Pancakes With Santa

This morning was breakfast with Santa. Oh how we love breakfast with Santa! Today they had red and green pancakes and a ton of toppings to decorate them with! So fun!

Lachlan
Liam and Jonas

Ethan, Leyna, and Jayden

Isaiah, Mike and Ellie - it was so fun to have them with us this year (and for years to come!)

So Santa came out to greet the kiddos before taking his spot in his chair. Jude did NOT want anything to do with Santa! "If I close my eyes, maybe he won't see me!" Too cute!

Ethan and Isaiah decorated their bags with stickers this time. Much cleaner than stamps!

Claire and Ethan

Concentrating...

Isaiah did really well with these dot markers. We need to invest in some...easy to use and cleaner than paint!

The craft this year was coloring an ornament. Such a cool idea! They picked their color, dipped the pom pom ball in the paint, stuck it inside the ornament, and shook it all around. I love it!

Ethan chose blue.

Baby Michael

Isaiah just loves kissing babies!

Time to visit Santa...

Ethan was telling Santa about the specific cars he wanted...it led to a conversation. Turns out Santa liked cars too. He had to be reminded that their were other children waiting to talk to him...

Isaiah was very excited about this candy cane!

Story time

Mrs. Tina is the BEST!!

Thanksgiving

This morning we went to my mom's for Thanksgiving lunch. It was nice getting together with all the family. Landy made a YUMMY turkey this year, his best yet, and the rest of the food was great. I love Thanksgiving food!!!
Thank you, Father, for the countless blessings you have given us this year. You are so magnificent and I am in AWE of You!

Lost Maples

This morning we met up with our best friends Ryan and Jenny and set off to Lost Maples. They have a tradition of going every year, but this was our first. I was very much looking forward to all the pretty colors on the trees, hoping for a nice walk through the "mountains". Unfortunately, we came a little late in the year for all the pretty colors, though there were a few trees left with some nice reds and oranges. And the "nice walk" I had anticipated turned into a 5 mile HIKE up the mountain and back down the other side!!!

All in all, we had a good time. By the time we got to the picnic table after the hike, I was famished! Food never tasted so good!! Can't wait til next year...

This was the hike up...and I mean it was straight up!

View from the top (the trail to the right was our way down)

Bathtub Play

Isaiah was playing so quietly in the bath tonight...I peeked in and saw he had the cars lined up and the letters spread out on the bathtub wall. He's so cute! He recited all the letters and numbers to me, such a smartie.

Fort Sam Houston Park

This morning we joined up with the Gibbins, Torres, and Dye families and carpooled over to Fort Sam for some fun time on the playground. Erin has been talking about this park for a couple of weeks now and has been wanting to take us. So we packed up our lunches and headed out. What a fun time we had!

Josh helping Lachlan on the bee

Jonas loved this ladybug
Liam has some beautiful blue eyes!

Reef on the slide

Ethan climbing up the silly ladder

Josh and Troy thought these twisty chairs were cool...

Jude, telling time

My sweet Isaiah

Down the slide!

Lachlan's turn!

Chris and Liam on the slide

How many can we get on the ladybug?

Me and Isaiah on the slide

Time to switch to the other playground...this one was old school, stuff we used to play on!

Mark helping Jude across the bridge

Swinging

Lachlan decided the army crawl was the way to go...

The boys wanted to get on this thing...I was just balancing it out...

Ethan and Reef taking on the big dome! They both climbed all the way to the top and back down the other side!

Thanks Erin for taking pictures and for getting us on base for this fun morning!