Tate's fifth birthday, December 29, 2009

My baby is 5. *sigh*

We started the day with breakfast at the New Moon Cafe. My new favorite breakfast place.

Love my bugs.

Brook and Karen joined us for breakfast.

After breakfast, we went to the Children's Museum. Tate got a crown to wear because it was his birthday.

Jewell and her Daddy joined us at the museum.

They had face painting, but Tate refused.

After the museum, we went to Tate's new favorite place, Shankz. They have slot car racing and black light mini golf.

The three of us then headed to I.talia for pizza. Tate loves this place. They have little wooden pizzas you can play with.

Then home to open gifts and have cake with our friends.

Happy Birthday my Tate.

Christmas Day 2009

Santa gifts! Hooray!

A new card game. Thank goodness, I can only handle so much Go Fish.


A cute Cars sleeping bag / air mat.

BUMBLEBEE!!!

Bath fizzies.

YUM! This is now a must have for special occasions. Overnight Monkey Bread. Oh So Good.

I just made snacks for us to munch on all day.

Around 7:30 that night, Tate spiked a fever of 102.4 and started puking.

Poor sick baby. By the morning, he was fine. No fever and no more pukes.

Christmas Eve 2009

Tate couldn't wait to open presents. We let him open one in the afternoon. He picked this one from Stan & Natalie.

Tate was an Angel in the Christmas Program at Church. All the kids were so cute!

When we got home, we opened all our presents. (Expcept the ones from Santa of course!) (This is just a few, the kid was spoiled rotten this year!)

Message from Santa to Tate

http://portablenorthpole.tv/watch/f06d92073d0e291919b3598e3935e2cf

God vs. Dinosaurs

I posted this on FB the other day...but I want it here as well so I can remember it.

Tate: Did God make the dinosaurs?
Me: Yes.
Tate: Then did the dinosaurs eat God?
Me: No.
Tate: Did dinosaurs eat people?
Me: Hmmm, I am not sure.
Tate: Look it up online.

Thanksgiving 2009

This year we traveled to Portland, OR for Thanksgiving. We almost always spend Thanksgiving with my BFF Brook and her brother Mat. Their Dad lives in Portland, so this year we all went there. We had a great time. Lots of food, drinks, games and Wii Rock Band.

"On the road again......."

Traffic was great until we got to Portland.

One of the many bridges in Portland.

Daddy teaching Tate how to drum......kind of.....


Daddy and Tate attempting to put together some dinosaur thing.....yeah, it didnt work. We put it away.

Lincoln Logs!

Quelf. Yes, it is a game. If you have ever played it, it would make perfect sense that Bethany has tin foil on her hand.

This is the only picture I got of the three of us together on Thanksgiving.

Me and my good friend Bethany.

Me and my BFF Brook.


And of course, no trip is complete without a stop at a disc golf course. It was a bright sunny day in Portland; but it was freezing! Tate and I hung out in the car while Chris golfed.

GRRRRRR

I just spent a good 20 minutes working on a Thanksgiving post and Blogger ate it. GRRRRR.

Bowling

Tate's friend Ayden invited us to go bowling this past Saturday. We had a great time...but Tate was sad he didnt get a strike. However, I had two! :)

Hooray Me!

I won a beautiful pair of earrings! Check them out: From Storms to Sunshine

Thanks Christine!!!

Oldies but goodies

These are from last year around Christmas. Someday Tate will be mad at me for showing people pictures like these. But he is so cute!

Halloween 2009

One light burned out before we even began.

Daddy wanted to be a robot too!

Sleepy robot Tate.

And the winner is......

TATE!!

We entered Tate into the costume contest at Fred Meyer on Saturday. He won! He won a $ 25 gift card. We let him pick out any toy (under $25) that he wanted. He picked a Cars set with firetruck Mater, rescue helicopter and dalmation Mia & Tia. He was so proud of himself. :)