While Cutler did go out trick or treating last Halloween, this is the first one that really meant something for him and where he fully understood the objective of the night and he loved it.  Cutler recycled one of Mason’s old costumes as a dinosaur/dragon (your pick) and Mason chose the dark side and went as Darth Vader.  Below are a couple of pictures of the boys and their friends.  The best one is probably of Cutler showing how much he enjoys chocolate.

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Wow, it’s been a full month since my last post.  With the temperature finally dropping into the 90’s I have found less and less time to sit down and put words to paper.  I’ll also blame it on my incredible wife’s ability to find something for the family to do every weekend in an effort to keep me from watching football.  🙂

In an effort to start my creativity going again I thought I would put up some pictures of the boys from our Brother’s Day adventure from this year.  If you recall, September 11th is the day that Cutler was diagnosed with leukemia.  It still brings up many emotions when I think back to that rainy day, but it has now turned into a day of celebration thanks to Mason.  Last year after enduring Mother’s and Father’s Day, Mason asked when was Brother’s Day and so we decided there was no better day than September 11th to help turn the memories of that day in a more positive manner.  This year was a lot more low key than last year, trip to Disney, due to Mason starting “real” school and so we just spent the day eating lunch at a butterfly festival and just hanging out…emphasis on hanging as it was the morning after my lovely wife threw a surprise birthday party for me.  Surprise is an understatement as my birthday is still a few weeks away, but that’s another story and those photos will not be made public.  🙂

Anyway, below are a few photos from our day out.

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I can now say I have not gone a month without a post in two years.  🙂  Now I just need to finish Alaska before we go another trip.

In search of activities in refrigerated air we decided to head to the Mesquite Rodeo on Saturday night and we weren’t there longer than 3o minutes we found ourselves bringing home two tiger cubs.  The older one really enjoys looking at himself in the mirror.

This past weekend the boys decided it was time to give back in their own way and so we packed up several bags of old toys and headed down to the hospital for a quick visit.  Ok, to be honest, Melanie pulled out all of the old toys and we called the hospital to see if they would take them, but Mason was definitely 100% behind the idea and this is something we will try do at least once every year.  He was very proud to give back.  We also did a visit around the hospital where we ran into a few of the nurses and doctors from our stay and it is always fun to watch the nurses look at Cutler and watch their shock as they suddenly realize that he is the little 6 month old baby from what now seems like so long ago.  Below are a few pictures from our visit, which mainly consists of the boys playing.

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The title and the videos should say enough, but to be clear I do say horror in the video.  Sometimes I mumble, so I wanted to be clear I didn’t talk about a great little house in Texas.