A Boy and His Dog

I caught a really sweet moment between Brady and Luigi today.  I like to call them my 2 four year olds because they fight, get into stuff/make a mess, I have to feed them snacks and they are all over the place.  I really don't know what I would have done this year without Luigi entertaining Brady and playing outside with him since this was our first year with Cal in school all day.   I had to take these through the window because if I had opened the door they would have moved. 

A Hug

They must have heard something

Rubbing noses

And the moment was over when Brady started pulling on Luigi's skin.

They ran around the yard a few minutes before seeing me.

LOVE is in the air.....

Our Valentine fun started the weekend before with Brady getting to bring home the class pet (a stuffed Moose).  The first thing we took Moose to do was pick out Gigi's cupcakes.  Does your town have Gigi's?  They are huge and yummy!

Here is Moose trying to pick out which one he wants

Here is Moose hanging out in a backpack so Brady can take him on a bike ride.

Friday night and Saturday morning Matt and I went to a marriage conference at church.

Saturday afternoon we went to sign up for baseball (yes, it is that time) then went with another family to see Journey 2.  It was great!  Very boy friendly, which was good because there were 6 of them. 

Monday it was time to return Moose to school with his journal and the snack bucket.

Brady wanted muffins because Moose has his own book, "If You Give a Moose a Muffin".  In Valentine's spirit I made them in the shape of hearts.

Brady had his Valentine's party on Monday, since he does not go to school on Tuesday's.  We had to leave the party a few minutes early to go to his Kindergarten play group.

You can't tell, but they had heart shaped sandwiches, fruit kabobs with heart shaped orange segments and strawberries and heart shapped carrots.  A lot of mommies on Pinterest. He agreed to wear this shirt for a dollar and if he could give it away to a baby once his party was over.  He changed before going to his play group.

On Tuesday, the boys woke up to their boxes of chocolates.  Cal loves Valentine's Day....a day to spread love and eat chocolate.......it doesn't get much better.

Hasn't been awake 5 minutes and is eating chocolate for breakfast.  It's gonna be a good day!  I did try to make store bought cinnamon rolls into hearts.

Not near as excited about the day as Cal.

Cal had his school party then we came home waited for Matt to get home before all helping make the Barefoot Contessa's Linguine with Shrimp Scampi and lobster tails.

It was delious and a hit with all 4 of us!

This is the leftovers, which was not much, it made a lot.

And last but not least, we love Luigi (most of the time, when he is not in trouble for eating toys, Lego's and stuffed animals. :)

Hope you had a fun Valentine's Day too.

And He's Off

Well one day my baby was just riding his scooter.....

And the next day he asked his daddy to take off his training wheels.

Luigi is not sure he should be doing this on his own

So proud

His bike the "BIG CRUSH!"

We have been to Kindergarten Open House, he has done his testing and he goes to a play group next week.  It looks like my baby is going to Kindergarten next year.

Father/Son Bonding

January has brought some fun father/son bonding time for Cal and Matt.  They were able to go hunting with some friends several weeks ago and they had a great time.  They saw 3 deer and Cal got to shoot at one, but he was too far away. 

They were supposed to go this past Saturday too, but we had a lot of rain and wind (and it was 70 degrees-not the best hunting weather).  Hunting season is only one more weekend, so hopefully they can go one day this week/weekend.

We went to Atlanta over MLK weekend.  It worked out that the Monster Truck Show was also in Atlanta that weekend.  Cal had been asking to go.  He had heard about it from a friend in his class.  Cal and Matt were just 2 of a sold out 70,000 people.  It appears that Monster Trucks have a "following".  Who knew?

Cal with Grave Digger-Highlight of the show

Matt and Cal in front of Grave Digger

I think this guy is the original driver of Grave Digger

Another truck show fact: the crowd wants the truck to flip and fall apart

This is Grinder- the 2nd favorite after Grave Digger

Grave Digger has light-up eyes

The beat up trucks at the end

Loving that the new year is bringing some good family time.

The JOY of Christmas

I am going to try to clump the whole month of December into one post.  We have had the best Christmas break and are going to be so sad for it to end tomorrow when Matt goes back to work and then the boys go back to school on Wed.  We started off Dec. with our visit with Santa.

I love this Santa's face :)

And decorated gingerbread cookies with silly Christmas tree hats

Picture Brady took of us before Matt's office party

And of course Jolly was here (Sending Matt to therapy-he hates the elf)

Cal got to dress up for school one day-he wanted LOTS of Jingle Bells

Harrison, Taylor and Cal at their class party

Cal fell in love with "oreo balls" at this party

I tried to make them and am not patient enough, so am going to have to find someone to make them for him next year

Brady at his class party-the cookie he made

Brady, Payne, John Parker and Sarah Morgan before their Christmas program

They all have Jesus in their hearts-Brady's favorite part-he is on the 2nd row

**I did get a camera lens for Christmas so I will be able to zoom in now**

His favorite people-Mason and Garrison

We went to Atlanta to see Dot Dot

Our fingernails are the same color red

And Mimi was here for Christmas

I wish I had taken a picture of Mimi with Luigi-he loved her

Christmas Morning

Cal's favorite gifts were the X-BOX  and his new bike

So excited, he was able to ride 2 miles the other day while I jogged

Brady's favorite was his spark scooter (just like the one brother got for his birthday back in Oct)

Really this kid is easy, he likes everything :)

I-pod touches (really mine and Matt's old i-phones turned into their new toys)

Skyping with cousin Kendall and aunt Kristy

We had a wonderful Christmas dinner with Matt's parents and Mimi

Granddaddy, Cal, Brady and Matt playing the game Headbands

A few things that gave me JOY this Christmas (other than getting to celebrate Jesus)

My glittery JOY sign and sequins........I LOVE SEQUINS

Here are 3 of my favorite shirts (black, new burgandy and silver)

I love December, I can wear sequins with jeans just because!

This cute J.Lo for Khol's dress

Wore it to a Christmas Party and it was really cute

And the pretty new necklace my sweet husband surprised me with

Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!!