Gingerbread House

Well,Harry saw a gingerbread house in Reasor's the other day. He loves building "Big House" out of legos with Grandma. So we decided to buy the gingebread House Kit. i have never done this, I thought it would be a great family night activity.

It was Sunday night and we needed some family time. Harry was very excited to build his "BIG House"! Butch read the directions as I reviewed all the pieces and knead the frosting packet, harry was testing the candy. Butch started putting the walls of the house together with harry's help of course! Using the frosting Harry began to stick the candies onto the walls of the house as Butch added the roof. My job was to make sure Harry only ate one piece of candy at a time...it was a tough job! He decorated the walls, roof, chimney, and then we did the gingerbread boy, snowman, and the christmas tree. We had so much fun!

Harry's favorite part of the entire evening was when he went potty it was GREEN! I am hoping that was due to the candy he ate and not anything else.

I think this will be a family tradition the gingerbread house...not the potty!

TU Tailgate

Well it has been a while since I wrote. We have been very busy especially Butch with the Holiday Season upon us. He has been working long hours and many days. He has been able though to still find time for Harry, I am happy to say.

This Saturday (11/22) I had a TU Football Tailgate Party which I entertain 150 American Heart Association volunteers, Sweethearts & Mavaricks, Top Walkers, and Survivors of all ages. The food was a healthy cator from Abuelos'. They also brought the balloon art man, the Army was there with thier Rock Wall, and of course Jupiter Jumps, It was a great event!

As you can see in the pictures Butch and Harry were able to join me at the event. They had a really good time. Harry was very into the TU Marching Band (Drums especially), playing in the Jupiter Jump and of course watching mommy climb the rock wall! YES! You read correctly I climbed the Rock Wall! I tried to have Harry nap in the park as you can see in one of the pictures...really I just wanted him to rest and warm up a little before the guests arrives.

After all our guest ventured off to the football game, we began to head that way and noticed it was a complete blow out, not as bad as the OU v. Texas Tech game, but still ablow out. Harry hadn't had a nap and we headed home.

That night we had a nice family evening at home in our new basement. Harry & Butch made a bed on the floor and we watched Wall E. Harry was out by 8 pm, remember NO NAP!

Halloween

Well I apologize for my delay in updating of the Halloween activities last weekend. Things have been hectic in the Hillman Household.

Halloween was a lot of fun this year. Harry really got the hang of the whole Trick or Treating concept. We started our evening with meeting up with our friend Payton and his mother at the Rhema Harvest Festival. This was our first year to attend and it was amazing! Rhema did a great job of working the parables from the Bible into games for the kids without shoving it down your throat so I was pleasantly happy. Harry and Payton rushed from booth to booth filling up the candy buckets quickly. Rhema also had horse there for the children to get the picture. Harry being a Cowboy this was a great photo op!

After Rhema, we went to Payton's house, had a sanck, and then headed out for some traditional trick or treating. At the first house Harry and Payton went up knock on the door, the owner opened the door and Harry started to head through the doorway. It was very funny. So we made it aboaut a block when Payton started wanting to be carried and Harry was scared to go up to houses. In the end we did two blocks and moved on to the next location, Gamma's house.

Gamma's house was very excited! Gamma filled our candy bucket, gave us sprite, and snacks. We playing for a few mintues and then off to Grandma's.

By the time we made it to Grandma's it was after 9 pm. Grandma only had one neighbor with her porch light on, Virginia. I know you probably guessed that one! So we went to visit Virginia, she had the good stuff, Mary Janes! She gave us a few handfuls and we said Good Night. Grandma's neighbor, the Lusk's, were very generous and had delivered a special treat for Harry earlier in the evening. Good thing Grandma didn't open the bag because thier were 4 SNICKERS and a bag of Candy Corn! Grandma loves SNICKERS! She is counting points so we didn't want to tempt her.

We had a full evening, it was 10 pm and Harry was tired! Halloween was a success in my eyes! Bucth has successful enjoyed most of Harry's candy already! He has graciously saved Harry the lollipops , they are Harry's favorite!

Next story will be Potty Training...