best Santa letter ever!

I saw this hanging on the wall at Nick's school.

Just in case you can't read it...

I guess when you want a jolly old man to bring you a Legos Kingdoms Castle, honesty is the best policy!

Goodbye Jerry......

This is our little buddy Nick.

 Jerry is the name he gave the mole on his cheek.



 As fond as we are of Jerry, it was time to say good bye.



So off to the doctors we went.

While waiting to go into surgery he got to hang out with dad and color. I was getting everyone else to school.

Nick said he was nervous, but Kevin said he was cool like a rock star. When the nurse came in to walk him back to the operating room he got right up. When she asked him to push the "magic" button to open the door to the hallway he told her "I'll push the button, but I am NOT handicapped!"

Mom and Dad had a short wait, when they called our name to go back to the recovery room,

this is who we saw:

 He came out of the anesthesia as goofy as he went in!

He had his nurse and his parents laughing a lot.



 This is how Nick looks now. He calls the bandages Jerry's grave.

I'm not sure where he comes up with this stuff!

 Part of the fun of surgery is getting your very own mug!

The hospital shirt was a hit too! Unfortunately that had to stay.

To top off the experience he got to ride out of the building in his "very own wheelchair"!

He didn't mention anything about being handicapped during his ride.

Everything went well, Nick did great. Now we just get to wait to see what Jerry's scar looks like!

Fall Fun

These are some of the fun things we did in Old Cow Town

Cowboy bowling. The lane was set up in between two buildings. The ball return is a slotted rail on the right, you can see it in the picture of Kevin setting up the pins. If you don't mind playing some serious curves in the wood and setting up your own pins it's a pretty good time. Grandma even got a strike!

A wagon ride. Palmer got to ride shotgun as we mosied around town in a covered wagon pulled by some big horses. It was slow and steady, I'm glad I didn't have to travel across the plains that way!

Sarsaparilla. It's not my favorite, I liked the cold Pepsi. But the atmosphere in the saloon is to fun to pass up.

falling leaves

 Yes, it's December, we should have already done this. But it took until Dec. 2nd for all the leaves to come out of the big trees behind our house.

 When you don't have to rake leaves a lot it's a fun chore, almost worth fighting about.

(My kids can have some pretty strange arguments!)

 Because we're not in charge of mowing, we can rake the leaves out of our little yard and leave them out for maintenance guys to mow. Somehow the leaves got raked into a huge pile.

And it would be a shame not to play in a huge pile of leaves!

 Time to fix the pile and make it bigger.

This pile looks just about right!

Fall is definitely fun!