Very Merry Weekend

Wow- we just came out of a jam-packed, Christmas fun-filled weekend. We started off Saturday with a trip to Dell Diamond for pictures with Baseball Santa, and then we went to Georgetown to the Christmas parade. I forgot my video camera, and I wish that you all could have seen little Landon marching in place with the marching band and nodding his head to the music. He loved the parade, which was filled with cute floats, a fire truck, police cars, animals, and, at the very end, Santa.

After the parade, we visited a Bethelehem village with a live nativity scene, and then went to lunch with friends, and then had a bunch of Landon's friends over for a playdate all evening while their parents went out to dinner.

On Sunday, we went to church, and then enjoyed our second snow day in Texas. Every year our development covers a hill with "snow" and offers a play and sled day, and so last year Landon's first sled ride was in Texas, and this year, Lincoln's first snow experience ever occured in Texas...wild! Landon went down the hill on his own sled.

Sunday night Aaron and I got to go out to dinner and a date at the Domain, an upscale area in Austin, which had beautiful Christmas decorations, outdoor fireplaces roaring, and Christmas music playing over the speakers. It was a wonderful, busy weekend.

Domain of Heroes

I am so proud of Aaron. He launched his on-line massive multiplayer game about six weeks ago, after basically working two jobs over the last year in order to support us and test out his game creating skills. I think the game is a great success, and he has had lots of people playing it and purchasing "wishes" to add to their free game play experience. I respect Aaron so much for venturing out and following his dreams, and being persistent to push on to the end and finish the product. If you want to check out the game, visit http://www.domainofheroes.com/. It is free to play, so sign up and try out a character. My little squirrel scout is a lowly level four or something, but if you see skiper (supposed to be skipper!) in the chat...that is me. In addition, my generous husband has donated or given away almost all of the revenue that he has received from the game so far- what a guy! This blog is full of info about the boys, but I realized that I have neglected to blog about what an amazing husband I have and all of his ventures and accomplishments. Many of you already know this, but he also received a nice award from Intel for his very first game, Crunch Time, and he has had a lot of good internet press about Crunch Time and Domain of Heroes (DoH). Aaron and I have been able to go out on a few dates lately (thanks Aunt Glenda and Deanna), and we have enjoyed talking about his gaming creations, all of the new things he has been learning as he tries to market this game and venture into the business world side of a company, and how we are enjoying Austin/Round Rock and all of the opportunities he has had here.

Thanksgiving

We missed our friends and family this Thanksgiving (especially our moms), but we had a good time celebrating turkey day with Aunt Jen and Cousin Hayley. We were happy that they both came out (Hayley up from Austin, Jen out from CA) to be with us and share all of the yummy food. Landon got the big end of the wishbone, and you can see him in his victory pose below. I didn't get any special shots of Lincoln with the turkey as he was sleeping...but, here is his first Thanksgiving family portrait.

Zoo fun

We traveled to Waco to the Cameron Park Zoo on the day before Thanksgiving with Aunt Jen. The zoo was wonderful, and we were able to see all sorts of animals, reptiles, and fish. We saw gibons, flamingos, bald eagles, bats, owls, tons of snakes, a bear, tigers, alligators giraffes, bison, elephants, and much more!
This was Lincoln's first trip to the zoo.

Jen and Landon the ladybugs.

Checking out the alligator (or is it the croc? I get them mixed up...our trip to the zoo made me realize that I am lacking in the animal knowledge department).

Aaron and Landon going down the slide by the bear...I forget which animals they were sliding through! We had a great time on our trip. Landon loves going to the zoo and has asked to go back several times since we were there.

Waco Zoo

Waco Zoo

Both boys crashed hard in the truck on the ride home after all of the zoo fun.

Clifford!

Clifford the big red dog came to Round Rock in November. We went to see him at the hospital down the street where they were hosting a book fair. Landon loved seeing Clifford, and I scored some great deals on books and puzzles. We met a bunch of our friends there and had a good 'ol time.