Party of Five

The kids dancing Feb 2010

2010-02-22T22:35:00.003-05:00

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Anytime I have my Ipod playing the kids will clean all the toys off the floor and dance......especially if it is country music. Not sure if you can hear it, but the song is Country Man by Luke Bryan! One of Luke's favorite!!!!!!

Mom and Dad's ski weekend

2010-02-22T22:08:00.004-05:00

On Feb 7th Steve and I headed to Sugar Mountain with Scott, Natalie, and Gabby for a ski weekend! I went skiing alot as a child so I was kind of familiar with how the weekend would go. Steve on the other hand has never been skiing before. It was a memorable weekend for sure!

The closer we got to the slope the more snow there was on the ground. I was able to snap some beautiful photos as Steve was driving.

Here is the slope!!!!

Steve taking a break on the slope. He did very good for his first time. He had some trouble getting off the lift the first time, he managed to take me out a few times, but other than that he did very well.

This is me trying to get Steve to hurry up so we can go on to the next slope.

We took a break for lunch and to warm up in the lodge. Steve looks so serious here.

Me on the lift.

Steve on the lift.

We were waiting in line for the ski lift we we grabbed a shot of the slope opposite to us.

As we were riding the lift up the mountain Scott and Gabby went right under us.

Poor Natalie fell while skiing down and had to brought down by ski patrol. She spent the entire last day laying on a cot in the ski patrol office. We had just gotten to the slope when she was hurt and since she was not in alot of pain........yet, she told us to go ski awhile since she could stay as long as she needed. This was taken when we went back to pick her up. This is the only photo of her on the trip. :(

We had lots of fun and it was definitely a trip Steve and I will never forget!

2nd snow of 2010!

2010-02-22T21:41:00.004-05:00

Valentine's weekend was a snowy one!!! We got about 3 inches of snow and the kids were so excited!!!!!!!!!!!

The next three photos are of the kids standing by the beautiful covered tree in the yard.

Daddy and Alex finishing their snow fight from a few weeks ago.

Luke was dying to ride his gator. We got it out, but the snow was sticking to the wheels. He was not very happy.

The next morning their was still lots of snow on the ground. In true redneck fashion, we tied some things to the four wheeler and golf cart and headed out to enjoy the snow. Hey, what is wrong with a mobile sled?!

Kade and Mason being pulled by the four wheeler.

I am riding with Luke and Alex behind the golf cart. This photo was taken just before we were thrown off and landed face first in the snow

Happy Sledding everyone!!

Nap time!

2010-02-22T21:32:00.002-05:00

We'll what can you say about the title. Sometimes it is Mom's favorite part of the day. Kids are so sweet and innocent while sleeping.

Luke sleeping with Bear....yes that is his name!

Valerie in her bed.

And the princess with her sunglasses on.

Boy are we in trouble!

Paging Dr. Schimweg

2010-02-22T21:18:00.003-05:00

Alex received a Tinkerbell animal kit for Christmas and it was a hit. Everyone has had the chance to play doctor and patient. Luke and Alex both love playing doctor. On this particular day, Luke was playing with the doctor kit and Valerie was sitting next to him. He started talking to her like she was his patient and he then helps her lay down. The next few photos are what happened next.......

He said that she was very sick and needed a shot RIGHT NOW MOM!!

Here he is checking her ears. He said "All clear".

Next, he listened to see if there was food in her tummy.....I am not sure.

Here he is giving her more meds by mouth. Notice how tight Valerie is holding her lips together.

And just for being a good doctor he decided to give her one more shot.

Valerie likes being the patient. For the rest of the day when anyone had it out she would lay down. They are so cute playing together.

Happy 8th Birthday Kade!

2010-02-22T11:47:00.004-05:00

Man are we getting old!!!!! Who would have thought Kade would have turned 8 this quickly. Time really does fly by.

Here is the birthday cake.....which was delicious btw. He wanted chocolate and that is what he got. We had the party this year at Stars and Strikes bowling alley with just a few friends and close family. It was lots of fun!

Here is the birthday boy blowing out the candles.

All of the kids at the party.

Nick, Croix, and Ethan.

The birthday boy is up!

Alex giving Ellie pointers on bowling!

Alex throwing the ball down the lane.

Luke taking his turn.

As the birthday boy you get to spin this huge wheel to earn gifts for all of your guests. Kade got bouncy balls. Not the one he wanted, but it will do.

Here is the photo of him opening one gift......there was so many I spared you the 20 photos. Notice all the kids faces when they see it is a video game!

Happy Birthday Kade

We love you!

First Snow of 2010

2010-02-22T11:26:00.003-05:00

The first snow of 2010 arrived January 14th. The kids were so excited. School was released early and cancelled on Friday. Once Daddy arrived home from work there was enough snow to final play in. Luke was so excited. I swear this kid is going to be a weatherman.

Alex was excited, but I think just because Kade and Luke were. This was the first snow that she was able to play in.

Kade trying to play it cool before he beamed me with a snow ball!

Kade and Alex making snowballs. Daddy was the target.

Here is Alex trying to hit Daddy with her snow ball, but she was to far away from him to make it.

It would not be any fun to play in the snow without riding toys! Alex insisted on riding her scooter in the snow!

Luke then decided to join in. He only wanted to ride in the fresh snow. It was not long before all the snow on the driveway was covered in tracks.

Kade got out his skateboard and it was every man for himself. Luckily there were not any accidents!

Mom and the snow kids!

Daddy and the snow kids!

Hope you were able to enjoy the snow!

Christmas 2009!

2010-02-22T11:23:00.001-05:00

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Christmas Programs

2010-02-22T10:32:00.003-05:00

It would not be Christmas without plays and pageants. Luke and Alex had a program at preschool. It was so cute. Everyone was dressed in their Christmas clothing and ready to sing Christmas carols. Each class had to march in and take their assigned places on the stage. Here is Alex ringing her bells as she marches in.

If you remember from the Thanksgiving post Luke did not want to sing. For Christmas, he changed his mind and was into it. Here he is marching in with his class.

Can you find Luke in this photo?? He never saw us, but he was looking so hard.

And here is Miss Thing working so hard to ring her bells.

The classroom party that followed.

Luke and his best bud Reed enjoying their treats in the classroom. He looks like he has on black lipstick, but it is just the icing off of his snowman!

Our church also had a play. Luke and Alex were not in it, but Kade took center stage with a solo this year. He was a ancient prophet who told of Jesus' coming.

Here is a group shot of all the kids singing.

Kade did a great job with his solo! He was so nervous, but was able to sing right on the note.

Merry Christmas!

Santa Again!

2010-02-11T09:13:00.002-05:00

Once again we took the kids to the mall to see Santa Clause. I thought this year would be so easy since they had already seen Santa at school and did not cry. Boy, was I wrong. Alex started as soon as we were walking up to the guy. Oh well maybe next year!

Fort Schimweg

2010-02-11T09:06:00.003-05:00

What kid does not like to build a fort. Kade and Luke are always begging to get sheets and blankets out to make one. Alex just waits until all the work is done and then she climbs in first. Here is Fort Schimweg.

I tried to sneak in to she what was going on but Alex caught me and got right in the camera.

Another shot.

Happy Thanksgiving!

2010-02-11T08:28:00.004-05:00

Luke and Alex's preschool had a huge program for Thanksgiving. All the kids dressed up as certain things that represent Thanksgiving. Luke's class was Indians and Alex's class was turkeys. Here is a shot of all the kids performing. They did great!

Here is our little performer. She was all about singing and doing the hand motions to the songs. I can see her being on American Idol or some sort of dance show in a few years.
Not sure why she is giving this kid this mean look.

Luke on the other hand was so shy he would not stand up in front of everyone to sing. He has always been so tender hearted. He does not like people looking at him. I was able to get this photo of him at the feast in costume after the program. He is enjoying lunch with his class.

Daddy, Valerie, and Luke. Valerie is saying "Give me some food!"

Here is Alex and her best friend CeCe enjoying a nice conversation at lunch. I am sure they were talking about their performances. :)

Once we arrived home I wanted to get a few shots of there costumes. Luke again wanted no part of it. He was to tired. As you can see Alex was more that willing to ham it up for the camera.

Alex and Valerie being silly.

Here are a few shots that I caught of Valerie. They are to cute not to share.

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!

Stay tuned more posts to come soon.

Happy Birthday!

2010-01-08T11:30:00.003-05:00

I can not even believe that it is true......Alex is 3!!! She it turning into such a little girl instead of a toddler. Guess it is true "Time flies, when you are having fun!"

After many changes in the acutal party that we would have, she finally settled on Little Mermaid. Steve said she is acting like a woman already.

The guests lined up for their piece of cake.

The birthday girl posing by the cake!

Here I am helping her open gifts. She got some really cute stuff. After having two boys, getting to play with girl stuff is so much fun!

Luke also thought that the party was for him. He kept running over when he saw something that he liked trying to claim it. Trust me, with Alex he did not stand a chance.

Happy 3rd Birthday to our baby girl.

We love you!

Disney November 20-25th 2009

2009-12-04T10:22:00.003-05:00

Steve and I took the kids to Disney again this fall and it was so much fun and exhausting!! We visited all 4 parks and even had lunch inside Cinderella's Castle and meet the Princess's. We rode all the rides.....some 4 and 5 times. I think the favorite ride of the entire trip was the Buzz Lightyear ride at Magic Kingdom. The kids also liked Peter Pan, It's a Small World, The Barn Buster rollercoaster, Grand Prix, Toy Story Mania, and many many more. It was not crowded until Tuesday and then people were everywhere. Ride wait times were 2hrs on some rides. YIKES!! That was ok, since we arrived late the week before we hit all the main attraction first before the crowds arrived. It was so much fun that if I had the chance to pack up and leave right now I would do it without even thinking about it!! I am already counting down until we leave for our next trip!!!

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Halloween

2009-11-03T20:10:00.002-05:00

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Teacher's Pet

2009-11-01T19:47:00.002-05:00

In a previous post, I had mentioned that I had begun watching our niece Valerie during the day while her mommy and daddy are working. She really enjoys playing with Luke and Alex and I think they enjoy bossing her around just as much. As with all kids, the little ones always want to do what the big ones are doing. Valerie tries her best to keep up Luke and Alex.

Alex loves to play with flash cards. If Valerie is around Alex will pretend to teach her the colors, but she is not allowed to touch the cards! Teachers rules!!!!

Luke has also joined in to teach Valerie a few things.

As you can see Valerie has broken the class rule of not touching the cards.

Boy, is it funny to watch them play everyday!

Who said women can not drive!

