Noah Cardiel Holt | My life according to other people

Like I said before, the rain hung over NH for most of our vacation up there, but we did get one day that we pretty near perfect and we jumped right on it with a quick hike.

…an hour or so from the sound of traffic.

I turned us around right when it was starting to get good..

(photo by Kate)

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).

Noah’s greatest (paternal) Aunt, and this blogs top commenter, Mindy was born on this day a couple years back.  BIG UP!!!

A week ago today Noah skipped day care and I skipped work(ing in my office) so that we could spend the morning with Aunt Mindy before she flew back to NC.  Even the best of plans can hit a snag though, and Noah needed a little time out before we could grab some breakfast.

Real nice to have the park all to ourselves.

Can’t blame the boy for thinking about trying to pick up this stick.  The “tough guy” Holt gene must be like the twin gene, it skips a generation.

But for a tough guy, Noah sure does scare easy.

Mindy was literally being reminded that she had to head back home.

…so we made our way back to the apartment when what do we see?

A firetruck and a friendly firefighter who offered to let Noah climb all over the truck (notice I volunteered to take off the Red Sox hat).

Thanks for coming to visit Mindy, and thanks for all the help taking care of him.  A week later and he is still asking about you.  Hope to see you soon.