Pre-Christmas Activities!

Here are some fun pictures of some "pre"-Christmas activities we did.

We had a fun night with Shane and Kelly. We went ice skating - brave with a 5-year-old and a 2-year-old with a mom and dad who don't really ice skate! Luckily we had Shane and Kelly to help us hang on! :) We then went over to their house and had a great dinner and opened some gifts! It was a great pre-party! ;) I don't want to think about what will happen come May when everyone graduates! We've made such great friends and they have just become part of lives like family that it won't seem right to leave them. We will just have to keep in touch like family! :)

Will looks like a little grandpa with this walker! :)

This is something that Shane is almost just accustomed to when entering our house or the boys entering his! :) Thanks Shane for letting them just jump all over you all the time - they love it!

And of course, Grandma Kelly, already trying to butter-up Titus!
Thanks Kelly for being a bright spot in our boys' lives - they love to go to Kelly's and I wonder why?! :)

Kelly came over one day after work and we made our Gingerbread train! We did a pretty good job . . . huh Grammie . . . Will kept saying that wasn't as hard as Grammie said it was! :)

And the boys got to see Santa Claus!

Thanksgiving!

We had a great time visiting home over Thanksgiving! We had time that we were able to go down to the Ranch for Thanksgiving! We had a blast - all of us there and it snowed a good amount. We also went up to the Grandma and Grandpa Gambles house and had another Thanksgiving dinner - it was great to see everyone!

Grammie pulled out her famous turkeys!

Like father, like son!

We spent one night at Jamie's house and went swimming and had a good time visiting the Rigbys! Lucy and Titus like getting to know each other!

One day we helped Granny rake her leaves!

Last but not least on this post . . . Titus turned 6 months while we were in Utah! He so cute!

Will's Birthday

Will turned 5 years old . . . only more than a month ago! I am a slacker at getting these things blogged. I will blame going to Utah for Thanksgiving. Will had a great birthday! We had his first party with friends. Of course our house was too small to handle even two boys (ahh!!) so we held it at the church. It was great. We had a Knight party. We had a round table where all the knights sat and we had a tournament for the brave where they had to ride their horse, slay the dragon, rescue the princess and place her safely in the castle! You will see by the video that they had a great time!






Will going at it!


Dixon's Turn

Halloween 2010

Here are some pics from Halloween this year. We are sorry to report that we don't have very many - Dixon got sick a week earlier with croup and then of course Titus caught it the day of our Halloween party - the poor thing. So I stayed home with Titus while Mike took the boys "trunk-or-treating" at the church.

Grrrrr!!! Don't they look like ferocious vikings! Please note the homemade viking helmets! :) I made Mike stay up late with me to finish them - good ole times with paper mache!

Mike did do a last minute dress-up since I wasn't going - if you can't tell - he went as a veterinarian "with cow poop on him" . . .per Dixon.

I had to take a picture of Titus in what was supposed to be his costume - at least for scrapbooking purposes. He was going to be the baby Shrek with me and Mike as Shrek and Fionna again.

This is just a cute one of his smiling in his pumpkin pajamas.

Lieutenant Gamble!

Look out - here he comes! Mike started his ADT (active duty training) at the vet clinic on Fort Riley today. He looks pretty official!

Family Night pumpkin carving!

Happy Birthday James!!!!

Camping in Kansas!

While Mike was on break we went for a little one-nighter camping excursion - let's just say Titus' first camping trip. We didn't know how cold it would be at night and Mike was pretty sick so we took it the hard way and rented a little tiny cabin for the night. It had bunk beds and a futon and a sink, toilet - not much but just right. They had a fire pit and table outside. It was a lot of fun for the boys. We went fishing but got skunked. We didn't hit it too hard because Mike wasn't feeling well. However here are some fun pictures!

Titus' First Camping Adventure
I love my boys!

Pumpkin Patch!

During a break Mike had we went to an awesome pumpkin patch. It was called Walter's Pumpkin Patch and we could have spent more than all day there. The boys loved it! We did some tunnel sliding, paddle boats, car racing, duck racing, pillow jumping, corn diving, horse swinging. Here are some pics and videos!

They had a barn with a pen filled with corn that you could dig in, play in, and get buried in! We found a lot of corn in Dixon's diaper that night! :)

Yee Haw!!

Titus at 4 months!

I am a little behind . . . Titus will actually be five months in about a week and a half. Anyways, at his 4 month check up he was at the top of his charts! His head was 98% and his weight (19 lbs. 13 oz.) was 99%. He is sure doing fine!

These videos are for you mom - so it was like you were here! :)

Go K-State!!

We took the boys to their first K-state Football game on Saturday! We figured we'd better go now or else we would never make it. Well, we had fun getting them in their K-state gear. We got to the game and saw each team get the ball once before they delayed the game because of weather. They delayed the game because of lighting and probably these crazy clouds - you'll see the pictures below. They were crazy - it was ghost-buster twirling in every direction clouds . . . you could say we were definitely in Kansas! :) So they made everyone leave the seats until about an hour later when we returned to the game and made it until about the end of the 3rd quarter - they boys had their "purple popcorn" and we saw our commercial on the jumbo tron - so we figured we were good! Click here if you want to see our commercial (we are famous) don't blink or you won't see us.

Notice the weather in the background - hardly a cloud in the sky - this was taken after the delay of game.

Just some fun pictures of the boys.
They were making the balloons stick to Titus' head.
Titus at 3 months old

Robots!!

Mike took us to the Kansas State Fair because he'd said this would be our last chance! It was hot, but we had fun. They boys played some games and rode some rides.
However, I think the whole reason we went to the fair was because of this picture! Mike is eating a fried twinkie! Yes. . . they had fried snickers, fried cheesecake, everything deep fried!