2009-10-27T08:28:00.002-04:00

Christmas '08 Alex got a Barbie Jeep from my parents. She was still kind of small to drive so Luke jumped in and drove her around. (Luke loves to drives...anything.) Late this summer Alex jumped into the driver seat and began driving. At first she would struggle because she did not understand holding the gas pedal down, she would pump it. These photos were taken with Miss behind the wheel going high speed in the Barbie Jeep. She wanted to drive her baby around so I said "Lets put her in her car seat so she will be safe". Boy OH Boy!!Then Luke wants to jump in and Alex makes him hold the baby.

She never watches where she is going. Watch out!

The Diva Driver!!

Here is a close up of her and the baby.

And shortly after the last photo, she hit the pole at full speed. I thought that Alex and Chloe (baby) were going to be thrown out of the seats, but they made it.

So if you see a pink jeep headed your way, be on the look out because she is probably not looking at you!!

Happy Birthday Luke!

2009-10-21T14:52:00.005-04:00

I can not believe that Luke is already celebrating his 4th birthday! Time seems to be going by faster each year. This year Luke wanted a hotdog party for his birthday. Our original plan was to have a cookout at our house, but that was the beginning of the flood in GA and we ended up moving the party to our church fellowship hall which made things so much easier.

The birthday boy. The theme was Batman. He still loves Cars, but Batman is a close second to Lighting McQueen.

The Batman Cake!

He loved blowing out the candles. Notice dad in top right trying to help him out!

My parents made homemade icecream which was the hit of the party.

On to gifts, he got so much stuff this year. Here he is looking at his new Batman helicopter while Alex swoops in to try to get something for herself.

This shirt is so fitting because he loves outdoors, tractors, trucks, and dirt.

He could barley hold onto his new tractor trailer.

We decided to give in and get Luke a Nintendo DS for his birthday. Kade has one and it is always a fight over who is going to play. Luke has played Kade's alot and is already very good at the games. Here he is opening the last gift. Can you tell he likes it!!

Here are all the kids that made it out to he party!

And you can tell that the photo opportunity was over very quickly!

Happy Birthday Luke!
We love you!!

All-Star

2009-10-11T18:36:00.003-04:00

On September 14th Kade had his first baseball game. He was very excited to play even though he does not have that much experience. He played left field that night and had one ball hit to him which he fielded perfectly. His batting that night was awesome!!! He had 2 RBI's, a triple, and a single.

His first time up to bat.

After the game was over, the coach got everyone together for a quick team meeting. He stated that after each game he was going to give the game ball to the player would played the hardest, made a game changing play, or showed great improvement. Kade got the game ball at the first game because of his batting. We were so proud and he was so excited. Here he is showing off his gem!

Go Rockets!!!

First Day of School!

2009-09-21T10:28:00.004-04:00

I believe that this summer went by the fastest of any in recent years. Kade began 2nd grade this year!! Can you believe it!!! He is turning into a little man. He actually started back on August 10th. He has Ms Kelly this year as a teacher and we are so excited. She is very challenging and devoted so I know that we are going to have a great year.

Here he is the first morning .

Showing off his new bookbag. That is one of the most important things about back to school.

Kade loved his first day of school. He has about 5 kids in his class that he knows....which is always a bonus. As of today Kade has been back in school about 6 weeks and is doing well. It was challenging getting back into the homework routine, but we have adjusted. He has about 1hr of homework each night.

Luke and Alex began preschool on September 8th. Luke's teacher is Ms. Linda and Alex's teacher is Ms. Cindy. They are both so nice.

Luke giving us his best smile before school.

Alex was also excited about school. She really had no idea what was going to happen. She just followed Luke's lead.

Here they are with their bookbags. Alex was so excited to carry hers like a big girl. What girl does not like accessories!

Once we arrived at school they both jumped out of the car and walked right in like "big kids". No tears from either one. I did get a little teary eyed as I drove away. They are growing so fast!! When I arrived to pick them up, they had so much to tell me. Snacks, painting, chapel, music, friends....so much to cram into 3.5 hrs. They loved it!!

They were so tired it only took about 2 minutes once they laid down to pass out.

Have a great week everyone!

The Weekend!

2009-08-27T09:40:00.004-04:00

We had such a great weekend just being a family. Even though we did not do to much it was nice to hang around the house and do nothing! We did grill out, sat on the deck and enjoyed icecream and drinks, and we watched the kids go cirlces in the yard.

Alex pushing her Dora bike in the grass. She does not like to pedal.

Daddy calming her down after she decided to go down the hill on the Dora bike and put her feet down, which caused her to flip over. Oh the drama!!!

Luke wearing his safety glasses while he rides the gator.

Daddy and Alex taking a walk.

This was actually my brothers bike that my dad just put new tires on. It works great. Kade loves it. He thinks it cool because Cory had it when he was a little boy.

Kade sporting his scooter. He loves this thing.

Alex once again pushing her bike....not pedaling.

Steve was finally able to find Luke a left handed glove that fits. He was so excited to finally be able to play ball like Daddy and Kade.

Kade's action shot.

Here is Alex having tea party in her room with her bears.....and yes she is wearing her bathing suit. Can you say DIVA!!!

Only two more days until the weekend. Can not wait.

The Tall Mountain

2009-08-23T21:17:00.002-04:00

Today we headed over to the Sawnee Mountain Preserve to walk up the Tall Mountain. I guess all Dora fan's can tell where Luke got this from. It was about a 3 mile hike. The kids did great. Alex had be to carried a little bit, but overall they were angels!! Of course, once we reached the top of mountain I had to get some pics. Enjoy!

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All About Alex

2009-08-12T08:56:00.003-04:00

I decided to try to catch a few cute shots of Alex in our yard by my blooming trees. It started off well and then soon turned into craziness!

Here she is showing me her "Princess of CareBear Land" pose. She loves Care Bears and so that is what we call her.

Just being silly here.

This was one of my favorites!

Steve says that this is the true Alex. In true princess fashion she had a "moment" during the photo taking. She always makes this face when she is in trouble, did not get her way, or is feeling a little overwhelmed.

Love her smile. Everyone has been calling her "Little Angela" lately.

Rain Out!

2009-08-02T12:24:00.003-04:00

After all the kids were loaded into the van we headed off to Stone Mountain. We stopped at KFC along the way to pick up dinner. The park was very crowded so we ended up parking about 1/2 mile away. Once we arrived we found a nice spot on the grass and began to pass out dinner. About 5 minutes after we arrived it started raining really hard. At first we thought that it was going to be a passing shower so we just sat there and kept eating. Boy were we wrong!!! It rained for about 5 minutes really, really hard. The kids were screaming like crazy people so Scott and I decided to try to find them some shelter, while Steve and Natalie tried to save some food and supplies that we had taken with us. To late.....we were all soaked!!!!

Here is a photo of the mountain with all the water running off.

Natalie and Steve gathering all of our stuff to go home. We were only in the park about 10 minutes.

Scott trying to calm Alex and Gabby down after the rain storm.

Natalie and Gabby waiting on the car.

Luke and Alex.

Me and Luke.

Steve and Kade.

Here we are in the car. Half of us were stripped down to the bare necessties. I had a puddled of water forming in my seat.

Parking......$10

Food.....$32

Laughing so hard you can not walk......priceless!!

Sunny South Carolina!

2009-07-30T13:30:00.003-04:00

We hit the road again this summer and ended up in South Carolina to stay with my brother and his family. It was sunny and hot all weekend. We were busy the entire time we were there. I had two Tastefully Simple parties and we stopped at a few attractions in town. On Friday we took the kids to the childrens musuem. They loved it. It was divided up into sections and the kids could learn about sports, different cultures, jobs, farming, medical positions, law enforcement, and even something simple like how mom and dads shop and pay for items. Saturday we went to Monkey Joes and let the kids explore the indoor playground. Everyone was wiped out after that. Here is a slide show of pics from the musuem and Monkey Joe's! Look closely and you can see Alex's new hair cut!!!

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July 4th Weekend

2009-07-28T09:35:00.006-04:00

We kicked off the weekend with a cookout and fireworks with friends. Almost every year we gather at Delaney to celebrate the 4th. Melanie, Morgan, Josh, Beth, Olivia, Zach, Brad, Lindsey, Michelle, and our crew try to meet up every year. It was a small crowd this year which gave the kids access to the entire parking lot. Beth brought some toys and they were the hit of the party. Alex jumped on the bike and wanted to make sure that everyone gave her a spin around the parking lot. Here she has convinced Morgan to push her.

Olivia jumped in to give her a ride. Poor Zach laying on the ground and both girls ride right on by him.

Next, she decides to give Luke a ride and as you can tell they are not agreeing on the direction they should go.

The next day we hit the pool before our cookout with Brad and Lindsey. Kade and Mason posing for a quick shot.

Kade jumping off the diving board.

Not sure what they were playing here, but they were giggling like little girls!

Here is Luke and Alex swimming around the pool in their floaties. They have come along way since vacation. No way they were doing this in June.

Luke giving his best smile!

Daddy swimming with the litte ones!

Happy Summer

Beach Baby!!

2009-07-27T12:05:00.004-04:00

This year we were lucky enough to visit the beach an entire week. I must say that it was the fastest week of my life. We had a great time and no rain!!!

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Vacation Bible School 09

2009-07-26T21:53:00.003-04:00

Here is another reason I have not been blogging lately. This year I took over Children's Ministry for our church. For anyone who has never done this before it is a BIG job. As one of my duties I had to direct our VBS. It was a huge success. The kids loved it and so did the adults.

Let me begin by saying that I am not very artisty and crafty. It takes alot for me do some things. I had to build the sets for VBS. With the help of my hubby Steve and another volunteer we were able to create a pretty good set.

The backdrop! I was very pleased with the way it tured out. This was my project.

The shack before it is put together. This was Steve's project. He had to cut all the boards to size and then I painted them.

Here is the completed set. A fellow church member was able to get some supplies from her work to stage the dock.

I did not get many pics this year since I was running around like a crazy person. I did get this one of Steve and the kids before they were taken to their class.

Some of the kids singing songs.

Luke and Wendi in the nursery.

Alex.

Thanks for reading all of these posts.

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Luke's Last Day at Preschool

2009-07-25T11:55:00.003-04:00

Luke's preschool planned a big outdoor water bash this year and of course the weather did not cooperate. It was misting rain, cool, misting rain, and damp. The kids still had a blast playing in the pools and slides.

Luke posing with his teachers Ms Amy and Ms Celeste.

Waitng in line for the slide. He did not realize at this point that he was going to be cold after he got wet.

They were even nice enough to let brother and sisters who were not at preshool attend. Of course Alex was not going to stand on the side and watch!

She came down to fast and when she hit the bottom it tossed her into the air and over into the grass. She was not happy.

Here they are trying to warm up before lunch. Good thing I brought a change of dry clothes.

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They say it comes in 3's!

