Thursday, December 6, 2012

A November to Remember

In Albany, summer months are hot and humid. On top of that, we have to deal with these pesky gnats that love to repeatedly fly into your eyes, ears, and nose. They love you even more when you're sweating and like I mentioned, it's hot and humid. If you didn't sweat much before, just visit Albany in August and you will be sweating from places that you never thought you could sweat. Since summer lasts pretty much from March to mid-October, a lot of activities are bunched into the few months of winter (laughable) that we have.

First was the Kid's ball. A celebration of the Marine Corps birthday, but with kids. It turned out to be such a success, even if my son didn't want to dance with me :(

Handsome boy



Dancing with balloons

Let's not forget the Marine Corps ball

Then there was the Thanksgiving luncheon at David's school
My little turkey



Boy student of the week!

For Thanksgiving, we were invited to our friends, the Blech's home (sorry, no photos, just lots of cooking). It was a fun time and David had a blast running around in their huge backyard. We were very thankful to be around good friends when we weren't able to travel home and see our families.


Decking the halls in November. Unusual in my family, but a tradition in Billy's.

Photo courtesy of David. He was so proud of putting his dog ornaments together, he had to capture the moment :)


Another reason why we have kids, to send them into the small niches.

MCLB 1st annual mud run before picture. No after picture because we were too cold to think about taking a picture. Why would we have a mud run on one of the few coldest months in Albany? Because we had to wait until the creek was too cold for the Water Moccasins. So glad someone thought of that. We had a blast and are looking forward to next year. David will get to join us.

So, there's our November. Now for December...






Halloween 2012

(I had this done a while ago, but saved it to upload pictures. Oops...I guess I forgot)

I'm afraid to say my little guy is slightly obsessed with Star Wars. I blame my sister, who likes to have Star Wars marathons on her birthday. She did babysit David for the first year of his life so who knows what kind of brainwashing she was doing while I worked. I mean, this kid dreams about Star Wars! If he's having a temperamental moment, all I have to do is say, "How about we talk about Star Wars" and he immediately calms down and starts talking about Luke, Anakin, Darth Vader, etc. So, imagine my surprise when for Halloween he wanted to be Luke Skywalker and asked his reluctant father to be Darth Vader. I guess asking isn't quite the right term. More like demanded. Since I hardly ever pick up a lightsabre and fight with him, I got away with just being a mommy for Halloween. Here are our pictures for this year...


David and his pal, Brayden