Christmas 2009 Pictures

Palm Beach Shores, FL

We spent a week in Palm Beach Shores, FL with my mom and family at their timeshare. We had a very relaxing time! We went to a drive thru safari, out to dinner at some very yummy places (Dave and I even had our own date night out for sushi), and a small road trip to another little down down the coast. Here are a few pics, in no particular order..

Ethan helping Daddy drive thru the Safari. You should've seen these animals right next to the car!!
Hanging with Grandma by the pool
The family after the drive-thru Safari. We stopped at the zoo portion to walk around a bit before heading back to the hotel.
Although Ethan didn't care for getting his feet in the sand or ocean, he LOVED when daddy walked out into the water and the waves rushed up on them.
With Mommy by the oceanOn our little road trip, we stopped for some ice cream.
Cool man with his sun hatHaving some yummy chocolate milk by the pool while Daddy grills us some dinner.

Chillin' on the couch
Our GROWN up looking little man!!
Playing on the playground
Ready for take off on our way back home. Doggy is sharing the seatbelt!
It's rough traveling...thankfully mommy and daddy's lap makes a nice bed!

Halloween 2009

Last weekend we carved our pumpkins up. We had a variety of designs. I did just a basic face (I'm not so creative), Ethan wasn't very interested in the whole ordeal, so I just carved a big "E" in his his and Dave went ALL out! As you can see by the picture below, he got out his jigsaw to help him with the mouth, otherwise i think his arm would've been pretty tired from doing all the ups and downs.

We were also invited to a pumpkin painting party @ one of my coworker's house. Ethan had fun with all the colors, but was most interested in the tractor toy (if you can imagine). I'm seriously considering telling Dave we need to sell our house and move to the country and start a farm business. :)

Here are a few pics of Ethan in his costume. Depending on the day, he did/didn't want to wear the hood of the duck. This kid must've grown an inch or two since we bought it a month or so ago, because it barely fit him!! As far as trick or treating, I took him into Dave's work on Friday afternoon, where all the kids were invited to come in and everyone had candy on their desk. Ethan was very timid at first, but before we left, he was running around and playing peek-a-boo with everyone. He was a sweaty little boy once I took off the costume. Saturday, we took him around to a few neighbor houses, but then went to dinner with friends.

We went to a birthday party at a place called GymQuest and Ethan loved the trampoline! He was a bit timid to go thru the obstacle course, but with a little prompting, he went through once.

Finally, just a little upgrade we did this past weekend was planing some trees. Or, actually I should say Dave did MOST of the work!! We couldn't pass up a 70% off sale at the landscaping place down the road. We got 4 big trees (2-Autumn Blaze Maples, 1-Padamore Ash and 1-Autumn Blaze Pear). These trees are 400-600lbs each. We had the delivery guys drop them near the areas we were going to plant them, and then we dug the holes and jointly lifted/pushed them into place this weekend. Thank god Dave is strong!! Actually, the hardest part of the whole thing is after you got about 10 inches down in the soil, it turned into this rock hard clay that basically only Dave could dig thru. So, I was help for the first 30 minutes of digging. Each tree took an average of 2 1/2 hours!! But, come next year, our lot will look very nice...and in the fall, these trees turn very pretty colors!