He's 6!! Thanksgiving and a few randoms

We celebrated Aiden's 6th birthday Friday-Sunday. It was the least we could do since we didn't have a party...my Mommy guilt about this is sure to really kick in next year and I'm sure we will have an obnoxiously big birthday party to makeup for the year we missed :)! On Friday we drove 1 1/2 hours to Tiger World...an in door water park and ski slope...only to find out that it had been shut down for the week for repairs!!! Many, many tears later (our poor little guy...we felt HORRIBLE...more Mommy guilt!) we decided to go to Everland and try Tiger World again closer to Christmas. I told him to look at it as a 2 for 1 deal. Here is a pic of what was waiting for us though in the parking lot at Tiger World. We have no idea why it was there or what it means, but as I'm sure you can imagine it was good for a laugh!

Only in Korea! Santa was at Everland! If you're wondering...he is Korean. Aiden told me it's because Koreaners (his word...we're working on Koreans) have a Santa just like Americans have a Santa!

Christmas World at Everland....they do a BEAUTIFUL job with Christmas decorations!

On Sunday morning we woke up and celebrated Aiden's birthday. It was fun for him. He wanted me to put transformers in his cake with blue icing...his wish was my command! His PopP asked him if could drive yet and he said "That's in 10 more years." I don't even know how he knows that...he is growing up WAY too fast!

Aiden with his presents the morning of his actual birthday.

Showing off his Darth Vader watch from Jack
Aiden with his cake...he also wanted a #6 and not 6 individual candles.

Now we're going to back pedal a bit to Thanksgiving. This is Aiden's class Thanksgiving feast. They did a program for us and then we ate. Aiden was an Indian and was VERY proud of his costume he made!

He's in the back row second from the right.

This is Aiden's "I'm Thankful for" He wrote which you can't see because he wrote in pencil "I'm Thankful for Mi Dad" (spelled just like that) and drew a picture of himself and Dad in his "Air Force hat". I started crying...it was the sweetest thing and as you can tell from Patrick's smile he was pretty proud, too!
This is how we celebrated Thanksgiving. All of the pilots and their families cooked for the 300 maintenance guys and their families. It was very fun and rewarding. Most of the guys are single or are here without their families, so they haven't had a home cooked meal in a while. The pilots served all the food and took care of the prep and clean up. It was a neat experience. Certainly made us thankful that though we are far away from "home" at least our family is together!

After the feast a game of flag football ensued...Pilots vs. Maintainers...the Maintainers won...of course...they were on average 10 years younger and 6 inches taller (and thinner!) than the pilots and I am proud to report not a single bone was broken, sprained or pulled! Patrick is 2nd from the right in all black w/ a grey t-shirt underneath his jersey...looks like he's offsides to me!

After the feast and football we decided to take the kid's to Planet 51 at the base theater. Some friends met us and we had the place to ourselves. This was at the end of the movie...all the boys were on stage doing air guitar!

Here go the few randoms since it's been a while since I posted...easier than doing a bunch of little ones!

The Balettie's came and slept at our house about 2 weeks ago and we got snow....don't know if you can see it, but I think it shows up pretty good on Christa's jacket.

Aiden riding the pig at Patrick's squadron...the A-10's nickname is the Warthog. Aiden thinks he is awesome...the thing over the pig's shoulders is bullets! MeMe and Aunt Carolyn when y'all come out that guy's got y'alls names written all over him :)
Boy was Laina excited when she found this...FINALLY...a PINK helmet! The normal green does not go well with her hair!

We went to the base Christmas tree lighting last night. This is Aiden and his friend Cody waiting for Santa...he came in on a fire truck!

The tree...it's a little more Charlie Brown, than Rockefeller Center, but the kid's had fun and that's all that matters!

These are pics of our old houses bathrooms that Gramma has been patiently waiting for! Notice there are 2 shower heads...1 outside the tub and 1 in. That's because our bathtub was a traditional Korean soaking tub and they don't use there tubs to take a bath, just to soak, so they shower off outside the tub before they would get in. There are drains in the floors.

This was our only bathtub in the house...crazy, huh?!
This was 1 of our 2 other bathrooms. Do you notice there is no tub. Just a shower head and a drain in the floor. The other bathroom was just like this one. Can you see why we couldn't wait to get out of there!