2009-07-25T11:35:00.003-04:00

One sunny day in April I decided to meet Steve for lunch and take a look at some dishwashers since ours was broken. The boys were in school so the only kids with me were Alex and Valerie. It had been very rainy early in the week and on this day it very windy. As the girls and I were going home I noticed out of the corner of my eye something moving. IT WAS A TREE FALLING!!! Luckily I was paying attention and was able to slam on the brakes. The tree and I meet bumper to trunk. No one was hurt. Valerie slept through the whole thing and Alex cried only when the cop arrived.

These photos were taken by Nick (Valerie's daddy) on his phone. Steve called to let him know that I had been in a accident with is daughter....YIKES! All good!

It went across both lanes of traffic.

This is where the tree came out of the ground.

This was after they got my car off of the tree. Minor damage! We were very lucky.

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Easter 09

2009-07-25T09:42:00.003-04:00

I did not get many Easter pics this year since we were out of town for our church's egg hunt. We still had an egg hunt at home Easter Sunday and the The Bunny did make a stop. Here is the stuff the bunny left for the trio.

Next are some action shots from our very own egg hunt.

Alex is trying to show me how many eggs she found.

I always try to get atleast one good photo of the kids in the Easter outfits. Here is the best one that I got.

As you can see the silliness took over and any shot of getting a great photo is gone.

Nothing really good to share about this photo excpet that it is really cute!!

I am trying to catch up. If you have not seen the other posts keep scrolling down.

Thanks!

G-Day April 2009

2009-07-24T10:40:00.003-04:00

One Saturday in April we spent the day in Athens cheering for The Dawgs! It was the kids first time in the stadium. I think Luke was more excited about going than anyone.

The team making their way to the field for warmup.

UGA

Getting the crowd excited!....and it worked.

Our first family photo in the stadium.

Me and my little dawgs!

Daddy with our little dawgs!

Luke and Alex enjoying the game and crowd. Do not fool yourself. Soon at this photo was taken Alex began walking up and down the steps over and over again! Mel, look closely at this photo. She the lady in red behind Alex. It is your friend Dianne from church.

GO DAWGS!!

Spring Break trip to Gatlinburg

2009-07-23T18:47:00.003-04:00

Here we are standing at a overpass for a photo.

We stayed at the Wilderness in the Smokies Lodge and it was AWESOME!! The kids had so much fun. My mom, dad, Cory, Michelle, and Ellie (my brother and his family) joined us.

Here are all the grandkids.

Michelle and Ellie

Luke and Alex sliding together. Luke wanted to make sure that she did not get down first.

Kade receiving instructions on the body board.

He did great. He did wipe out a few times, but he kept getting back on.

Cory got on and wiped out very quickly.

Now he is showing off!

Alex not sharing her pool toys.

Everyone came down the tunnel slide at the same time. Luke did not mind. He got right in there with the big boys.

Our trio!

Of course they had a large bucket that dropped water every few minutes. Here is the trio running from the water.

Here are the kids posing by an Easter basket on the strip in Gatlinburg.

The trip was awesome. I would recommend the resort. Not many pics since my battery went dead and I forgot my charger. Oh well!

January-February 2009!

2009-07-22T17:07:00.003-04:00

We're are back!!!!!!!

After several busy months and questions from everyone on when am I going to blog again, I decided to start back.

Here are some pics from January and February. I really do not have that many pics due to a virus on our computer.

At the beginning of February I started watching our niece Valerie during the day. The next few pics are Kade, Luke, and Alex giving her lots and lots and lots and lots of attention.

My efforts of getting a group shot!

Valerie taking it all in.

Alex also began taking gymnastics in January. She loved it! Here she is tumbling down the mats.

She had a hard time on the bar. She was not able to hold her feet in place long enough.

Alex also loved the balance beam.....even though mom had to help with that too!

This was by far her favorite thing. She would laugh so hard while she was swinging on the bars. When the teacher would stop for her to drop off she would hold on hoping for another turn.

Everyone doing circle time!

Not much to post for Jan-Feb. Check back soon. I hope to have everything posted in about 3 weeks.

I AM BACK!!!!

2009-07-22T15:34:00.001-04:00

Check back soon. I am in the process of adding new pics and changing our page!

Hey Santa!

2008-12-12T12:17:00.002-05:00

After many weeks of talking about visiting Santa and sitting on his lap it was finally time to vist the jolly ole guy!! As you can tell Kade was the only one that was jolly in return. Alex was so scared and Luke really had no reaction at all. Kade told Santa he wanted some WII games and Star Wars stuff while Luke asked for a Blue Mater and Blue Chick Hicks! All Alex wanted was away from Santa.

What a great way to celebrete post 101!!!!!!

2008-12-08T15:55:00.002-05:00

A TEA PARTY FOR TWO!!

I was upstairs and I could hear Alex and Steve talking about "Yummy apples, carrots, grapes and Don't drink my tea!" I snuck down the stairs and this is what I found. A tea party! Alex loves for you to sit at her table and eat her food. Geez, I was not even invited!

Happy, Happy Weekend!

2008-12-02T22:31:00.002-05:00

We'll we had one heck of a busy weekend! We began on Thursday with Thanksgiving at my Papa's house. Below is a photo with all his grandchildren (excluding myself and my brother). After this adventure we headed over to Steve's dad for more food and family time. If you are wondering this is the only photo that I got on Thanksgiving!

The real highlight of the weekend was on Friday (28th) when our little princess turned 2!!!!! I can not believe it. She is such a doll. Since we had a big bash for Luke and Alex with all of our family and friends we did a low key party at home. She got her gift from us, my parents, and my brother and his family. She was so excited!!!

Here she is digging into her gifts after Kade and Luke show her how to do it.

Did I mention that Alex LOVES Care Bears. Cory, Michelle, and Ellie gave her another large Care Bears. Do you think she liked it??

Here is Dad and Alex enjoying some football with the Care Bears. She made Dad hold one too.

This last photo was taken after we had dinner and cake for Alex's birthday. My dad and the boys goofing off with there Elvis glasses.

Can't you just here Blue Christmas playing in your head!!

Hope everyone has a great holiday season!!

Luke and Alex's party

2008-11-17T11:19:00.003-05:00

On October 26th we had a combo party for Luke and Alex. Since their birthdays are only a few weeks apart and poor Alex's fall on the day after Thanksgiving we threw a huge bash!! It was a huge sucess!!!

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Meet Valerie Madison

2008-11-13T20:31:00.006-05:00

Valerie Madison

Born: November 12, 2008

Time: 6:10 pm

Weight: 7lbs 7ozs

Length: 20 3/4 in

Nick and Araceli are proud parents of one beautiful baby! Mom and baby are doing great and scheduled to arrive back at there home tomorrow.

The new mom and dad. When I took this photo I said, "Smile and make labor looking easy!!!"

Valerie getting her first check up with the nurse.

The proud new dad holding his daughter. Remember dad every girl needs hairbows, diamonds, and lots and lots of shoes!!!!

She is such a cutie!!!

Mom and baby with her eyes open.

She already looks like a Schimweg!

Stay tuned. I am behind on posting so hopefully I will get everything else up soon. I need to post Halloween and Luke and Alex's combo b-day.

Steve and I are traveling to Auburn this weekend. Let's pray that we win!

GO DAWGS!!

Show me that mean face!!!

2008-10-15T12:12:00.003-04:00

Alex is our third child and girl. After having two boys you know that she has to be a little firecracker to keep up with her brothers. And boy is she!!! She may look innocent in all of these photos, but she has a temper. If she gets mad, you can rest assured you are going to get the eat $%^& look. Now we can say "Show me your mean face." and this is what we get.

Our weekend with Ellie Grace

2008-10-12T16:59:00.003-04:00

We are back from South Carolina!!

Our weekend went by so fast. We really enjoyed meeting Ellie Grace and we can not wait to see her again. See the video below for our weekend highlights.

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Ellie Grace has arrived!!

2008-10-03T15:35:00.002-04:00

Ellie Grace

Born: October 2, 2008

Time: 9:30 pm

Weight: 6lbs 10ozs

Length: 20in

My brother Cory and his wife Michelle have welcomed their first little one.

I am finally an aunt!!!!

Here she is.....

Michelle and Ellie.

Cory and Ellie.

One of many family photos to come.
The grandparents! Grandma's are looking at Ellie and Grandpa's are smiling for the camera.

Ellie sporting her new Georgia Hat.

The photographer came by to take some photos of Ellie so they put her Georgia outfit on. These turned out really cute.
I love this one!

Mommy and Ellie again.

Everyone is doing great. They are supposed to come home tomorrow. We can not wait to get to SC to get our hands on her. Watch out Grandma's I will be rolling in on Friday.

Luke's 3rd Birthday (Sept 20th)

2008-09-24T20:58:00.004-04:00

Saturday was Luke's 3rd birthday. We did not have much planned this year. Luke and Alex are having a party together in October. These are the photos that were taken at our house on Saturday. Luke was so excited to get his gifts from us.

Luke is about to open his gift and Alex is hovering to see what is going on. She is probably wondering what she is getting!

Luke has just opened his game and Kade is already trying to "make a deal" so he can get some play time.

This is what our house is really like on a daily basis. Luke and Alex fighting over something. Here they are both trying to hold onto his new toy

Guess who lost!!!

While we were on vacation Luke loved playing golf so what would the perfect gift be.....Gator Golf. He loved it. Actually all the kids loved it!

On Saturday night we meet some of my family for dinner. On Friday the 19th was our Papa Gene's 75th birthday and Luke's 3rd birthday on the 20th. We headed over to Papadeaux's for dinner and cake. Here are the two birthday boys.

Luke we are so blessed to have you! We love you!!!

A Late Summer Vacation!!!

2008-09-17T22:27:00.002-04:00

September is now our favorite month to vacation at the beach. Not only are the rates so much cheaper, but there was no one there. We almost had the place to ourselves then Saturday came and everyone arrived for the weekend. We had a great time! We headed to Panama City Beach. Hurricane Ike made things a little crazy. The wind was blowing 25+mph. On Thursday and Friday you could not even walk on the beach because the waves were all the way up to the steps down to the sand. The news reported that waves in the area were 12-16ft! YIKES!!! On Saturday you were able to go back to the beach but the waves were still rough. I had so many pics to post that I just choose to do a slide show. Hope you enjoy!

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Sleepy Heads!

2008-08-25T16:47:00.003-04:00

I thought this photo would be great for a dreary Monday!

Happy Rainy Day!!

Lake Lanier Islands

2008-08-03T11:40:00.004-04:00

It is almost back to school time and that means back to old routines and bed times. Steve decided last week that he would take some time off and we would do some stuff with the kids before the first school bell rings! We headed over to Lake Lanier Islands for a fun day in the sun. Here we are posing for a photo after lunch.

