The 8th Floor

As long as I can remember, going to the 8th Floor at Macy's, formerly Marshall Field's, formerly Dayton's (or as Matt calls it Damarcy's), was a highlight of the year in the Hanks family. This year it is the Nutcracker, and we took Jack for the first time along with Grandaddy and Grandma Hanks. I don't know what he got out of it, but we all enjoyed it. It was also one of Matt's and my first dates in 2001. We had a great time and got a Christmas card picture out of the deal, too, so you will all see that before too long. And then we had to have a cookie at the end. What a treat! Here's us....

First Haircut!

It's a Friday night in the Fure household and we are having a party! Well, not really. Actually we are quite boring. We gave Jack a haircut (as you will see), we went to Home Depot (WOO HOO!), and now we are sitting outside of a closed library using their wireless internet in the parking lot while Jack sleeps in the back seat. Oh, the exciting life of a poor family!!!


Well, we finally had to cut Jack's hippie 'do! As the pictures will prove, he was getting pretty shaggy. It was really just a trim, but it was needed. It started out OK, but it got a little challenging toward the end as he was getting bored. We have a video, but we don't have it on the computer, so maybe we'll put it on later. We didn't get a lot of hair, but it did make a difference.

Here are the before pictures:

And here is the after picture:

Jack also got a new winter jacket!

New Toy(let)

Jack has started to find some new toys to play with. Shannon walked into the bathroom the other day and was startled to find Jack fascinated with his new toy. You also get to see him waving a little bit.

No, we weren't celebrating evil on Wednesday, but Jack looked way too cute in his fireman outfit.

Jack is waving

We owe you all a video of this, but alas, hasn't happened yet. But he is waving at people and run-crawling! If you could run while you are crawling, that's what this would be. He's pretty quick! And we're his favorite toys. Why do we waste money on all of those fun little gadgets? I mean, we have hair to pull, glasses to pull, and Matt's security uniform is like a playground itself with all of his badges!

So we will update with pictures and videos next time, but there is definitely progress every day!

Fall Fun

As you can tell, we all had a great time at the apple orchard! Counting all the kids there were 20 of us at our Sunday school's apple orchard outing. We went on a wagon ride, tried to get lost in a corn maze, some of the kids took pony rides and then we went and bought a bag of honey crisp apples! YUM! Jack likes to attack the core of the apple once we are done eating them.

We also bought Jack a pumpkin at the orchard. The next day we went over to Shannon's parents and her mom had bought Jack an even smaller pumpkin. Here is Jack with his two pumpkins. There were too many good pictures of Jack and his pumpkin, so I am including a few.

Another Update

Hello Everybody!


Just thought we'd post since it has been a week. Not a lot has happened since last week. We had a good weekend and we are looking forward to next weekend when our Home Starters Sunday-School class will be going to an apple orchard on Saturday. It sounds like the weather will cooperate as it is supposed to be in the upper 50's. Perfect weather for a fall activity!





Jack is doing great. Since we got rid of our internet at home, we are updating our blog at the local library. That makes it interesting with Jack screaming as he sits on our laps banging the keyboard while we try to type! He is getting over his cold and cough. He has a couple teeth poking through on the bottom. He is also starting to look like a hippie with his long hair!





Here are some pics and I also included a video of him walking around in his walker.

Update

Just reporting to say that there's nothing new to report. I feel like we're boring this week. Of course, it's not boring to us, but maybe you wouldn't find it too entertaining.

We've been so busy at church with our missions conference and some financial seminars which by the way were very good and resulted in us canceling our cable and internet, but we will still try to keep the blog updated and interesting. So keep checking with us! Would love to hear from you all!