Green Family Thanksgiving

My Mom sent me this picture of the Green Family Thanksgiving that was hosted by my Aunt Patty and Uncle Randy in Sugargrove, PA. That's a good looking family. :o)

Thanksgiving 2011

We braved the trip and took Jax on an airplane to Las Vegas for Thanksgiving.  The weather was beautifully sunny and in the mid 60s the entire time.  Jax warmed up to Mammie Sharon and Grandpa Ron pretty quickly.  Mammie brought out all kinds of things to play with from tea strainers, pots, light sabers and little cars, so Jax was a happy camper.  There was some fear of him falling down on the ceramic tile, so she even got him a little helmet to wear!

Justin's nephew, Jayden, had Wednesday off from school, so we spent some time with him as we be-bopped around town.  We hit up the fashion show mall and stopped by Justin's cousin, Jennie's house for a Jax studio photo shoot. 

On Thanksgiving day we took a short hike in Red Rock Canyon.  Walking around that place never gets old!  Mammie & Grandpa made a fabulous meal that we shared with Justin's brothers.  Then dessert was at Aunt Linda and Uncle Al's house where we got to visit with many cousins and most especially Papa Jack.

Happy Thanksgiving!

How can you say no....

...to those eyes?!?!?!?

My new favorite picture

Peek-a-boo!

Just hanging around

Exploration

Jax is totally digging that his new mobility is allowing him to explore things he never could before.  This is one of his new favorite things to do.  I can see that sometime in the future I will be cursing the fact that my piano has no key cover....

Jax is one step closer...

...to walking on his own! 

Justin's dissertation defense

Well, he did it!  Justin successfully defended his dissertation last week!  He had a pretty much full house for his presentation and mostly easy-peasy questions from the general audience.  He said his committee didn't cut him any slack on the post-presentation grilling, but he came out on the other end a HUGE step closer to his PhD!  From here there are only a few written corrections to his dissertation manuscript and a lot of graduate school paperwork to shift through and turn in.  Congratulations, Justin!!  Dr. Daddy, here we come!

Jax's Growth Chair @ 13 months

Beautiful Washoe Valley

A few weekends ago we attended a birthday party of one of Jax's daycare buddies at his home on the west side of Washoe Valley.  I couldn't help but as a fellow party-goer to take a picture of Jax and I in the backyard that looked out onto the golf course.  Very pretty view!

Happy Halloween 2011

Happy belated Halloween!!

Between Halloween birthday parties and actual Halloween, Jax got to wear both of his costumes. So stinking cute!

Logan also made the local 11pm news on Halloween night.  Look for the cute ladybug at the Governor's Mansion about 1/2 way through the video.