Indian Cale!

Before Thanksgiving Cale came home from daycare with a head dress that he had made as they were learning about Thanksgiving. He was so cute, he would run around the house making Indian noises! He loved his 'hat' so much that the Sat after Thanksgiving he demanded to wear it when he went down for a nap. The had did not with stand the tossing and turning of a toddler nap so it is no longer with us :)

ZOO!

A couple of weeks ago JP had the great idea to go to the zoo. We took Sunday afternoon after church and took Cale to the zoo. He had a good time. We started with a look at the monkeys. For the rest of the afternoon Cale would not stop going ''ou ou ah ah" like the monkeys, super cute:)

We saw all kinds of animals and had a great time (besides one small incident in the bird cage where Cale was attacked by birds (lesson learned: don't give the two year old the bird feed stick). I freaked him out a bit but he pretty quickly got over it.

He loved the chee-chee-ta, elephants, giraffes, monkeys, and the lion. All it all it was just so great to have a family outing!

Halloween...Booo!

For Halloween this year we decided to go to our church's fun festival. All of Cale's friends from church where there. We started out in his lion costume, but after about 30 minutes we realized that he was getting a little warm so out of the lion costume he came. Being the super mom that I am (kidding) I just whipped out the superman costume that I had brought (see other lion post) and off he went. I actually think he made a cuter superman than lion. After the church we went to our friend's house for a couple of houses of trick or treating just for the experience for Cale. He was a little scared at first, but by the time we got back to our friends house he was running up to the door holding out his bucket for more candy!!

Pumpkins!!

Every year we go to our friend's house just before Halloween to carve pumpkins. We eat great food (they are great cooks!) and then carve pumpkins out on the deck. Each year there are more and more kidos to help out. Here is Cale helping Kurt scrape out his pumpkin!

Kristen (about to pop) and Claire and Harper observing Jon carve...

Kurt then starting to 'cheat' using power tools to carve...

And the final display of the final products. Can you guess which is mine, remember what a competitor I am...

The ghosts of coarse, the second from the left on the top....winner with out a doubt :)

BOOO!

Lion says Roooaaarrrr!

Cale loves to say Roooaaarrr! We always ask him what does a tiger or a lion say and he roars like a little champ. So for Halloween I could not help but get him a lion costume. JP did remind me that we do not live in a cold climate so this outfit might be a little warm for him. I actually bought him a lighter costume (superman) later in case of a warm night! But for the fall fun festival at his daycare we when with the lion outfit. I figured he only had to be in it for an hour or less so it would work. JP and I actually got off work early and went to see all the kids dressed up. My lion was the most perfect lion ever!!! He just needs to stay away from that LSU cheerleader, trouble Cale, just trouble ;)

Ossenfort Wedding

My brother in-law and his girlfriend decided a couple of weeks ago that they were going to get married. They have known each other for a couple of months so we were all a bit on edge with this seemingly sudden decision. Once we met Jannette we felt much better, she is great for Chris. They are a very cute couple. We were very happy to find out that we were invited to the improptu 'wedding'. Jannette's folks live close by so the wedding was going to but just immediate family and their 2 closest friends. We flew JP's folks out for the event so they could be here. It was a very sweet, special time for them. We all met at a park in one of the nice parts of Dallas. I was the 'photographer', no pressure taking pictures for a professional photographer at his wedding. Here are a couple of the shots, not bad for an amateur. We are very happy for them and wish them all the best :)

Trip to see BahBah!

Well I have been quite the slacker on posting these days. I have been a bit busy with work (working Saturdays and all) and the fall is always so hectic with the holidays and Auburn football.

Back in the beginning of October Cale and I traveled to Storm Lake IA to visit with my Grandparents. My mom flew through Dallas so we traveled with her, which was fun. Cale was the traveling angel as usual. My mom's dad and my dad's mom live there in two separate places a couple of blocks from each other. Cale was so super sweet with all the new people that he met, not scared at all. I was a very proud moma! We had a great time, but Cale was pretty miserable at night with a bad cold. By the last two nights my mom and I were not getting much sleep with Cale in the room with us (poor thing could just not breath).

We had a four generation picture taken when we were there, which was very cool.

When I was little I used to call my grandfather BahBah, Cale picked this up pretty quickly. He was so cute calling his sweet great grandfather BahBah just as I had when I was his age!

We also visited a brand new park while we were there, Cale had a blast playing and watching the construction equipment just on the other side of the fence!!