PICTURES, the tree, vacation, gingerbread houses

Trimming the Christmas tree

 One day Kacen brought me some socks and tried putting them on so I helped him out and he loved running around with his tall socks on.

 Winter Vacation in Massanutten VA

 Kyle's cousin Heidi and her husband David invited us to Massanutten last weekend to stay at a ski resort for some fun and relaxation. The big adventure for us was the indoor water park. The fact that we only have three pictures attests to how fun it was, haha, or how forgetful we are.

 The park opened at 1:00p.m. (nap time) so around 3:00 p.m. Kacen crashed, they only place to lay out was on the tables, but he took a 30 min power nap and was good until 6:00 p.m.

 The main event for Kyle and I was their Flowrider! We didn't get any pictures of us doing this, yeah we're lame, but it was fun. And I haven't lost my touch yet, not that I am that great but I could do a 360 spin still so that was great. But I got one far away one of Ky in line while Kace was napping.

When you are in the Shenandoah you have to admire the mountains. Kacen loved hiking and wanted to go into all the crazy places. 

 Here is his cousins family. It was so fun to get together with them and Kacen loved playing with their two boys.

 There was a fun rec center, Kacen loved the basket balls. Ky and I played table tennis, he won 2 games I won 1. 

The low light of the weekend: The second night Kace wandered over to our bed in the middle of the night, I picked him up and he was burning up. We gave him some meds and stayed on our vacation, finally Sunday we got him to the doctors and he has croup. Poor kid, but he is on his way to getting better.

The main event of the Raleigh household during the Christmas is Gingerbread Houses. This year Jessi and I made special requests, a manger and a tree house, I sort of gave Valarie a basic idea of what I was thinking and she came up with this...

 Super fun huh? She did a great job.

 Then came the fun part DECORATING

Valaries pink house, we fondly call the Mary Kay home

 The tree house, railing, ladder, outhouse, forest, grass and snow.

 Ky Ky's white trash house complete with a couch in the yard

 Ian's Dr. Seuss (left) Jessi's manger (right)

 Perry's old man house, haha

 Ky (left) Maddi (right) her's is the mote house with an alligator too.

To close it up here is a pic of me and Kace sleeping, this is only one of a couple photos Ky has stole of us. So good night.