Christmas Parade

Corvallis has an annual Christmas parade the day after Thanksgiving that wraps around downtown finally ending at the courthouse with a tree lighting ceremony. Benton County always asks county employees and their families to ride on the float, and this year I 

decided Gabe was about the right age to enjoy it. Boy, was I right! He was getting more excited by the minute as we sat on the float waiting to push off. By the end of the parade route he was bouncing up and down, sucking on a candy cane, waving and yelling "Marry Christmas". Dan and I couldn't help from laughing at him.

Our float was the trolley, made to look like a train on the front.

We will definitely be riding again next year!

I had to add this pic to the post.  This was the front page of the paper the next day....Our float!  So, of course I clipped it out and posted it on the fridge so Gabe can look at it and talk about how much fun we had!

*Picture courtesy of the Gazette Times

Halloween 2012.....Gabeasourus

For Halloween I decided to make Gabe a dinosaur costume.  It was simple, and comfortable, and by the time he decided he wanted to be spider man, it was too late.  Oh well.....There's always next year. 

Mom was here, so her and I took him downtown for trick-or-treating and to the library for the kid's Halloween carnival.  It is a big event here in Corvallis.  Gabe really enjoyed seeing all the kids in costumes....characters he knew from TV, books, or movies! 

Gabe would get some candy, start to walk away, and then turn around and say "roar...roar....roar" before his final exit.  It had me (and the store clerks) cracking up!