Oh!, Christmas Tree

We got our tree up this weekend. This was the first year Brooke helped out. We also put a little fiber optic tree on our entry table and put some of the little Dora and Spongebob ornaments on that tree. It's officially "Brooke's Tree".

We also got all the lights up outside. Did the usual this year... red and white alternating big C9 lights with icicles on the house outline. Did one red tree and one white tree. Decorates the large holly bush with red/white minis. Put Mr. and Mrs. Claus in Brooke's window this year.

See pics of the decorations

Classic

I was shaking Brooke around today . . .

"Stop Dad, you're making me nervous".

I have no idea where she picked that up. And as we were laughing she was like "What's nervous?". So she doesn't really know what she said, but it was funny.

A Fun Wiikend

So last night about 11:45 Heather took off for GameStop to pick up our previously preordered Nintendo Wii. She got right in and back home. We got the Wii, another controller (Wiimote + nunchuk), Zelda: Twilight Princess. The Wii comes with Wii Sports.



The only thing different than setting up any other console you've ever had is the Wiimote light sensor. It has an ultra thing cable that's quite long so anyone should be able to install it with any configuration you have for your home entertainment system. To get going we just set it on top of our tv screen and ran the cable down the side of the TV. We're planning on doing a proper install today.

The thing setting this console apart is the controller. The Wiimote is a slim remote control looking device that goes in one hand. There is a nunchuk attachment that goes in the other hand and they are connected by a short cable. It feels really natural holding it, and it's not nearly as difficult to get comfortable with it as you might think.

In a few minutes we were trying out Wii Sports. We tried them all but the golf. The baseball is alot of fun. With 2 players one person is pitching and one is hitting. The hitting motion is just like hitting a baseball. It's not as complex, you can swing up for getting air and what not, but you use the basic hitting motion. Bowling is probably my favorite. Again, you use a normal bowling motion. You can hook the balls as well. Boxing is the weirdest. It's a little chaotic and kind of hard to tell exactly what's going on... I'm sure I'll get into it the next few days. Tennis is pretty fun as well. You can do backhands and forehands.


I started Zelda this morning. It's fun as well. So far I haven't gotten into much content that requires the use of the Wiimote sensing ability. I did just finish a fishing pole quest and that does require you to use a fishing pole motion. I can't wait to get the bow and arrow and try that out!

So far I'm very pleased. It seems like a lot of fun with the unique controls but I also didn't have to spend 600.00 on the console like the PS3!

Here are a few pictures from the first night.

Bummer

The Pride of Broken Arrow won the BOA National Championship yesterday.

Whoa!

I plan on spending the rest of the day under a blanket crying

Pic

The kids are coming to get presents

So this was the first year we took Brooke Trick Or Treating. This year she was a princess and she had a lot of fun going around to our neighbors and getting candy. We just did a few houses and then we all passed out candy to the kids coming to our house. Brooke LOVED doing that. Bailey was locked up in Brooke's room, so he would bark which signaled to Brooke to run into the entry and wait for the kids to come to the door. She would say "the kids are going to come and get presents".

We decorated the front yard again this year. We added a few new things this year. We got a skeleton that lights up and we also added some little pumpkins on stakes.

Heather carved two pumpkins. One was pretty standard and the other had carvings on the front and back. The back would cause a shadow on the wall of a cat, and the front was two scary rats. Pretty cool.

Brooke's cousin Alaina was here right before Halloween so they helped scoop out the gunk from the pumpkins.

I took pictures.