What a fun and magical Christmas we had!!!
We had decorations...
We had a visit from Elfie every day...
Even at Disney World...
We had Christmas Eve church service (Ha!)...
We had reindeer food...
We had a quiet Christmas Eve...
We had rides Christmas morning in our new car...
We had time with family and friends...
We had beautiful weather...
And we had to find new places for all the new stuff!...
And someone is already making his Santa list for next year!
-Mommy
Daddy and I had been waiting for just the right time, age, etc. to do the Disney World trip. We wanted it to be perfect and it was!!!
There were scary rides (at least scary for some!)...
There were fireworks and light shows...
There were cool playgrounds...
There was Cinderella's Castle...
There were awesome views...
There was swimming in December...
There was Star Wars...
There were cool things to create and play with...
There were cool places to eat...
There was even a pirate transformation...
And there were so many very important people to meet...
Lastly, there was a cool autographed thank you card that arrived a couple weeks later that someone was sooooo excited about...
See ya soon Mickey!
-Mommy
Here is the last group of randomness for the year!
We recently spent a day at the local botanical gardens and found this bug. We thought it was dead, but shortly after this, we realized it was in fact NOT dead!
Boy is really in to booby traps recently...can you tell??
Cute Mommy and Boy pic!
Daddy had a motorcycle JUST like this YEARS ago, add this to the list of ways they are ALIKE!
When Boy isn't making booby traps, he's in a tree! Did I mention he is ALL BOY!!!
Oh, and I guess when he isn't making booby traps or in a tree, he is doing science experiments!
We've started karate!! (this was the first class before he got his uniform)
Some cute pics from a recent impromptu photo shoot.
-Mommy
Boy's most favorite holiday!!! Halloween!! Daddy and Boy start frequenting Halloween stores AS SOON AS they start opening. And Boy can hardle contain himself!! He just LOVES it all!
Our pumpkin this year....
*Boy was SOOOOO excited to buy a pumpkin and carve it. As soon as we got home that's all he wanted to do. So, I cut the top off of it, put it in front of him and thought "This is great....he'll do this while I work on dinner". Not so lucky...he took one look (and smell) and said "That's gross, you do it!"
And this year....the costume of choice (his idea!)...a skeleton zombie!!
On the porch with all of our decor!
Trick or treating...
Getting a lift...
A couple days before Halloween we joined some friends for a Halloween festival. No skeleton zombie here, he chose Batman!
So fun!
-Mommy
-Mommy
There is always the need for a random post with a bunch of random pictures!!
We recently met several of Daddy's fellow firefighters at a lake to hang out for the day. Because the lake has been so low, there were dead fish and dead fish bones everywhere. Ofcourse Boy thought it was the greatest thing ever! I was completely grossed out!!
(just a cute pic)
At the beginning of the summer, we got a fish. Boy had been begging for a pet and we agreed on a fish. He picked out a blue Beta and named him Fishie. Well, unfortunately, Fishie has already died (Boy was soooo upset), but I want to make sure we remember him.
As each cold makes its rounds through our house we have the need for our dreaded nubulizer. We dread it so much these days we have been trying to find creative ways to get it done!
Always proud of the muscles!
-Mommy
Baby G is already 1! Time has flown by! I took his pictures a while back to mark the big birthday!
What a cutie!!
-Mommy
Okay, so I became slightly addicted to Pinterest over the summer, but Boy benefitted! It gave us tons of fun ideas to try. It was such a win-win because they were free or cheap, they were fun and provided lots of learning!
This started out as just frozen grape kabobs, but we weren't fans of frozen grapes, so we just made fruit kabobs!
I took a bunch of Boy's small toys and froze them in water in a cake pan. The next morning he got to help them escape with a hammer! Any excuse to beat something with a hammer is a good one!
Shaving colored with food coloring became cool bath paint!
A new box of crayons (back to school supplies sales rock!) became new homemade mini-muffin crayons!
Peanut-butter and Nutella "sushi"!
Slime!!!
Glow sticks in the bathtub with the lights out!!
We had so much fun with Pinterest!
-Mommy
Potnica and I took a little road trip this summer and headed to Schlitterbahn with the boys! The last time we took a road trip they were just 2. That was fun, but this time was a BLAST!!
Not too many pictures because a water park is not the friendliest environment for a camera! So the cell phone has to suffice.
We stopped around lunch time and met some friends from that area for lunch. We ate at the coolest place that had a bunch of great restuarants surrounding a brand new park! It was perfect!
Water rats!
There was the cutest little Italian place right across the street from our hotel. It was yummy!
We found a cute little cupcake place in downtown.
And No, that is not ice cream on top, it is a scoop of icing!!
Boy and his cupcake. He looks into it, but he took this one bite and threw it away. He's just not a big sweats fan.
On the way home with our new friend Bluey (I know...such an original name!).
You would think the boys would sleep the whole way home, but that would not be the case. They talked the WHOLE WAY HOME!!
-Mommy
I truly can't believe 4 whole years have already gone by! Boy demanded requested that his party be at Chuck E. Cheese this year. At first, I wasn't too keen on the idea, but let me tell you, it was BY FAR the easiest party we have done. We showed up with cake and party favors and we left with presents. We didn't cook, buy plates, clean-up, etc. It was wonderful!!!
Here's the morning of his actual birthday.
The loot.
We had cake for breakfast!
The big party!!
Cake!
The Ticket Blaster!!
Getting his Chuck E. Cheese medal!
Friends at the party!
I feel quite certain this was his favorite party to date!!
Lastly, the only crummy thing about turning 4 is getting a bunch of yucky shots, but as a bribe reward, Boy got to create his first Build A Bear after the shots. Thank goodness there aren't any more shots until like 11 years old, so I have time to financially recover from this Build A Bear trip!
-Mommy
