A Great Day To Be Outside

Sunday was a great day to be outside.  Blake had so much fun enjoying the sunshine and the toys in the backyard.

See that smile!

Not toy, but Blake played with it just the same......

Later on that evening our neighbor "Aunt Mary" brought Blake a Christmas present

It's a rockin horse....and it sings!!!!!

At first he wasn't so sure but now he rides it and plays the music over and over!!!! He loves it!!!!

Christmas Lights

 A friend is the Clark Griswold type...so we took Blake to see the lights.......

Merry Christmas

Well I finally got all my Christmas Cards out....Had to mail them in 2 batches.....Hopefully the post office has delivered them already....Here is the 2010 Family Christmas Card!

These Are A Few Of Blake's Favorite Things

Ok.....so we've hit a phase....a phase I'm not too happy about right now....it makes me sad.
Whenever we bring out electronics-cells phones, house phones, remote controls or cameras Blake goes after it......I have a million pictures and they are *all* starting to look like this.........

Not good....not good at all with Christmas looming!!!! Mommy's not happy about this phase.  So tonight instead of showing you photos of Blake, I thought I'd share a few of his favorite things.......

So I can get a photo of him once in a while....while he's distracted by an empty box....hours of fun.  I'm really considering wrapping empty boxes and putting them under the Christmas tree....

Things that talk and sing....The black cat was a halloween gift..he sings the theme song to the Adams Family.....and Blake dances....And the Snowman couple, they wish you a merry christmas in song and sway...Blake loves the sway...And the wild raccoon says all kinds of funny things like "bounce me on your knee......whoooooooooa....I'm getting sick....maybe that's not so fun afterall"  he goes on and on carrying on like a goofy redneck(which the box said he was)!!!!

Well what can I say about the box that the top picture didn't say?.....you can get in it, you can get out of it...you can push it around....you can dump it on Mommy or Daddy's head...you can chase Ollie with it and he runs fast as lightning!!!! Complete entertainment all evening long....A box!

Last there's the snowman....Grandma got it for him just a week ago and Blake has giving "Snowy" hug after hug after hug....He loves this thing....Also, Blake looooooves Oliver, who darted into the picture saying "I'm one of Blake's favorite things too" which is so true!  Blake loves Oliver tooooo death!

Blake's favorite things!  Until Christmas!

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! It's getting cold down here

It got so cold down here in the South we had to bundle up good to go to the grocery store!!!

Nothing warms you faster than a snuggle with Daddy!

Decorating the House

First we got the ceramic Christmas tree out.  My Grandmother had one just like it when I was young.  It was always my job to carefully place the lights on it....I couldn't "put" the tree together, it was too fragile.  After years of looking,  I had one made just like I remembered (only her's didn't have a whole on the top for the star).

The Mantle Before (with the T-giving decorations)

AFTER

Ok the tree is now officially up....and all this work is making Boomer tired....He wishes he had Blake's energy!

The Tree BEFORE

AFTER
according to T this is not a "FUN" tree....it's too FruFru!  And Blake loves those singing snowmen! (ok this pix is a little blurry....I'll see if I can fix it tonight!)

Superhero Blake....up up and away...Racing for something!

The Great Christmas Tree Adventure

So on Friday we went on the quest to find the perfect Christmas tree....Blake was bundled and ready to go

Choices....choices

I can't feel the trees with these gloves on Mom!!!

Daddy hunting for one too....or is he just posing for the camera?  Who knows?

Here it is....ok we're not quite in the center of it...its the one over my shoulder

It's gonna be a Griswold Christmas!!!!!  Just wait til you see the tree in the HOUSE!!!