July 4th in Papillion

I know it has been a long time since I updated the blog. My apologies. But, I have jumped ship to Facebook. Yep, I am a follower. But, because some of my goofy family members (hello Samantha, Memaw, and Pops!) won't sign up for a FB page, I need to still update this every once in a while with photos. Here are some recent photos from our trip to Omaha (Papillion really) for the 4th of July.

Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas to all! I wish we could have spent Christmas in Nebraska with the super-cool Furlow's & Bozeman's, but oh well. At least we will be there next week. We should be there next year too, if our house sells. Ha! Anyway, here are some photos from yesterday.


First, here are some photos from Christmas Eve. Patrick was allowed to open one present, which was these super cute pj's.

And now for the photos from Christmas Day... Santa brought Patrick the Step2 50's Diner and a stocking of goodies. He was really surprised when he walked into the living room Christmas morning. He said 'ahh!!' and pointed at the diner and turned around to look at Mark. It was very cute. Sadly Mom was too pokey with the camera and the photo is a second after that. Still cute though. We then had breakfast, got dressed, and opened the presents from under the tree. The first one he saw was the cute toddler rocker from Nana and Grandaddy that we just brought out of the guestroom unwrapped. He really likes it. Then we made the mistake of giving him his toy vacuum to open first. After that he wasn't interested in doing anything other than vacuuming. So Mark and I just opened the rest of his gifts and showed them to him. He really likes all of the presents though; thank you to everyone! Also, one of these photos I took of him secretly. I was checking on the ham in the kitchen and peeked around the corner and he had opened my box from Jamie that held my new tart burner and tarts. He was going through all of the tarts one by one and smelling them. I swear we have got a future huffer or pyro on our hands with his love of candles. Nana and Aunt Jamie, I blame you for this! :)

Going Shopping!

Here are a couple of pictures of Patrick with his bucket. He likes to hold it like a purse sometimes, over his arm. :) Mark of course loves this. He did that this afternoon with my work lunchbox and waved at Mark and me and said "bye bye" and proceeded to walk to the front door and try to turn the knob. I think he was planning on going shopping without us. It was pretty darn cute and funny. I wasn't able to get pictures of that, so these with his shape bucket will have to do.

Patrick Shenanigans

Here are some recent photos of Patrick. He is enjoying some graham crackers in some, modeling his new coat, playing in the box his toy box came in, giving Momma a kiss, and sitting on the new storage ottoman that hides his living room toys. Enjoy!