World Series

Wally and his dad had the chance to go to Game 5 of the World Series last Monday night. Wally's Aunt Loie and Uncle Dan live in Texas and were able to get tickets.

They flew out around 8 PM on Halloween night. Monday morning they toured the Dallas Cowboys new stadium and then headed to the game that night. They can both say they saw the winning game in the World Series - very cool! It was a short trip with them arriving back home around 6 PM on Tuesday. Here are some pics from the trip!

Cowboys stadium










Rangers Ballpark








Nolan Ryan


The Giants are new the champs!

Barnum FUNundrum

Yesterday, the three of us went to the "the greatest show on earth"! We went to Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey circus at the Allstate Arena.



An hour before the show, you can go on the floor at no cost and see some of the acts.





Then it was time for the show to start...it got dark and it got loud and Luke was not loving it!


Wally and I did our best to calm him down and tried to show him all the cool things going on, but he wasn't having it. He eventually snuggled into my lap and put his held on my shoulder. I tried to turn enough so he could still see what was going on and every once in awhile he would pop his head back up, but then he fell asleep! Yep, as loud as it was, he fell asleep! And we were at the 11:30 show so it definitely wasn't his usual nap time. Here is some of what went on while Luke napped.

There were 7 motorcycles in this globe at one time going 65 mph - crazy!

Then there were the tigers. That guy is crazy - some of those tigers weren't happy!

Thankfully intermission arrived and we woke Luke up. He ended up thoroughly enjoying the second half! (We moved to an area of the arena that wasn't as crowded so that was helpful since he had some room to roam!)






Here are some highlights of the second half:

The elephants were definitely Luke's favorite part (and mine too!).


We even got to meet the baby elephant, Barack, born in January 2009.


Luke liked this too - a motorcycle on a tightrope!


Trapeze artists
These people were crazy! They would be shot into the air, do flips and land on top of 4 people or on a stilt!



The finale!

It ended up being a great time. Neither Wally nor I had ever been to a circus of this magnitude - you know, THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH! This is definitely something will we continue to do every so often! We highly recommend it!

Wordless Wednesday

This is one of the funniest pictures I have ever seen! We were playing peek-a-boo!

Daycare Halloween 2010

Luke and I had a lot of fun at the Halloween party at Punky's this year. I always enjoy seeing Luke with all of his friends.

All the toddlers


Prayer before the cupcakes I brought


I hope Jett's mom doesn't care he ate his cupcake in his costume :O


A perfect pirate mustache


Luke's turn in the ;parade of costumes; - telling Punky what he is dressed as.




Singing some Halloween songs


All the kids!




Luke and his best friend AJ enjoying their rice krispies together! (They actually sat down this close to each other!)

Happy Halloween

We celebrated Halloween at home this year. Grammy, Papa, and Aunt Stacey came over to see our little pirate and to have some chili and a jack-o-lantern brownie I made.

















The Trick-or-Treat hours were 2-8 here (yes, 6 hours!) so we went out right at 2 for about an hour. We had the wagon, but Luke wanted to walk most of the time. He was so funny walking up to the houses. He would walk slow as molasses and then very quietly say "a treat" and then "thank u". He just kept looking inside his bucket, almost in disbelief and he told us he wanted more!

When we got back to our house, Luke got his sugar fix!













Then around dinner time, Luke had a sugar coma! The poor little guy was so exhausted - being a pirate is hard work (especially when there is no time for a nap!).



It was a great second Halloween with our little guy - he was the cutest little pirate I ever did see!