We also had two people tag along and go with us. Who could it be.....Natalie and Gabby!! Scott had to work so we left without him.

Here is Kade posing for a quick shot before the bucket of water on the top was dumped on his head!
Kade loved all the water slides. Here he is waiting to float ashore so he can ride again.
Steve was not far behind him!
After the boys rode the big slides we headed over to the Wiggly Waves so the little ones could get some sliding action. Here Luke has made his way down the slide.

Next Kade and Gabby decided to race to the bottom of the slide.
Here is Gabby posing on the starfish. Can you tell she has her "cheese" face on!

Here we are running around trying to get the kids on the slide. Do you really think that Kade is going to catch Luke when he gets to the bottom. Actually he moved and then Luke fell into the water at the bottom. Poor Guy!

This is where the day came to an end. We headed over to the wave pool. Kade, Luke, and Gabby all enjoyed jumping the waves. Kade would dive into them and swim. Here is Luke, Natalie, and Gabby making there way into the pool.

Hope everyone has had a great summer!

Our New Photos and Post!!

2008-06-30T13:28:00.003-04:00

WE ARE BACK!!!!!!!

Ok, Ok, I know that it has been several weeks since I have posted, but I am trying to get back in to the blogging mood. I have been really busy with my Tastefully Simple stuff, the kids summer stuff, and we went to my brothers house last week. Anyway we are back!!!! I have been reading your blogs but I have not commented yet. I am going to try to do that this week.

Thursday was my birthday. YEAH!!! Steve surprised me by coming home from his trip two days early!! He got home around 2pm with a gift and cake. It was great!

So on Friday Steve and I took the kids to get their long over due photos made. It was quite the experience. The photos turned out great but the 2 hour wait sucked!!!

So I present to you the latest photos of our three kiddos...

Boy, did we forget how hard it is to get all three kids looking at the camera and smiling at the same time. I still think they look good though.

Hope everyone has a great week and if I do not blog again.....

Have a Happy and Safe 4th of July!!

School is out for SUMMER!!!!

2008-05-25T11:32:00.005-04:00

It is official....summer is here! The last two weeks have been crazy with the boys finishing up the school year. Luke actually got out on the 15th so I will start with his last day. They had a small carnival at the school. Pony rides, bounce house, and many other small centers for the kids to go crazy on. We started at the pony rides and you can see Luke is not happy about riding. He was ok once we got started but as soon as the pony stopped he wanted off. No time to snap a photo, but daddy tried to snap one anyway.

Luke, Kiley, and Olivia enjoying the rice table. Notice most of the rice has already been dumped on the ground. Luke was a little gentlemen and did not push the girls around at the table.

Then we moved over to the playground and this photo was just to cute not to include.

Luke thought that the slide was going to end somewhere else and he had the funniest look on his face when he came down.

Luke was lucky enough this year to have two great teachers. This is Luke with Ms Rita.

Here is my little guy with his favorite teacher. Anyone who knows Luke will probably be surprised when they see him in this photo. He does not warm up to people this easily, but Ms Candy won his heart. I guess this shows how much he has really grown over the last year.

Next, we will head over to Kade's Kindergarten class. I can not believe that I have a child that will be in the first grade in a few weeks. TIME FLIES!!! Kade's last week of school was a whirl wind!! He had field day, honors day, science centers, and a lula on the last day. These photos are from honors day. They presented all the kids with the awards that they earned throughout the year. Kade did great in Kindergarten. Here he is looking at me and Steve waiting on the ceremony to begin.

So they did the awards in order of your last name so he had to wait awhile. Finally it was his turn and he jumped up to see what he had earned. Here is Ms. Trampel presenting Kade with...

1. AR Reading award (he read 21 books this year)

2. Good behavior award which is a free dinner at CiCi's Pizza

3. Cubby Calculations which is completing 30 extra math worksheets outside of the classroom

4. Best story teller (he got the same thing in preschool....what the heck is he talking about at school

5. The Wiz Kid award! Ms. Trampel said that he could do anything they put in front of him with no problem.

He was so excited to get a medal for his Cubby Calculations!

Kade made lots of friends at school, but he made a special bond with Crouix. They have been best buds all year. All we hear about is Crouix.

I knew that Kade had a great teacher this year and apparently everyone else did too. She was awarded with Teacher of the Year! Here is the assistant principal presenting her with her awards. She did a great job and she really deserves it.

Summer is upon us and I am ready for a break.

Hope everyone has a happy and safe summer!

Kadance Sarah McPherson

2008-05-18T20:48:00.003-04:00

Kadance Sarah McPherson

Born: May 15, 2008

Weight: 7lbs 5ozs

Length: 21 in

My cousin Kristy and her husband Stephen welcomed their first child into their family this week. She is so cute! She has a head full of black hair. It is hard to tell who she looks like, but I think I am leaning more towards her daddy. Congrats to the happy parents! She is beautiful!

For all of you who have been asking about Mother's Day pics see the previous post.

Mother's Day Weekend!

2008-05-17T22:49:00.005-04:00

Hello, everyone! I am just getting around to posting my Mother's Day pics. It has been one busy week! I had a great Mother's Day. We really did not do anything that exciting and as you will see by the post it was very random.

Here is Luke presenting me with my card that he made at preschool and a flower. He was so excited to give this to me.

Here is a photo of Alex with all of her Grandma's. We always go to lunch or dinner around Mother's Day to celebrate. We went to O'Charley's this year to celebrate and it was lots of fun. We have made this a tradition that hopefully we will keep doing for years to come. Girls ONLY!!! Alex has her cheese face on!!

Here is my Mother's Day gift.

These next few photos were taken during the weekend.

Luke recently has been crazy for Alex's paci. Here he is telling me how good it tastes!!

Alex and I playing around before bed. Warning...if you are laying in the floor and Alex is around that means your body will become her jungle gym!

Kade found his Lighting Mcqueen gloves and insisted on wearing them all day. My thought.."Is it really worth the argument?" "NO!!"

Here is Luke and Alex fighting over her paci during lunch. She climbed into his chair to get it back. I finally had to step in before someone got hurt.

This was the highlight of my weekend. After having two boys who play with "boy stuff". I have always wanted Alex to be girly. Of course she also wants trucks, trains, and cars. Here she is finally showing some interest in the girly stuff.

Hope everyone had a great weekend!

Until next time.....

Friday Night Fun!

2008-05-09T22:57:00.004-04:00

Some of out closest family/friends invited us over for dinner on Friday night. It is a shame that we do not see them as much as we would like, but with everyone crazy schedules it is hard to spend time together. We had a blast!!! We ordered pizza so we could just chill out and not have to worry about cooking and then cleaning up. After dinner we decided to head out to the lake that is in there backyard. We decided to take the kids fishing. The lake is only a couple of yards from there house so we did not have to walk far.

Daddy and Luke waiting on everyone to get their rears to the lake.

Gabby, Natalie, and Alex

This was Luke's first fishing experience and he was all about it. He almost fell in a few times.

Scott showing Kade how to hook his bait.

I absolutely love this photo of the boys!! It is going to be framed soon.

Group shot!

Steve even caught a fish using Gabby's Disney Princess fishing pole. Notice the pink and purple pole. He was a good sport and let the kids play with the real poles!

Gabby showing me her fishing skills!

Alex, who is not afraid of water by the way, posing for a quick shot. When she first walked down to the water she did not stop. She preceded to try to walk right into the water. Boy, do I dread the pool this year!!!

Me and Alex posing for a quick shot before we headed back inside.

Happy Mother's Day to everyone out there in blooger land! Hope you have a great weekend and I will post my pics next week.

Love ya!

Tastefully Simple

2008-04-28T22:58:00.003-04:00

We'll ladies I either just did something really good or really stupid. I have signed up to be a Tastefully Simple Consultant. I would like to do something to make a little extra money for trips, extra things for the kids, and GAS!!! ;) I do not want to go back to the office setting. At this job I work when I want. I decided to give it a try after some very hard deliberating. Anyone will tell you that I am a perfectionist and I want everything to go as planned. Please pray that all goes well and I do not have a nervous breakdown!!!!!

New Post! No Pictures!

2008-04-21T11:16:00.004-04:00

We'll my friends I do not have any pictures to share with you. We had kind of a busy weekend, but no pics to show for it. Steve has been out of town for two weeks and he is finally home! Kade had a soccer game on Saturday at 10:30 am! After that we headed home for lunch and naps. Steve's step-sister and her husband just bought a new house in the area and invited us over to check the place out Saturday afternoon. It was lots of fun. We got to see everyone who we do not see on a regular basis. Steve also got to play some ping-pong and from what I gathered from everyone he won all the games! We left there to get ready for our next stop. We were supposed to go to some friends house to watch the UFC fights, but while getting ready Kade mentioned that his head hurt. Upon feeling of his head Steve noticed that he was burning up! Fever!!! I called the Doc and she mentioned that she was out so she would stop by our house on her way home and check him out. I love her!! Kade has strep throat. YEAH!!! We have almost made it through the entire school year without getting it. Lucky for me I shared a drink with him on Friday night so the Doc also wrote me a prescription in case I start showing the symptoms. Did I mention that I love her?! Sunday was a very uneventful day. We slept in, skipped church, and were pretty much bums all day! Kade still had a fever last night at bedtime so we keep him out of school today.

Also in other news.....more BABIES!!!! Steve's brother and his wife, Nick and Araceli are expecting their first baby in November! We are so excited for them. Also Steve's stepbrother and his wife are expecting their second and third child. You guessed it...TWINS! We have known for awhile, but I wanted to give the parents to be time to announce the news! Best wishes to all of you baby boomers out there!

We'll that is our weekend in a quick wrap up! I have been reading your blogs, but I have not commented so I am going to try to get to that today!

Have a great week!

Spring Break

2008-04-12T15:05:00.003-04:00

We'll my friends another Spring Break has already come and gone. We had a busy week. The kids and I meet Wendi Payne, Nikki Thomas, and all of there children for a eventful day at Catch Air. My mom took the boys to the movies on Tuesday to see Horton Hears a Who, while Alex and I spent some girl time at home. On Wednesday we headed to Jasper to have lunch and visit the Bargain Barn. On Thursday we meet Karen, Andrea, Jacob, and little Avery at the park. It was so crowded, but the kids still had fun! My battery went dead in my camera (of course), but never fail Karen was there with her camera. Thanks for sending me the pics!

Here Kade is having a little static problem as he comes off the slide.

Trying to maneuver the ropes!
Ms. Daredevil. She would just run all over the park. She is very independent and wants to do whatever she wants when she wants. Steve says we are in trouble when she is a teenager!!!
This was Luke's favorite thing..the steering wheel. I guess since it is the closest thing to a actual car or truck that they have. He is 100% boy.
Mommy and two of her angels pose for a quick shot before heading down the slide. Kade had made some friends so he ditched us.
Hope everyone had a great Spring Break!

