Back to work...

We loved having a break over Thanksgiving -- although it wasn't really a break for me so much as it was having Brent home from school. We went to the zoo when Brent got done with school early on Tuesday. As you can see, we've still had lovely weather. The zoo was pretty empty, so we let Drew run around. He helped us push the stroller and climbed on the statues (this is a chimpanzee).

We spent Wednesday cleaning, and our house really needed it. It's nice to have a clean house; now I'm just trying to keep it that way. We had a nice Thanksgiving (see previous post). Then on Friday we hit the Cowboy Museum (see post before the last one), and went to the light parade. Now that was an adventure! We invited our friends Brian and JQ Hanson and their little boy, Joey, to see the parade with us. I thought it would be in Bricktown on the little canal. Not so much -- it was on the actual river that runs through the city. Still, we thought it would be fun. We found a Little Caesar's nearby on the Internet so we could go get pizza and go to the parade. We've had problems with the Internet being very innacurate and restaurants just not being there. Such was the case, AGAIN! Luckily I had brought our phone book, but the next closest one was quite a trip. We ended up getting to the park by the river just as the parade was supposed to start, and our friends were trying to find the park where we had agreed to watch the parade. The evening just got more ridiculous:
First off, it was VERY cold! We had brought some warm things, but not enough. We were freezing!

We tried to keep Drew bundled up, but no such luck. His little nose got so red.

The second thing, we get to the park, put down our blanket and sit down to eat our pizza. And ouch! The ground was covered in stickers! These were weedy little things that were extremely sharp and stuck to everything. They were all over my shoes, got on our blanket, in my coat, in my hoodie, EVERYWHERE! We tried to keep Drew in the stroller as long as possible because we didn't want him covered with the little evil plants, but again, no such luck. We did keep him mostly unharmed, but he still fell down a couple of times.

Our friends finally found us, and luckily the parade hadn't started yet. They were just in time for some fireworks, which was fun. We had to wait around probably another 10 or 15 minutes after that for the parade to start, and it was lame! The boats were too small, didn't have enough lights and were on the other side of the river. We felt bad ditching our friends, but Drew was cold and ornery, so we left.

(Doesn't this picture look just like my sister? This is a totally Sarah face, and Drew looks just like her!)

Drew must have enjoyed the whole advernture despite our mishaps. He was in a great mood. When we got home, we shared some grapes and then he wore the bowl like a hat.

Such a character! What would we do for entertainment without our little Drewby bear?

Our break is over, so I guess it's back to "work" for all of us.