Thanksgiving in Oklahoma

After a visit in Dallas, we hopped in the car and drove up to Nick's family in Oklahoma. We knew this visit would be a lot different than our last one since Jonathan was crawling! We were on our toes the whole time!

Nana pulled out a horse for the boys to play on while we were there. Now all of the cousins have had turns with the horse! Jonathan LOVED it!

Can't believe how much this looks like my baby pictures! (only without the 70s style in the background)

Jonathan got excited about buying snacks!

Abby spent some time entertaining Jonathan. He was a bit too interested in her teeth and reached out to poke!

He's so proud of his mischievous ways!

Abby fed Jonathan dinner, and he tried to help! Amazingly, she was spared in the battle. I need to take some tricks from her because when he looks like this, I am a mess myself!

Matt loved his introduction to air hockey and played the whole time with his cousin Dom when he was over.

Here they are with their audience, Molly. Molly and her buddy Joey were once again friends of Matt's while we were there. He chased them around everywhere and entertained them!

Birthday party #2! This time it was the Trevino cousins who came to dinner. Notice the Mater hats. Matt was so excited!

Here's everyone smiling for the camera, with Jonathan distracted by Nana's necklace!

Matt played his new video game that Nana & Pawpaw gave him. He loves it!

We went out back and played with some Tonka trucks one day while Jonathan was sleeping and everyone else was working. Matt had a blast moving around rocks!

Matt showed his friends Molly and Joey his new train.

Jonathan was playing with Nana and I tried to capture it, but they spotted me!

Matt shows off his new train to his Pawpaw!

I guess he was trying to teach Pawpaw how it works.

Here's the train. He told me he wanted a picture of his train!

Jonathan and Matt with Pawpaw!

While Nana was sneaking into the picture, Matt was trying to sneak out. He STILL won't smile for the camera. One day...

While Nick was helping Pawpaw get some Christmas lights in the yard, the boys and I decided to end our walk and just play out front with them.

They were both looking at the camera for this one, but Matt decided that smiling wasn't as fun as tearing up leaves and trying to throw them on me!

Closer to smiling, but more like bug catching in this shot!

Mr. Personality!

He got so excited about "climbing" the tree!

Abby told me to "go sit down and I'll watch Jonathan", so I took advantage and sent Nick in to take a few pictures of the kids. They seemed to enjoy their parent free time. They are all such great kids!

Thanksgiving Away

We packed up and headed for a repeat trip to Texas and Oklahoma, this time to celebrate Thanksgiving with our families. Matt's birthday celebration also continued on our trip!

Here's Matt at Granny & Grandpa's, hiding in the toy bin!

The boys were grilling up something for breakfast, I guess!

Back in the bin!

One afternoon we headed over to my brother's house to spend a little time with Uncle Steve and Aunt Kimberly. We got to see the boys' cousin Chase while we were there too! Here's Jonathan with Uncle Steve.

Matt was upstairs making noise and playing with Chase while Jonathan got handed off and entertained by all of the adults! Here he is with his Aunt Kimberly.

Chase tried to get Jonathan to look at the camera. One of the rare occasions where he wasn't looking.

Back at my dad's house, he found his cheesy grin and looked at the camera on cue, while cooking something again!

One morning we all headed downtown to go watch Grandpa at his swim meet. Matt wasn't too sure what to think about all of it, but he seemed to enjoy the new environment as long as he was walking around in between my dad's 2 events.

We waited for Grandpa to get dressed after the meet, and Nick & Matt hopped a ride in the glass elevator for some entertainment!

Coming back down!

Granny & Grandpa introduced Matt to Candyland one night. He did a great job for about half the game. I am not sure what he thinks Grandpa is up to, but it looks like he doesn't agree!

I think he repeatedly tried to go two squares for every one we picked. He did a great job searching for the special spaces on the board.

We went to Northpark mall one day to see the trains. We had lunch first, and since it was Matt's birthday celebration week and a half, we got him a birthday song and sundae at lunch. I think he liked it!

Jonathan had a good time too!

He actually shared his ice cream with me. I was shocked. I thought he was going to fake me out, but he let me take a bite.

We were a bit of a mess by the time he was done with his sundae!

Time for the trains!!!

He kept going back to the "working trucks"!

The train exhibit was amazing. They had several cities and scenes set up. You can see D.C. in the background, and New York City is over my other shoulder. It was so detailed!

It was hard to tear Matt away and move through the exhibit.

The hat they gave him upon entering was donned as soon as we left. He didn't even want to touch it before we saw the trains.

More cooking at Granny & Grandpa's house!

That night, Matt's cousins, aunt and uncle came over and we had a big family birthday dinner for him.

Grace and Jonathan played together, but it looks like Jonathan thought she was up to something.

Matt got to sit at the kids' table without audult supervision, so Granny went to check on things at the end of the meal. He did a great job!

Jonathan was at the adult table, entertaining us all!

He had just learned how to do "touchdown", so Grace was trying to get him to do it for her.

Playtime on the floor again!

We tried to get a group photo, but this is the best we could get. It's a bit hard to get 6 kids to stand still AND look at the camera. Well, at least it's hard to add our 2 in and get it to work. Here's Matt with his cousins Chase and Ethan.

Aunt Kimberly stole a little more time with Jonathan.

Time for cake and more trains!

Once Matt realized the tracks came off and someone suggested he lick off the icing, it was game on!

I think they liked the cake!