Is it really Monday?

2008-04-07T21:44:00.003-04:00

Alex says "Maybe if I hide my face for a while it will be the weekend again."

No such luck!

I wanna ride!!!!

2008-04-02T11:14:00.004-04:00

It is a beautiful spring day so who would not want to go for a ride? The top down, wind blowing through your hair, your leg jammed into the dash, the seat cracking below you. Yes, folks that was my ride on Kade's gator. Alex was dying to get a ride so I squeezed my rear into the small seat and rode her around the yard. She loved it!!!

Here is the photo to prove that yes it was a tight squeeze.

Oh no, we crashed into Luke who was also riding his Jeep. Poor guy, his Jeep goes 2 mph and the Gator goes 5mph. We kept passing him.
Kade on the other hand was to busy eating a snack to care about what we were doing.
Mommy and Alex after the ride.
I must add that no damage was done to the Gator!

Hail Damage

We'll these photos are for my brother who lives in South Carolina and all the people who keep saying why are you getting a new roof.

This is at our back door at the basement where we stayed for 4 hours on March 15th.

Our backyard being washed away! And no. that is not little white Easter eggs hidden in the yard it is HAIL!! ;).
Our deck.

This is the walkway to the front of the house.

BABIES!!!

Ok, so there must be something going on with all the babies on the blog lately so if you are not ready stay off of blogger. Andrea, Chris, MBKimmy, Mariah, just to name a few upcoming arrivals. I would like to say that I am going to be an aunt in October. My brother and his wife are expecting. If you look under my list they are Cory and Michelle. They are kind of blog slackers right now. I am working on them! Also, my cousin Kristy and her husband Stephen are expecting a girl in just a few weeks. They are listed under McPherson Living. Jump over and say hi!!!

Wow, this was very random

Easter Pics

2008-03-31T11:18:00.002-04:00

Ok, I know that I am a week late posting Easter pics, but I was busy last week.

We had our typical Easter weekend. We went to church, then to my moms for lunch and then we had a egg hunt in my parents back yard. This was Alex's first real Easter egg hunt experience since last year she was only 5 months old. She looked so cute in her dress!!!

She would carry her basket and run through the yard.... right past the eggs.

Here is Miss Priss posing for a quick photo. Check out Kade in the background getting all excited about his egg hunting skills.
I think mom said to pick it up and put it in the basket?
Kade and Luke moving as fast as they could.
Action shots!

I tried to get a photo of just the kids and you can see by the picture that we did not get one. After several attempts I gave up.

Family photo Easter 2008

We'll as you can see we had a pretty uneventful Easter.

Have a great week!

2008-03-23T19:52:00.005-04:00

Day 4

We'll Saturday was our last day at Disney and we were sad that our trip was over and it was almost time to go home. Saturday was sunny about about 20 degrees cooler that Friday. I think you guys were getting snow here at home and we were sunny and 65. We still managed to get a full day in at one of the parks. Disney's Hollywood studios was our stop. This park is more for older kids. There were still lots of shows and rides, but Luke and Alex really did not understand alot of the things at this park. However, the one thing they were crazy about was the Playhouse Disney show. If you have kids that watch Disney you probably saw the "Behind the Ears" commercial about the show. That is exactly what we went to. The whole point was to throw a surprise party for Minnie. Here are some pics of the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse gang.

Handy Manny and his tools stopped by to help out.

The Little Einsteins also stopped by with Rocket.

Daddy and Alex enjoying the show.

Pooh, Darby, and Tigger also stopped in.

After the show there were a few other Playhouse characters outside so we let the kids get autographs and pics. Here is JoJo and Goliath.

Here is Alex flirting with the Disney camera guy.

This is one of the streets inside the park. That is actually a painted wall in the background but it looks so real.

Here is a photo of me and the boys playing in the Honey I Shrunk I kids set. Alex was napping so she missed out on this.

After coming out of a show we saw Al's Toy Barn from Toy Story and who was there.........BUZZ AND WOODY!!!! If you know Kade then you know how much we have watched Toy Story and how much he loves Buzz and Woody. He was Buzz two years in a row for Halloween. This was one his favorite things of the day. Here we are next to see them and Alex is playing in the shopping cart outside the store.

Here is Kade's moment! They were really great with the kids. Alex ran off before this photo was made.

Daddy and Kade standing outside of the Pizza Planet (restaurant in the movie) where we had lunch.

This was another great moment of the day. Mater and Lightning McQueen!!!! Luke could not wait to get up there. He could not even look at the camera.

We did a few rides and shows throughout the day. Little Mermaid, Star Wars, Muppets, just to name a few. Here we are on a backstage tour of the studio. This is a movie set and they are in the process of showing how they do special effects for movies. Very Cool!

Luke was freaking out at this point of the ride.

This is right outside the park as we were leaving.

Thanks for hanging in there for all 4 days! Hope everyone had a great Easter. I will update with our photos in a few days. Have a great week!

Magic Kingdom Again!

2008-03-13T21:51:00.008-04:00

Day 3

We'll everyone it is Day 3 and we only have 1 more day in Disney. Why do vacations have to go by so fast. Friday was another great day. The weather was partly sunny and 82. It got really warm in the afternoon. As you might notice in the first photo there were alot more people there on Friday. It was a good thing that we got so much done on Thursday. We were able to catch a couple of shows that we missed the day before and of course ride some of the kids favorite rides again.

Here is Luke and Alex reading the map. They wanted to make sure that we knew what they wanted to do. Luke was still asking about Daisy Duck.

At last, who do we finally see........DAISY!!! Luke was excited as we were waiting in line to see her. Notice Alex pulling her eyelashes.

Next was Chip and Dale. Kade really wanted to see these guys. They were great. They got right down on the ground to play with Luke and Alex.

As we headed down Main Street we noticed there was a show going on in front of the castle. Here is one of the shots.

Everyone was really tired on Friday. We wanted to see so much while we were there. We did not even go back to the room for naps. The kids managed to nap between events at the park. It just kind of worked out that way. We were out from early morning until several hours after dark. Here you can see Alex using Luke for a pillow.

After everyone perked up and riding some of the kids favorite rides again we headed over to take a spin on the steamboat. Here are my parents with Luke and Alex.

As we walked down the street we ran into Woody and his gang. It was the beginning of the Woody's Round-up Parade.

As we step over to watch the show one of the Disney workers walked over and asked Kade if he would like to be in the parade. Of course he would!!! Here he is waiting on instructions from the cowgirls.

They gave all the kids wooden horses and they got to ride them around the course they set up in the street.

After the kids rode the horses the characters danced to a few songs with the crowd. Here is Kade and Woody doing the Hokey Pokey!

After another busy day at the park we headed off to dinner. We ate at this wacky place called Whispering Canyons. If you ever go to Disney you have to eat there. It was great. This is not your typical restaurant. The waitress came over to the table and the cook was right behind her. They were bickering back and forth. We were not sure what to think about that. The waitress talked a little to us and the started screaming at a couple of other employees. When she was taking our drink order she started throwing straws everywhere. I think we had about 40 on the table. Steve had a Coke for dinner and he asked for a refill. Look at the size of his drink that she brought out. Steve, being the smarty he is said "I am sorry, that is not going to be enough". The waitress said "OK, fine I will bring you something else". Luckily either she was kidding or forgot because Steve did not get anything else. I was afraid to guess what she might bring out next.

Beware if you order ketchup. We asked the waitress for ketchup and she turned around and screamed "KETCHUP" as loud as she could. About 4 kids brought bottles of ketchup over to our table. If you heard someone scream ketchup and you had a bottle on your table a child from the table was supposed to take the bottle to the new table needing ketchup. Here is a photo of Kade delivering his ketchup. It was lots of fun....you never knew what to expect next.

Here is a cute photo of Luke standing in front of the todem pole at the restaurant.

We'll we only have one more day in Disney.

Magic Kingdom

2008-03-12T11:54:00.014-04:00

Day 2

We'll it is day 2 and we were ready to get out and see Disney World. We went through the gate at the Magic Kingdom around 8:30 am on Thursday morning. I was another beautiful day. Sunny and warm. We started off by taking a few photos in front of the castle because who goes to Disney and does not have their photo made by the castle?

My parents

Characters

As we walked through the park we saw some of the characters and had to get an autograph. Here was our first character, Pluto!

Mickey and his friends were back in Mickey's Toon fair and we had to walk through Mickey's house and into his barn to see him. Luke loves Mickey Mouse. He could not take his eyes off of him. He stood their staring for a long time.

Minnie Mouse lives next door to Mickey and we also had to walk through her house to meet her. Can you believe more people were in line to see Minnie than Mickey. Alex loved Minnie Mouse. She would grab her nose and squeal. Minnie and Alex had a great time playing together.

Next was Donald and boy was he a hit. As you can see Alex is all over his head. Poor Donald. The kids really loved getting there autographs and photos.

Last, but not least was Goofy. Alex was trying to get him to chase her. As you can tell in the photo she was making a run for it.

Rides

There were so many rides I just posted photos from a few of our favorites. The wait time in the lines were not bad. The longest we had to wait was less then 10 minutes. It was awesome. Most of the rides we walked up and got right on.

Here is my mom and Luke on the Buzz Lightyear ride.

Kade and Daddy on the Buzz ride. As you can tell they were really into this ride. You were able to shot your lasers to help Buzz defeat the Emperor Zurig (sp)? It gave you a score at the end of your ride. Can you tell they mean business?

My dad, mom, and Alex racing cars.

This was Alex's favorite ride. She would squeal so loud on the Dumbo ride. She really liked going up and down.

The Goofy roller coaster was Kade's favorite ride. I think he rode about 20 times, but with no wait times it was worth it. We could get off and walk back around and get right back on. Luke was also tall enough to ride, which I was surprised about but he like it too. Here you can see Kade and I riding and Steve and Luke are behind us.

Alex fell asleep waiting on everyone to ride the roller coaster so we headed over the to the train so she could get some ZZZ's.

We also did the Mickey 3D show. Luke was not sure about wearing his glasses, but he sure looked cute with them on.

Kade and Daddy also looking cute in their glasses.

We noticed when we came out of the show that it had rained just enough to get everything wet, but the rain was over at least for now! It cooled down alittle after the rain so jackets were back on for the Magic Carpet ride.

This photo was taken as we waited in line to ride the Astro launcher. It went really fast and again I was surprised there was no height limit for the ride. I love Alex in her Minnie Mouse dress.

Dinner with Mickey

On Thursday night we got reservations to have dinner with Mickey and some of his pals. It was lots of fun. They just made their way around the restaurant greeting everyone and taking photos.

