Halloween 2010

3 Years Old

This blog. This poor neglected blog. I always have such good intentions. :0)

We have had a super busy fall. There was Ezra’s first soccer season, Logan’s Route 66 run, Cowtown Camera Girl sessions, Sean & Brittany’s Vegas wedding, Eric’s Surprise birthday party in Glenrose, Halloween, Thanksgiving, birthday parties, trips to the park, zoo, stockyards, & science museum, and lots & lots of hanging out time with our family. Life is good. AND as of tomorrow afternoon I will be off from work for two full weeks. Life will be really, really good.

So, back to my good intentions. Going to try to show off some of our fall pictures. First up, our Halloween. Ezra was a cowboy this year so we decided to go check out the Stockyards. Ezra and I did a little exploring in the stables and back areas. We met some cowboys who were so very, very nice to us. I'm always so impressed with how nice people can be to children. These guys were very sweet. Ezra was in heaven.

Then Logan met up with us for the Fort Worth Herd. He ran from our house to the Stockyards so that's why he's in running gear. Yes, that's how we roll sometimes.

Here are those super nice cowboys we met. The guy on the right is named JR. He's a rodeo clown. Notice the brace on his knee? He recently had reconstructive knee surgury. He also had a big ol' black eye. And he has had his nose broken several times. They told us this horse was the tallest horse in the stockyards. I believe it.



And one last shot at our house later that evening. This was right before trick-or-treating on our street. All in all a fantastic Halloween for a 3 year old cowboy! It's still hard for me to believe he's three years old....so much bigger now than he was in 2009, 2008, and 2007.

Ezra Celebrates Dada's Birthday from Ryan Valdez on Vimeo.

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Fall Soccer 2010

Our first attempt at a team sport. I don't know how much soccer was really played but we still had a good time. Ezra's team was made up of 10 three year olds -- five of which were in his class at school. It was fun to hanging out with those families and we're looking forward to trying out t-ball (honk ball) in the spring with them again!

Just a few more days. We are excited!

A little project for me and my little helper.

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Fredericksburg

September 25, 2010

I spent a weekend in Fredericksburg last month with Shana, Lynda, and Cathy. A very relaxing three days. We visited a few vineyards....

We stayed at a really cool B & B....

And ate lots of yummy food all weekend long.

I really should take trips like this more often. :0)

If You Give a Moose a Muffin

Hello new blog header!

I've been meaning to update this blog for a while now. It's a hard thing though -- saying goodbye to our little "Day in the Life of Ezra James" blog header. Sounds silly I know. Logan started this blog right before Ezra was born and then our blog header went up shortly after. We switched out the picture one time early on and it's been the same ever since. Here we are now three years later so I think a face lift was needed. This new one is still under construction. I'm not completely sold on it but I think it's a good start. I snapped these shots of Ezra last Saturday night. A quick two minute photo shoot. All that was required was a piece of gum -- Ezra's new favorite thing. Give him some gum and he'll do just about anything for you. He was going to a wedding with Nanna & Pop while Logan & I headed out to dinner and a movie. (Nice!) I heard that he was a dancing it up that night. Of course I would expect nothing less than someone who wears green chucks on the dance floor. Thanks for the new shoes Aunt Bess!