Christmas In Alabama!!!

Christmas has started!!!! We traveled to Alabama on Saturday and will be here until Christmas Eve. Gotta make sure we're home in time for Santa to come to Blair and Logan's house. The kids have had so much fun and according to Blair she now has one item from her Christmas list (a chair with her name on it). Here are a few pictures from our Christmas in Alabama!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Blair and Logan!!!!!

Santa!!!!

It finally happened!!! After four years Blair finally sat on Santa's lap. I had told myself that it would probably never happen, but when we were at the mall one night making a return out of no where Blair says she wants to sit on Santa's lap. Jared and I asked her atleast five times if she was sure. We knew the routine from previous years: say you want to, stand in line and then get two feet away and start crying hysterically. Both of us didn't want to do that again, so when she walked right up, turned around backwards for Santa to pick her up, we both stood there with our mouths open in shock. So today we put on our Christmas outfits and went back to get a picture. I was prepared for this time to not go as well....but much to my surprise she did it again. We were the first in line and we probably took the longest. Blair went through her WHOLE spill of everything she wanted. Sweet Logan kept repeating the same thing over and over trying to get a word in, "Santa ball please." I was proud of both of them. And even have pictures to show for our FIRST time sitting on Santa's lap. Happy Holidays everyone!!!!!

Two Little Monkeys!!!

Halloween was so much fun this year! The kids loved being monkeys and I got an awesome deal on the costumes. I was excited for both of them to match this year...knowing the years of being able to "pick out" their costumes would be coming to an end soon.
We went and trick-or-treated at all our family and friends houses. By the time we got home the kids had eaten so much candy they didn't want dinner. It was a fun Halloween!!!!!

Pumpkin Patch

This week we meet our friends at the pumpkin patch. Blair and Logan love going to Jackson's Orchard. Especially for a caramel apple and apple cider slushie. Life is good when you're at Jackson's.
Blair was ready for the camera in her new orange shirt. I love to hear Logan say pumpkin. And he says it for EVERY pumpkin he sees.



Logan loves the animals. He doesn't get to close at first, but after a while he's sticking hay through the fence for them to eat.


Blair loves sweet Alana and Mason. She thinks she's "the babysitter" when her younger friends are around!!!

Getting all five kids to look at the camera at the same time can be a challenge. They are all such a JOY and blessing!!!!!

Next to eating caramel apples and yummy slushies the next best thing is the big slide. Blair and Logan were very timid at first, but with a little push they went down. Of course they had to be on my lap, but they enjoyed it. So did the rest of our friends.


Finally after a little bribe, Blair went down by herself. I couldn't believe it when she sat down and took off. Thanks to our sweet Nikki for catching her.

It was a fun day and the kids are begging to go back. Days like this remind me of how much I love the fall, but more so how thankful I am for FRIENDS!!

The sweetest four year old girl!

Where has the time gone? My sweet Blair has turned four. I can't believe this time next year we'll be dropping her off at school.
My brother Kyle took some pictures of Blair for me about two weeks ago. We ended up going several places here in town and took over 700 pictures. Don't worry, I won't show you all 700, but I will show you a few of my favorites.
I cannot get enough of this girl!!!!

Family Vacation!!!!!! (Part 1)

I cannot tell you what FUN we had on our family vacation! There were 8 adults and 6 children in a 6 bedroom house with its own pool. The house was located in a gated community with a clubhouse, movie theater, pool with water slide, etc. Needless to say it was AWESOME!!!

To say the least we really enjoyed all the "pool time."

While we were there Blair turned FOUR!!! Where has my baby girl gone? I cannot believe next year I'll be dropping her off at school. Enough of that....we celebrated Ava and Blair's birthday while we were in FL. The girls loved their Minnie Mouse birthday party. They are my favorite four year old girls!This is "the fam" outside of our house on Sunday morning. Aren't we a good lookin family!!!

Now for the real fun!!! SeaWorld and Disney World were AWESOME! The kids had the best time. I had some outfits made for Logan and Blair for Disney World. I figure two things: (1)You might as well dress them like you want while you can (2)If you're going to Disney World you might as well go all out. I think they looked precious!!!!

My favorite part of Disney World was seeing Mickey and Minnie. Logan loved Mickey Mouse and Blair loved the fact that she matched with Minnie! The rest of the day Logan was constantly looking for Mickey...it was so cute!

SeaWorld was just as awesome as Disney. Blair and Logan adored Shamu. I think it was the highlight of their trip. Both of them came home with a "stuffed" Shamu and they have continued to carry it around since we've been home. Logan loved the Shamu show. He never took his eyes off Shamu. When Shamu was under the water Logan would stand up and yell, "Mu, Mu, are you!

Too much fun, too many pictures! More to come soon!!!!!!!!