Christmas Dinner

We ate the who-pudding, we ate the roast-beast. Who took the who-hash leftovers? Okay, so we've been reading the Grinch quite a bit. I could probably recite it word for word by now. We had a wonderful Christmas crowd, it was chaos and overeating madness! We loved it!

Ashley Dukes looking adorable in her Christmas dress.

After a few too many glasses of Who-wine.....
Mary and my dad (aka Santa). We were so lucky to have Mary join us for all the festivities, it was a treat!


Nick and Stac watching the Incredibles. It is always wonderful to have Staci and Emily around. Nick loves them both so much and they enjoy him too! They are such wonderful young ladies!
My mother-in-law Josie makes beautiful aprons, she brought one for my mom and Misty. They are adorable!


Tommy Dukes after dinner.....he didn't get much rest, too many of us kept laughing at him.
That was our Christmas weekend adventure! Hope everyone has a Happy New Year!

The Bows and the Wrappings

The three times we took Nick to see Santa, Nick asked for Candy and a Super Hero suit. We've been watching the Incredibles movie and Nick wanted a Dash costume. Lucky for us Santa brought one, along with a stocking full of candy. Our Santa video is too big to download to the blog, but you can find it on our facebook pages.

Nick had a visit from Santa at our house Christmas Eve. We had just closed the door after saying goodnight, when what should we hear? Santa and his reindeer! So we got Nick out of bed and snuck to the end of the hallway. We peered quietly over the balcony and Santa was downstairs delivering gifts and eating the cookie we left for him! Nick was so excited that Santa was in our house, the look on his face was priceless!

Ever since Nick opened his Super Hero suit gift from Santa, he has not taken it off except for nap time and bedtime. Seriously, he has worn it all day, every day since Christmas.




Christmas Eve and Christmas morning were so much fun! Nick would open one gift and if he was really into it, he didn't want to open anymore gifts. It was "you can open it, mommy". With the exception of the M&M's that Great Grandma sent, then it was "I want to eat M&M's for breakfast, okay?" To which my reply was, "It's Christmas, why not?"

December!

So this was going to be the photo we put on our Christmas cards this year, but since I never ordered them.....
Quickly moving along.....Nick decided he wants to goof off when we try to take his picture now. Makes it a little tough to get a good photo, but he is pretty silly!

Early December we went to Storybook Land in Albany. It's pretty amazing the amount of work that goes into it and it live's up to it's name. They had a Santa there, so Nick put in his Christmas wishes. We also saw Santa in Eugene and the Albany Mall. Not sure which Nick likes better, Santa or the Easter Bunny.



Nick being silly in his froggy hat.


And I'm so happy that I captured this photo. What cute buns!
Nick quotes of December:

- "I want to go to La Roca (our favorite restaurant) and flirt with Veronica and Dahlia."

- "Mommy, you have a plethora of laundry."

- "I like Great Grandmas cookies better than Oreos. She makes good cookies and I love her."

** More Christmas Photos to be posted soon, I promise ***

November Snow

For Thanksgiving I made cranberry sauce and it called for Cinnamon Sticks, so I gave one to Nick and he loved it! He kept saying "Thank you for this mommy, I really like it."
We had snow in Corvallis! Nick and Mike got to have a snow day Thanksgiving week and they played and played in the snow. When I got home Nick and I had a snowball fight outside. He laughed and laughed when I was throwing snow at him. We must find snow again this year!


I picked up a little table and chairs for the kids to eat at Thanksgiving Day. Nick really likes having a table his size.
November funnies:

- Nick asked me what makes a boy a boy and a girl a girl. So I told him our chromosomes tell us if we are a girl or boy and we either have XX or XY Chromosomes. Later that week we were in the car with Grandma and Nick said to her, "I didn't know chromosomes talked to eachother, that's weird."

- Nick told Grandma "I love mommy, she does fun things with me and I like to make her laugh. She's really cute and I love her." Awwwww, he knows how to melt my heart.

- I was trying to help Nick to pee standing up and I wasn't doing a good job. I said to him "Mommy is not very coordinated in helping because I don't know how to pee standing up." Nick replied, "It's easy mommy, you just aim." Then Mike helped him to aim better and Nick came running to me and said, "the trick, mommy, is to lean forward a little bit."

- My cousin Wes came to visit and Nick ran into his playroom while we were in the kitchen. Nick came running back to the kitchen totally stripped down and exclaimed "It's naked time!"

- I asked Nick what he wanted to do one day and he told me he just wanted to "Mole around the house". Not sure where he came up with that.

Our Halloween Adventure

Nick loved loved loved Halloween. He had two costumes, a pirate and skeleton. He wore the pirate costume to the Corvallis Country Club and his skeleton costume to all the other Halloween activities we went to. First we went downtown trick-or-treating Friday October 29th. All the way to downtown Nick rehearsed what we were planning on doing. "I have a costume on, say trick-or-treat, open my bag, say thank you....I'm all ready to go! " Nick caught on really fast to the treating. He ate his candy in between each stop, which means he doesn't understand the concept of hoarding yet. He wanted me to get candy too, but I told him I couldn't because I didn't have a costume so he said, " I want to take you to TJ Maxx to get you a costume so you can get candy too."

On Halloween Day we went to the Harvest Carnival at the fairgrounds in Corvallis. It was really packed with people and Nick wanted nothing to do with it. We talked him into some cotton candy and then he was ready to go trick-or-treating for real. I had told Nick that he would have fun there. "Trust me on this one", is what I told him. Well, he said to me after we left, "I trusted you on this one and I'm angry. That carnival was not fun."

We went to our old neighborhood and he had a blast! He loved going door to door and chatting with all the people. He told a cute college girl that she had pretty hair. Let's just say he ended up with a lot of extra candy because of his charm. At one house the woman at the door tried to give him one piece of candy (he was getting handfuls at other houses because of flirting), but this lady was sticking to ONE piece. So he turned and pointed to all of us and said "Look, I have lots of people. There's mommy and daddy, Grandma and Grandpa, Misty and Gary and Emily. Those are all my people in the street."


Notice that Nick has a piece of candy in his mouth from the previous stop downtown. He didn't want me to hold it for him so he could select candy from the place we were at so he just held it in his teeth to keep his hands free.

Funny Halloween Video