First Train Ride

I am not sure how I forgot to post about this, but I was going through my pictures and found these. Landen and Carson love trains, and so a couple of months ago we took a train ride to wilson (which was only about a 10-15 minute ride) but the kids loved it, in fact they loved it too much, we got to wilson and ate some ice cream then landen was like, ok i am ready to ride the train back...um not the plan, marsha was already on her way to pick us up, so needless to say this story did not have a happy ending for landen, but over all it was a fun trip.

Fall

I love fall, it is by far my favorite season! I love the cool weather, pumpkins, warm-comfort food, and HALLOWEEN!!!!! hence the new blog format! This year is going to be the best one yet! both of my boys are old enough to enjoy it (maybe, carson is terrified of things that are dressed up and move!) And they are going to be so cute!!!! I will save their costumes as a surprise when I actually post about Halloween. But I am excited, the only thing is I ordered their costumes from ebay and it should have been here by now, so i am getting a little worried, I don't know what to do if it doesn't show up! So wish me luck...

ps- check out the cute halloween treats i posted on my recipe blog: Dinnertime Critic

Funny Boy

So tonight Landen and I were reading the Friend (church magazine) and there was a part where they would have a spanish word and then under it would have a clue for what the english word was. So as we are going through these, and i am sure i was butchering the spanish, this is how one of them went:

Me: the word- Oracion (the spanish word for prayer)
the hint- how you talk to Heavenly Father

Landen: NICELY!

Carson's Clean Up Song

This is Carson's version of the clean up song. I think it is so cute! He really does love to sing, I don't remember Landen doing much singing. But Carson has always been the "softer" (i can't think of any other term), of my two boys. Landen loves sports and his favorite color is blue, whereas Carson sings and his favorite color is pink! I love them both for their unique personalities! I truly am blessed to be the mother of these funny, smart, and silly boys!

Landen Started Preschool!!!!

So on Tuesday of last week Landen started preschool!!! Tuesday was orientation and so the parents stayed with the child, but when Wayne came up to Landen and asked him if he was having fun, Landen looked at him and said, "yeah...bye!" So needless to say there was no seperation anxiety when he went to school the next day by himself. I was so excited, I am so happy for him to be at this school, he loves it and he is doing so well. The only thing is that i don't have any great pictures because the parents just drive thru to drop them off and pick them up. But I am sure i will be more involved as the school year goes on so hopefully i will get some pictures of him actually in the classroom.

The other exciting news is Carson gets to have Mommy time!!! So we have been just hanging out being buddies! But he also gets to do the things that I use to do with Landen, Carson is enrolled in his own Mommy and Me playgroup, and we go to storytime on Mondays! So far in the playgroup we have done A is for airplane, so they made wings and then flew around the building, and B is for bus so we made a bus picture where the wheels actually turn, sang the wheels on the bus, and pretended to ride a bus. The playgroup leader is doing a great job, and is very creative! They also get time for free play and a snack, as you can tell!!

More Tee Ball Fun!!!

The boys easter!

Here are some pics from the boys easter this year!! we had a lot of fun with the fam!

The Funny Things Kids Say

While playing basketball with Wayne's Grandma, Landen looks right at her and says: "Mee Mee, I am not a very good Hooker!!" (this being said after missing several shots) But if hear from an outside ear, they might be calling social services on me for pimping my kid!

Ford Ad

Ford F150: Our Toys Just Keep Getting Better!

So here is my advertisement that i think ford should use, however the older guy that is standing next to the truck should be more rugged and hot, but i had to be careful looking up pictures on the internet because i don't want any weird stuff popping up!! Okay so i am not going to be getting hired by an ad agency any time soon, but i like using my new overlays and when carson was out playing with his truck it was just seriously cute, cough, i mean manly!!! Boys are too much fun!

SNOW!

So Carson finally got to see his first snow, and this is what he thought of it...

Two little monkeys jump'n on the bed...

So this is what happens when you don't have a trampoline. Two little monkeys jump'n on a ... crib?

Santa is the BEST!

It was a great christmas, we enjoyed spending time with family, we had a lot of people come in to visit and it was so much fun. Quick story Santa (my brother Abe) came to visit the kids at the Christmas Eve Party and the kids took turns sitting on his lap telling him what they wanted for Christmas and then he would give them a small gift. Well Landen was one of the first ones to go and he asked for racing cars (which is all he asked for everytime he saw santa) and then he took his little gift from santa and went and sat with wayne's mom. He opened the little gift and it was a book, he flipped through it quickly and then handed it to Marsha and said "I don't want this, it is not what i asked for!" Normally i would be worried that my kid was becoming entitled, but isn't that what we teach our kids, that santa will bring us what we ask for if we are good, so i guess i had it coming.


Anyways santa was so good this year, Landen got his racing cars, and carson was happy with what he got, of course he would have been happy with anything. I definitely think that the mini air hockey table wins for best present!!! The boys are so cute playing this game, i can't believe that carson totally knows how to play!!! They have been playing this for days, and i have to admit wayne, my brothers, and i have taken our turns too!!

