O' Christmas Tree

Christmas is my favorite time of year. I remember when I was a kid and on Thanksgiving afternoon we would start to decorate and I mean start, my mom would have a tree in almost every room, each tree with a different theme. Oran and I only have the one tree (fake because of Thomas, asthma) but decorated with ornaments mom gave us when we were married and some the kids have made. To be honest we have so many ornaments in the garage that when the kids move out they will be all ready for their own trees!
This Thanksgiving we celebrated a little different, the Saturday before we went to moms to have a early Thanksgiving since my sister had to work on Thursday. I usually cook the meal but I was in a small car accident earlier in the week and hurt my shoulder. I was unable to cook but my mom and sister did a great job. So on the real Thanksgiving I was feeling better so we decorated for Christmas and had a lasagna for dinner, OK so it was not traditional, but is was great.

Taylor was hanging an ornament he made in Kindergarten, one of my favorites.

The tree is not complete until Oran puts the star on top. This is the same star Oran and I bought for our first tree 11 years ago. Mikayla had so much fun putting the ornaments on the tree and than taking them off and putting them on again.

Matthew wanted to put his up high

Thomas was putting a ornament on the tree that I made in the second grade he said "I need to be careful because this is really old!"

The Medina kids did a great job decorating the tree, now they are looking forward to the presents that may be under it!


by the way Thomas' shirt says "Dear Santa, my sister did it" he thinks it is hilarious and for his sake I hope Santa believes it .............Ha ha ha

Rain gutter Regatta

What a great day for the races. On Sunday, the cub scouts,
held their annual rain gutter regatta. For those of you who have no idea what I am taking about I will go over the basics. First the boys have a boat kit that they put together and paint. They race each other on two rain gutters that have been turned upside down and put on a stand filled with water. The boys can not use their hands and must blow into the sail to move their boat down the rain gutter. Above is a picture of the boy's hard work all lined up and ready to race.

This is Taylor's 5th race, and his final year because he will be going to boy scouts soon and they do not do these races. But Matthew still has 4 more years in scouts so he will be back.

Thomas ready to blow, but not to hard, we want to stay away from the ER again!!

Matthew ready for the race.

The regatta was a huge hit and the boys had a great time.

Cub Scout meetings

This weekend was a busy wekend for scouts, First Thomas and his fellow wolfs had a tour of the police station, Taylor had a Webelos meeting right after, and on Saturday Matthew and his Tigers went to the fire station for a tour. The Wolfs all lined up and ready for the tour

They locked the boys in the cage, they loved it. (if you look real close to the bottom left of the picture you can see Mikayla with a big smile on her face HAHA!!)

Thomas

Matthew locked in the cage as well.

After we left the wolf den meeting we headed to Taylor's Webelos meeting and the boys were learning abouts cars. Taylor was learning to change a tire.

Even Mikayla got into the act and wanted to learn about the car.

On Saturday after Thomas and Matthew's soccer game we went to the fire station with the Tiger's. Thier are 15 boys in the den and they enjoyed looking and playing in the trucks.

Thomas in the fire truck

Matthew and and Thomas

The kids each got dressed in uniform, here's Matthew

Thomas in uniform

and yes even I got into the act!!

Busy weekend but lots of great memories.

Halloween 2009

Another great Halloween for the Medina kids, lots of candy, and fun costumes.

Princess Mikayla

Dr. Thomas D.V.M

Harry Potter Taylor

Storm Trooper Matthew