SNOW DAY!

Well, it snowed last night and that is why I'm sitting on my rump in the house getting caught up on our family blog. We are all just hanging out in our jammies, playing Wii games and just spending time being inside and warm. HOWEVER... a couple of weeks ago, we had our first REAL snow storm of the year. Of course we got all bundled up, went outside and it was almost unbearably cold. We were able to go outside, make a couple of snow angels, sled down the street and then go back inside! TOOO COLD! The next day we could go outside and build a snow man and play for a while. MUCH BETTER! Here are some pictures of the first day though. Sam spent most of his time falling down and having a hard time getting back on his feet. Connor had fun running all over the place, jumping, diving, sledding, throwing snow balls at me and FREEZING!
Good times.

She's Heeeeere!

My oldest sister Deb and her husband, Dave went St. Kitts to celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary. While they were gone, we were lucky enough to be asked to take care of their little Gracie. We had so much fun with her! Unfortunately we took lots of pictures of this event and they went bye bye (explained in post below) with the Dentist photos. These were the only two picts. left along with a little clip of her dancing. Besides loving to dance to the Wiggles, she loved playing with those little ice cream cones in the top picture! Oh and that pack n'play you see in that same picture was a complete joke. She stayed in it long enough for me to leave the room and then she would climb out of it and right in to Connor's big bed! We just let her stay there because she was so comfy that she was actually sleeping through the night. Needless to say... now she is home and Mommy and Daddy got her a BIG BED to sleep in!

Look at this face. Too cute!
Big BOO BOO! Yep, that owie on her forehead is where she had fallen and split it open the night before she came to stay with Mike and me. She had to get some stitches for it and handled getting them out like a champ. She had to get them out while she was here and without Mommy. Grace is one TOUGH COOKIE! Though she is tough... there is one thing that helped her get through the hard times. Her dolly, Betty. Thanks for getting Betty for Grace Pop Pop!

Dentist Time

Well, I'm REALLY bummed.
I took a ton of super cute pictures of Connor at his first Dentist appointment.
I think a certain somebody(Connor) got ahold of the camera to take some pictures around the house and maybe erased MY pictures in the process. My fault!!! I shouldn't have let him play with the camera. Oh well. Anyway... these are a couple of shots from Mike's phone camera. They don't really do the visit any justice though. Connor did awesome! He was excited all day, hopped up into the chair and was on cloud 9 the entire visit. The dentist was most impressed and so were Mike and I! Oh... and no cavities. WHOO HOOO!

More Monkey Joe's

Sam and Me going down a huge inflatable slide. Weeeeeeeeeee!

Monkey Joe's

We spent one day at Monkey Joes having fun on all of their inflatables!

More Stuff with Daddy

Some family pics from the Science Museum. They really enjoyed it!

Chill'n with Daddy.

Stuff with Daddy

Mike got to take the week after Christmas off for some
MUCH NEEDED down time.
My big brother, John and nephew, Hunter got to spend time with us over the holidays too!
Here they are relaxing and watching a movie.

The kids are all bundled up and headed over to the NC Museum of Natural Science.
YES... Connor is listening to his very own music on is very own i-pod in the car. He couldn't be bothered by Mommy and Daddy's music.

Snip Snip!

Sam's FIRST hair cut. I REALLY didn't want to get his hair cut, but it was pretty out of control, and people were thinking that he was a little girl with that long curly hair. He did GREAT!

Christmaaaaaaas!

Connor was SOOOO excited this year. THIS was a good age for Christmas!

We started our morning with just us, then MiMi and Pappy came over to exchange presents and have some lunch. Here is Sam and his Pappy. They are BFFs for sure!

Next it was over to Matt and Jen's house for more Christmas present exchanging and a VERY yummy dinner. Yes, I know it looks like he might not be able to breath here, but I promise he is just fine. Mommy just wanted to give him a BIG Christmas squeeze.

Not sure where Pop Pop got the Santa hat, but he sure looks cute!

Happy Belated New Year!

Okay... so I have not been keeping up with the blog like I said that I would. Lots happened since I posted last. We had Christmas, the new year is here, Sam got his first hair cut, Connor went to the dentist for the first time, we had little Gracie here for a week and LOTS in between. Oh yea... and SNOW! Things are pretty much back to normal now, so I will try to keep up with my promise of posting on the blog every week. Here are some pictures from the events that took place over the passed couple of months. Enjoy!