Thomas William: 2006

Monday, December 04, 2006

Thank You Grandma

Don't they look cute in the matching pajamas that Grandma bought them?!?

Friday, December 01, 2006

No Christmas Card Picture This Week

We took the kids to see Santa today. A friend told me that he would be at Longwood Estates until 2 pm. She told me this at 12 pm at the dance studio. Megan's class is done at 1 pm. On the way home I called daddy and asked if he could get Thomas up from his nap early and get his Christmas outfit on him ... cause we were going to get our Christmas pictures taken!!! They were both ready when we got home and I only had to strip Megan of her leotard, leave the tights on, and throw on Megan's Christmas dress and black shoes and we were ready to go!!!

Unfortunately, when we got there we realized that we had one coat between the four of us and it was a bit chillier then we thought. But hey, we can work around this! Two kids can fit into daddy's big warm leather jacket!

We arrived at 1:48 and we got in line immediately. This picture was taken while we were waiting in line to see Santa. This is the best of the dozen or so we took and it didn't make the cut for the Christmas cards.

At 1:53, 5 minutes after waiting in lines freezing our hinies off, this nice lady comes up and informs us that we are welcome to wait in line but AT 2 pm Santa has to take off. We may or may not make it, but we decided to take our chances.

During the car ride over and the whole wait in line we are talking this Santa thing up. Telling him what we want for Christmas, sitting on his lap, smiling for the camera. Both kids are super excited and can't wait to sit on Santa's lap.

Finally, at 1:58 Santa is in sight. Both kids freak out and there was no way in the world we were getting these kids anywhere near Santa and we had a line of about 5 couples who had less then 2 minutes to sit on Santa's lap and tell them their Christmas list so we did the nice thing and walked right on by. No, the kids did not get a candy cane and No, the kids did not get to make the ornament. No Santa, No candy cane, No ornament, No argument!!!

Now we were are all dressed up with no where to go. We remembered that last weekend, while playing at the beach there were several families on the beach taking their Christmas pictures. Ha, it's a nice sunny day ... let's go!

If we thought it was cold at Longwood Estates, that was nothing compared to the WINDY beach. This was the best of the bunch of the dozen or so pictures we took at the beach. It didn't make the Christmas card cut either.

Maybe next weekend ...

Saturday, November 25, 2006

First Trip To The Beach

Big Splash in the Big Pond

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Hellllooooo

Peace Out

This is Fun!!!

I just love throwing rocks

Aaaaaaaaaaaa

Rock On

Daddy and Thomas hanging out

King of this fort too

Friday, November 24, 2006

Happy Birthday Uncle Sam

Helping the birthday boy blow out his candles

Hanging out with Aunty Liz

Things always taste better on someone else's plate.

PS ... Uncle Sam's Birthday is really the 24th and we did indeed celebrate his birthday on the 24th ... the camera must be playing tricks on us.

PPS ... See those darling jammies the kiddos are wearing? These are some of the gifts that Grandma came bearing. They love them!!!

Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Family Comes To Visit

Grandma came bearing gifts for all :)

Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Welcome Home Buddy

Welcome Home Thomas ... first full day home

Monday, November 20, 2006

On our way home!!!

After an exhausting 6 day trip where we were going nonstop, we are finally on our way home. My goodness, this kid has alot of stuff. Between the four of us, we can check in 8 bags and carryon 4 bags. Megan, Daddy and Mommy managed to fit all of their stuff into one bag leaving 7 check-ins and two of the carryons for young Thomas.