Here is our turn with Mickey. You can see that Alex is to busy to look at the camera for a photo because she is trying to give Mickey a kiss!!! Poor Luke kept looking at his big feet.

Finally Mickey looked and a kiss was granted by our princess!

Minnie also stopped by.

Donald and my dad pose for a photo.

We'll after dinner we had a little adventure getting back to our room. We were supposed to catch the monorail back to the Magic Kingdom and then catch a bus back to our room. We'll after we got on the monorail we sat there about 30 minutes as they were having technical difficulties. We'll when we finally got moving it was raining really hard. We got soaked as we ran from the monorail station to the bus stop. (I guess that is price you pay using the Disney free transportation. We did not move our car from the moment we came in until we left). It was still a great day and if it meant having that much fun again I would do it.

Out of the blue Luke asked where Daisy was. He actually remembered that we had not seen Daisy yet. You will have to check back to see if Luke finally got to see Daisy.

Walt Disney World

2008-03-09T18:17:00.012-04:00

Day 1

Hello everyone! Miss me!! We are back from our trip to Disney World. It was awesome. We had so much fun and the weather was great. Did I mention sunny and 75 when we arrived!?!?We left around 5am on Wednesday, March 5th. Kade started asking in the car around Turner field "Are we almost there yet?". We'll after many stops to eat, potty breaks, diaper changes, and gas (why can things not be timed to happen together) we finally arrived at Disney around 3pm. We stayed at the All-Star Movie Resort inside the Walt Disney World Resort. It was very nice. We stayed in the Toy Story building which was decorated like I am sure you have guessed...Toy Story. They had HUGE character statues in the play areas around the hotel. After checking into our room, we headed out to Downtown Disney to check out all the action there. Downtown Disney is a area with shops, clubs, shows, rides, and restaurants. It was alot of fun.

Of course there are photo opportunities all over the place and I think we snapped a photo at about 90% of them.

Here the guys are playing around on this Winnie the Pooh prop. Can you say "Where is Mickey?"

We just made our way around the place and went into the shops and did some of the rides.

Here is my mom, Kade, and Luke on the carousel.

Next is myself and Alex taking a spin. I got on the one that rocked instead of the up and down and she wanted that horse to rock. If I stopped rocking she would throw her head back into to chest to try to get the thing moving. What was I thinking???

Here we are on the train. You can barely see Kade's shirt on the right side of the photo. Not sure what Steve was doing here.

Kade insisted on having his photo made with the Buzz. Little did he know the real Buzz was coming soon!!!

Luke finally got to see Mickey Mouse....or so he thought.

This photo just melts my heart. Alex looked so cute in her Minnie ears.

We'll that is it for Day 1. We ate dinner at Planet Hollywood and then went to bed. We knew we had alot to do on Thursday. Check back soon! I am going to try to post the trips by days so I will not be up forever trying to get some good photos on.

Have a Magical week!!

Not So Extreme Home Makeover Edition

2008-02-21T10:33:00.005-05:00

Here are the photos of the kiddos new rooms. I know that you have been sitting on the edge of your seat waiting on these photos. I will start with the boys room. The boys are sharing a room now and so far it has gone well. We got them bunk beds which I think is every kids dream. We repainted the walls and got new bed spreads. I still have to hang pictures in their rooms. Also you may notice Alex in a couple of these.

Alex's room was quite different from the boys. She actually got a brighter color on the wall and I will say that when we finished I was completely stressed out about the color. I like it a lot better since we added some furniture and photos to kind of tone all the color down. She loves sleeping in her own room. Since we only have three bedrooms upstairs her crib had been in our room. I knew it was time to go when we would roll over in bed and she would wake up. Plus, we wanted to keep Luke in his crib as long as possible.

We have all adjusted well to the switch-a-roo going on over the last year. We have recently finished our basement and then moving the kids around has kept us very busy. I am already thinking about what my next project will be. Am I crazy or what???

Star in the Spotlight!

2008-02-12T20:23:00.000-05:00

Last week I received a letter from Kade's teacher that stated he had been chosen for the month of February for "Star in the Spotlight". He was chosen because he showed the following criteria:

1. School spirit

2. Teamwork

3. Positive Attitude

4. Respect for self and others

It's time to get started!!!

The speaker called all classmates to the stage to receive their award.

Here is a close up of Kade making a silly face!

Kade receiving his award.

Here he is trying to hold it up so I can see the medal, but his hand is covering most of it.

Kade has done an excellent job in Kindergarden this year. He is already on a 1st grade 6 month level.

We are so proud of you Kade

Keep up the hard work.

Cute Pics

2008-02-04T13:17:00.000-05:00

We have had a uneventful week so I decided to post a couple of random photos of the kids from the last few weeks.

I love these next two photos of the boys. They are actually being nice to each other.

Luke playing some soccer.

Luke decided that it was his job to help Alex around the yard. He was trying to hold her hand, but she kept pulling it way. She is trying to get away from him so she can play, but Luke is determined that he is in charge of the situation.

Atlast she is free!!!

Once Luke was tired of dragging Alex around he got in his Jeep and guess what happened.....Alex wanted to ride too so they pushed and screamed at each other and as you can see Luke won.

Pretty Princess!!

We later that night Kade ran to the couch and said that Alex was stuck under the train table. Somehow she manged to get in the bins under the table. She was just sitting there playing with all the stuff.

Here are the boys looking all innocent. Kade was showing Luke how to work his race track.

Here is a short preview for the next post. We have recently put the boys in a room together and moved Alex to her own room. We have been painting, cleaning, and moving furniture around for a while. We have a few finishing touchs and then I will add photos of the new rooms.

I leave you with Steve and Luke taking down the border in the boys old nursery. Luke was so cute standing on the back of the ladder.

Have a great week!

Sleepover and Snow!!

2008-01-26T15:36:00.000-05:00

Sleepover

Last Friday night Kade had a sleepover for his 6th birthday. So instead of a big family party he invited two friends over and the night went very well. I was told by the birthday boy that he wanted a Cars cake with chocolate icing. Let me just warn you that Publix has restrictions on decorating unless it has white icing. I went around and around with the girl on the phone to get this cake. So finally I said fine don't put the Cars stuff on there, give it to me and I will do it myself. That is exactly what happened....so in the end what is the difference it is what he asked for. Here the finished product and I do not think it looks bad.

I think that Kade was happy with how the cake turned out. All he cared about was Cars and chocolate.

I had to put this photo in of Alex. This was taken right after the candles were lit. She loved it.

Here are the guys being hams for the camera. Steve said that I had given them to much caffeine.

They were well behaved boys. For most of the night they played WII. Poor Luke was just a little small, but he still managed to squeeze in.

My parents, my brother, and Steve and I went into together and got Kade a Nintendo Ds and some games for his birthday. He loves it, but I think Luke would like one to. As you can see he has managed to sneak off with the game and get comfy on the couch. Steve found him and took a couple of shots.

Happy 6th Birthday Kade

We love you!!

Snow

I was very excited about the snow. Luke and Alex have never experienced snow before so this was quite a special treat for them.

I took this shot of Kade right after Steve hit him with a snow ball. Look closely at his ear on the left and you can still see some of the snowball.

I thought this was a great photo. He looks like he is skiing.

Steve throwing snow balls at anyone who was in his range.

Luke does not like to be cold so he was not sure of the snow at first, but then he warmed up and really enjoyed it. All during Christmas he was nuts of snowmen so he was so excited to be able to make one of his own. You have to look closely here because we made a small one. I barely got this picture made before he smashed it.

All smiles!!

I had to put this in. Luke was telling me to look at Alex. She was almost half way across the field. He made sure that I knew that she was getting away.

Alex really loved the snow. She just walked around looking at her feet. She was not able to really play in it because I had so many clothes on her. Her top layer of pants were soaked so we went in because I thought she might be cold and her body was not even cold. Kids...they are resilient.

Making her way away from everyone again!!!

I love this close up of her.

We'll thanks for checking in. Maybe I will be able to keep up this week.

Have a great weekend!!

Happy Snowy 6th Birthday Kade!!!

2008-01-17T20:52:00.001-05:00

Today is Kade's 6th birthday. Boy, time really flies!!!

He could not have asked for a better day. He was so excited that they canceled school on his birthday. This was taken this morning as we walked out in the melting snow. I will post more birthday pics later. He did not want a party so he is having two friends over to spend the night tomorrow. I am sure there will be plenty to share.

Our Christmas! FINALLY!!!!

2008-01-06T19:31:00.000-05:00

It has been awhile but I am finally back into blogging world. We have been feeling better for a couple of days but I have been lazy and have not wanted to blog. So here it is...I know that you have all been sitting on the edge of your seats for this. I will warn you that this is long, but instead of making you look at all 158 of our photos I just picked a few from each Christmas activity.

I will begin with the visit to see Santa. I must admit that I thought for sure we would have atleast two crying, but we only had one. Luke wanted no part of sitting by Santa. Standing by and looking at him fine, but not sitting with him.

Kade's class had a Christmas program during one of the PTA meetings. Since there are so many kids and so many classes each class was assigned a song to perform. Here he is in costume singing Feliz Navidad. They all looked so cute.

A few nights later we went to Luke's program at school. As you can see he is upset and looking right at the camera. He did not start crying until he spotted us in the crowd.

The week before Christmas we decided to head over to Lake Lanier Islands to enjoy the lights. We decided to stop and roast marshmallows and make smore's. YUMMY!!!!
Kade and Luke are enjoying the marshmallows that Daddy toasted for them.

Steve making me a smore's!

Alex and I trying to get warm by the fire! It was freezing that night.

Now we have moved onto Kade's party at school. Lauren, Kade, and Ian are making reindeer food.

This was the activity at the party Kade could not wait to get to. Making his own Gingerbread House!!!! Of course we were in the last group to get to that table and he was ready. Here he is putting the finishing touches on his house.

Now on to Luke's party. Here we are starting our Christmas craft. We made a tree. He could of cared less about the actually craft all he wanted to do was put glue on everything. We eventually got everything together with lots of glue.

Instead of gifts the kids had a book exchange. Luke was ready to select his gift from the stack.

The next few are random shots of them opening gifts during the holidays. Instead of adding pictures from every single house we visited I just selected a few.

This was Alex's new set of wheels that she got for Christmas. Poor girl can not even ride it because Luke will not stay off of it. I will add that he already has a Spiderman 4-wheeler and he barely rides it.

This photo was made at my Papa's house. This is a photo of My Papa and all of his grandchildren and great grandchildren. I am the oldest grandchild and Alex is the youngest great grandchild.

This was taken right before bedtime on Christmas Eve. Steve always reads the kids The Night Before Christmas, right before Santa arrives. Luke could not resist making a face at the camera.

Kade making a silly face Christmas morning.

