Heroes

My uncle Ranndy is much more eloquent than I am, so you might want to click over to his blog and skip this post altogether.

Today we celebrate our veterans. I say celebrate because we should remember them everyday. They are the brave men and women to put their lives on the line to ensure our freedom and to help those less fortunate than us. They are husbands and wives, sons and daughters, mothers and fathers. They are young and old, proud and scared. They are the heroes.

Both of my grandfathers fought in World War II. One passed away before I was old enough to know about war. The other didn't choose to discuss it.

Unfortunately I don't have any digital pictures of my Grandpa Dick. I do however have a few of my Grandpa John.


My grandpa circa 1960

Grandpa and his three brothers who all served in WWII

They all made it home safe.

To everyone who has served this country, and everyone who has had a loved one serve this country, Thank You. You are the heroes.

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The kids dressed up for Halloween 2010.

Prepared for Raining Days

When the rain started pouring down a couple of weeks ago, I realized that Cooper was going to need rain boots this year. Since all we have by way of hand-me-downs are pink boots, I started searching for the perfect pair for my little man. After a whole afternoon of dragging the entire family from store to store last weekend, I finally just ordered the ones I wanted from the Internet. Last night Cooper's new fireman rain jacket and rain boots arrived!



I think he is just the cutest thing! And I love how his little face just lit up when he saw them.

GIANT Halloween!

I'm not sure what was the best part of Halloween, seeing the kids dressed up having a great time trick-or-treating, or having the Giants win 4-0! Cooper combined the two by sporadically throwing in a "Go Giants" when he should have been saying "Trick-or-Treat" or "Thank you". I don't think anyone minded that he got confused:).

This year was the first year that we let Emma Jo trick-or-treat with friends and no mom or dad.

She was a Green M&M.

Cooper decided on Saturday night that he wanted to be Batman and "save the day". Unfortunately we had already gotten his dinosaur costume over a month ago and there is nowhere to get Batman at the last minute in Healdsburg anyway.

Grace thankfully agreed to wear the Snow White costume that Emma wore at her age. She had just wanted to be a princess so she was happy.

Henry made it through about half of the houses the little kids hit up and then he needed a break for an after-dinner snack. I didn't mind because it meant I got to listen to the World Series on the radio.

Our littlest Dinosaur. All of the other kids were pumpkins their first Halloween, so Henry wore a pumpkin suit under his dinosaur suit.

3 Months Old!

I can hardly believe that Henry Charles is already 3 months old. Time sure does fly!

Henry is sporting his "scary vampire" Halloween outfit that Grammie bought him. I love the little feet.

My Two Boys

Today was my first day back to work since leaving with pre-term labor in July. On Saturday morning I took this picture of Henry to use as the background on my computer at work.

Today as I was staring at it, it reminded me of a similar picture I took of Cooper right before I returned to work with him.

Can you tell they are related?

New Addition

Work is progressing nicely on our new master bedroom and bathroom addition.
On October 8th the floor joists were completed.


By October 19th we had two exterior and two interior walls!

The kids got in on the action of knocking out an interior bedroom wall.

They are very much looking forward to each having their own rooms. Cooper says his is going to be a Dinosaur room!

Henry didn't get to help, but he sure is cute!