Christmas and Easter in One Blog!

Ira with Santa Claus

Admiring the giant balloons at the Christmas Parade

Decorating his gingerbread cookie

Showing off his creation

Modeling his home made Christmas shirt

Posing with Mommy at the Nutcracker Ballet

At the Nutcracker Ballet with Daddy. Ira loved the ballet!

Ira with Santa, again.

Playing Pin the Nose on the Snowman at his class holiday party

Making Christmas crafts with friends at school

Celebrating the first night of Chanukah

Latkes! Yum!

Nana going down the ice slide

Being silly with Nana at the Ice exhibit

Nana and Papa looking so cute in front of an ice waterfall

Ira about to learn some dance moves after The Nashville Ballet's performance of Aesop's Fables

A boy and his dog

Watching the neighborhood baseball parade with Alex and Avery just before having breakfast with the Easter Bunny

Happy Easter!

At the school Easter egg hunt

Ira's new hairdo

Easter Eve at Arrington Vineyard with Poppops, Aunt Beth, Big G and Daddy

reading his letter from the Easter Bunny (still in his undies)

Checking out his Easter basket

Ira's miniature greenhouse. He loves Spring!

Thanksgiving!

I don't know what holiday everybody else is celebrating because we're just getting around to posting pictures from Thanksgiving. I guess that's just the way we do things, a wee bit behind schedule. But if Kirsten has her way, we'll have multiple Chanukah and Christmas blog posts or at least one really long one. 

Aunt Drew came to Nashville for Thanksgiving so of course Ira took her to the Adventure Science Center.

Ira and Aunt Drew try to figure out how to change a tire.

Studying the ecology of a river habitat. 

More fun at the Science Center.

The Station Inn is quickly becoming our favorite place to take out of town guests. 

Rather than slaving over dinner all day, we spent Thanksgiving day at the Ellington Agricultural Center.

It's much cooler to act like turkeys than eat them.

Some people hang out in front of trees . . . 

and some people hang out in them.

What a kiss!

The Ag Center is where they keep the police horses. We wished a happy Thanksgiving to Officer Joe.

Kirsten and Drew did a beautiful job setting the table. 

And we had a lovely dinner together. 

What's Up, Fall?

This year we went apple picking at Pratt's Orchard with apple picking experts, Lindsay and Chris.


Ira ate most of what we picked before we made it home...


but at least he shared.






Apple picking is hard work!


We also went to Gentry's Farm to find the perfect pumpkin. Here Ira is sportin' Mommy's shades on the hay ride.


Master of the tire swing.


Playing with corn.


Being silly with Daddy.


Cutest pumpkin ever!


Ira drew a scary face as the template for our jack-o-lantern.


Even though the jack-o-lantern was scary...


Ira is still cute.


We went trick or treating with Avery the witch and Evelyn the strawberry. Unfortunately this was the best picture we could get of all three of them, but you get the idea.


The witch and pirate in action.