Vinter Vunderland: More December '09

This was probably December. A friend of ours invited us to this sweet hill where the sledding was wicked awesome. What am I, from Boston or something?
Jackers had a great time.
Even the Heatherette had a good time. Looking good in her snow bunny outfit, too.

The Utah Acosta Family.
After a while, Jack was at the end of his rope. He was really having none of this picture.
He didn't want any of this either.
Put me down! This instant I say!
NOW!
Okay, fine.

This was Jack, deciding that he had had enough. Going.............
.......going...................
...............Gone.
It was a great limp fish. He pulled it off all the way to the car. I'll tell you what, though, he sure slept well that nap.

More December

So.....we made a gingerbread house. Or, Heather and Jack made one, I took pictures and helped demolish the thing afterwards.
Doesn't quite look like the picture on the box but, close enough.

The Craftsmen.
The tools.
Uh-oh......trouble in candy-land.
Time to eat!
I don't know why we I let him eat it after wards. So much sugar, so much pain afterwards, so not worth it.
Death by Mexican.
Sugar coma. Blah. The Acosta family......doing the Holi-daze right.

The Great Joy School Experiment of '09

So, on one day a week, usually a Tuesday? A couple of the moms would get together and take turns teaching their kids letter and conducting Joy School. Its pre-preschool for the 2 year-old set.
Usually there was one other pupil, Emma, but on this day she wasn't around, I forget why.
Pizza and juice.....nice.
Besides letters and numbers, there was also play time.
For this particular activity, Heather helped the boys paint. I wanna say that the letter was 'A' because she cut up apples and used those to dip in paint and make apple shapes on the boys papers. Thing of beauty really. Piccaso's every one.
Ah-hah, here is the aforementioned apple art.

More Fall

I guess I wasn't done with our fall of last year.
There is a neighborhood family-owned farm called Hee-Haws that we visit at least once a year. Last fall, Heather took Jack-a-doodles and they saw the sights.
Jack loves tractors.
Anything to do with trucks, semi-trucks, fire trucks, construction vehicles, police cars, or tractors-that boy is ga-ga for. I don't know what that says about his future, but...it is fun to watch now.
Wagon ride.
Jack absolutely loved this thing. Rode it over and over and over and over and over......
He also rode the pony a coupla times. Last year i asked the girl what the ponys name was and she said she didn't think it had a name. Fail! Make something up, fake it, anything, at least make sure the dang pony has a name.


This is my favorite picture.

December; Santa

We found this great suit for Jack at Crazy8's, and just had to buy it. We had seen it earlier, but by the time we decided to get it, it had been just long enough that there wasn't a great size selection left. Fortunately, that meant that we got a great deal on it at least. Anyways, the size is little big, but Jack is only going to grow right?
Yeah, Jack was a little unsure of the whole Santa thing. He was fine with the whole thing, right up until it was his turn.
This is probably from right after we promised him some toy from the Disney store or something.
Okay, can I get down now? How 'bout now? Now?
Ah, too funny. Maybe next year will be better.