A Joyful Easter To You

Jake, what do you like about Easter: "I love eggs! They are fun because you can make them so many different ways and on Easter you get to color them. I also love that the Easter Bunny sneaks in at exactly midnight to hide plastic eggs with treats inside for me to find Easter morning along with an Easter basket. This year I woke up at 6:02 when our dog, Sunny barked and scared the Easter Bunny away ...good thing it was not before the Bunny left me a Harry Potter cookbook, kid's bath bombs with a little toy inside each bomb, and a Fantastic Beasts surprise character (I got Grindelwald!). Later we will be spending the day with family, which is another favorite part of Easter!"

Update: "I took three of my plastic eggs, ate the chocolate and put Sunny's treats inside and hid them around the living room for him to find. He needs some holiday memories too."

Countdown to Christmas

This year Grammie came up with a cool way to countdown to Christmas she bought a wooden sled with boxes for each day in December and then her and I do the things listed in each box. Today was get a kiss under the mistletoe! One of my favorites so far was paint a canvas of lights with my fingerprints for the colored bulbs.

MAX!!!

Christmas Spirit Max and Teaching Tricks to Sunny's Squirrels

Nesting and Googgly Eyed Max

Max had a note inside his bag from the North Pole saying he loves his family and he made us an ornament with our pictures on it. All of us even Sunny!

Christmas Everywhere

 

Oh my gosh we had a blast with Christmas in the City and then Christmas in the Country this year. The town of Austin celebrates Christmas for two whole weeks in December with each neighborhood doing something special. We made homemade ornaments, decorated Christmas cookies and gingerbread houses, made bird feeders, had a petting zoo, bounce house, horse drawn wagon rides, live holiday jazz music, blew the very loud train whistle on an old local train, Christmas photo booth, pictures with Santa himself, and much more! Sarah even joined in the fun on the last day with Christmas in the Country! 

Snowman Themed Fun

Grammie hosted a snowman themed ladies lunch at our house and even though I'm not one of the ladies I was included with plenty of snowman fun. I helped her make the centerpieces and gift bag loot, and she also gave me this fun snowman headband.

 

I Love Finding You Each Morning Max!

Holidays On The Rails

The Canadian Pacific Holiday Train came through Austin it was really neat to see a whole big train lit up and there was a live band too. Lots of fun and loads of people daddy said the whole town came out and we believed him. The train is going from town to town collecting food and money donations for the Salvation Army.