Counting down Until Christmas

Christmas is on it's way (just pretend with me)!  What should we do to fill in the days?  Well, JC and I returned to ice skating.  We've both improved and I can skate backwards!

You can attend the LA Christmas parade.  Here is what the parade-goers saw.  After is our view - Yes it's Alvin, Simon, and Theodore.

My sister took a different tack and read every book on the shelf.

SM also tried out finger puppets...

JC tried riding bikes in the snow...

I tried on new outfits...

When all else fails.  I suppose you can always try watching TV...

Or just go to sleep!

Get here soon Christmas!

Decorating for Christmas

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.  Why you ask?  It's because my beautiful momma wanted to decorate.  Many people are still under the impression that the tornado took Dorothy to Oz.  Rather she was sent to the LOE to decorate a tree as this picture attests.

Here are the twelve days of Christmas.  This decoration took a lot of time to make as each animal was handcut from fabric.  Good thing our GGMa M did this for us!  Thank you!!! FYI we asked the kids to pose and this what we got....

After putting everything just so, it was time to play garage basketball.  It's just like regular basketball but indoors so that we can stay out after 5 PM (coyote time).

Thankfully, I am Thankful for Thanksgiving

Sorry for the long time between posts.  I was playing the game Memory and completely forgot about the blog.  Isn't it ironic, don't you think?

For the Thanksgiving holiday this year, we drove downhill towards sunny Denver.  Lucky for us, the whole C clan descended upon Buckley AFB to eat turkey together.  No!  Not these turkeys!

Donuts were plentiful...

As was playground time...look there's CS!

Pops ate a lot of cranberry sauce so he needed to sit down.

Book of the weekend was Chicka-Chicka-Boom-Boom!

Happy first thanksgiving, Heavy D!

90th Anniversary of the Pentultimate Kecerovske-Pekl'any Birth

Oh look!  It's a trip to Fort Lauderdale to see the southernmost members of the C clan.  GGma was celebrating her 90th birthday.  She's a long way from where she was born!  She doesn't look a day over 85 to us!

Aunt C spent a lot of time in the pool...

But she also took us to the beach...

And she made us burgers on...donuts!

The party was a big hit, even Uncle W and Cousin D were able to drive south for the visit.

Here's a picture of the cake.  We accidentally used a hurricane candle.  Blowing had no effect.  We almost had to throw the cake in the pool to put out the flame!

What was inside all that icing?  It sure blew JC away!  M is gleefully laughing because a boston creme pie was in her slice!

Happy 90th GGma!

Happy Halloween - M Edition

My Halloween started with a trip to the pumpkin patch.  Look at all those orange bundles of joy.  Since my beautiful momma is on the PTO we knew better than to purchase these!  We went to Smith's instead.

Those Smith's pumpkins smell great!  We hung this in our van as an air freshener for about fifteen minutes before it became overpowering and started dripping seeds.

My school had a parade.  Unbelievably my dad showed up.  I was so happy I screamed when I saw him...

After trick or treating, I stayed up with my dad and brother and passed out candy we had collected to some of the later kids.  We watched the big full moon rise above our mountains.  We brought out SM to see it and she pointed and said "moon...cheese!"  Here our the finished pumpkins, and with that our Halloween adventures are finished too!

Happy Halloween - JC Version

When given the choice between a hamburger, Benjamin Franklin, and an angry bird, I chose to be a hamburger.  Sadly, too many other people had the same idea and my costume sold out.  Angry bird it was.

Unlike my sister, SM, I thoroughly enjoyed pumpkin carving.  Here I am prior to carving...

And here I am with my hand in the thick of it...

My costume was popular with everyone who saw it.  Look at how I stand out in the crowd...

For those worried that this costume is a one year thing due to my massive growth potential I present exhibit A - my future size in the same costume!

Halloween - SM Version

Good day!

Well what does it look like I'm doing?  I'm getting ready for trick or treating!  I had trouble choosing a costume.  This one was too big...

So I went with the flower.  Before we got outside, though, I got to watch pumpkin carving. 

What can I say?  It lacked a certain je ne sais quoi.  Trick or treating is more my style.  Here I am trooping along.  I covered about two miles on foot before calling it a night.  Remember, my legs are really short!

Look at the pay-off!  No carved pumpkin - just CANDY!

Ah-haha...sorry, I'm still laughing about my riches.  By the way, if you ask me for some candy, I will make this face and say "what candy...?"

Happy Halloween!