Merry Christmas!!!!!

Happy Holidays from the Gross family!!! We have one more Christmas celebration to go so this is just a sampling of some of the fun stuff happening! There will be more pics to come!!

Carter getting ready for bed on Christmas Eve....

Christmas morning and the new firetruck.....

Patiently opening the gifts.....a little piece of wrapping paper at a time!


The firetruck and LOTS of matchbox cars....


The mat to run his cars on......

"What?"

Kitty being kitty...

"What?"

Beautiful Weather.....

We've been having great weather so we've tried to take advantage....these pics are from several different days....we go to the park with the kick ball or the golf set and just have fun getting some fresh air and playing in the grass!! Carter has almost as much fun as grandma and grandpa do just watching him!

Carter....getting ready to hit the golf ball...

more golf....

Checking out all the dogs walking their "people" in the park!!!

A fun day to run around kicking the ball in the park...

Kick......

Birthday Parties.......

Carter had a "Happy Birthday Weekend", not just a day!!! A Party with his play group friends on Saturday and then with Grandpa, Grandma, Jeff, Allison and Mommy and Daddy on Sunday....!!! We stretched the special day thru the whole weekend! That's lots of CAKE!!

Carter in his new recliner.....reading a new book....


Checking out the recliner....


Holly opening gifts for her "belated" birthday celebration....

The "Two" MOO cake.......

Blowing out the candles....

Opening gifts with Mommy's help......

A smile with Grandpa...


Some "musical" gifts from Aunt Allison and Uncle Jeff....

New KU PJ's.....!!!!! Go Jayhawks!!!

Happy Birthday to Carter

Happy Birthday to Carter today (and also to Holly on 12/6)! For his second birthday, he had a party at home with family and some of his friends. Pictures and a couple videos are below...

Singing Happy Birthday...

Opening a present...

Happy (early) Thanksgiving!

Just wanted to wish everyone a Happy (early) Thanksgiving! We were all together at Dad and Mom's yesterday for an amazing meal and relaxing afternoon.

Carter requesting pumpkin pie..."Please, Grandma?"

Mike and Carter playing Home Run Derby on the Wii

Some Fall Pictures....

It's Fall!!! What more can I say, the weather is beautiful! Stan and I spent yesterday planting some new trees and this morning I planted geraniums in my pots. We are ready for some color around here! I am posting some of the last of the Hawaii pictures....thought I had them all, but some more showed up on my camera!

Stan at the pool on our last night in Hawaii.....

Carter, the last morning dip in the pool.....

Carter, Stan and Mike on Halloween night......(you can see that Carter has already finished with the "trick or treating".....sucker in the mouth!)

"Bob the Builder" (AKA Carter)

Carter and Grandpa....

And this says it all.....(thank you to Holly for this image!).....hope everyone had a Happy Halloween!

More Hawaii Pictures

More pictures (and some video) from our Hawaii trip...captioned where necessary :)

Our hotel...the Hale Koa

On the short boat ride to the Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor

Golfing at Mamala Bay Golf Course at Hickam Air Force Base

Jets landing VERY close to the golf course...awesome!

Turtle Beach on the North Shore of Oahu

No...it's not dead...I saw it open its eyes :)

Dad and Mom at the Hale Koa pool

Carter drying off from an ocean dip

Holly and Allison acting silly in the rocking chairs at the Moana Surfrider

Walking up the steps at Punchbowl Cemetery

Eating dinner just outside out hotel one night...right before it started pouring

Scanning Waikiki Beach from a pier near our hotel

Mike, Holly, and Carter in the ocean

Carter "done" with his ocean dip for the moment

Carter showing his muscles in the hotel room