Noah Cardiel Holt | My life according to other people

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!!!

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).

Friday night, after saying goodbye to everyone at day care, we went to Red Hook for Lobster with Andy, Aransas, and Savannah.

Noah learning to deal with the paparazzi.

Amazing mozzarella sticks.

Early morning tunneling our last day in Providence with The Deaners.

Breakfast.

Park #1

Stuck croc.

Park #2!

Lost and found.

Then like that, we were gone..  headed back to NYC, with a quick stop for lunch in New Haven.

Now I’m a little bummed that I can’t make the color right on this pizza because this thing was a beast.  I feel like this photo isn’t very appetizing, but trust me, it was great.  I think it was called the “Italian Bomb” pizza.  Pepperoni, Sausage, Bacon, Peppers, Mushrooms…  I’m sure I’m missing some other stuff, but you get the idea.

Noah ran back to the car, I crawled…  belly full of bomb.

Thanks for having us Joshua, Amanda, and Julian!  It was great to spend the weekend with you kids, see your friends, see the beach, see the Charest’s, and see your parks.  Can’t wait to go back.

While Noah and Julian napped, Joshua, Kate, and I went to get some groceries for a little BBQ.  Desert?  Check!

The Charest’s came over!  Benjamin taught Noah and Julian everything they needed to know about grilling.

Then Ben tried to teach Noah how to kick BOMBS!  Julian didn’t need any help.

Noah tried to warn everyone that Santa was watching… (anyone with white hair and a white beard or mustache is “Santa” right now)

Getting a lost ball.

Gooaalllllll!!!