Thanksgiving 2012 - Cason and Mo Running

Neanie and Grandpa have a long hallway in their house. It's was home to many days of bowling, running, sliding in our socks, Lego village building and who knows what else when James and I were growing up.  Cason and Mo found their own game.  This quick video represents many laps and lots of squeals the few days we were all together over Thanksgiving.

(hopefully I'll post Thanksgiving pictures one of these days)

Memorial Day at The Waterway

A big group of us got together at The Waterway for Memorial Day.  We picked up pizza and camped out until the fireworks show.

St Patricks Day

Of all places, I'd think The Woodlands would have had some sort of family friendly St. Patrick's day celebration. All we could find was Green Beer events at some of the local bars and that just didn't feel like the right option for a 5 week old and an almost 2 year old.

Houston has a big parade and maybe we'll go next year. I'm sure it doesn't compare to the Mal's St. Paddy's Day Parade but nothing can.

Fortunately, The Woodlands was in the middle of its March Live at Night on the Waterway so we rounded up a few friends and set up our blankets on the grass.  We ordered pizza to go from Grimaldi's, had some wine/beer and let the kids run around the park and splash in the fountains.

It was a great night though Ryan and I were both exhausted from taking turns chasing Cason around.  He had a blast though!




And for proof that Claire was involved in the Green festivities, some (very late) bedtime pictures.

Holiday in The Forest

Tonight was the second annual Holiday In The Forest event in our neighborhood.  This is where Santa and one of his reindeer come and they have the big lighting of the neighborhood tree.

This was the first time Cason saw Santa last year and he wasn't really wild about him.  We've been talking about Santa a lot this year and he can say "Santa" and likes him from a distance... but up close and personal, he's not into it.   This was the second time we saw Santa this year and he wanted nothing to do with us leaving him alone with Santa.

Here we are last year...

And this year...

Cason still really likes the lights... this year he can SAY "light" and can stand up (and run around like a crazy person... he's non-stop action these days)

Last year...

This year...

We might see Santa a couple of more times before Christmas... more pictures to come.

Santa (Take 1)

A few weeks ago, during the Junior League Holiday Market, I worked at the Cocoa and Cookies with the Clauses event.   Ryan brought Cason up at the end to meet Santa and Mrs. Claus.  It did not go as planned but the pictures are funny:

We also had a fun photo booth at the event so we snuck in a quick picture before they closed down.

Play Day with Daddy

I don't work on Fridays so Cason and I get lots of play time.  Sometime we run errands (he doesn't love those days), some days we meet up with friends, sometimes we just play at home.  Wonderwild is one of our favorite places to go and I've been really wanting Ryan to go with us to see how fun it is.  Luckily they were open the Friday after Thanksgiving and since we were both off work, we made the trip.

The best thing was that it was not crowded at all so Cason and Ryan got to run all over and not worry about many other kids.  Playing with Daddy is just so much more fun than playing with Mommy.

I only had my phone camera but still got some fun pictures.

We finished the morning with lunch at Fuddrucker's and he was passed out by the time we hit Woodlands Parkway!

And here is a video of a little of the action!

Thanksgiving 2011

Oh man, I'm so behind.  Its January 19, 2012 and I'm just posting Thanksgiving pictures.  As usual, I'm back dating this post for "historical" purposes.

We hosted a Thanksgiving Brunch at our house this year with Ryan's family.  It was nice for us to not have to pack Cason up and I always enjoy having family at the house.  The puppies enjoyed themselves too... Admiral and Clive wrestled for a good 4 hours straight.

Here are the highlights!

Thanksgiving Jammies... Cason learned to say "Gobble, Gobble" and thought it was really fun to say.

The spread... yum!

Family picture!

Post brunch play time... the hat I bought for my snowman wreath was the source of a lot of entertainment before I cut it in half.

Watching Football

Playing on computers and iPads

After the brothers left to celebrate with their other families, we prepared a small, traditional dinner with just Ryan's parents.  Cason took a god nap and woke up ready to eat!

He's sucking his thumb while showing off how he can cross his fingers... I think I had told him to get his fingers out of his mouth and this is what he did.  If you ask him "Cason, where are your fingers?" he crosses his fingers but only on his left hand.

He ate most everything on his plate.  The Jello was probably his favorite!