Alex looking around wondering where all this loot came from!

Luke was very excited about all of his new stuff. He did not know what to play with next.

And this is how our Christmas ended....Alex sick. Here she is laying in her princess sleeping bag that she received. She was already not feeling well when this photo was taken.

We'll if you are reading this it means you are still with me. Thanks for hanging in there!

Hope you guys are having a awesome NEW YEAR!!

Happy '08.

Blogging will have to wait

2007-12-27T20:51:00.000-05:00

We'll my friends our Christmas blog will have to wait. We are all sick!!! Alex started Christmas day. She was cranky all day. That night she and I were up about 4 hrs while she screamed. She has a double ear infection. Steve, Kade, Luke, and myself all have the stomach bug today! I will post a Christmas review as soon as we are well and sanitized.

Hope you all had a Merry Christmas and if I do not blog before then.....

Have a safe and happy New Year!

Christmas Card Take....1, 323, 456

2007-12-17T11:48:00.001-05:00

Trying to pick a picture for your Christmas card is so hard. When you have three little ones you are lucky if they are looking at the camera. Here is our attempt to spread Christmas joy to our family and friends.

Alex attempts to make a run for it!

Luke is having a crazy moment while trying to get the picture.

Alex is making sure her brothers know who is in charge by giving Luke the elbow.

Kade's look of despair is quite humorous. Alex has also lost it.

This was our first pick for a Christmas card. However, with Alex sitting her head is barley in the picture on a photo card.

This was our second choice and also our Christmas card for this year. (With Steve's hand missing of course).

This was taken after all the photos were made and we had decided that hopefully we had enough. Poor Alex was pooped out by all the posing and photo taking.

Merry Christmas!!

Alex's Party

2007-12-05T16:05:00.000-05:00

So, I finally got the pictures from Alex's party and they turned out so cute! It was quite the day. Our only daughter turning 1. I must say that this year has flown by and it seems like she should till be a little baby sleeping most of the day, not running around the house.

Here is a photo of Alex and I talking to a guest at the party. We had lots of fun...pizza, cake, ice cream, and gifts. What a perfect day!

Here are some shots of me helping her open her gifts. I must say that she got lots of good things. You should have seen all the cute outfits that she scored. She seems to be amazed at the toy in this picture.
After several gifts she got the hang of ripping of the paper. I would start it for her and then she tear a couple of pieces off.

Her favorite part about this gift were the shoes. I had to take them from her to get her to move on to the next thing!!

Ah, the doll house. She absolutely loves this thing. It is still a little big for her, but she likes taking the characters out and putting them back in. If you have any small girls that you need gifts for this Christmas I highly recommend this toy. It has other pieces to go with it...kind of like a village.

Here is one piece of clothing that I had to put on here. She looks so cute in her styling jacket.

After most of the gifts were open Luke comes over to pick out which gifts he wants for himself. As you can see he is trying to make a run for while I have my back turned.

And now for the cake.

Alex was really not sure what was going on at this point. Gifts, cameras in her face, and all these silly people saying "Happy Birthday". She just looked at everyone like they were crazy.

She is going in for her first bite of cake by herself. I thought for a second that this could be ugly, but she really did not make that big of a mess.

However, she felt that her cup needed some special attention so she pushed it into the cake.

I decided to step in and help her out before I took the cake from her. Overall she was not that excited about the cake. She took a few bites, but she did not tear into it like some kids.

Happy Birthday Alex!!

We Love You!

Camera Trouble!

2007-12-02T14:11:00.000-05:00

We'll fellow bloggers I have some sad news. My camera finally died yesterday during the birthday party!! Of all things that could have happened during Alex's first birthday party. However, the paparazzi were there and their cameras where flashing. As soon as I get copies of their photos I will post about the birthday party.

Alex's Day

2007-11-28T11:12:00.000-05:00

Today is Alexandria's 1st birthday. She was born today at 8:48 pm weighing in at 6lbs 1oz and 18 1/2 in long. Look at how much she has grown over the first year. Here are some photos that I took this morning of her wearing her birthday hat. Check back this weekend. Her party is Saturday and I am hoping that she likes her cake!!!!!!

Life must be tough being a princess!

Kade's Thanksgiving Lunch

2007-11-20T20:20:00.000-05:00

It was Kade's turn to host a Thanksgiving Lunch at school. Steve and I arrived to find all the kids in there Indian gear. They all picked out a Indian name that was written on the back of their costumes. Kade's name was Fast Indian. I finally figured out why he wanted to be called Fast Indian!!! Here he is at at his assigned table for lunch. We dined with Taylor (left), Emma (top left), Amber (right), and their parents. It was nice getting to meet some of the other parents.

So the teachers wanted to know about Thanksgiving traditions at each house so they asked all the kids to tell how their parents will cook a turkey on Thanksgiving. Let me just say for the record I have never cooked a turkey so I am not sure where he got this.
Kade also had to make a turkey one night for homework. They gave us a template and we had to decorate it with things around the house. We decided to go all wilderness and we used leaves, nuts, sticks, and pines cones for ours. (A couple of leaves fell off the turkey).
I present to you our Turkey!!!

This next shot is for you Katie. The wall of Turkeys. I must say that some parents really got into this. I had to laugh because one was decorated with Halloween candy. Check out the one in the middle...I think they made up there own template. They were all cute.

Hope everyone has a safe and Happy Thanksgiving!

Alex is walking!

2007-11-14T13:21:00.000-05:00

On October 30th Alex let go of me and walked across the living room by herself. I was so excited that I scared her! Since then she has improved everyday and now she is pretty much walking all the time. If you turn on the sound you can hear the monkey sound she makes while she walks. Before long she will be running!

Thanksgiving Lunch

2007-11-08T15:51:00.000-05:00

Luke's preshool hosted a Thanksgiving lunch and program today and family of the children were invited to attend. I had to take a cranberry salad and it was yummy. It was Paula Deen's recipe so you know it was good.

The program started with the older children singing a few songs and dancing around in there costumes. They were so cute!

The next group arrived and wowed the crowd as well.

Then it was time for the star of my show and look at him. His teacher said that he did not want to wear the sign or hat and he was mad that she insisted on it. As soon as he saw me in the crowd he ran over and took all of his gear off. He was still cute.

Here is a group shot of his class as they are trying to get everyone in line.

This is the group after Luke ran over to me.

After the program it was time to dig into food!! I love Thanksgiving. Here is Kenny, Andrea, and Jacob having lunch with Luke and I.

Here is me and my turkey enjoying our lunch. It was a very nice program and lunch. He did great even if he did cry.

Kade!! Where is your tooth?!?!

2007-10-29T17:26:00.001-04:00

Boy did we have some unexpected drama during dinner on Sunday night. We were at my parents eating and my mom looks at Kade to say something and she screams "Kade, where is your tooth?" We all jump up. I started looking at the food on his plate and nothing there, nothing on the floor, and nothing in his mouth. He swallowed his tooth!! I asked him if he bit into anything hard and his response was "I thought it was the crunchy part of the chicken." We were having chicken tenders. Here is a photo taking after everything had calmed down.

My mom helped him write a note to the tooth fairy since we did not have the tooth.
It reads in case you can not see it
Dear Tooth Fairy:
I lost my tooth today. I do not have my tooth. Please leave me a prize.
Kade

He was afraid of the idea of the tooth fairy coming into his room at night, but he finally went to sleep and here he is with the note on his bed so the tooth fairy could see it.

I also forgot to mention that this is the first tooth that Kade has lost.

Trunk or Treat!

2007-10-28T11:31:00.000-04:00

Saturday night we went to a Trunk or Treat at my parents church. We have never been before so this was quite the experience. Kade arrived around 4pm for games, devotional, and a hotdog dinner. Steve and I brought the other two back around 5:30pm for games and the trunk or treating. Here is a shot of everything getting started. There were lots of people dressed up and even more people giving out CANDY!!

Luke was unsure about how the trunk or treat process worked, Kade on the other hand had no problem taking candy. People were walking up and sticking candy in Luke's pumpkin and he had this confused look on his face. He soon figured out what was going on and he was helping himself to the pot. Here you can see he wanted more and was helping himself to another bag of M&M's while Dad was distracting Benny by talking.

Luke was ready to dig in. Already licking his lips!!

Alex cruising the parking lot in her costume. She was laughing at everyone dressed up.

Kade with his second bag of candy. I tell ya the adults were as bad as the kids. The adults brought way to much candy and the kids were going around two and three times to load up. Here he is trying to decide who has the best candy and where he is going to visit again. Buy the way if you need trick or treat candy call me I have two huge bags. :)

Gabby in her Minnie Mouse costume. She looks so cute!!!

Gabby, Scott, and Luke pose for a quick photo.

Disney costumes were everywhere at the trunk or treat. I took a few pictures of some of them. Our host for the evening, Snow white. This is my aunt and she put on all the fall activities for the kids at the church.

Farmer Randy and a Modern Day Elvis

Mickey Mouse

Minnie Mouse

Here is Mr and Mrs. Incredible!

This is Austin as a Knight and Ava as a good witch. As you can see they have already dug into their candy too!!!

And I leave you with Miss Priss. I love Alex's smile in this picture. Randon, I know.

Have a great week!!

Happy Monday Everyone!

2007-10-22T11:19:00.000-04:00

So, this photo should say how our Monday morning has started off. He just got told the dreaded "No" for playing in the laundry room. You would have thought that I smacked him around a few times. If you look closely at his shirt it is so approriate for today. It reads "I didn't do it."

Happy Rainy Monday!

Fall Fun!

2007-10-14T21:13:00.000-04:00

Fall has arrived..er, or has it. What is up with this weather. I am ready for the cooler days and even cooler nights. We had a great weekend. Not as busy as some, but we did seem to do alot. Here are a few random words that sum up our weekend...fair, pumpkins, funnel cakes, flowers, soccer, fajitas, dancing, friends, football, yardwork, and sleep!!!
So, on Friday night we headed to the pumpkin patch and the fair. Our first stop was the pumpkin patch. Here is a photo of Kade standing by this huge rotten pumpkin. I did not see it there until I was reviewing the photos at home.

Daddy and Alex leading the way to find that special pumpkin.

Here is Alex trying to convince Mommmy that we need this big pumpkin.

Luke found his pumpkin and he was ready to go once he got his.

After some arguing, pushing, and convincing these are the two pumpkins that we chose.

So after a while at the pumpkin patch we headed over to Chili's for dinner and then to the fair. Kade of course had to have tickets to ride a few things. Here is his first choice. The rollercoaster.

Luke on the other hand was not into riding. He was to busy watching the helicopter that kept flying over the fair. Oh well, maybe next year.

So we were walking along and who could it be....Melanie and Morgan from Mel's Haven. Of course, being bloggers and scrapbookers we had to get a few pictures.

