The Peanut Gallerie

We missed the opportunity to celebrate Evan's birthday, but we just had to go see all of our friends before they all got even older!

James had a wonderful time seeing Auntie Sarrah and playing with Evan and Ethan. He even met a few new friends.

Speaking of...

James has a new friend at La Petite. His name is Carson and they are best friends :) When one of them shows up, they lock eyes and start to scream and laugh. Their favorite thing to do is jump off the big blocks! Oh, they have such a wonderful day together. I'm so happy James has made him his friend. Carson was having difficulty adjusting to day care life. I guess he had spent a lot of time at home with his mommy. Now, him and James have fun together and learn from one another. In fact, I went to go pick James up the other day and I heard Carson chant "uh, oh, ah!"... James had been saying this for weeks, but we had no idea where it came from... now we know... we just don't know which one started it?

Silly boys.

James was one of the Giants players that they call Panda. We went to Grammie and Grumpie's house in Granite Bay to trick or treat.

The first house was confusing for a little panda. We climb the stairs, knock on the door, say "trick or treat", reach in a bowl, put it in the bag, say "thank you" and go back down the stairs. (I mention the stairs because they were his favorite part of the journey... I'm sure if he'd known there was candy involved, he would had shifted his focus.)

By the fourth house, he got it down. He would go up to the house and get the "stuff" from the bowl and put it in his little bag.

We only made it to about 6 houses. Enough time to see the end of the game. Of course, Austin brought a radio, just in case... plus, every house we went to, let us know the score, lol.

I am so excited about the holidays coming up. It will be the first with my new growing family :)

I can't wait to go and cut down a tree... make a fire.. listen to Christmas music with you. Have you open presents! That papas and I are amped.

We went to the Air Force museum the day after we got in. That place was huge! It was so amazing to see the history. These planes were made of wood and cloth. Scary to think people actually sat in these and flew them, lol.

The other fun stuff we found in Ohio was all of the good food.

Austin ate the "Thurminator" at the Thurman cafe. Big patties, lots of ham, four kinds of cheese. This thing was big. Sarrah and I shared the Italian sub... man was that tasty.

It was just nice to spend all of that time with each other as a family and with our relatives. My grandpa got to show Austin the garden and although, Austin doesn't eat veggies, he acted liked he appreciated my grandpa's talent.

It was nice to see the Elizondos too. That's a lot of family :)

My aunt Rhonda.... how I miss her so much. I wish we had more time. It was so difficult to say goodbye.

Overall, the trip was great. We're looking forward to our next vacation. One of these days... Disneyland :)