Chick-Fil-A Santa Cow!

A couple days ago a good friend of mine and I decided to take our kids to family night at Chick-Fil-A. We had heard that the Chick-Fil-A cow was going to be dressed up like Santa! How fun right? Well, Owen didn't really think so. He loved talking and shaking hands with Mr. Santa Cow but totally freaked out when I tried to sit him on his lap. Here is a picture of Owen trying to wiggle out of Santa Cow's arms before breaking into tears! Maybe next year will be better, I guess he still has a little stranger anxiety, especially strange men dressed up like cow's wearing Santa's outfit! I guess I would be freaked out too...

Outside Lights

So the lights on the house have been up since the day after Thanksgiving, but I am just now getting around to putting pictures up. Yes, the Burgess' have been super busy lately. Well hope you enjoy the beautiful lights Brandon put up

Great Grandma's Christmas Dinner

This past Friday was my Grandmothers annual Christmas Dinner at her assisted living facility. She is allowed to bring four guests and since my sister and brother-in-law went last year with my parents, it was Brandon and I's turn this year. They served a delicious dinner, Salad, Lasagna, Steamed Veggies, Shrimp and Brandon's favorite, Key Lime Pie! Everything was amazing. Owen however, was not really into staying seated while we were eating dinner. So as all parents know, we all ate in shifts while someone was off running around with Owen. After dinner we went back to my Grandma's apartment and spent some time chit-chatting with her before we headed home. Owen had a blast in her apartment since she had tons of Nick-knacks to play with and lots of singing Christmas decorations. He also enjoyed playing the piano down in the common area! Enjoy some pictures from our night. The Burgess' with Great-Grandma ThompsonMy adorable parents

Brandon eating him yummy food, minus the shrimp of course, we all know Brandon and I hate seafood. I actually kept mine on my plate to be nice, but Brandon scraped his off immediately on my dad's plate, just like a kid, but I love him dearly!

Owen playing with my Grandma's Santa the plays the saxophone! He had so much fun dancing to it! Owen playing the pianoThe Burgess Family posing in front of the blow-up nativity set. LOLMe and my hunny! Awe

Household Chores

So lately Owen has been very into helping out around the house! I am not really sure if it is mean to have him start doing chores at such a young age, but I figure if he is willing I might as well let him. I am sure there will be a day when it will be like pulling teeth to have him do his chores. Here are a few pictures of Owen sweeping the floors for me this morning. I had just finished giving him a hair cut that's why he is in his diaper and socks. He was so fascinated with the broom! He loved pushing it around and reminding Mommy how long it had been since she last swept!

I know he looks a little anorexic here, but I swear we feed him, he just burns off more calories than he eats right now. He is one busy boy and never sits still unless Mickey Mouse is involved!

River of Lights & Our No Good Day!

Last night Brandon and I took Owen to see the River of Lights at the Botanical Gardens with some very good friends of ours Jonathan, Jessica and Abby. I am sure you are all familiar with them, you know Abby's parents, Owen's BFF who is often blogged about along with Owen. Anyway, Yesterday was one of those days! You know those days when you begin to wonder how in the world God decided you were responsible enough to be in charge of a child? Yeah on of those days! Beware this is a long story about our No Good Very Bad Day! We were supposed to go over to our friends house at 5:30pm to eat dinner over there and then head over to the Botanical Gardens to see the Lights. Well, Brandon and I had a few last Christmas errands to run so we had planned to leave the house around 3:30, do our errands and then head over to our friends house across town. So I packed up all of our stuff, Hats, Mittens, Jackets, Long Johns, scarfs, etc. and had them all ready to go when we were ready to leave. So around 3:20 we packed up the car and headed off for our afternoon. We finished all of our running around early and were headed over to our friends house. Okay all sounds good until we realized that we forgot to grab all of Owen's stuff to keep him warm! Ahhh. Somehow we managed to grab all of our stuff minus Owen's. Needless to say we were no longer going to be early. We made a pit stop to the mall and ran in to get Owen some long johns and mittens, luckily I had his jacket and an extra Hat in the car. I left the diaper bag in the car since Brandon had his wallet and we were literally running in and out. Well, when we were about half way down the mall Brandon realized that Owen had soaked him entire pants and we had no diapers with us, so we were walking around the mall with a kid dressed in pee and nothing to change him with. Well, we finally get his stuff and headed to the car. On the way the handle of the bag I was carrying broke off, UGH!!!! We make it to our friends house, threw Owen's clothes in the drier and ate a delicious dinner and headed over to the Light show. When we get inside the Botanical Gardens we realized that Brandon and I didn't dress nearly as warm as we should have and also that we forgot one of my gloves in the car that we spent about 45min. early trying to find. Wow, I know its a lot to take in. Luckily the Lights were awesome and Owen loved it, I don't think he blinked once the entire time we were there. O yea' one last thing. The pictures aren't the greatest since I took them all with my cell phone since I realized once we were there that my camera battery was dead! Sometimes when you think you are all prepared and ready to go you are quickly suprised at how much you don't have it all together!

The carolers that sang were awesome. Owen loved clapping for them at the end of each song!

This was Owen's face the whole time. He was bundled up so tight that his cheeks were warm every time I touched them. I was so concerned about making sure he was warm that Brandon and I almost froze! Lol, parenting!

Even though it was a stressful no good day we did really enjoy ourselves and it sure makes for one heck of a story!

Here are our friends Jonathan, Jessica and Abby who was way past her bed time!

Play Day with Abby & Cami

This past Wednesday Owen and I had our weekly play day! His friends Abby & Cami came over and they made a nice mess of toys all over the family room. I don't really get it, he plays just fine in his play room, but when he has friends over they always drag all the toys to the family room? Crazy kids. O' well they had so much fun together and actually played pretty well together. There were only two incidences to report. First, was when Owen and Abby were chasing each other around the Christmas tree and Owen accidentally bumped into Abby and knocked her under the tree. She wasn't hurt, just a little traumatized. And second, was when Abby was on Owen's back on the couch trying to hug him and they both rolled off the couch and smacked heads together. Other than that the day was awesome and we all had a great time! They had so much fun playing in his toy storage bins! Really who needs toys?Seriously adorable!

Here is Owen's friend Cami. She is 8 months old and such a little sweetie! She just started crawling and is very interested in keeping up with the older kids. Owen and Abby are so good with her and really enjoy tickling her tummy and handing her toys to play with

Gavin's B-Day!

A few days ago was our very good friend Gavin's Birthday. You may remember him from my Blog from Thanksgiving, you know the guy that kept falling asleep! Anyway, since his mom was up visiting from Las Cruses, NM we decided to have them over for a Birthday dinner. I made my famous Kickin' Chicken Soup and Cornbread! For dessert I made a Chocolate, Cookies 'n' Cream Ice Cream cake. Here are a couple pics.

Owen made friends with Gavin's mom Kathy pretty quickly, especially since she let him eat all the cake he wanted. Spoiled little boy!