God Bless Grandma!!! We'll miss you!

Grandma passed away on January 10, 2011. She lived a long and happy life. We will miss her greatly since she was a part of everything we did and the kids did. Times have been tough but we are taking the punches as they happen and are remembering all the good times we had together.

Happy Holidays from our family to yours!!

This year the 3rd graders performed the Holiday schow for school. The play was really cute! Madison was also asked to perform a song with a friend of hers to the tune of White Christmas called "Sisters". She did not just sing she also performed a few dance steps as well. We were so proud of her for getting up on stage in front of all her peers. The kids were a hit. (I will put a video if I can figure it out soon.)

Madison had a performance at dance for the holiday. She has been taking a tap and ballet combo class once a week. She is really starting to become a little dance.

Thanksgiving day the kids were up early so I had the kids help out a little. For the firdt time in a long time the two of them were able to do the same thing without fighting and yelling. A thankful moment!

The kids each had a pet home for the weekend from their school. Funny and a lot of work for mom and dad, but mostly mom! The Bunny is from Madison's school - Skittles. The piggy is from Kip's school and funny enough his name is -Piggy! We had loads of fun.

Updates coming soon!

Who would have thought that two kids would keep you so busy you can't even do what you want or even need to do. Hope you are having a great day!

Hope your Holidays were as GREAT as our families!!!!!!!!!

Our Christmas Holiday was great!!!!! The kids had a wonderful time waiting for Santa to arrive. We went to Disney multiple times to see the Osborne Spectacle of lights, the castle lighting the Holiday decorations during the day and at night, the different holiday parades and castle shows. Our favorite that we talk about currently is the trip we finally got to tell Santa what the kids were wanting.

Kip at 2 1/2 was able to decide that he wanted a drum set, bike, guitar and a train set for Christmas. Everytime you would ask him he had the same answer with extreme excitment.

Madison wanted more crafts and more teacher stuff. Which is truelly no surprise. She also wanted a bike since she relearned how to ride her bike after she had broken her arm this past Feburary.

Happy Holidays to you and your family!!!!!!!!!!

kip's 1st trip to golf 7-09

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Our weekend at the Sarasota Beach

Our cute kids!
You can tell when we are not at Disney we are still thinking about it.
Kip had some trouble being nice with the sand toward others.

Our great family!

We really enjoyed the beautiful sunset and a Happy Birthday to our friend Mike who we went to celebrate.

Catching Up on the Beginning of Summer Fun!

We have had an extremely busy close to the school year and a very busy start to the summer. I am teaching reading camp this summer and Madison is coming along to camp as well. She is having fun and we are trying to fit in other fun during the week and also on the weekend.
In May Madison turned "7" and we had her party at the local YMCA pool area. Although, it rained and we never got to play in the pool area we had fun.
















All tired after the party of running and climbing around.









































Kip enjoys going out back when dad is grilling out. Just couldn't resist it's such a cute photo!












We went to our friends Ryan, Aleta and Ainsley's house a couple of weeks ago and had fun swimming all afternoon.







































Madison has been spending a lot of time with her best friend Stephanie.












We went to Brianna's "6th" birthday party the same weekend. Here are a few pictures from the party.






























We went to Disney this past weekend and stayed the weekend with our Friends Aleta, Ryan and Ainsley. Aleta went for a conference and the rest of us went to Animal Kingdom and hung around at the pool area and went to Downtown Disney area for some fun in the evening. The kids loves the pool.













Riding the kids train in Downtown Disney.













Kip loves trains and had to ride in the engine area!!! Such a cute look!!!












The kids are dancing to a grou that is playing classical music in the courtyard area in Downtown Disney. The kids had to be pulled away in between songs.










This is a really cool shot. This lady was just sanding in the middle of the walkway. Pretty cool if you ask Madison.



















Look mommy is in a picture!!! WOW!

Oh, NO! The dino is going to eat me. Kip was so scared that the dino was real I had to show him that he was not going to eat me or him. He still would not touch him or go near him.

Dino playarea slides.

The kids waited in line for a while to see Donald.

Mickey was the hit from all!!! Look mom Ainsley even likes Mickey this trip!!!

Swimming in the pool.

Daddy relaxing blowing bubbles.

Madison getting a ride from dad in the deeper water.

The kids loves the dancing water area! Kip made this his second home.

Hope you enjoyed the pictures! We are busy again this weekend and will post pictures again soon.( go figure us not busy......)

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY TO ALL OF YOU!

Crawfish Boil Time

We had the opportunity to attend two Crawfish Boils here in the past two weekends.

Live crawfish floating in a pool waiting to go in the cooker. The kids loved to fish out the ones that were really big "The Kings"

All Kip wanted to do was to listen to the band set up and play.

At one point I guess Kip thought they were too loud or just didn't sound so great, not sure which...
The band and Robin

The Birthday Boy Kenny and the band

My cute Little Man

rare picture, mommy's in the picture and it turned out great!!!

Kenny and Daddy

Tori holding the crawfish.

The following weekend we attended the Haychia/More Crawfish Annual Boil.

Kip loved the sandbox
Danna and Kip

The drum's (Kip's favorite instrument)

Who knew that sliding on blocks could be this much fun, Kip did!

Too cute, Melmo!!!

Needless to say we had a wonderful two weekends in a row with our friends and family.

Great times!!!!