Christmas Party!

We got to enjoy a fabulous Christmas Party for the kiddos at Brad's work.  There was a bounce house, cookie decorating (and eating) and even a visit from Santa!










He didn't even know what to do with it until we showed him.  Then the cookie eating quickly become his favorite part.







Oh look who's here?!  He is in the cockpit!

Fun at the Park

During the month of November we were still having wonderful weather and we tried to take advantage of it by going to the park.  This park isn't the closest but it probably is our favorite.  There is so much for the kids to do they just love every second of it.  See those huge tube slides in the back of the photo below?  Don't be fooled... Micah wasn't scared a bit.  He loved them!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Despite being far from family we really had a lovely Thanksgiving!  We spent the holiday with our Air Force Family... some of our closest friends we have made though our years in the Air Force.

This year I tried a new recipe for my Turkey. I have a method that I really like but it takes a long, I mean LONG time and I was just tired!  So thanks to my good friend Carla for the tips and moral support (not to mention answering the phone on thanksgiving to answer my questions) we decided to go with the brown bag method.  It was a winner.  Basically you cook the turkey in a brown paper grocery bag.  I was skeptical but it came out beautifully browned and cooked even quicker than I anticipated (that never happens!)









Our dear friends and guests for Thanksgiving were the Hale's and the Gossner's




Now that's more like the Hale's I know! Just Kidding!





Micah loves to eat so this was a good day for him!










The aftermath!!!



Thanks again to Kara and Sarah for helping cook and clean!  Couldn't have pulled it off with out you guys!

Aire Show

Back in November we went to the Nellis Air Show.  Brad was really excited to take Micah to his first Air Show and although the weather was a bit icky for Vegas standards we managed to have a really good time.  We met up with our good friends the Gossners there and Micah and Avery picked up right where they left off... chasing each other around!



Daddy showed Micah all of the jets and got to get up close and personal with some!



But really... who cares about airplanes when they are selling ice cream?! 








And since it is an air show... here are some airplanes!

Trick or Treat!

This Halloween was a huge success!  Micah loved going door to door and collecting candy for his bucket!  He also got many comments from people out trick or treating on how cute he was!  I have to agree. He wasn't too sure about some of the scary masks but other than that had lots of fun.  His favorite stop was at our friends John and Kara's home where he got given TONS of candy and got to play the piano and run fly in circles all over the house It is late so this post is short but here are the pics from the night.

Las Vegas Living

We are getting settled into our new home (just not our new house.) and things are returning somewhat back to normal.  Brad is working a lot and everyday is getting to be like ground hog day around here.  Since don't know many people yet to play with we try to get out of the house as much as we can so our day usually goes something like this:
Wake up
Breakfast
Get Dressed
Play around House
Go to Park
Go home
Eat lunch
Nap time
Wake up
Play at house or run errend
Cook Dinner
Eat dinner
Bath
Books
Bedtime
Repeat

We spend may hours of the day outside and at parks so I'm hoping that the weather stays nice as long as possible.  Things are still going well with the house and we are hoping to close by the end of the month but still just waiting to get an exact date.

Here are some pictures updates.  They aren't really so much updates as I haven't been taking many pictures other than on my phone lately but they are from the past few weeks.  These first ones are from when Sarah and Avery were still here and we went to the park and the last ones are of Micah with his new obsession... shoes!