Mommy and Alex watching Kade on the cars.

Apparently Luke got tired so he decided to make a seat out of Alex's foot rest on her stroller. How cute!

Morgan and Kade decided to ride the dragons. Look how sweet they are together.

Isn't he the little gentlemen. Here he is unbuckling the strap and when he was finshed he jumped out and left her sitting there. Boys!!

And now to the highlight of my hubby's night. FUNNEL CAKE!! Here he is talking smack as he walks back with his cake. As soon as he sat down with it me and the kids helped him put it away so he really did not get much. Maybe next year baby!

Hope everyone has a great week.

Wedding cont.

2007-10-12T22:21:00.001-04:00

Here are some more wedding photos. There are several with Alex. The rest are very random. Just ones that I liked.
Luke is awaiting his turn for pictures.

The spies!!

Luke loved standing on the shoe scrapper at the door. He looks like he is riding a scooter or something.

The bride and bridemaids. Not sure if I am awake in this photo. Also not sure why Lisa has that disgusted look on her face.

Steve and Jason watching the Georgia Tech game before the wedding. Oh so sad they lost :).

Mommy and Alex.

Alex with Grandpa Gary

Kade and Danielle (the flower girl)

Alex and Grandpa again

Our family photo

Alex and my mom, Karen.

Alex pushing the chairs.

Another family photo

The Schimweg Boys

Danielle taking a picture of me. She would say "You are so pretty". I would reply "Thanks you are too." Her response......."I know". She was so cute.

Just in case you have not been by in the last few days, check out the last post there are more wedding photos. Everything was so beautiful. If you are reading this thanks for hanging in during this long post. There were so many pictures that turned out great I was having a hard time deciding which ones to post.

Brad and Lindsey's Wedding

2007-10-11T21:51:00.001-04:00

So, Saturday was the big day and boy was it big!! We were busy all day getting ready to look pretty for photos and all the people that were coming at 6pm. The weather was beautiful. Bride, groom, parents, kids, attendants, all looked great. Did I mention that everything was beautiful. If not let me tell you that everything was beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!
There are so many photos that I love I will post some more later.
I will begin with my guys!! Luke's pose in this picture cracks me up. He is saying I am cute and I know it!

Here is the groom giving me his stripper dance before the wedding.

Daddy and Luke taking a break before the big moment arrives. Aren't they so cute?

The guys are posing for pictures with the real photographer so I thought that I would steal a couple of shots of my own. He asked the guys to do several things and you can see that Luke and Kade are confused on what to do.

Here is bride. Isn't she beautiful! The dress was gogerous.

I am tying to help her get these shoes on. The buckles on these things were tough, but after about 5 minutes she was able to walk.

Another shot that I stole from the photographer. Great shot and you can also see the back of the dress.

Here is a family shot with Steve's mom Kathy and stepdad Phil. On the end (left) is his step brother Daniel,his wife Amanda (in black), their daughter Danielle is the flower girl, and his step-sister Kathy (in brown with the purse). His grandpa is by Amanda. Did you get all that???

Here is another family shot. This one includes his dad Gary (by the groom) and his girlfriend Karen.

Here is a shot of our family with Steve's brothers and their wifes. I can finally say that now that are married.

Kade and his friend Tyler toasting to the bride and groom. By the way Kade has tea in his glass!!

Time for the real toasts! Here is the bride, groom, bestman and also brother of the groom Nick, maid of honor and sister of the bride Nicole, and the father of the bride Mike giving there well wishes to the happy couple.

Nick and Araceli. (Steve's brother and his wife, also the grooms twin.)

Steve and I at the reception.

And I leave you with the happy couple tearing up the dance floor.

Best Wishes to you both. May life bless you with love, laughter, happiness, and many babies!! Hey! I want to be an aunt too!!

Checking In!

2007-10-09T21:47:00.000-04:00

Just wanted to say that we are recovering from a busy weekend. Steve's brothers wedding was this Saturday and as soon as I get some photos together I am going to post. Check back soon!

Recipe to share!

2007-09-22T21:01:00.000-04:00

So, Andrea at Royal Family posted a recipe several weeks ago and I wrote it down for sake keeping and eating. I was making these for my soon to be sister-in-law's shower last Sunday and I thought that I would share with you guys. Some of you have probably already seen these, but if you haven't you should try them they are so YUMMY!!!

Fruit Pizzas

1 pack of the pull apart and bake sugar cookies

8oz of cream cheese or you can use cool whip (I prefer cream cheese)

Strawberries

Blueberries

Raspberries

You can also use different types of fruit such as Kiwi and pineapple.

Bake cookies according to package. Let cool.

Once cool spread with cream cheese and then add fruit.

Refrigerate.

Hope you enjoy!!

Happy 2nd Birthday Luke!!!

2007-09-20T09:15:00.000-04:00

It is hard to believe that Luke is turning 2 today!!!

He was born September 20th at 7:41pm weighing in at 7lbs even. He was my biggest baby out of three. Here he is this morning playing around before we left for school. I let him wear his Goofy shirt that Melanie got him for his birthday.

Giving sis a little love before he leaves for school.
These next photos were taken on Saturday at the birthday party. In case you have not already guessed we had a Mickey Mouse party because that is "the stuff" at my house these days.

We started by letting the kids play in the moonwalk. Even Alex was able to play as long as the bigger kids were out of the way.

Now we are on to the serious stuff. CAKE!!! Luke managed to stick his fingers in the cake after it was out of the box for 2 seconds. He could not wait on everyone else. Dad is trying to help Luke blow out the candle on his cake.

So I have to give a big shout out to Beth, Olivia, and Zach for getting Luke this vacuum cleaner. He loves it!! He carries all over the house. The kids were fighting over this thing at the party.

And here he is opening another present. Notice the tongue! When he is really concentrating on something out comes the tongue.

Happy Birthday Buddy!

We love you!

Help me pick Alex's dress!

2007-09-17T19:12:00.000-04:00

I need everyone's help. I am in the process of picking out a dress for Alex to wear to Steve's brothers wedding on Oct 6th. I need something that is going to look good in pictures. My bridesmaid dress is black with a champagne wrap that goes around the waist. Steve and the boys will be in tuxedos so we will all be in black. The brides dress is ivory and so is the flower girl. I checked with the bride and she does not mind if Alex is in ivory. These are the two that I found so let me know under comments your favorite. Oh, the flowers are also white and red. Basically I am avoiding colors like light green, pink, lavender, or any other pastels.

Here is dress one.

Purchased at Gymboree it is a red and ivory dress.

I also got the sweater since it is a late outdoor (weather permitting) wedding and you never know what the weather may be.

Dress two.

Purchased at Carters it is a ivory dress.

Very simple and I also got the ivory sweater.

Thanks ladies!

Luke's 1st Day of Preschool

2007-09-11T13:25:00.000-04:00

Last Thursday was Luke's first day of school. I was very worried about how he was going to do because he is not that outgoing and trusting of others. He goes from 9-12:45 on Tuesday and Thursday. We pulled up and instead of parents walking the kids in the teachers take them out of the car and inside the preschool. Luke was screaming when his teacher started taking him out of his car seat. I was thinking that maybe I had made a mistake and we should just go home, but I remembered what his doctor said and so I pulled away wondering if I would be back in a few hours to pick him up. He made it through the day and the teacher said he was great. He cried for about 15 minutes and by the end of the day had warmed up to both teachers and the kids in the class. They said he loved playing with the kitchen set. Here is a photo of Luke while we were waiting in the car line. This was before he knew what was about to happen. As you can see he had to hold his lunch box.

Way to go Luke you are such a big boy!!

Back from the Beach!

2007-09-06T09:44:00.001-04:00

Hello everyone out there in blogging world. We have just gotten back from a last minute trip to the beach. We went to Panama City for Labor Day weekend. Our condo was fabulous. If you are going there soon and are taking kids I highly recommend that you stay at Splash. Ok, on to the photos. Alex and I are cooling in the ocean. On Saturday it was hot and there was no breeze so you have to stay close to the water.

Luke and Daddy floating in the ocean. Steve put every swimmie we had in the bag on Luke. I guess better safe than sorry.
Here are my three guys walking back to the tent after another swim in the ocean.

Kade and Araceli decided they are going to bury each other in the sand. Araceli went first because it took some convincing before Kade would jump in.

At last he gives in and we got a picture to prove it.

After burying each other in the sand they decided that they would look for shells. The water was so clear that you could see the bottom. Araceli would go under and get the shells that Kade wanted because he could not put his head under the ocean for some reason.

Here is mommy, Alex, and Luke playing by the shore.

Alex by the pool playing with her toys.

So here is part of the reason that I would recommend this place. They have a kiddie water park in the pool. Kade and Luke loved it.

Kade coming down the slide.

Kade and Luke came down the slide together. They were laughing so hard they were barely able to get up and go again.

So after dinner on the last night we played putt-putt golf. This was Luke's first time playing. He loved carrying his club, but you have to be fast because he would run and pick up your ball. We had some very competitive people playing so it made the game a little more interesting.

Here Kade is getting ready to make his putt and Luke is trying to step in and swipe his ball.

Here is Nick (Steve's brother) and his wife Araceli with Kade. They were taking a break from being so competitive. Times up back to the game!!!!!

So that was pretty much our weekend. I have been catching up on everyone else and it looks like you guys were busy too.

Have a great week!!!

GO DAWGS!!!

2007-08-31T08:31:00.000-04:00

We'll since football season has officially arrived I thought that I would add some pics of our little cheerleader. Go Dawgs!!

BYE BYE!!

Have a great weekend everyone!

Just Catching Up!!

2007-08-30T12:22:00.000-04:00

This is very random, but I hope you like. Sorry that it is kinda long.

I will start with Luke's new obsession. He loves to play with Alex's babies. Here you can see he is riding her on his Mickey Mouse airplane.

I just thought this photo was great. He was laughing so hard.

Alex is trying to escape to the back of the house, but instead of making it around she pulls the gate on top of her. She did not even cry. As soon as she saw the camera she started smiling.

Mom and her two boys.

Alex loves getting a bath in the sink. She splashes so much the counter and floor are covered in puddles.

And this picture may seem odd because it is. Luke wandered away from everyone one night and after a few minutes I noticed how quiet he was being. This is what I found. He was standing on the rail of Alex's crib laughing and talking. SHE was ASLEEP!!

Here is a shot of Alex. She has no clue what is going. Luke making noise or mom flashing the camera in a completely dark room......NOTHING!! Which is good because if she woke up she would not be happy.

Here are all three guys posing for a picture.

Alex and Daddy smooching in the kitchen!

We'll if you made it through all the pictures you see just how random this is.

Thanks for reading and check back again as I will have another post sometime this weekend.

Happy Thursday!!