Snow

Kids love the snow!

They have so much fun in the snow and it makes me feel like a kid again! We love to go out and make footprints in the new snow. Carson loves to go down the little hill in our front yard on his sled. He sleds all the way out into the street laughing the whole time. Reese does not last as long as Carson... but she enjoys the fun just as much as him.

We spent some time out in the snow and the kids had a ball. Here are some pictures to remember these very few and precious times. It is hard for me to imagine that there won't be too many winters in their small childhood before they no longer want us to play with them out in the snow. That is sad... so we try to enjoy it while we can!

I really love when we come inside and take off all our wet clothes and snuggle up under a blanket on the couch! Good times, great memories!!!

UK/UofL game

I married a UofL fan. It was an accident. I did not know he was a fan until it was too late. He tricked me. Told me he was a Cats fan for a whole year! Then he told me he likes UofL better when they play each other. WHAT??????? Anyway.... so every year we try to go to the game together. This year the game was in Lexington and we went. UK won the game. It was all good!

We are exposing our kids to both teams. I hope they see the light and bleed blue like I do. But we will see.

However...... they don't have UofL clothes!!!!

New Year's

Carson and Reese stayed all night with Grandma and Paw Paw for their New Year's Eve celebration. I think they had fun. Carson has told me all about it for 2 days. He loves is Grandparents!!

we went out to the Hyatt to celebrate the New Year, we had a great night!

Christmas

It has been quite a while since I made a post on the blog. I guess we have been busy with Christmas preparations. I plan to do better at keeping up with this for my kids. I think they will like to read it one day.

We had a great Christmas. Carson got lots of toy figures of Rudolph, Santa, sleigh, elves, reindeer. WallE characters. He also got a Leapster and games for the Wii, some games, some Disney sweatshirts and a Zippity (some game you plug into the TV to play). Reese got baby dolls, a stroller, some clothes, shoes, Disney princesses. Santa brought them both a play kitchen with pots and pans.

They racked up and their Grandparents houses too.

Altogether a great Christmas!

Here are just a few of my favorite pictures....

putting up the tree

dressed for mass on Christmas Eve

all of us together

Christmas morning... matching jammies

Daddy's present

updates

Carson is in preschool and loves to go to school. He is doing great and learning so many things. It is amazing how much they can remember at this age! We are practicing writing his name everyday and he is doing very well with that. I am so proud of him! He is on task at school and gets great reports from the teacher.

Reese is talking more all the time. I am trying to write down all her words, but she repeats almost everything we say.

Carson

Mommy

Daddy

Oscar

bye bye

hi

uh oh

all done

herego (here you go)

more

please

up

out

off

she talks very fast and runs very fast too. She loves to play with Carson, but does not know how to play nicely and share with him. He gets mad and tells her to leave him alone. But, he does love the attention from her. They are very loving to each other, hugs and kisses all the time. Her favorite new thing is to let him bury her in the stuffed animals. She actually sits still and lets him do it?? Who knew?

Video

Here is a copy of the video I made for the kids to remember the trip. It is long, but full of great memories.... The quality of the video is not great on this site.

Disney world

October 4th through the 9th we went to disney world with the kids and Nan and Grandad. We flew down to Orlando on a direct flight and took the Magical Express to our hotel- the Polynesian. We had an awesome trip. It started off a little rough. The airplane ride was hard on Reese... she cried a lot because she had to sit in my lap. We did not get her a seat since she is under 2, so she had to sit with one of us. Miss Independent did not like that too much at all!

There are some of the 500 pictures I took below. These are some of my faves...

Reese was a bit unsure of the characters. She did better with the princesses since they were not as big. But, she was still cautious.
As you see, Carson was not scared at all. He got the autographs of all the characters he could possibly get. He hugged them too.

Nan & Grandad were very helpful on this trip. It is hard work bringing two small kids to a place this big. We enjoyed having them there to experience this with the kids.
Reese loves to sing and dance. We are at a restaurant in this picture and they were dancing, so Reese was too!
isn't this cute??? we really wanted the kids to do this, but even when we showed them how to wear the ears and pose for the camera, they still would not do it. But, I think it is adorable of us!
How sweet!!!







We went to the Halloween Party at the magic Kingdom. It was like 95 degrees and Carson still wanted to wear his costume. He was a sweaty mess at the end of the night. Reese wore her Minnie costume without the black shirt or tights since it was so hot. They got to go trick or treating in the park and rides with no lines. We had a ball at the parade too.