Rum Bum Bo

Today we did a fair amount of cleaning and prepping for putting up Christmas tree. We put on Christmas music. GMan succinctly put it, "We are listening to Rum Bum Bo on the iPod so it must be Christmas." He's certain today was Christmas and tomorrow is Christmas...

Rum Bum Bo is what he calls "Little Drummer Boy" by Mercy Me. He's really into the song and requested it until July I think.

Thanksgiving at the Garden

Since we didn't go anywhere for Thanksgiving this year I took the kids to the Garden while Chris made tamales.  Only Chris didn't make tamales as he didn't have the appropriate corn husks.  We had some quite yummy pulled pork though.  We will make it into tamales once we get the husks.  The kids and I had a great day at the garden.  The garden trains were out so the kids were fascinated by them.  GMan was very concerned when one wasn't running.  He kept telling the people who worked there that the train wasn't working since he wanted to make sure it wasn't malfunctioning.  Since there weren't a lot of people around I let the twins crawl around on the ground.  They liked looking at the poinsettias up close and getting a non-stroller view of things.  Everyone gave them wide berth and mentioned how cute they are.  We also watched "Grinch" at night and everything seems to be going to put up the Christmas tree tomorrow.  We finally got a new one.  Chris decided that he wasn't putting up the old one again.  It is the one we got the first year we got married.  The lights on the pre-lit tree haven't worked for years and the limbs are falling out.  I think we got our $200 worth out of the tree though.  It was a good one and went to Arkansas Illinois North Carolina and Missouri.  :)

Here are the pictures for the garden day though.

GMan concerned that the Thomas under this tree wasn't running. 

Four (well 3) calling birds

Route 66 Half Marathon

I went to Tulsa for the Annual Route 66 Half Marathon that I do.  I managed to convince my mom and Philip to do it with me this year.  We all completed it and did decently.  The weather was FANTASTIC! Mom and I volunteered for the EXPO to hand out shirts and had a lot of fun.  

The boys went with me while the big kids stayed home with dad. Boys enjoyed playing with the animals at my mom's house especially Big E.  

We managed to make it out to see my dad and my uncle was there and it was great to see him and my aunt. This was also just before my dad went back into the hospital (he got home Thursday)...  Hopefully he won't have a long stay in the hospital this round.   

Big E hated the drive home.  During a break I thought he could drive...

4th Birthday Fun!

We had a party for GMan on Saturday.  Several friends came over and we all had fun.  A bossed everyone around and ran the show pretty much.  We made trains because GMan said that he wanted a "train race" so we had everyone paint trains and we were going to race them.  However everyone just played outside and we never got around to actually racing the trains. 

I made fondant and learnt that it was ridiculously easy to make.  We made Diesel 10s (his party theme) and other fun things. 

Halloween Fun!

A few pictures from Halloween and all the fun it entailed.  We did a church festival the Saturday before and then did the Garden for Ghouls in the Garden the Sunday before Halloween.  We had a Halloween costume contest at work and my counter part and I did Thing 1 & Thing 2. Everyone constantly confuses us (and half the people don't see it) so it worked out well.