Random Cuteness from a few boys I know

This was on my birthday. My mom stopped into my office with the kids and brought me a chocolate cake with pink frosting and roses from the boys. It was so thoughtful and such a nice surprise! 

Carter in the morning...he is watching Sesame Street. He takes this time very seriously. 

A little artist. It does look that he will be a left handed kid. (YES!) 

Where the Wild Things Are toy. He loves these monsters. 

Cole's most FAVORITE toy to play with. A Hot Wheels track from my Dad and Tamara. Cole and Chris have spent hours (and hours) racing their hot wheels on this. Here they have found a way to make it even taller by putting it on top of a blue bin. Silly boys. 

The Big Turkey Celebration of Twenty-Ten

We survived another Thanksgiving. It was a wonderful holiday. 

Here's a little of what we did. 

We bought a new white artificial tree and decorated it. In true style the kids put all their favorite ornaments on one branch. 

We took Cole to the White Chritsmas musical at the Arts Center I work for. He loved it and it was very festive. It was the perfect exclamation point to the weekend. 

Our winter wonderland.

I did have to work for most of the weekend (I hosted a number of workshops at the Arts Center for the folks who came to see White Christmas) Luckily, I can bring Cole with me to these so he helped me set up the tables and supplies and then he made 12 ornaments. It was Glitter-palooza. We loved every minute of that! 

Thanksgiving-s

What are we thankful for today, tomorrow, and yesterday? 

Two healthy little rambunctious boys, family vacations and embracing the chaos. 

2010 has been an amazing year of memories.

Halloween and Scouts

Every year we go to "Boo at the Zoo" for Halloween. This year since Halloween was on Sunday we celebrated on Friday and Saturday night. For numerous reasons our city doesn't celebrate any holidays on Sundays. Chris and I think this practice by the city is ridiculous but it's just how it is here. There wasn't one trick or treater out on Sunday in our neighborhood. So we took advantage of what we could and had a Halloween weekend for the kids. 

The kids this year wanted to be Rally Race Car Drivers for Subaru. Hm....I wonder if Chris had anything to do with this idea? So it was up to me to figure out how to make the costumes match that of the Rally Drivers. Rally Drivers race in off road terrain that is full of mud and twists and turns and the boys love watching it on tv. So Chris found an image of a uniform with the help of our good friends at Google and I re-created all the logos and printed them onto iron on paper and then Chris and I worked on ironing them onto the blue sweat suits. The kids were pretty happy. 

And the finishing touch on the costumes....were gold shoes. You'll see why below. 

Carter is a 'mini me' of Cole

So the gold shoes match the gold wheels on Chris' car. 

A few weekends later we had a scouting event for Cole that involved the police and a police trained dog. 

The kids watched the dog attack the 'bad guy' and then sniff out hidden drugs. It was pretty awesome. 

Then they were able to crawl all over the police car. 

The boys all crawled into the back seat and Cole said "Hey, all the cub scouts got arrested!"

 It was funny!