Monday, November 22, 2010

First Snow

Everything is covered in white and it's that time to bundle up and play in the snow! Jacob enjoyed his first snow fall of the season and liked being pulled in the sled, making snowballs, and discovered what snow tastes like. He did not appreciate however falling in the snow face first or the whole process of getting dressed and ready to go out in it. Since my big-little man has grown completely out of last years snow suit mommy had to improvise with footy pajamas under sweat pants and a wool sweater. Top that off with a Thomas the tank engine rain coat, rain pants and rain boots with some extra socks, hat and mittens and you got Jacob's snow gear. Lot's of layers but I'm sure he was warm and dry.



A boy and his sled!


My sweet little man

After about 45 minutes Jacob was done playing in the snow despite mommy trying to coax him to play longer. *sigh* Oh well

Monday, November 1, 2010

Trick or Treat

We had a very fun Halloween once again. It was fun to see everyone dressed up and our little man took the cake with his engineer costume (and I'm totally not biased at all). Yet again we had a ton of kids come by the house for a little candy and we ended up going through 4 whole huge bags of candy. WOW!!!! Jacob loved giving out all the candy when the door bell rang. He would drop whatever he was doing and run as fast as he could to the door. Depending on what the costumes were he would either enthusiastically drop a piece a candy in the bag (to the lady bugs, princesses, or spidermans) or stand back in shock at the scary masks. We had fun and my little sister Joanna even volunteered to dress up as Thomas the tank engine and let Jacob lead her around the neighborhood.

The spooky dinner table

Aunt Jackie the mime...she won hands down for costume creativity

Aunt Julianne the duchess
Aunt Dasha the angel with attitude :)







My engineer and his train

My brothers Indiana Jones (Johnny) & Robin Hood (Josh)



My mom (Jean), Dasha, Jackie, me, and Pearl


Dasha, Jackie, great Grandma Pearl, and Dana

The Sea Ranch

We had the amazing privilege to travel to the northern California coast with most of the Hanks clan early October. Mike's mom rented us all a beautiful house with a gorgeous view of the ocean and we spend a long weekend with her and everyone else including: Uncle Cliff, Aunt Dana, Aunt Julie, Grandpa Hanks, Uncle Shawn, Aunt Mari, and cousins Alexa and Ryder. Sea Ranch is beautiful and we had fun walking along the bluffs overlooking the ocean, observing the tide pools, flying kites, and jumping in the waves despite the freezing cold water. We had wonderful meals provided by Grandma Hanks and got to play games and just hang out in the evenings. It was fantastic. Thank you so much Pat for sharing Sea Ranch with us! We love you!


Hmmm...which shovel should I choose


Aunt Juju, Grandpa Hanks, & Grandma Hanks





Aunt Mari with her munchkins




My crazy boy




Uncle Cliff fishing in the surf


Daddy shielding himself from the wind



Uncle Shawn's attempt at blocking the wind



Our pretty walk through the park to the beach



Grandpa Hanks


Pretty cousin Alexa





Our trilby kite


Walking along the Sea Ranch bluff






Sea Ranch is so beautiful



Checking out the tide pools







While checking out the tide pools we also came across some larger sea life.


I love my two guys

















Grandma Hanks and our big boy





On our last night we even got a beautiful sunset

Jacob was sad to go home