and filled up the back of the truck.  finley was lots of help.

Decorating the tree

hanging ornaments

Christmas tree

finley saw his old friend santa statue at the christmas tree store.  (last year he spent the entire time talking to the statue.  this year, he was pretty certain this santa was not real.  but he still said hi just in case)

Thanksgiving and wrestling

cheese for thanksgiving pictures!

also finley was in heaven wrestling all his big boy cousins on thanksgiving.  who even knows which cousin finley has just defeated in the below picture.  i'm certain an atomic elbow is forthcoming

Car wash

Checking out the car wash with mom

Bubble baths

Finley is a big fan of bubble baths lately 

License plate

Finley helps mom attach her new license plate, that finally arrived!

Gloves

When did finleys hands get so big?

Pretend

Let's pretend to pick up dog poop! So much fun!

trick or treat

School Halloween party

Lots of Spider-Mans at school

carving pumpkins

carving a spiderman pumpkin for a cute little spiderman boy.  finley loved the goopy contents of the pumpkins

Halloween parade

Neighborhood Halloween parade

Watching dad and grandpa split wood

Mom and boy

Boy

The action

keep on the lookout

there are going to be some "new" posts that will be pre-dated on the blog to when they actually occurred in time.  (so for example some thanksgiving pictures are going to show up on the blog in the november 2013 timeframe).  so keep your eyes open for some #TBT (not necessarily on a thursday)

enjoy :)

Chips and salsa

At la tolteca

Handsome fella

This guy picked out his own outfit.