Rudolph came early this year...

I was all excited to get started with our 25 days/activities of Christmas today.  Instead of having candy or toys in our advent calendar we have different Christmas activities.  Everything from breakfast with Santa to baking Christmas cookies to singing Christmas carols.  Tonight's activity was a little derailed when I got a call from Nolan's teacher saying he had fallen and hit his nose pretty hard.  I came down to find a red nosed little boy with big crocodile tears.  (No worries because he was still able to say "cheese" for the pic)  His nose has bled most of the night (I think mostly because he continues to hit it on things), but he is doing much better.  It was pretty cute when I came down to see him, I told him he looked like Rudolph with a big red nose and he kept pointing to the Rudolph on his shirt.  We had to settle for listening to Christmas music tonight.  Maybe tomorrow's activity will go better!   

Falling Leaves

 We haven't had a ton of leaves in our yard so Grandma and Grandpa made sure to save us some.  Nolan had a great time playing with D in the leaves!  D had to show Nolan what to do a few times, but then he quickly got it and loved it!

 

The Kids Table

 We had a great thanksgiving spending time with family and friends!  Nolan had lots of turkey and  even some pie!  Very tasty!  For some reason Nolan decided to get up at 4:00 AM on black friday.  I think he was just ready to go shopping.  He was up... we were up... so we headed out to do a little shopping.  It didn't last long, but we did pick up a few things.  That night we had some family and friends over to celebrate the season.  Everyone brought over treats and we all got to spend some time together.  My favorite part of the evening was the kids table.  I thought it turned out pretty cute!

   Don't worry there was food for the adults too.... just not as cute!

Two Turkeys at the Trot!

One of my favorite parts of Thanksgiving is the Turkey Trot!  You feel a little better about that second helping if you get out a little that morning.  Last year we left Nolan at home, so I was really excited about getting this family tradition started.  I was a little nervous about how he was going to do during the race.  Luckily we had some friends that were also taking their little one to the trot.  We started out that morning with both the little ones in their strollers, by the end of the race there were two babies being held and two mommies pushing empty strollers!  The race passed by where we had parked about the same time we passed the two mile sign.  These two mommas might be crazy, but we are not dumb!  We headed for the warm car and waited for the daddies!  Maybe next year we will make it to the finish line! 

Happy Thanksgiving to the Hawkins Family!  Thanks for spending Thanksgiving morning with us!

this one is for all the red hat lovers...

I got a lot of comments about Nolan's red hat...

 What?!?  It's cute and keeps the sun off of him!  Very practical!     It was time to get him a winter hat... what do you think???

 

Halloween Day

Sorry for being so late with them, but I thought they were too cute to not post.  Here are some pics from Halloween Day!

 Pumpkin pancakes for breakfast

 

One woof woof trying to take another woof woof for a walk

trick or treating time!

Texas Rangers pumpkin

 Time to go to bed!

Petting Sting Rays

I have been really excited about the Children's Aquarium opening for a while.  We finally got to go this weekend.  It wasn't very crowded so Nolan was able to run around and look at everything.  It was all at his height and everything was very colorful.  There was a lot of things to touch, so he really had a good time!   He was even able to pet Sting Rays!