Holiday Traditions

What would the holidays be without a trip to the after-hours sick clinic... Jared started feeling lousy last night as we were walking into the movies and was burning up. I tried to take him home but he wouldn't hear of it. After a night of chills and fever and sore throat, Greg took him in this morning and he has Strep Throat. Last time we had Strep in the house was when I was in the hospital having Lauryn and Brandon came down with it. Its always something!!!

Happy Thanksgiving from the Falzone Kids

This is Jared's artwork he brought home yesterday. He explained that the item on the right is a giant oven for the turkey to be cooked in!

Jared's list of things to be thankful are: ME (him), every sport there is, trees, Mom, Dad, Brother, Sister, equipment, school, CDS, USA Navy, God, spiders and Jesus.

Brandon's list of things to be thankful are: Earth, Life, dad, mom, cats, me (him), sister, God, birds, trees, Squanto, Sun, Moon, Mars, and Jupiter.

We are all thankful for family, friends, health, Jesus and all our many blessings! Love you all!

Playground Trip

This afternoon, we took a ride over to the playground that Greg was involved with a charity build for a few months back. Here he is standing by his handy work. This is especially funny because my husband is NOT the handiest man around, but that day he used several types of drills and learned how to build stuff! The kids really enjoyed playing here. There were very few families here despite the newness of this beautiful playground. It was a little chilly, but really a gorgeous day to be out playing!

Jared was hiding in the tunnel. They had a great time playing hide and seek, and even made some new friends.

Lauryn is getting so big and brave. She knows how to get in position to go down the slide all by herself. The playground had a "tot" area with smaller scale slides, ramps, stairs and climbing structures, which is what Greg is standing by above. She had a blast!

Brandon is hiding on Jared in one of these towers. I'm shooting from up on top of this huge playground that is so large that many adults can be following kids all throughout, and it is totally wheelchair accessible. Really amazing.

One of Lauryn's favorite parts of the playground was this makeshift chime with bolts and piping. She banged them and made wonderful music!

Bran hanging down on the fireman's pole, doing his signature head tilt for the camera!

Lauryn was hanging over the railing "talking" to a big dog that was just outside the fence! He was a huge German Shepard that she thought was hysterical. She squealed at him, clapped and waved to him for about 5 minutes! It was really funny.

Jared hanging out in one of the towers near the rock wall. There was a part of the playground that just looked like an ordinary platform, then we realized it swayed like a bridge. So cool! We had such a nice time at the playground today!

More Conversations with Brandon

Waitress: What would you like to drink?

Brandon: I'll have a Bud Light.

Snow Baby

Well, no snow really...but isn't that the sweetest face ever?

Hockey Finale

Tonight was the big game under the lights! The Lightning finished the season with a loss, but they had a great time! Jared had the opportunity to play as a player instead of Goalie, and he loved it! He's #6.

Brandon still has no idea that he is any smaller than the other kids and usually chooses to do the face offs against the biggest kid out there. He's #3.

Jared after the puck again!

Trophy Time! Coach Greg/Daddy gave a nice speech and gave all the kids awards and trophies on the rink. Brandon was awarded "Most Fluid Skater" and Jared was awarded "Most Incredible Shot". They had a blast this season!

Report Cards...

The boys have received their first quarter report cards this week and both kids are doing phenominal at school.

Brandon's teacher says what a hard worker he is and how well he does getting down to business. He is also a good friend. Brandon will be a pilgrim boy in the Thanksgivng play this year.

Jared's teacher says she is impressed how easily he has picked up math concepts and what a great reader he is. His second grade class is doing ERB standardized testing all week this week. Jared is so excited to start learning cursive handwritng next week.

Here's hoping for a project free few weeks here before the holidays arrive!

Brandon's Prayer Last Night

"Lord, please help John McCain win tomorrow, and if Obama wins, please help my family not to panic and to calm down...."

Happy Birthday Meme!

My mom came down for a visit this weekend and we had the chance to celebrate her birthday with her. Happy Birthday MEME!!!

We spent lots of time playing, shopping, eating yummy chocolate cake and halloween candy. Thanks for coming down to visit us Meme!! We love you!