Go Clones!

We also got to have a little Cyclone experience while in Iowa - we got to see The Battle of the Birds and luckily Cy came out on top, barely and unreviewed but we won in a crazy, exciting game! I'd forgotten how much fun going to watch basketball could be.

Dancin' the night away

After missing far too many family functions - we made it to one! Paul and Katie (Sean's cousin and his wife) were married on the 20th and we were able to celebrate with them. The 6 Hogan cousins enjoyed themselves and did lots of dancing - except cousin Cael who preferred the candy table - and let's be honest who can blame him! Carter informed me that "Charlee says we are boyfriend/girlfriend" but I'm trying to forget that comment so that I don't pull it out when they are 16 and mortify them. He worked pretty hard on some break dance moves and entertained us! Lincoln thought being with a grandparent was a much safer place than the dance floor! Good times in IA.

Ms. Nan's Followers

Carter got in the car on Friday and announced that "Ms. Nan says it is a good night to stay inside and watch a movie". It was raining and cold and in fact was a good night to watch a movie so that is exactly what the boys did - they snuggled up on the floor and watched Tom & Jerry. I told Becky that Carter had announced it movie night and in fact Jack had done that same - these boys are Ms. Nan followers...but I'm fairly certain that she didn't say every night should be movie night as Carter has been requesting!

Thunder Up!

Last night Carter's school had a night out at the to-be-named, formerly Ford Center - OKC Arena, possibly ThunderDome (yep...the place needs a proper name). Anyway, we had the pleasure of sitting in the 2nd to last row at the top. The view actually wasn't that bad (although I'll admit to liking the seats that we usually get through Sean's work MUCH, MUCH better) but the boys enjoyed their first Thunder game of the season. Think we will do it again but might send just one boy and one daddy to enjoy as it would be a little easier with 2 than 4 (seems they get together and make paying attention more difficult for the other). Sean was really struggling trying to decide who to root for, however, since they were playing the Spurs and we are also Spurs fans from being former San-Antonio-ites.

More building...

The building continutes - this week they've constructed a "rocket ship" in the garage, complete with 4 rolls of toilet paper for decoration (won't leave that stash near their reach again). We also had a small build in the living room - luckily all the pieces of the games stayed in their boxes this time. Here are some pictures.

The petite architect has been at my house, this particular one uses every piece of every game we own to build structures in front of the fireplace - a great plan unless your mom is OCD about "stuff" being out and your little brother has a tendency to break everything in sight! This structures did withstand 4 days of above mentioned mother & brother before the materials were sorted and returned to the lumber yard for the next build.

Halloween

My pictures are pretty horrible - my targets were moving a bit too fast! Our police officer had a short trick-or-treat this year because he wasn't feeling well and Buzz Lincoln-year rejected many pieces of his costume but over all it was a successful Halloween. The bats and pumpkins moved out promptly on Sunday night and a few new turkeys flew in yesterday...and I planned the thanksgiving menu as well - see you later Halloween, hello Thanksgiving!

Iowa equals so many options for these boys - should we farm, fish, ride the Kabota, play with cousins or be spoiled by their grandparents! Needless to say, they love Iowa!

Happy Birthday to Lincoln!

His Handy Lincoln birthday cake

Our little man turned 3 on Saturday. I told them the other day that now we didn't have any little boys in the house, only big boys but Carter insisted that Lincoln would ALWAYS be younger than he is! He sang himself a few rounds of Happy Birthday on Saturday which was very cute. As you can see Sean believes in cutting slabs of cake - which no one eats but instead licks the icing off of!

Happy birthday to the busiest 3 year old around and sometimes the most mischievous, Lincoln!