Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Crazy Season

If the last post was from Halloween, then we've been falling down on the job a little bit.
It is a crazy time of year, but we're still smiling - mostly.

What have we been doing?

We've been seeing family.



We've been having the occasional music night.


We've been giving gifts and playing with new toys!



We've been cuddling up.


We've been on the road.


We've been seeing old friends and making new ones.

We've had quite a year and we're looking forward to seeing more of all of you in 2014!







Monday, November 11, 2013

Halloween Weekend

(Warning: Long and rambling post ahead!)

Gram and Grandad came down for Halloween weekend and brought pumpkins!
Carter was into it at first, until he discovered that you had too scoop out the middle...
We overcame the stringy bits and carved them into Jack'O'Lanterns.  Carter wanted dinosaurs and I think Mimi did a great job making that happen!
Carter had some time home with Gram and Grandad, where he learned important life skills, like how to spin a polar bear,
 and how to call trains...  Actually, this is Carter's Halloween costume.  He wanted to be a train engineer.
 This might be the first picture of the four of us...  Tamsin couldn't be enticed to look into the camera.
 Carter and Grandad lit the Jack'O'Lanterns before heading out trick or treating.
While Grandad and I worked on some projects, Carter and Gram got INTO the play-doh.  I didn't even know that you could make a rainbow spaghetti pumpkin out of play-doh.
 When it all got to be a little too much, Carter and Grandad retired to the stoop for happy hour.
 Mama likes hugs, Carter likes hugs, Tamsin has had enough..
Carter got a real cuckoo clock for his birthday from Gram and Grandad.  He doesn't know about the cuckoo yet, please don't tell him.
"Hey Dad, how about some more of that fine apple sauce..."
Carter loves to help give his sister a bath - they both find splashing water all over the place hilarious.  In fact,  they got Gram giggling so hard, that I had to come in and be the responsible adult (which is saying something...)


Sunday, November 3, 2013

Fall Camping

We managed to finally squeeze in a camping trip this fall.  It was nothing too crazy, just one night in Martinak State Park along the Choptank River.    It was rough going a few times, but the kids hung in there and we were glad we did it.
The obligatory picnic table diaper change...

They had an awesome playground!

We bundled Tamsin up in her bear suit when it started getting cool.

Carter on the other hand was "too hot" and started stripping down while we cooked dinner.

Dinner time in front of our new tent - Thanks to Gram, Grandad, Grammy & Grandpa!

Licking off the s'more residue and staring into the fire.  We've all been there.
Shortly after this, Carter asked to go to bed.  That was a new one.  Gotta love the fresh air.

It was chilly the next morning, thank goodness for hot cocoa and oatmeal!

Saturday, October 19, 2013

Tamsin's hobbies

Tamsin's been practicing some new skills (we will now observe two minutes of eating):


Tam Eating from Brian Thomas on Vimeo.

and Brian's been working with the new slo-mo video feature on his phone:



Tam from Brian Thomas on Vimeo.