Family Prayers

okay so the other nite we were saying prayers and landen wanted wayne to help him and for whatever reason wayne was telling him the things we were thankful for and
started to include characters from a book and it went something like this:
Wayne- we are thankful for our home
Landen- repeat
Wayne- our family
(repeat)
Wayne- For Christmas
(repeat)
Wayne- We are thankful for baby Jesus, and small one (the donkey in the story that carried mary to bethlehem)
Landen- Repeat, (then adds) THE END

and then landen gets up like the prayer is over, it was hard not to laugh!!

dedicated to isaac

My brother Isaac has this great idea that his nephews should call him batman! so back in august at noel's birthday party he started telling landen that he was batman. and at first landen was a little confused because i was telling him to call isaac uncle zac, and then isaac was saying he was batman, and somehow in all of that landen started calling him daniel. i know, i don't get it either. so then at thanksgiving isaac was back to his old tricks and convinced landen to call him batman. So yesterday my aunt nancy came over and asked how isaac and cindy were and landen came up and corrected her and told her his name was batman!! and then this morning at breakfast out of no where landen starts teaching carson how to say batman!! so i grabbed my camera...isaac this is for you!!!

kids say the darnedest things!

So yesterday after church we came home and wayne made breakfast for lunch (our little tradition) and he calls his grits the people's grits, for some lame reason, but they are definitely good, he puts butter, salt, and cheese in them, and i usually just do a little bit of salt in mine. So we are sitting down eating and landen is like "we are having grits" and i was like yes we are, then the looks and me and says "i'm never going back to yours!!" Wayne and i busted out laughing, it was so funny!! seriously though, i don't blame landen. grits are not my best dish!

Seriously, what are you thinking?

So there are definitely times when i just can't figure out what my kids are thinking, of course i say that from an adult point of view, but when i stop and think of it from their point of view it is totally logical...kind of! So the other nite i was getting some stuff ready for preschool and i had to use my various paper cutting devices to get all the right shapes and sizes for the craft we were going to do. Landen was just hanging out in the room with Wayne and I and came to see what i was doing with all these fun looking "toys" on the floor. Which of course as soon as he showed interest i made a rule of no touching. as i am intensely focusing on what i am doing landen looses interest and hops up on the bed where wayne is texting on his blackberry and then out of no where wayne makes a random comment about why there is blood on the bed. for some reason i think he is kidding or that there is something else there, but he continues to tell me he is serious, and so i get up and look. there is no doubt it is blood. landen had cut his thumb on something a couple of days ago and so i thought that the wound had reopened and was bleeding again since i had just taken off the band aid. so i grab his hand and turn it over to look at his thumb. his hand has blood on it but it is not originating from his thumb. THEN it hits me, he has cut himself on one of my tools. And for the life of me i cannot figure out why in the world he would sit there and bleed and try to wipe it off on the bed instead of telling someone, seems like it would have hurt but he didn't make a peep. But in his mind i am sure he was thinking, well i broke a rule and if i tell then i will be in trouble so maybe i can hide it. makes sense, except it seems more like a move a teen would make, i hope this is not a sign of what is to come!!!!

Moving Up!

So we had the primary program on sunday and it was really good, they always seem to go so well. however, this one was a little more special than the other ones i have seen throughout my life because landen made his first appearance. They invited the nursery children to come up and sit on the stand and sing I am a child of God with the rest of the primary and then they went back to sit with their families. it was really cute, landen sang so loud i could hear him all the way in the back! i was really proud of him, he was a little squirmy and even walked off the stage once, but what can i say, he's improving!!

Carson is also on his way up to becoming a big kid, he turns 18 months on the 15th and so this sunday will be his first time of getting to go to nursery. he has always been such a big momma's boy that i am curious to see how he transitions. Then in january he will be the only kid in there altogether, because all of the other kids will be sunbeams, including landen!!

Ready, Set, GO!!!

Just thought i would post a slide show of some of our Fall Fun!! Landen loves racing Carson on his little bike, probably because he always wins, Carson can only push himself backwards in the car so he never crosses the starting line to ever have a chance at the finish line!! But I figure that is okay, because i am not sure Carson understands the game anyways:)

Lions, and Tigers, and Bears, OH MY!!

Okay so we are the holloman family losers, and for halloween we decided to dress with a theme. so my friend vanessa gave me a lion costume for landen and i found a tiger costume at a consignment shop for cheap so i decided i would try to be a bear and i made wayne a shirt that just says oh my, cute huh?(more like nerdy!!) Well the only problem was that landen's costume, the mane tickled his face so bad that he wouldn't put it up over his head, and then i could not find anything for a bear, i guess it was just not in season or the bear rights activist have removed all bear costumes from the shelves, i don't know. but anyways i had to make my own and it was ridiculous!! i look more like a mouse or a cat, or at least those were the guess from everyone else. dang it! but we had fun we rode some hayrides, played some games, then went to church and ate chili and did trunk or treat.

Party Time!!

So mary catherine, the boys cousin, just had a birthday party this last weekend and it was tons of fun. i would love to have a kid with an october birthday just because i love the fall time and it would be fun to have fall festivities like they had at this party. We painted pumpkins, and taped a nose on a jackolatern! Good times! Here are a few of the pictures i snapped, i love where i took the blindfold and tied it on carson's head, i don't know if he looks more like a pirate or mrs. buttersworth!!