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Holiday Portraits

The day before Thanksgiving, we spent an
afternoon at the portrait studio. We were
able to get some great pictures of Lincoln with
Papa, Granny, and Aunt Melissa. We were
sad that Daddy had to work, and couldn't be
in the pictures this year. It was a long afternoon,
but surprisingly Lincoln did very well. There
were no melt downs or tantrums. He hammed
it up for the photographer! Below are some
(well, a lot) of our favorite shots!

Playing with the big stuffed bear. I thought this was too

cute.

Showing off how big he's getting.

The photographer and his assistant

had Lincoln laughing so hard he was

holding his belly. If there was only sound

to accompany this picture!

Aunt Melissa, Mommy, Granny, Linc

& Papa.

Lincoln happy to be hanging with Granny & Papa

Auntie with Lincoln

Another family shot, minus Ryan. :(

Holiday shot with Granny & Papa

Linc & Mommy

Again, the photographer was cracking Linc up!

"Wowing" over the Christmas tree!

This is my favorite pic of them all, if I had

to choose. He looks like he just got caught

peeking at his Christmas presents. Priceless!

Inspecting the tree.

I couldn't have been happier with the way these

pictures turned out! It worked out great that

Granny, Papa & Melissa were in town for them!

If only Ryan could have gotten out of work somehow,

they would have been perfect!

Thank you Dad (Papa) & Caroline (Granny) for

another wonderful visit. It's always so nice

to be able to spend time with you both.

Melissa, it was great to see you too! I am so glad

that we squeezed another day in!

We think of you all often, and are looking forward

to seeing everybody again very soon.

Hugs, love and kisses to you all!

Happy Thanksgiving!

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner, thank you Caroline
for all of your help! It was delicious. Everybody anxiously
awaiting to dig in!


Uncle Justin with the boys.


A picture of Melissa and me. We took this right before I
had to take her to the airport. Well, we wound up getting
to spend an extra day with her, because her flight had been
moved to an earlier time and she didn't get the email, and
therefore missed her flight.
It all worked out for the best! I am so glad
we got the extra time with (Besides the 6 am trip to
the airport on Friday morning! :)


3 generations!

A day at the Park

The weather was so nice Thanksgiving week, we decided
to spend some time at Desert Breeze park. Lincoln took Papa
for a ride on the carousel, one of his favorite things to do!
They both enjoyed themselves.




Sliding with Daddy!

Solo sliding!

Granny, Papa & Lincoln stopping for a second to take a

picture on the dolphin.

A ride on the mechanical zebra.

A train ride through the park. We sat in the front row.

The crew waiting for the train ride to start.

Practicing for our Go Karting later in the week.

Tortilla Flats

We took a day trip to Tortilla Flats while Papa & Granny were
visiting. This is a picture of a camper that had gone down
the side of the mountain shortly before we were coming up.
We stopped briefly to take a few pictures, and see what
had happened. The trooper told us that the driver and
passengers had stopped to get out to take a picture, and the
parking break released. Lucky for them, nobody was in
the van when it rolled down the hill. But imagine watching
your camper roll down the mountain! yikes!






A view from a little further down the road.
On our way back down the mountain, we got stopped for
about 1/2 hour. There were 3 large tow trucks and police
cars blocking the road. There was quite a row of cars stopped
especially behind us. But, luckily we weren't stopped to long.
The tow trucks had used some cables to try to move the camper
towards a path that they had cleared. So they decided to let
some of the traffic through before they pulled the camper
out. I bet it was a long day for them!
Lincoln was very interested in what had happened. He kept saying
"oh no, truck fall! " What happen Mommy?" It was cute.
But for his sake, we were all really glad that we weren't stuck
any longer! It was starting to get cold, and we were ready for
some Go karting!!





Aunt Melissa, Papa & Granny with Lincoln on the way
up the mountain.

Lincoln & Papa hanging out after lunch, waiting for Granny

to get back with some ice cream!

Ahhh, thanks for the ice cream Granny!

Posing with a totem pole in front of the restaurant.

Papa & Lincoln taking a silly picture!

( Lincoln's pants are wet from spilling at lunch... )

So, of course Melissa & I had to do it too!

Here is a pic of us stopping at Canyon Lake for Lincoln to look at the big

coy fish. He loves looking at "fishies!" Dolly the Steamboat

was out on the lake, so we couldn't show him the boat, but

he would have loved that too!

A scenic shot with Aunt Melissa... he's the only one

allowed to call her Missy. :)

A couple more scenic shots