Christmas 2009

We had a great Christmas this year.

Tom has been the hardest to buy for as he is now almost 9 and not into little boy toys anymore so this year we brought a Wii! for Him.

 he also had a few other things!

including a BIG bag of pistachio nuts

Ashton didn't get left out, he got.........wait for it........ PIRATES

His very own pirate model boat, to go on the shelve with Dad's figures!

And of course he had to paint it with Dad's help... that day!

The question I hear you ask is what did Mom do while the boys were having all the fun painting with Dad?

she had fun with her favorite thing... electronics!!!!

Merry White Christmas

I would not like to meet the person who wished for a white Christmas this year.
Because we got one 6 days before Christmas day. But not to worry it will not melt as we got 17 inches of the white stuff...

Our area has this thing, we see about 2-6 inches total of snow each winter, in about 2-3 storms so this was unusual for this area and as this place has a habit of shutting down for 1 inch of snow, you can guess what it is like now we have 17 inches of the stuff. but we had fun anyway!

This is in the trees outside our place.

The cars need to be dug out too!!!!!

We tried to go sledding but it was too deep and soft for it..

But great for Tom's snow fort.

 

Not so great for Ashton to walk in!!

Ashton's 6th Birthday.

Although he is now 6 years old he still has a thing for PIRATES. So what did he want for his birthday,

"PIRATES! please mommy".

He wanted a cake that looked like it was bleeding! Oh what a blood thrusty pirate he is!

And the Pirates keep comming.....

It's a skeleton ghost pirate ship... someone for his "good Pirates" to fight!

Halloween

We had fun this halloween, Mom was still here and this was her first american halloween for a few decades!

The school had a parade for both boys...

Ashton the Skeleton pirate!!!!!!!

Tom the Army man....

We also went trick or treating around our nieghourhood for the frist time in years as our old ward would do a trick or trunk. My Mom came too.

As there was rain that night not many kids were about, so we had to empty our buckets into tom's backpack, they were a little full.

New additon to the Crew.

Tom had always wanted a pet!

And he tells us regularly that he needs one, so........

here is the long awaited one, a baby Guinea pig, just 6 weeks old and really cute!

She is a girl called... Hallie, Short for Halloween!!!

I love seeing Tom's smile!

Mon's visit

Well just a few weeks pass the move and mike's work is sending off accross country for 10 days... so my mom came to help me out for 2 weeks and we have done loads of stuff in the new area, here a few of them.

Just a few blocks away is a manor house which has been turned into a park with nice gardens, walks and playgrounds.

when it rains we have a stream out back of our apartment...looks like it was design just for little boys!.

We also exsplored the local widelife trails!

We've moved AT LAST!

Yes we finally got out of that place. and into a really big apartment ina nice area. In fact the school that the boys go to call our complex of apartment "THE apartment", as they are the only ones in thier catchment area!.
The move hectic, as would would guess, and we need to go back a second time with the truck.... guess my reducing binge wasn't good enough!
do we have photos... sorry no I can't seem to get hold of the camera when the boys are at school and the place look tidy. I;m sure over the next few months you will get to see it... somewhen.