This Christmas

Another Christmas has come and gone...

And it was awesome! 

Before we left Georgia, we got decked out in our Christmas pajamas and drove around to look at the Christmas lights. 

Back in November, we visited Santa in South Carolina. Since I understood what was going on and that Santa would bring me presents, I had a really nice visit. I asked him for an Elmo book and something from Jake and the pirates.

When Quinn saw Santa he asked for Lego Ninjago and some games. Later, he wrote this letter. It says "Dear Santa, I forgot to tell you I want Battleship and I was a good boy. To Santa. From Quinn."

This week we packed up and headed for a week with the family in Virginia. First we went to Grandma Pam's and Grandpa Steve's house. Cousin Cormack was there and all our uncles (and Aunt Elissha, we were only missing Aunt Olivia). We made gingerbread houses. I've been talking about making gingerbread houses at Grandma's house for quite a while. I knew exactly what I wanted mine to look like.

 

The Park boys in our matching dino pjs.

We had fun playing with Cormack. He was fun to run around with.

  

On Christmas Eve, we dressed up nicely (we left the green glasses in the car) and went to church.

When we got back, we left out some cookies for Santa and went to bed early to wait for him.

On Christmas morning, we rushed downstairs and saw that Santa had come! He brought Quinn Battleship!

And he brought me my Elmo book. For weeks, I have been saying "I a yittle sad. I miss my Melmo book." I used to have an Elmo ABC book, but I can't find it. Not sure why I miss it so much, but I've been missing it for weeks. But yay! Now I can be happy again!

Santa left us a note, too. It said a couple of our presents were too big, so he dropped them of at our house in Decatur. Now we have something to look forward to there, too!

 Everybody had fun opening presents and playing with them.

The next leg of our Christmas journey was going out to Mommy's family. Here we are with Cousin Elizabeth.

 

It was a long, but happy day. Now we're still having fun hanging out with family and enjoying our holiday. Hope everyone else had a lovely holiday, too! Merry Christmas!

Listen to Us

Here are some videos of us lately.
Here's Logan talking about lots of important stuff


Here I am in the children's choir singing "Jesus Loves Me". I'm in the front row, the third one from the right.

Here I am reading one of my Magic Tree House books.

Happy Halloween!!

Happy Halloween, everyone! 

It's finally Halloween; we've been waiting for so long. This is the first time we both really knew what was going on and got into the holiday. Quinn went back and forth between a red ninja and the Flash, so it took him awhile to come to a decision. I, on the other hand, wanted to be Superman. But then I saw this Mickey costume and thought that was a good idea, too. All week I've been saying I was going to dress up as "Mickey Mouse Super Why." Not sure if that meant first Mickey, then Super Why or both together, but once I got my Mickey costume on I never said anything about Super Why so we went with it!

We got dressed up and trick-or-treated with our friends from our neighborhood. Here we all are- Mickey, the Hulk (Sebastian), Red Ninja, Cleopatra (Paige), Construction Worker (Rowan), Princess Sophia the First (Audrey) and Baby Dino (Ezra).

We had fun running around together.

I was pretty excited once I realized people were giving out candy. Must have forgotten that part from last year. I was very good about saying "Thank you," but I said it very quietly most of the time.

Quinn and Audrey are in the same class at school together and they stuck together most of the night.

We were very excited that one house gave out raisins! I imagine our attitudes on that will change in a few years.

When we got home we checked out our loot, chose one treat to chow down on and watched the traditional Charlie Brown special before we conked out. It was a great night!

Before the actual holiday, we've been enjoying a lovely Halloween season. When Grandpa George came to visit a couple of weeks ago, we went to a pumpkin patch fun place. Quinn loved the bouncy pillow. I didn't try it.

I did like the pirate ship, though. And just a side note, Daddy dressed me this day. We had a day full of soccer, pumpkin fun, and a birthday party. I got many many compliments on my blazer.

Quinn's making a sad face because he's in jail.

They had a cool bee house with bees who came in and out and we learned all about honey. Quinn loved it.

And we took a hayride

Through fields populated with animated characters.

We each picked out a pumpkin and Quinn helped Daddy take it to the register.

Just this weekend, we carved the pumpkins. Quinn drew out his face on paper first, Mommy transferred it to the pumpkin and Daddy carved it.

Quinn said it was his teacher, Ms. Houston! Not sure how it looks like her, but Quinn was very sure that's what he had drawn and was very pleased with his Ms. Houston pumpkin. Ms. Houston was also pleased to hear Quinn had honored her in such a unique way.

And I (a.k.a. Mr. Stubborn), decided I didn't want my pumpkin cut at all. So it's still a pumpkin, not a jack-o-lantern. Quinn's has already started to rot, and mine is perfectly intact, so I might come out ahead in the long run!