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...

School Fall Festival

Well, we rushed home from work this afternoon so that we could get Harry into this costume for the school's fall festival. Harry is a cowboy theis year for halloween. He seems to be really enjoying the cowbot hat and guns! I know it probably isn't politically correct to give my 2 year guns but everybody keeps reminding me that we live in Oklahoma!

At the school fall festival, there were games to play in each class room. Afte ryou played you got to pick candy. All the teachers kept telling Harry to take more and didn't argue. I am a little worried about tomorrow night while trick or treating that harry will insist on more than 1 piece. He seemed to get a hang off that by the end of the night.

The school also has a custome contest, Harry got ROBBED! A different cowboy won and he didn't even have boots on! He was wearing sneakers! Butch and I have decided that the judge must not have seen Harry. Why? you ask. Well, I left Butch in charge of taking Harry to the panel. He told me as we were leaving school that while they were judging him and Harry were sitting on the steps reading a book. That is Harry's favorite spot we assume because he is always there when we pick him up. I got a little annoyed but am trying to control it.

I was not able to assist Butch and the udging panel because I, Nancy Hillman, was choosen to be a judge in the 3 year old room. I will never accept this duty again!! It was heartbreaking! I knew all the kids wanted to win and they were all so cute! All the custome were store bought so it was a matter of the cutest kid with the personality to match thier outfit. SUPERMAN WON!!! He was really cute. I stood in one spot for us to 2 judge for atleast 5 minutes. The funny thing was I think he was standing waiting for us to take his picture...he was saying CCCHHHHEEEEEEEEESSSSEEEEEEE the entire time.

Well, it is late I had an early day this morning. Tomorrow will be a new adventure of Harry that I am sure to remember for ever!

Weekend of October 25 & 26

This weekend, we had beautiful autumn weather. Butch had a 3 day weekend and that is very unusual! Christmas is right around the corner so I am sure we won't have these weekends again for atleast 2 months. His job this time of year is like working in retail and most of us know how that is.

Saturday, I talked Butch into taking a day off from working on the remodel of our basement and going to BooHaHa with me and Harry. Harry is a cowboy this year for Halloween. He loves his cowboy boots and hat!! I think he might be an Okie!We walked the 2 miles up and down Brookside. We say "we" as in Butch and I, Harry had the life of riding in the wagon. We pulled him up to the storefront and he held up his elmo bucket and they threw in candy. I don't remember Trick or Treating being that easy! I think Butch had it the easiest...he walked and ate Harry's candy as we strolled...he didn't have to hold the Elmo bucket!!

Later that afternoon, we went out again to the beautiful new arena in Tulsa for the season opener of the Tulsa Oilers! We had free tickets and thought why not we love Hockey and we even met at the season opener ten years ago! Well, our ticdkets were two rows from the roof of the arena. Harry really got a kick out of it! He loved seeing the flag hanging from the ceiling so close to us. Most of game he spent running back and forth down the aisle, I was a nervous wreck that he was going to make one wrong step and bounce down througha crowd of 15,000 people onto the ice.

Today, I had to get up and teach Sunday school. 5 minutes before class started Butch called to tell me that he was spinning Harry on the swing in our backyard. Harry wanted to spin faster and fast until he eventually threw up all over our backyard! I guess that is what Daddys are for.

We spent most of the wonderful Sunday out in the backyard, during Harry's nap I got over loads of laundry done and Butch finished the touch up in my new scrapbook area int he basement. I am very excited to finally have my own spot to scrap! Now if I can only find the time! I am looking forward to the weekend at my frined Yvette's lakehouse in a couple weeks. Four of us, girls only!, scrapping for 48 hours.

Weekend of October 18 & 19

Well I have been lacking on my postings. There aren't many people who know abouat his blog so it hasn't been a huge concern of mine. October is always a very busy month and I have been exhausted every night....Sorry to those who do read my postings! I apologize ahead of time as wellas for any lose of thought I have, I am trying to keep Harry in bed and write at the same time.

Well, last weekend we went to the circus with our friends (Jennifer, Jason, & Payton). It was amazing! We were on the front row at our wondrful new arena in Tulsa. It is a beautiful piece of architecture! We were so close that Harry could not see over the wall from his seat so he had to stand in the seat the entire time. All the clowns danced and sang right in front of us. The Ringmaster actually came up and spoke to Harry three times during the show. Harry really enjoyed it! The show was a little long though, it started at 11 am and we were wlaking out of the arena at 1:15, there was a 20 minute intermission. I don't think the schedulers had kids that took naps. After the intermission, we got to see the elephants, tigers, horses, and even dogs do tricks. I personally could have done with out the horses and dogs and cut 30 mintues off the length of the show. Unfortunately, our friends had to leave the show before the animal acts. however, we all agreed that the 7 dirt bikes in a small metal sphere was the best part.

Sunday, Harry and Butch helped each other decorate the front yard into a scarey graveyard for Halloween. It is amazing because I remember last year Harry could barely walk but he helped daddy decorate...it is becoming a tradition. This year he spent most of the time telling daddy where he thought the tombstones should go and wanting to help hammer them into the ground. I looked at the pictures from last year as well and Harry has grow so much, it is sad how fast it goes by!

My cousin Stephanie gave birth recently to a beuatiful baby girl, Emma. She is so beautiful with a full head of black hair. Harry and I were looking at pictures of Emma and Harry learned to say Cousin Emma. It was so cute almost as cute as Emma, herself! Congratulations Chris and Stephanie!

Well, the week went very fast! I can't believe how fast the week none the less the year has gone! We only have 2 months until Christmas!

I will continue on with this weekend in my next posting! Thanks for reading!!

Saturday 10/11

Well, This weekend was another busy one if you are growing up Hillman. Harry and I started the day with some of my friends in Collinsville watching the OU V Tx game. If you are from Oklahoma or Texas you know what that meant. We cheered on our home team (even though we aren't really fans). We had to leave at Halftime in order to get a nap in order to enjoy the sdventures of the rest of the day.

Unfortunately, OU lost but since the Big Game was on TV our next adventure wasn't very crowded! The Pumpkin Patch! After Butch got home from work, the family ventured out to Bixby (yes, I felt like I went from on side of the earth to other all in one day!). Grandma & Grandpa Johnson met us there. Harry was very excited when he saw all the pumpkins then he noticed the petting zoo. Soem king people gave us thier left over feed for the animals. Harry attempted to feed the goats but no matter how load he yelled "Come Here Goats!" they weren't hungry. I am sure they had been eating all day long. That is something we learned from the petting zoo at the Fair, gotta get there in the morning if you want them to be hungry.

After seeing the goats, pigs, chickens, and rabbits, Harry rode the pony ride which he looked like an old pro. Which is kind of scarey to me since we just bought him cowboy boots (we wanted to give him a few inches so he could ride some additional rides at the fair...it didn't work). We then needed to pick out our pumpkins....he could barely controil himself with all the pumpkins to choose from. He loved climbing on them, running from patch to patch, and climbing on hay bales. We then went to ride the camel (yes...camels in Bixby, Oklahoma!). The camel ride lady didn't think Harry would be big enough to ride the camel by himslef (are you seeing a pattern here?). Harry disagreed, climbed on the camel, and held on. She was amazed and sent him out on his ride.

Well, we had a great adventurous day and he didn't even fall asleep on the way home!

Next weekend: The Circus