Christmas 2010 Travels

We had a great Christmas and started by traveling to see our families. First we went to see my Dad and Linda.

Megan and Linda

Jack at Mimi's house. He loves crayons!


Megan with her cousin Rachel. They were reading a nursery rhyme book.

Will's DARE graduation and our Church Play

Here is Will at his "Drug Abuse Resistance Education" graduation. Will loved DARE and came home with lots of questions.


Here is Megan at our church Christmas play. She said her line of, "Come celebrate a baby's birth," very well. She even hugged Ella while they were singing. It is so funny to see what they will do at this age.

Here is Jack at the church play. He said his line very quickly, "Glory to God in the highest."

Here I am dressed up for an ugly Christmas sweater party. My sweater had two holes in the top so I glued cut out pieces of Christmas cards over them. I had a great time and loved seeing all the other tacky Christmas outfits.

We love the holidays!

We had a great Thanksgiving and are looking forward to Christmas! We don't typically do tons of crafts at our house, but this was perfect to make the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. Thanks Jennifer for all your cool ideas. Megan loves to say "lets make a craft." What is sounds like is "lets make a cra*." So from time to time I use Jennifer's site for cool ideas.

Here is our Christmas card picture. I hereby declare next year to do individual shots of each child for our card. Yes, I will probably forget my vow in 2011.

Megan at Supper with Santa at our Church.

Jack at supper with Santa.

Jack with our cat Mittens. She is a great outdoor cat and puts up with a lot. We love our sweet patient non-barking pet!

Happy Halloween 2010

This was the perfect year for carving pumpkins out in the driveway. It was very warm. This is definitely the way to go. It is much easier to clean pumpkin guts outside. Jack was our obsessive pumpkin seed finder. He wanted to make sure that we used every seed to eat or plant.

Megan painted her pumpkin with her favorite colors - pink and purple! She loved this and stuck with it for a long time.

My boys are very into WWE wrestling right now. Will was John Cena. Ben was Rey Mysterio and Jack was a Mexican wrestler. His costume was just one I found cheap on e-bay. Everyone was happy with their costumes.

Megan loves princesses right now, so she was Sleeping Beauty for Halloween. She was very proud of her costume.

October Trip to Lazy 5 Ranch

We had a great time at the Lazy 5 Ranch with my friend Jill and her son Jared. Will and Ben haven't been to Lazy 5 since kindergarten. I thought they might be too old for it, but no way they had a blast.

I love the way you can get so close to the giraffes

The baby pigs were adorable.

This giant play area of corn was a big hit. Will and Ben loved burying each other.


It was a great day full of smiles.

Going to the Lodge and to the Fair

In September we went to the Great Wolf Lodge. I was so excited about this get away. I have had a huge desire to go since they opened. We had a great time! We all loved the waterslides (except Megan who stayed in the kiddie section) and the rooms were perfect for our family.

Megan I went to the story time in the evening. It was a cute show and we had to have our picture made with the wolf.

We also made our first trip ever to the Davidson County Fair. I loved it! I even took the kids at 4pm by myself and I felt very safe. We went to the Dixie Classic Fair as well, but I was busy riding and didn't get many pictures.

Ben was nice enough to ride all the kiddie rides with Megan. Thank you Ben!

Wheee! I think this ride was a lot of fun. Sorry Megan, maybe you can ride this one if a few years.

Happy 11th Birthday Will!

Will's 11th birthday was September 28th. We had a family celebration and Will had a sleepover with friends. Will's big interest now is air soft guns. So for his party, he and his friends wore goggles and jackets and played war with the guns. It actually does hurt a little, I am told, if you get shot with these. I am certainly not brave enough to let them shoot me.

Will's other big interest right now is pogo sticking. He hops all the way down our street and then he hops on back. He has even jumped around 300 times in a row. Then Will loves to pogo down our steep driveway, which I can't watch. So here you have the pogo sticking cub scout. Happy Birthday Will!