Cocoa is the BEST!

Especially after some hard playing in the snow!!!

Happy Birthday, Hunter!!

5 Years Old!!!

A new Leapster Game? Yes!!

He chose to go to Carvel for ice cream instead of cake or cupcakes! Yummy!!

Gingerbread Men

This year we decided to decorate giant gingerbread men instead of a gingerbread house. It was a fun afternoon activity that kept the boys busy for about 30 minutes. Thirty minutes of peace! I'll take it!!


Alex really took a lot of time to decorate his gingerbread man just right.

Hunter wanted me to do the icing for him while he ate his candy toppings.

How does it taste? According to Alex, horrible. He said that he thought they were just for decoration, not to be actually eaten.

Hunter disagreed. He thought it was delicious and would have eaten the entire cookie in one sitting if I had let him.
That boy loves his sugar!

Who wants an apple?

The boys and I went apple picking with Nana when she was here visiting in October. It was a gorgeous day and the trees were LOADED with apples! We picked almost 30 pounds of Pink Ladies! Yum!
After the picking (which took a lot less time than you'd think 30lbs. would take) we enjoyed some apple cider and apple cider donuts (again yum!). We love apple picking in the fall!

Happy Birthday, Hunter!

Happy 4th Birthday to my little guy! I can't believe how big he is getting! He was sweet enough to give US a gift for his birthday too....he started using the potty ALL the time!!! Whoop Whoop! No more daytime diapers for us!
He really is a big boy now!!!


4 Years Old!!!

Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (he loves to sing "All the Single Ladies" from this movie. We saw it in the theater at Christmas time.)

This will be a fun game!

No, Saeda. You are too little and this is MY new scooter. Don't even think about it!

Home SWEET Home

Gingerbread home, that is!! We had a blast making our first ever gingerbread house this year. It came pre-assembled, so that part was easy. I made the frosting a little too runny so our candies kept running off the house, but the end result still came out really cute. The boys couldn't resist the beaters from the frosting, and I could barely keep Hunter from eating all of the candy. They were bummed that I told them we wouldn't be eating the house...who wants to eat old, stale gingerbread and rock hard candy? Apparently my kids do!

Halloween 2009

Mario and Scream-face! We searched high and low for the matching Luigi costume for Alex, but apparently it was extremely popular this year and I couldn't even find it in-stock online! So Alex went scary this year, and I can't say I was too pleased!! I don't want him to want the scary costume every year from now on!!!

They had a great time this Halloween! We started the evening off with a neighborhood parade and pot-luck dinner. Followed by some very profitable trick-or-treating! The boys ended up with a ton of loot (thanks mostly to Alex for hitting every house in the neighborhood again this year!). Hunter loved handing out candy to the kids after he had done his round of the neighborhood.

Halloween is always such a fun time!

Apple Picking

Carter Mountain was packed on the day we decided to pick apples, thanks to the Apple Festival, but we had fun none-the-less! We picked about 15 pounds of apples, although next year we will pick more than that because Frank ate most of them in about a week and a half!!

The boys had a lot of fun, although it took Hunter a little while to get the hang of it. The hot apple-cider doughnuts were the best!

TN - Here we come!!

At the end of summer vacation, the boys and I hit the road to YiaYia and Fonder's new house in TN. We had a fantastic visit! Fonder taught Alex to play chess and dominos, we went to the birthplace of Davy Crockett, we visited a llama farm, celebrated Fonder's birthday, and made s'mores. Such a fun visit and a great way to end a great summer!

On our way home we stopped at a scenic view rest area and had a look at the beautiful mountain view!

Strawberry Picking

I took Hunter strawberry picking for the first time yesterday. I can't say that he loved the experience. He didn't want to touch most of the berries, picking only a handful the whole time we were there, and he definitely didn't want to eat any of them ("Look....dirty!"). Mommy picked 5lbs. though, so we'll be having some yummy strawberry treats soon! Maybe he'll like that a little better!

Easter

The Easter Bunny brought Alex and Hunter lots of fun treats this year! There were eggs hidden all over the downstairs filled with candy, and each boy had to find his own basket (which was also filled with candy and other goodies). Later in the day we had a yummy Easter dinner.
Happy Easter everyone!