Pictures with Santa on Ford Island

On Friday, December 5th, Forrest City, our Property managment company, set up a picture day at the community center on Ford Island. They had a "really great Santa" and a photographer to take pictures. So we decided it would be fun to take Lady and get some family pictures.

The kids were pretty excited.

Daniel said "That isn't Santa, it's just a real guy with a hat!"

Can't fool him!

After we had our pictures taken, we decided to take the kids a little closer to the water and see if we could get some more pictures.... Well, I am not a photographer, I do not have a great camera, and my kids weren't cooperating very well. So we took a few and called it good!

Army vs. Navy

Every year Army's football team plays Navy's football team. There is a big rivalry between the two, although it isn't much of a competition (Navy 34-Army 0). Well, we live on the Navy base and our neighbor went to the Naval Acadamy. So we woke up yesterday morning to a very decorated front yard! Pretty cute! They were great. They invited Sterling over to watch the game on their mammoth TV, since they said you cant see the ball on ours! Very fun! Even though Army hasn't won in more than 6 years.. Sterling still wants to watch it every year!

I think it is ingrained in them at West Point!.. Go USMA!

James thought it was great to play in all the crate paper!

Decorating the tree!

We all had a great time decorating the tree... The boys loved putting up the jingle bells!

Daniel's Story

At dinner tonight, Daniel starts telling this story. Not a standard 3 year old story. One with a beginning, middle, and end. One with a climax. Not much of a plot.. but very well thought out story for a 3 year old. It even began with a once upon a time! Nice Job Daniel. I think the funniest part is the constant hand motions!

It is kind of long... but the end is the best!

Sophia and the slide!

Sophia has been watching the boys!

"Anything you can do I can do better!"

Pumpkin Pie

James was having some pumpkin pie and got up to get his pajamas on. Leave any food around and it is sure to be spied by Sophia! Sophia eats anything and everything she finds. She loves to climb up and share whatever anyone is eating.

James left his pie unattended, Sophia helped herself!. What a funny girl! What a messy girl!

Pumpkin pie with lots of whipped cream!

The fork was taking too long!
Hands are much quicker!(and messier)

Thanksgiving 2008

On Thanksgiving morning Sterling had a job to do. He needed to build our new swing set. He have a fabulous park, but it has no swings. James loves to swing, so we got our very own swing set. James has been asking for a swing set for at least 2 years and we finally did it. So, since Thanksgiving morning is the first chance Sterling has had in a long time to spend time with the family, James and Sterling set off to build the swing set!

As soon as anything was assembled, the kids were on it. Piece by piece they went from one thing to another. It was pretty funny. I was in the house trying to make things for dinner and they were outside building. Sophia would just go back and forth. She was very excited too!

Daniel trying out the new slide!

Daniel, James, and Paul (our neighbor) with their Indian hats.

Thanksgiving Dinner with the Keith Family.
It was my first time ever making Thanksgiving Dinner. We ate a little later than planned but everything worked out pretty well.

Thanks Dad and Mimi and Tina for all your support and recipes!

The kids having pie. (Daniel, Paul, James, and Philip)

The adults still needed to wait, we ate way too much for dinner!