Thanksgiving

I love Thanksgiving. I love the food, the pie, the food, the pie... you get the point. I love that it is a time of gratitude. I also love that afterwards is the official beginning of Christmas season.

This year for Thanksgiving we had a Thanksgiving brunch at Joe's parents and then had dinner at my moms. It was a good day, though James was tired and whinny by the end of it all.

This year I'm mainly thankful for two things:

• My family, especially Joe who does so much for me and puts up with my craziness.
• A job where I can work from home.

Of course I have to leave you with a picture. I don't have any pictures from Thanksgiving, but I have a picture from the weekend before. My sister watched James so Joe and I could go on a date. Here is a picture she took of her daughter and James playing together. I'm hoping they will be great friends as they get older.

Abby and James
Abby was born December 8 and James was born exactly 2 months later on February 8

How To Be Amazing!

I wanted to post this link for reference. Its very inspiring, so feel free to read it too.

How To Be Amazing

Cleveland-Llyod

Saturday, James and I tagged along with Joe on a field trip for his class that he TA's for. There was about 40 students going on this field trip and the professor was kind enough to let us come too. First this in the morning we all boarded the bus and headed to Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry. It was about a 3 hour bus ride to the quarry. On the way there we watch Jurassic Park; very appropriate for the occasion. James did very well on the trip. He is definitely a little adventurer and loves going places even if it's just to the store. The quarry is a pretty neat for people to go and see what digs sites look like. After the quarry we stopped at the museum in Price.

Allosaurus in the visitor center at the Quarry.

Part of the actual quarry that they enclosed for people to come and look at.
About half of the bones are real and still in the ground and the other half are casts.

The front area of the visitor center.

View of the Quarry.

I'm sure these ranchers don't see buses very often.

Had to wait for them to move the cattle off the road.

An accident on highway 6. Yes, the semi is on it's side.

 It was a fun little trip and can't wait till James can actually remember the cool places we go.

Look At Me!

Look at me! I'm 9 months old. I weigh 19 lbs 7 oz, and I am 27 1/2 inches tall. My favorite food is bananas. My favorite thing to do is play peek-a-boo. I love to find new things to play with, like daddy's homework, DVDs/video games and dinner plates. See the assortment of fun things in the picture below.

I even pose for  pictures

My daddy and I

Petals & Posh

A friend/ex co-worker has started her own little online business called Petals and Posh. She's amazingly creative. and makes everything she sells. She'll even do custom orders. 

I'm totally in love with this lamp from the site:

She makes headbands too:

Check out her site and see if you fall in love with Petals and Posh too.

Halloween

I guess it's time to post about our Halloween activities. Friday night we went to a party that Joe's friend hosted. It was fun and Joe enjoyed having someone to talk dinosaur stuff with that he doesn't see on a daily basis. Saturday, we went to the museum at Thanksgiving Point for the World of Dinosaur class field trip that he's a TA for. Then it was off to Grandma & Grandpa's for some good old football watching and family time. Sunday was just a relaxing day with my boys.

Of course our weekend wasn't just peachy-keen. We had some issues with an apartment, had to leave our party early on Friday to deal with it and then Saturday/Sunday had many discussions on the fact that the problem will be fixed on Monday. Ah, the joys of apartment managing, but oh, well, wouldn't go back to working at the Inn and sending James to a sitter. I've been spoiled the last 2 months with working from home. I don't know if I will ever be able to leave my little man with some one else every day again.

Just take a look at our cute little puppy dog all strapped in his car seat ready to go to a party.

Would this be considered animal cruelty?

Hope you all had a wonderful Halloween!