Noah Cardiel Holt | My life according to other people

The rain seemed to just hang around our NH vacation.  On Monday it was fitting because we had to see Mindy go home to Charlotte.  When the rain paused for a little while, Noah and his Nana did some exploring.

Slugs love shrooms.

Over lunch, Aunt Mindy and Noah discussed what part of her luggage he would sneak into.

Good-byes are always tough.

Thanks for planning, decorating, and everything’ing Noah’s birthday party Mindy!  Really glad you could make it.

Sunday morning, the day of Noah’s NH birthday party, we woke up to rain.

Since we couldn’t just have the party on the lawn, we relocated to my Dad’s new garage.  Nana, Aunt Mindy, and Kate spent the morning decorating.

The remains of Saturday night’s fire.

Darn rain.

Noah’s first present of the day, a fire chief outfit…

…to go with the fire fighter theme!  Check out the great cakes Noah’s Aunt Mindy made!!

My Uncle Wayne got into the spirit.

Kaelyn and Jaycee.

This one is a real nice and thoughtful gift…

Noah asked my Nana to hold a gift for him.

Tagging the floor of Grampa’s garage.

One more look at those cakes before we tore into them.

Abigail and her Aunt Lori.

Abigail, making sure everyone has a fire hat.

“What a bunch”

Thanks to (Noah’s) Aunt Mindy, Nana, and Grampa for planning, decorating, cake-making, and hosting.  Thanks to everyone else for coming over, up, and down for Noah’s birthday party!!!

Saturday morning we packed it up and drove up to NH.  As you can imagine, driving with little dude (and his mom) requires a couple pit stops.

Luckily, about half way there is The Basketball Hall of Fame!!

After using the bathroom, Noah wanted in on some basketball games.

Instead I gave him 3 min. to try and dribble in the gift shop.  Not pictured, Noah being really bummed on me.

Lunch!  Brattleboro, VT.

Last stop, Milan, NH as ash was falling from the sky from Jasper and Doug’s bonfire.

Aunt Mindy made it up from Charlotte!

Noah was a little overwhelmed with everything being on fire, dudes with years of facial hair, and four-wheelers racing around..  Happy Birthday Son.

Uncle Gerry tossing some branches on the fire.

Doug.

Jasper…

Goodnight Noah.

There was a lot of wood to burn, and Jasper gets impatient.

A while later..

Thanks to everyone who texted, emailed, Tweeted, Facebooked, Four-squared(?), sky-wrote, smoke-signaled birthday wishes to Noah.  We are in NH and yesterday Noah had a nice, little party (in the rain) with his NH family.  Photos coming soon(ish).

Last Sunday we drove out to Huntington, NY to see Dave, Michele, Sebastian and newly born Veronica.  Noah took a little nap on the way out, it took some time for him to wake up.

At least Santa was there to make things a little more “real”.

Sebastian, with toys!

Dave, Michele, Sebastian, and Veronica have a HUGE backyard with tons of room for smashing balls..

…and finding feathers.

Inside isn’t so bad either, with a bunch of HUGE rooms for playing with toys…

…but we were there to see Veronica, who is all of a month old.

Back to the outside.

I’ll take full credit for this “seating arrangement”.

Dave and Michele giving Noah a little pre-birthday, birthday cake.

Presents!

Dave multitasking.

Bubbles, always a crowd favorite.

Bye Dave!

Bye Santa #3!