December in Pictures

It looks like I'm catching up on the whole month of December in one post. Therefore, there are pictures galore. Enjoy!

Decorating the Christmas Tree

 

Supporting the Razorbacks with his hog nose!

Heading to the ElDorado Christmas Parade

 

 

 

Austin's pre-school Christmas Party

 

He was rockin' out with these little wooden blocks

 

Decorating sugar cookies at the party

 

Sportin' the reindeer antlers

Conked out in his new camo recliner (thanks Karla & Keebey)

Apparently it's a good place to sleep

 

Christmas with the Garner's/Atkins'/Smith's

 

He got a stuffed buck deer head to hang on his bedroom wall

and a new tv for his room from mamaw & papaw

Christmas with the Belt's/Nowlin's

 

he got a new art easel from Nana

 

Look at what Santa brought

 

He spotted his new knife in the tractor seat. All he has asked for was a saw and a knife.

He's so proud of his knife

 

and his saw

 

He also liked his new John Deere tractor

 

 

and the smile on this kiddos face made it all worthwhile

 

A Little Bit Behind

Austin's First Day of Preschool

His carved pumpkin from the preschool party

Halloween Trunk or Treat with Tiger Woods (aka David Collins)

Going with Daddy to get a deer from the woods.  Notice the string cheese in his pocket?
Of course he took his own gun to make sure he didn't need to shoot it too! 

Halloween Treats

It has been such a nasty weekend with the rain and the cold. Brandon and I took Austin to the pre-school on Friday for a visit and to pick up his supply list. He starts there on Monday. It makes me a little sad knowing that he's growing up so fast. Friday afternoon Brandon went to the deer camp so me and Austin had the place to our selves. Saturday we went and bought groceries and went to Mamaw and Papaw's for birthday cake for Miranda and Shane. And on Sunday I didn't leave the house all day. I'm going to leave you with just a couple of food pics of what Austin and I cooked over the weekend. The first one is our chicken pot pie that we made and used the cookie cutters to cut out a "halloween black cat" in the top crust. We were trying to make our supper a little festive. The second is of the cupcakes we made on Sunday. Nothing real fancy just picks that we bought at Wal-Mart, but I did make the orange icing homemade!

And here's a quick snapshot of Austin and I that we took. Of course I can never get him to look at the camera!

 

Pumpkin Patch & More

I'll start out by saying that there are a lot of pictures in this post. We had a wonderful Saturday going to Little Rock and taking Austin to his first pumpkin patch. Brandon had to work so I took Austin and my nephew. We went to a patch in southwest Little Rock called Motley's. They have a Christmas tree farm as well. It was a smaller patch than the one I've been to before in Grady, but we really enjoyed it. They have hayrides, goats, chickens, pig races and some swings and slides for the kiddos. And since it was his first pumpkin patch visit I thought we'd have our first Chuck E. Cheese visit as well. That place was packed. They had 4 birthday parties going on as well as the regular customers. Austin still got plenty of playtime though. After Chuck E. I wanted to do a little shopping, but apparently Austin did not. He's not a good shopper to begin with, but Saturday was awful. He doesn't want to ride in a buggy or a stroller and of course holding your hand is out of the question as well. So we fought those battles in EVERY store. I did however get the things that I had to get him except for new shoes. So here are the photos from our big day!!

The sun was really bright so it made it hard to get really good pictures.

 

Ridin on the hayride.

 

Pickin' out his pumpkin

 

The sign says "This tall this Fall" and it measures them. I'd never seen one like it before.

The tunnel inside the hay.

Isn't this a mischievious look?

Pulling around the pumpkins

 

 

Feedin' the goats

 

 

This was his favorite game. It was a jet-ski.

And a couple of randoms from Sunday. Here he's trying on a coon skin hat in Atwoods.

And I think we've found a good Christmas gift. I couldn't keep him off of this thing. He kept telling me that he needed to get feed and go feed cows with Papaw.

And of course the cutest little hiney in South Arkansas. Actually the little pumpkin undies are cute too!