Audrey's 2nd Birthday Party Jan 31, 2009

Princess Audrey playing with her new toys.

Blowing out her candles, thank you Charity for the gorgeous cake!

They make a Texas shaped chip? Notice the black eye from the day before.

Cupcakes at pre-school, the Duck class.

Audrey turned 2 on 1 Feb 09 but we had her party on Saturday the 31st of January. We had a house full of people as always and the kids had a lot of fun running around and jumping in the jumpy castle (thank you Workman's)! She was sporting a black eye from the day before when she and Aaron ran into each other. She also took cupcakes into her pre-school class at Yorktown Baptist. The Duck class really enjoyed the sprinkles on the cupcakes (too bad Sophia was at Disney-I'm sure she would have had a lot more fun eating cupcakes at school then having lunch with Ariel :-)

Christmas Eve

On Christmas Eve, after the children's church service, Aaron and Audrey helped make cookies for Santa (and of course put out carrots for the reindeer). These are pictures of them waiting for the cookies to finish baking. They loved that Santa ate all of the cookies and that the reindeer ate most of the carrots (they were messy eaters Aaron said).

On Dec 20th our hobby horse arrived in TX from FL via a T-44 (which was already in the Tampa area). Paw Paw had given it to the kids while we were in FL for Thanksgiving. They didn't know it was coming and were quite excited to see it here! They immediately jumped on, then off to run and get their guns and hats. It was an all out horse back gun fight :-) Thanks Paw Paw!

VT-31 Children's Christmas Party 2008

On December 13th, we had our squadron's annual children's Christmas party. Santa was flown in on a T-44 by the Skipper equip with a gift for each child. They all watched in wonder as the plane taxied in and Santa and his helper got out and walked toward the hanger. Aaron ran right up to Santa but Audrey watched from afar (well maybe 5 feet away). They were very patient waiting for their names to be called. Audrey didn't cry but she didn't smile either. Aaron was so excited that Santa called his name that he jumped up on his lap, causing his shoe to come off! Santa was very helpful and put Aaron's shoe back on. Both received a movie (Homeward Bound and Lady and the Tramp) and a candy cane. There was also a T-44 static display available for all kids and parents alike to crawl in and "fly". We all had a great time!

Aaron preschool had their annual Christmas pageant on 9 Dec 08. Aaron's class was singing "This Little Light of Mine" hence the flames on their heads. Of course, my comical child thought it was funnier to wear it this way! Actually his original hat broke as they went onto the stage, so his teachers quickly stapled a new one but it was too big.

In this picture, he decided to put his shirt in his mouth...brings back memories of last years Easter pageant!

Here is Audrey's class in the finale, saying Happy Birthday to Jesus! Great Job Audrey!

I'm behind on my blogging, here are some November pictures, minus our trip to FL. Here are Harvey and Aaron hanging up Christmas lights (Aaron didn't really help, he just wanted to see from the roof vantage point).

Here are their new cold weather hats and mittens. I can tell they will be wearing them more often than not!

I caught Audrey in this sweet moment, and loving on "monkey".

Costume Parade at School

Today the kids had their costume parade at preschool. This time Aaron didn't want to wear his airplane. He said his classmates wouldn't leave the plane alone, even when he was wearing it. Audrey on the other hand, wore her costume and walked with one of her teachers, Mrs. Reyna, the whole time. Way too cute!!