Thanksgiving 2011

For this Thanksgiving we decided to go to Corpus and visit my parents. The kids had a whole week off from school. It was a pretty relaxing Thanksgiving. We went to the beach a lot. The water was pretty chilly. Despite that there were still a handful of people swimming. Including lil Ricky. CRAZY!!

My parents made a turkey dinner which was pretty good. It was just the basics so no a ton of sides. Still way more than enough food. We were stuffed.

We also tried to take a family picture by the beach. That didn't really work out. We went in the morning so the sun was ALWAYS in our eyes. We also had to take the wind into consideration. Many things were against us. Sigh.........

Hana's School Picture

Hana's 4 year old Fall school picture at Windwood.
I thought they turned out awesome.

Hana's Wisdom To Me

I have not posted in a while. I really need to post and catch every one up on our Thanksgiving and what we have been up to.
I will save that for a later date though.

I just wanted to post something Hana said. This is something I don't want to forget.
I must say, it was not funny as it was happening.

Most people know Hana and I butt heads all the time. We just see things totally different. I think wearing a nice dress to her Christmas concert is the right decision vs her choice of outfit, jeans with a skirt and a non matching shirt. Daily we're on different pages. I'm so exhausted by night time that I think I literally check out around 7pm and anything goes.

This particular day she got in trouble in school and I was trying to explain something to her regarding the issue. She finally looks at me and says "mom you are arguing with a 4 year old."

I didn't know if I should pull my hair out or laugh.
Where does she get this stuff?!?!
She is pretty smart though. There is no arguing with a 4 year old. There is no winning with a 4 year old. It's a lost cause.

She definitely keeps me on my toes and makes me laugh.

HALLOWEEN!!!!!!!

The kids LOVE Halloween. Lil Ricky has been counting down since Sept. It finally came - yay!!!
We have such amazing neighbors. The kids started their trick or treating with a great start. Michelle and Stephanie give the kids such great goody bags. Filled with lots and lots of treats. We can't thank them enough.
Hana had made up her mind that she did not want to trick or treat but give candy out instead. She dresses as Scooby from Scooby Doo. She also played her part really good. Getting on all fours and panting. That's Hana for you. She enjoyed giving out candy.
Ricky wanted to trick or treat. We walked the neighborhood for a little over an hour. Our neighborhood is very generous. We came back with a whole bag full. Now i'm not sure what we're going to do with it all!!
At the very end lil Ricky got really scared. On the porch was a rocking chair with a werewolf in it and the pot of candy by the chair. When Ricky got close, obviously the werewolf moved and scared him. He was so scared he dropped his entire bag of candy and ran out of his shoes (crocs) to come to me. He cried for a while. They came over and calmed him down. He was their biggest scare of the night!!!

Halloween is also a very special day because it's big Ricky's birthday. He turned a whopping 42 years old. I baked him an apple pie from scratch. Apple pie is his favorite. Yum. It was so good. I think I ate most of it. The kids sang him happy birthday in the morning, gave him cards they picked out and a hand stamped key chain. The Fri before I took Ricky to a ghost theater and a ghost hunt in Tomball. We didn't see a ghost but we did get a great history of Tomball and now know where some ghosts are lurking. Spooky!!

Other Fall/Halloween Festival pictures.

                           school parade.