Thanksgiving Weekend

Wishing you all a very Happy (and slightly belated) Thanksgiving.... I had every intention to get this posted on Thanksgiving Day, but the time got away from me. I'm still amazed at how fast each day goes by. On minute you're thinking Wow, it's Monday already, and the next minute it's Sunday.... Or in my case, I eagerly await the arrival of Christmas decorations at Hobby Lobby in July, and it seems like such a long time before I can start pushing my luck with Greg and dragging out my own decorations. And Bam... here it is already Thanksgiving.. Gobble Gobble

(Hunter~ taking a little nap before the "big" Thanksgiving feast)
This year Greg's Mom, Rose came down for Thanksgiving. It's been great having her here with us. We've gotten a few outings by ourselves, while Grandma stayed home and watched the little guy. Although, it was strange walking around a store without Hunter, it was a nice break. We even got to go see a late afternoon movie yesterday. We felt like 2 kids in the candy store. Movie theater popcorn and a couple of hours of just us. How easily you forget, what life was like before kids.

(Sierra was little jealous of the napping ~ and decided to join Hunter)

Gobble Gobble ..... Hunter was super excited about his Thanksgiving Dinner. (Turkey with Rice and vegetables)

What's a Thanksgiving Day ~ without setting up and decorating the Christmas tree... The week leading up to Thanksgiving I slowly was pulling out decorations. (didn't want to put Greg in to shock) So the icing on the cake was decorating the tree. Can you believe Christmas is less than a month away. We joined the "crazy" people on Thanksgiving night and ventured out to do some "black Friday" shopping. (sort of) We hit the road that night after putting Hunter to bed, we had our game plan (where we were going and for what) Got to our first stop Toys-R-Us, which opened at 10:00 pm, when we got close, and I mean close, traffic stopped.... people were running down the sidewalk to get in line. That would be the line that wrapped around the building, with about a 100 cars in front of us waiting to get in the parking lot. Greg looked at me, and turned the car around and said "I'm NOT waiting in that line" so we headed home and jumped on the computer and found what we were looking for online (same sale price) Lesson learned, stay home on Black Friday and shop online, so much easier.

We skipped the leftover's the day after, and had Fondue for dinner. Alot of prep work, but we all had a great time cooking our chicken,steak and shrimp right at the table. We also had mushrooms,zucchini and onion rings. Along with the chocolate fondue for dessert- with strawberries, banana's, marshmellows and rice crispy treats. YUM-O !!!!!

We found a place not to far from San Antonio with an amazing Holiday light display. It's on 12 acres of land, with millions and millions of lights. So worth the drive, and is a sure fire way to bring in the Holiday season in style

Alittle Hunter highlights...... he's mastered the arm crawl, and is now quick to get away from you. He loves the dog's hard chew bone. And will crawl over anything to get to it, including just taking it right out of the dog's mouth. The dog's have been amazing with him. He's pulled a few tails, poked some eyes, pulled their ears and taken the bone... With NO problems from the dog's !!!! He also has his second tooth breaking through on the bottom !!!!

We hope you all had a great Thanksgiving, we did and can't wait for Christmas !!!

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Happy Holidays

We Have a Tooth.....

That's right folks.... Hunter has his first tooth !!!!! If you look close enough, you can see it on the bottom right of his mouth. Our little trooper did amazingly well with cutting his first tooth. We had a few sleepless nights along with a fever, but overall he was in good spirits.( 1- in and 20 some to go) He now loves to play with his tooth by running his tongue over it and letting the drool run..... Or biting down on his spoon and holding on for dear life.

Yep that's a Santa hat... Mommy is counting down the days until we can officially dig out the Christmas decorations without making Daddy to mad. (T-minus 3 days ) I've promised (this year) that the tree won't go up until Thanksgiving Day, but everything else is fair game.... So I thought by taking a few cute pictures of Hunter in a Santa hat and emailing them to Daddy at work, might ease him into the thought of Christmas. (still working on him) My thought is if Santa has made his grand entrance, it's time to decorate. And he made his grand entrance in Galveston yesterday, by jumping out of a plane and landing on the beach. ( only in the South will you see that) So falalala, jingle jingle, let it snow.... it's time to deck the halls !!!!!

We are super excited ( or at this time, I'm super excited) about this Christmas. Not only is it Hunter's first Christmas, but we will get to spend it with family. Which is one of the hardest parts about living so far away, spending the Holidays without them close. (not to mention the snow)

Hope this finds you all doing well ~ Hugs, The Garvey's

Trick ~or~ Treat.... Hunter's 8 months old

How much is the doggie in the window? Happy Halloween ( a little late).

Our little Hunter is 8 months old and growing and changing with everyday. With each new day brings us a new adventure, some good and some not so good.

We just returned from a short trip to Chicago where we said good bye to Greg's Grandma who passed away right before Halloween. Although, the trip was emotionally draining, it was so awesome to be back up North during the Fall. The tree's were spectacular, Goebertt's Pumpkin Patch was just as I remembered, and the apple cider doughnuts were AMAZING !!!! The only thing that we were missing was the snow.....

Brrrrrr, it's cold out......This dancing pumpkin had Hunter's attention for several minutes. He was so intent on pulling it's nose off. Our little man is definitely from Texas, does not like to wear coats, hats, socks or shoes.But he was a trooper this morning at the Pumpkin Patch, not only was it about 40 degree's, but we had to stop at every attraction for a few pictures.

8 months and growing like a weed....
~ 17 pounds and 28 inches long
~ First tooth is making a grand appearance
~ Sitting up all by him self
~ Starting to make an attempt at pulling up on something
~ Does not like it when you take a toy away from him
~has gone from sleeping all night - except for maybe 1 night a week, to only sleeping the entire night 1 night a week.
~One quick speedy little roller.... don't blink or he'll be gone
~Loves playing peek-a-boo
Is 100% boy- loves playing in the dirt and will roll over anything (even if it hurts) to get what he wants
~LOVES watching Toy Story
~ LOVES his vegetables, not much of a fruit eater anymore.
~Does not like having to wear a coat
~Overall, one happy little guy !!!!

Well, hanging out with Greg's family we got out to enjoy the beautiful afternoon sun at the park. Hunter had so much fun on the swings. So much different from the swing in his room. He actually enjoyed the park. Lots of BIG smiles and a few giggles.
Thank goodness we have a park at the end of our street....

Never to old to have some fun at the park.