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!!!!

"See Ya Real Soon"

We went to Disney World back in Oct. for a week and had the best time EVER!  I am making myself sit down today and post some pictures BEFORE I post some Thanksgiving pictures or start talking about Christmas!  We did start pulling out Christmas decorations yesterday :)

We started out our Disney vacation with a trip to Universal Studios(Sunday).  The boys were dying to see Harry Potter World.  There was a lot more to do at Universal than we knew.  We were there for 8 hours.

Boys with the Train Conductor with their new wands.

Dr. Seuss World

Our very own Thing 1 and Thing 2

My boys LOVE Superhero's

This is so cute because Brady is looking at him trying to make the same pose

Then feeling like we needed to be in character, they had their faces painted

We ended the day in Jurrask Park

So Monday morning we checked into Disney's Wilderness Lodge.  We were meeting up with Matt's sister and her family and Matt's parents at the Magic Kingdom after lunch.

Seriously the best place on earth!!!!

So what we learned this trip is that our boys and the cousins LOVE roller coasters.

Here is Cal on Thunder Mountain (I lost count on how many times we rode this).

What was amazing was that even Brady and Will who are 4 rode every roller coaster except for the Rock'n Roller Coaster at Hollywood Studios which they were not tall enough for.

We went back to Magic Kingdom on Tuesday

Tuesday night we ate at the Wilderness Lodge Restaurant. 

Wednesday we started the day off at Animal Kingdom with a character breakfast.

We ended the day eating dinner at Epcot at the Aquarium Restaurant.

Everest-the best roller coaster EVER-as voted on by the boys

The ball at Epcot

We started Thursday bright and early at Hollywood Studios

We knew we were suposed to go straight to get in line for the Jedi Training.  The park opened at 9.  We were there about 9:35.  We got in line and the boys were not to be in Jedi Training until 7:20pm!  Thank goodness the people in front of us changed their mind, so we got into the 6:40 training.  We were going to the Not So Scary Halloween Party back over at Magic Kingdom at 7:00 (we were a little late).

The little Jedi's are about to fight Darth Vadar one at a time on stage for everyone in the park to see

Cal's turn-Darth did tell Cal he felt the force was stong with him

Brady's turn-"Down Low"

Brady also had to fight the Clone Troopers (with his force)

This was so awesome and well worth the wait. 

We had to change gears and get the boys face's painted and head to the Halloween Party

My little dragon ninja!

And the Vampire-sorry his teeth look a little nasty!

We made it to the Halloween Parade and the boys lasted at the park until mid-night.

Friday morning, we slept late, did a little laundry while the boys went swimming then headed to Epcot to ride a few rides with the cousins before saying good-bye.  It was rainy, but we headed to Hollywood Studios to let Cal ride the Rock'n Roller Coaster again.  We had a nice dinner then went to the Fantasmic Show.  A really great way to end the week.