Party time

On Saturday, we celebrated w's 4th birthday at a local gymnastics facility where he will tell you "We exercised, ate cake and I gots new toys!" Despite a small delay in getting into the party venue, it was a great place to host a party. The kids had a ball running, jumping and playing on the equipment. We had 2 coaches at our disposal and who lead the group in some games. The best part was having the entire facility to ourselves versus the mad house that other party venues are when you have 5 groups sharing the same place. It's fair to say he and his friends had a wonderful time. And, of that, I am truly thankful.

Waiting to go in the gym

J having a blast

Whatcha doing, Willis?

Come over here and I'll show you the ropes.

Monkey see, monkey do...

Fun times with our friends

Pretty girl.

Taking a moment to chill a bit.

Watch me!

Hey, look at us!

Look at me go.

I take break, mama.

Jump, jump, jump...

All of our friends making funny faces for the camera.

Thomas cake

Goofing with our best buddy, J.

January Ice Storm Photos

We had an ice storm in January, and I caught some cute pics of the kids. Since we didn't have a computer, I couldn't get them up. As the old adage goes, better late than never, right?

Look at all this ice!

Mama said not to throw the ice,

but apparently, I don't listen too well.

We had fun sledding with daddy.

My little snow bunny coming back for another sled ride.

The magnolia had the most amazing ice leaves.

Ice leaves are crunchy.

Lil'G thinks they are scrumptious too.

W's 1st Christmas program

It was one for the memory books for sure, because it turned out nothing like I expected. Where to begin? From little G singing along to Jingle Bells "HEY!" to him yelling "Bubby, BUUUUUBBBEEEE!" upon spotting W, he was quite the handful. Thankfully, S is a great guy and took care of the screamin'demon. Besides that, it was my baby's first Christmas program and I couldn't wait to hear him sing his little heart out. I knew it was going to be so special. That is, until I saw him marching in, and I knew from the moment I spotted him that he had a little problem that he was fixated on. For your viewing pleasure, I bring you "W's first Christmas program."

santa express plus christmas parade equals tons of fun

We have been having the best weekend. Last night we celebrated S's birthday with a great group of friends. I was a little nervous because we were bringing a couple of different circles of friends together and you never quite know how that will go, but it went really well. However, I think the best part was that it was an adults only party and my awesome aunt kept the boys for the night so we wouldn't have to worry about picking them up late at night.

It was surprisingly eery this morning though when we woke up, because there was no sounds of little children in the house and everything was in the same place we put it the night before. You know we've really adapted to having kids when the quiet and neatness gets to us. Ha! In any case, I really missed my stinkers and couldn't wait to pick them up, because...

We had tickets to the Santa Express! W and G are really into trains and they got to go on an hour long train ride with a certain man in red making an appearance. Making the whole experience even better was having my aunt and her granddaughter (my cousin's child) come with us. W and his cousin, T, are 6 months apart in age and always have a fantastic time together.

Checking it out with daddy

Mommy says don't forget about me!

Trains are cool.

Hi!

Cousins at play

Auntie S, T and W

All aboard!

Are we ready yet?

The choo-choo goes "WOO-WOO."

Scolding Santa's Elf for sneaking the train without a ticket.

I got to say that the conductor was pretty cool.

Visiting with the big guy, Mr. Ho Ho Ho himself.

The plan was to go home after the train ride but as luck would have it, the town I grew up in was having their Christmas parade so we decided to stay and enjoy it.

In front of my grandmother's house

which is now owned by my aunt.

Enjoying his view of the parade

No matter how old you are,

everyone loves parade candy.

late pumpkin patch pics

We went together to the pumpkin patch back on October 16th, but we forgot to put the memory card in our camera which wouldn't be so bad since our camera will hold a certain number of photos without the card. Ok, no problem, except we had misplaced our USB to camera cord and had been just using the card reader. Well, praise be! I found our camera cord today and downloaded the pics. And, you know, the world was completely missing our on seeing our Pumpkin Patch pics, right?

Riding my wagon and taking it all in.

Fun in the trailer filled with "cah-tin!"

Made it to the top!

Ready to get down.

Giddy-up!

Can you boys sit here for a picture for mama?

Okay, look at mommy.

Ok, guess not. I give up.

Let's go pick pumpkins.

Dis one.

Cooling it with the pumpkins.

"Ah" see horsey.

Hey, who goooooeess there?

We love farm animules.