Saturday, December 22, 2012

The latest and greatest

 Well here is our next batch of pictures from the last few weeks.  We have been pretty busy enjoying life and enjoying each other.  Never a dull moment in the Hargrave house

So for Thanksgiving we went down to my sister Rachel's house but when we were about 10 mins from her house we got a phone call that my nephew Marshall had broken his leg on the trampoline....needless to say Thanksgiving was cancelled but that's okay we still how fun seeing everybody.

 So the little fingers in this picture are actually objects that have their own names...Boomie & Nini...basically Bennett's left and right hand...Patton just happened to be caught in the picture.

 So this is Bennett and me singing and playing a little Johnny Cash to Patton

 Bennett and Haley are always doing something fun.  Here is Bennett transforming an ordinary box into an amazing little country cottage.  This "house" gets played in alot!

 Patton is always close to whatever Bennett is doing, or getting into.  This boy absolutely loves his big brother and vice versa.

 Bennett putting the finishing touches on his awesome house.

 Bennett and Patton hanging out in there new pad....Patton is not 100% on the living arrangements yet.

 Bennett on the other hand is ready to sign papers today!

 So we put a little party together for Haley's birthday.  We did not get alot of pictures but we did get some video.  She got her first official sewing machine!  She was actually pretty excited about it.

 This little boy just never stops growing

 Patton being Patton...its scary to see how much he looks so much like Bennett did at this age...cant deny that their our boys!!

 So in true Hargrave form we took a unscheduled trip to Houston to see the Johnson Space Center.

 The Moon exhibit was pretty dark but it was really awesome!

 So upstairs was the module that simulated controlling rovers on the Mars surface in a different location in the space center.  It was pretty cool.

 Bennett loved operating the remote controled rovers.

 My space boy!

 Talk about dying and going to Heaven.  It was millions of legos just dumped on the floor with a sign that said, "Have Fun".  Yeah Bennetts dream has come true.

 Haley and Bennett had to go on the shuttle simulator.  Haley actually got scared but Bennett held her hand so it was okay :-)

 I played the good Dad roll on this one.  Letting Mom and Bennett do most of the rides while the little man and I did some great cuddling.  Its a hard life.

 They had a tram ride that actually drove around the actual space training center.  This building was the begining of "Rocket Park"  It houses the actual Saturn V rocket that took alot of the Apollo missions to the moon.

 The command center.  This is the actual place that monitors and communicates with the shuttles and the space center.  It was pretty surreal.

 We toured the training center with the identical models of the actual internatianl space center that the astrounats train on prior to living their for a year in space.
 Patton was not to sure about this portion of the tour.

 Its just pretty neat to see what man can create and to think that people live in these little pods for an extended period of time.

 This is a new lunar vehicle that is being tested for the next mission to mars.  Pretty impressive machine.

 The older lunar model.

 They have a testing area that they run the new lunar model through its paces.  Wonder how much that little 4x4 cost??

 Training simulators for the rovers.

 This little guy is an adroid they have been testing...built by GM....go figure.

 Its just fun to hangout together.

 So we finally got around to cleaning up our garage.  Bennett, of course is always interested in what is on my work bench.  He decided  that he needed to do a little building.


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