Christmas 2011

The beautiful Christmas tree of 2011!



The boys in front of Uncle Russ' lovely tree.


We enjoyed a wonderful Christmas at Nana Mary and Papa Beard's. Colin was able to convince aunts, cousins, and uncle into several games of Twister!

Merry Christmas

Although he was shy this year, Colin did oblige Santa with a huge hug!

"Yeah, I Can Fly"

Recently Colin has been into making masks and taping them to his face. At school he made a 'spiderman' mask and taped what looked like cuffs to his wrists to shoot webs.

Here he is constructing his Iron Man suit.




Note the light up Spiderman boots from his daddy. The boys were lost in Target and came home with this purchase.

Nap Time?

Not sure what was happening during nap time.

Carving Two-Face

Colin chose to create a happy face and angry face on his pumpkin (the one from Gretchen's farm!).

T-O-L...

...E-D-O! Go Rockets!
Eh? Who knew? Anyway, we were in Toledo last weekend visiting the family and the University of Toledo had their homecoming parade that Saturday afternoon. Colin joined Zoe and some of her gal pals in the neighborhood with huge bags to collect candy. I was informed that when the kids cheer the college kids, alumni, etc, toss out candy. I didn't realize how much candy.





This was Colin's first parade experience and first candy collection. After watching the girls, he quickly caught on to the gig. All of them ended up with pounds of sugar!

It was a fun parade. The theme was the Wild Midwest; Sweet Home Toledo. Floats, clowns, horses, the marching band...it was a good time and the weather was perfect.

Down on the Farm

We went to visit Aunt Gretchen at the organic farm where she's been an intern for the summer. It was a great weekend, sunny and in the 80's. Bill and G's cousin Stacy and her two kids, Luke and Grace made the trip as well.

We piled on to horse drawn wagons to pick turnips to feed the sheep. Colin was very proud of his turnip picking prowess.




We saw the pumpkin patch where we'd later select an orange squash or two. Also along the way was Reggie, the huge pappa pig! He came up to the fence to snort a hello.

The kids enjoyed feeding the baby pigs (they were well beyond the piglet stage and close to being bacon time!), chasing the chickens, petting the horses Sam, Ruby and Clementine, and mooing at the two cows.



A fun though exhausting day. Colin really ran off a lot of energy playing (and no nap!). Thanks Gretchen for hosting us for a whole day!