Thanksgiving

With thanksgiving coming this thursday I am thankful for a couple days off of work. I haven't had a day off since I last got sick in August and that was not enjoyable at all. We get the 24th and 25th off and also per manager's approval an early 1pm release on wednesday. We are just staying in town for the holiday but plan on camping friday night. Haven't picked out a place yet though I don't think there will be any competition since everyone is visiting each other.  As an update I am doing pretty good working everyday. Tyler is almost finished with his semester. Harvey just had his wellness check up exam and did well except that he weighs 61 pds and has some dental tartar. Guess he needs to brush more regularly! All the cats are doing well Penny, Runt, and Huey.  For Christmas we decided in order to save money we would stay home this year. My family will come down and spend the holiday with us. That's it for now.

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Handy Manny!!!

The first couple pictures are of Ruben wearing his sunglasses while we are driving to Tyler's house. He never wears them correctly and you can always find him wearing them upside down. He gets a big kick out of it and wanted me to take a picture of him wearing is glasses. Ruben got a new toy at Tyler's parent's house yesterday. It's a handy manny workbench that talks out loud and makes real circular saw noises and all sorts of cool noises. He was so excited and proud of it as you can tell from the pictures.

Handy Manny in Training

Hammering

Trip to the mall and Lego Land!!!

Ruben at Lego Land
We unfortunately were unable to go to Lego Land because of the hour wait but were still able to get this cool picture of Ruben with Buzz lightyear. We also went on the carousel together and went to toy stores. Had a great time together.

Ruben's a cowboy!!!

Loves the carousel!

In an ice cream truck 

Happy 4th of July!!!

Ruben and I went to the Coppell Fourth of July Parade this morning. He had a great time watching the police and fire truck go by and was very happy to find out that they give candy out to all the little kids. He got quite the loot! Ruben had a great start to 4th of July and will be seeing fireworks later today.

Trip to the Fort Worth Zoo!!!

I bought tickets to the zoo from my work several months ago at a discounted price in anticipation of going to the zoo with Ruben this summer and the day finally arrived for us to go together. We got to the zoo about 10:30am and left at 2:00 pm. We saw so many different animals and they were very active. Nice zoo!!!

Fishing for the 1st time!!!

We took Ruben fishing for the first time on June 20th in Flower Mound, Texas. We bought him a spider man fishing pole and he was so excited to fish.