Cousins

Over Thanksgiving we had Nick's mom, sister and our niece come for a visit. Here are some cute pictures we took of the cousins!

Kaiden and Scarlett being sweet, minus the tight grip Kaiden has on Scarlett's neck. LOL

If only Scarlett was looking up and Zachary had his hands out of his mouth. This is a great one of Kaiden because he looks like he is just chillin

More Banana bread please!

Nick made some homemade Hawaiian banana bread tonight and was sharing his with Zachary. We decided to mix it with some ice cream and it was delicious!!! Zachary thought it was delicious too and would do a little dance after each bite and then immediately say, "more!" Watch the video

Make sure you press play on this video!

This face is priceless! It looks like he is giving daddy the sweet innocent "pease" face for some more banana bread and ice cream.

I guess it worked because he is taking a big bite! Check out Nick's face. :)

Thanksgiving 2009

This year was the first time Nick and I have ever hosted Thanksgiving dinner at our house. It was a huge success. Nick's mom(Cheryll), sister(Ariane) and our niece(Scarlett) came from Arizona. We were sad that his dad and other sister and her husband were not able to join us, they were greatly missed. My parents also came over since they were not able to go to Fort Worth this year. My mom and I made pretty much all the food, here was our menu.

Turkey

Ham

Sweet Potatoes

Mashed Potatoes

Green Bean Casserole

Broccoli and Cheese Rice Casserole

Carrots

Fruit Salad

Cranberries

Rolls and of course pies!

Zachary pushing Scarlett around, they were both having fun!

Zachary, Scarlett, and Kaiden

Zachary and Scarlett watching Ice Age 3

Cutie Pie Scarlett

They just loved Scarlett's little couch, especially Zachary.

Our feast! YUM YUM

Showing off all that we made!

Kaiden wanted the turkey leg, he ate that thing pretty good! It was funny to watch him

Making Zachary's plate and it looks like Pops is about to eat it! :)

Big Boys eating their Thanksgiving feast!

Our family. Man those boys were so wiggly it was hard to get a good picture but this one is cute.

Zachary thought it would be a great idea to ride Maddie, not sure Maddie agrees but she was good with him like always.

Fire Fighter Nick made the paper!

Nick was in our local paper(Atascocita Observer) this morning. He recently graduated with Honors from the Atascocita Volunteer Fire Department. We can not express how proud and excited we are for him. Reality is setting in though since we have recently heard of a few fires that have already broken out and some bad accidents this past week. Nick has not officially started yet, but has to dedicate 2, 12 hour shifts a month. He will be stationed at station 3 which is only 2 minutes from our house so we will be able to go visit him when he is there.

Here is the link to go see him in the paper online.

http://www.hcnonline.com/articles/2009/11/22/atascocita_observer/news/48aorecruit.txt

These are the pictures from the paper that I snagged. Go check out the link and read about it!

I was suppose to walk up to the front to put his fire fighter shield on his shirt but I had a sleeping child in my lap(Kaiden) and was unable to get up. I felt really bad not being able to get up to put it on him, but I had my hands full. So here he is with some chief instead of his wife!

School Pictures

Kaiden and Zachary recently had their school pictures taken and I was lucky enough to get pictures of them together too. Their pictures turned out so good, my boys are like little models. The photographer was a couple from our church, Jeff and Christine Tonkin. You can view their work at digismiles.com, they do great work!

Rearranging furniture

ZackZilla strikes again! He pushed the butcher block to the other side of the kitchen. I guess he was trying to block us out of the fridge. That boys is super strong and not a day goes by without him pushing the chairs or table around. I guess he has added one more thing to push around.

Just like Pops

Kaiden wanted to be just like Pops today (his Pops works at Lowes). He looked so cute with all of his tools in every pocket and then we even put Nick's safety glasses on him. Pops would be so proud! :) Zachary and Kaiden have been our personal carpenters all day.

Got Milk?

My boys should be in milk ads. Zachary is such a big boy drinking from a big boy cup. He would not sit still long enough for me to take his picture with a milk mustache. Kaiden's picture is absolutely priceless.

Call me Frankenstein

My ZackZilla has some major style and actually picked out this outfit. Hey if he wants to be called Frankenstein then so be it. (From the movie Big Daddy) This should be the new style if you ask me. :)

Yes he is standing on the butcher block, we are crazy parents! LOL He is also holding our squeegee from the shower. silly monkey

Trick or Treat

Kaiden's friend Jeremiah had a birthday party on Halloween and had set up for all of us to go on a trailer ride around the neighborhood for some trick or treating. This was probably the most fun I have ever had trick or treating. I was laughing so hard at my boys and how stinkin cute they were as Batman and Robin. Zachary wanted to run because Kaiden kept running with his cape out singing the Batman song and he of course he had to play the part of Robin running behind. Zachary had somehow lost his shoe so part of the time he only had 1 shoe, good thing he had socks on. He was so cute trying to say "trick or treat" and he totally got the whole concept of going up to the person's door to get some candy. He even went into someones house because he wanted to see their dogs. When we were leaving their house he yelled out the biggest "BYYYYE" that I was crying because I was laughing so hard. It was just so much fun watching them have so much fun going house to house and acting like Batman and Robin. I can not wait for the years to come! enjoy the pictures.

Micah (Ninja turtle), Jeremiah(Dash), and Kaiden(Batman.) Kaiden usually does not look this little but he was leaning back onto Jeremiah which was making him look shorter. I mean I know he is short but not that short.

Zachary with his superhero pose!

i was so proud of those kids for going up and actually getting candy from the scary Michael mask. But hey if they wanted candy they had to do it. Afterwards Kaiden told Nick, "Dad he was scary, let's not go back to that house."

Zachary telling the woman, "Hey pay attention lady and give me some candy!"

3 Amigos

Those are some cute superheros!

So excited about his candy!!!!

The dynamic duo, Batman & Robin! My boys some fast runners too!