Holiday Fun

Here are some pictures from Thanksgiving, the Montrose Christmas Parade, and various other fun activities!

Our Thanksgiving Feast (this picture was taken after everyone's first serving!)

I love that it was warm enough for us to eat outside!

Aunt Kris and chubby baby Olive

Jon was happy playing with Aunt Shellie's Birthday balloon

Out of ALL THE TOYS at Grandma Ginny's, Jon chose the fly-swatter to play with (gross, I know, but it really kept him entertained)

Micaela and her friend Riley walking down to our float (Riley doesn't like her picture taken, so I had to be sneaky)

It's a little hard to see, but that guy is on stilts, that's fire on the back of the truck, and they all have those flaming batons - it was cool

One of the Water District's parade vehicles

We were at the back of the parade, so we had about 45 minutes to kill, so we took pictures of everyone. Micaela and Riley were on the float in front of us, so I didn't get any pictures of them.

He's cute even when he's sick

Kurt pestering the girls in the back of the minivan after the parade

On our way home we got a great view of Disneyland's fireworks show, the shoot them right off the freeway

We were at the Irvine Spectrum picking up a few things and Jon got to go on his first carousel ride (at least I think it's his first, can't really remember)

Last night Miceala was playing her DS (Isaac came over and got her interested in it) and Jon just crawled up on her lap to see what was going on

She was very nice and even let him play a little

Bass Pro Shop

Here are some fun pictures from our trip to the Bass Pro Shop.

Isaac was wearing a headset, so Jon wanted one too

Kurt wanted me to take a picture of the entrance to show his dad

Isaac was pretty good at the remote controlled cars

Nose.
This didn't quite turn out, but the store below was impressive

Nothing says "I'm bad" like a pink pop-gun :)

Jon didn't like Santa so much

Guess who found this decoration? They're cute / funny and the teeter-totter actually moves :)

Trick or Treat

Vampire Micaela

(she bought this pretty red wig to go with the costume and had a blast playing with it, at least until she got her "extensions" which is what she is wearing in the picture :)

Jon is a skeleton (the pants are somewhere in the depths of our storage unit) and I am a tourist (my camera was being used to take this picture)

One of the carnival games at CVC's Light the Night Carnival

A really cool, really long slide

Micaela and I both liked the Ferris Wheel, it went around really fast

A view of the carnival from the top of the Ferris Wheel

Jon was really snotty(sick) and miserable to start with, and then I let him get a bloody nose on his first ride... oh well.

Isaac made the perfect Robin. This is the only picture I have of him standing still, he was jumping and leaping all over the place

One of the many bounce house things

A better picture of Jon

After the carnival we came home and went trick or treating with a girl from Micaela's class who happen to stop by the house just as we were leaving

A neighbor's house, best decorated place on the street (ours came in second)

Our house with ghosts and two huge blow-ups and candy bowls that grabbed at your hands

Pumpkin Patch Kitchen

Kurt requested some pictures to show his parents, so here they are:

My mom and I had fun taking Jon to the Zoomars petting zoo/pumpkin patch. Thanks Kristen for the cute clothes!

He actually lifted this pumpkin and carried it over to me

Shoving the carrot into the bunny's mouth

A concrete bunny

Goats are fun

This was a few too many goats for Jon's taste

I needed to take pics of Micaela and the kitchen, so I combined the two :)

Being goofy

She wanted Grandma to see the hair "extensions" she bought with her allowance.
They match her "natural" color :)

In progress, but much better than it was

Kurt's hanging coffee pot