December trip to Fort Wilderness

We kicked off December with a trip to Disney's Fort Wilderness Campground. Mimi and Papa treated us to a two night "slumber party" in the Wilderness cabins. We had a blast. We all enjoyed the Christmas decorations at the campground as well as all of the resorts on the Disney lake. We soaked up the Christmas spirit and the kids really enjoyed every minute of our stay. We enjoyed it so much, we're heading back for Bowen's 5th birthday!

Thanksgiving 2011

We had a Tampa Thanksgiving this year. It worked out great! We ate lunch with my family and then headed to John and Lori's house (Brantley's bro and sister-in-law) for dinner. Can you say stuffed!?! Brantley and I stuffed ourselves, then we rolled ourselves out the door by 9:30pm to do some BLACK FRIDAY shopping until 1 am. FUN! FUN! Uhhhh..please slap me silly if you hear me talking about doing that ever again. Those Black Friday shoppers are a whole lot of crazy!

Santa Visit 2011

An evening trip to the Bass Pro Shop to visit Santa.

Kids w/ Santa:
Santa: Ho, ho, ho!
Bowen: (walking right up to Bass Pro Santa)"Santa, I've been a good boy. Here's my letter. This is my sister Caroline. She wants makeup for Christmas. This is Davis. I'm not going to sit on your lap. I'll stand next to you for a picture.

Caroline: Daddy hold me. No Santa.
Davis: (upon sitting him in Santa's lap) WHAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!

It's a Christmas miracle that we got a half decent photo. Of course, Brantely and I had to squeeze in the shot to make it happen.

Caroline thinks thought that the decorative presents under the big Bass Pro Christmas tree we hers.



You will notice that the kids are in public in their pajamas. Well, when you do late night events...it just makes sense.

Dear Santa,

Oh yes, Bowen is already making his list and I wanted to share his first self written letter to the jolly St. Nick. He handed it to Santa the very next day. I know, it's not even December. That only means that his list will grow, he will make new revisions and addition to his first letter and we'll make a trip to the very large Macy's mailbox to send his letter #2 to the North Pole.

Buddies

Caroline and Davis have become such good buddies. They spend 3 mornings together while Bowen is at school. It's so nice to watch this bond forming even at such an early age.

And yes....that is a NIGHT GOWN that my daughter is sporting! Changing clothes throughout the day is her thing. Let me correct myself. Caroline has a pajama fetish. She changes in to at least 4 to 5 different pajama sets in a day.

Orlando Calling

A night out!!!! Yep, my brother Matt and his fiance Barbie gave me a night out to Orlando Calling (concert series) for my birthday. My parents traveled in to town to watch the kiddos while we spent the afternoon/night enjoying a few drinks and music. We had SOOOO much fun!

30 what?

Turning 30 something hit me hard this year. What I mean is after this particular year I feel every bit of 40! My hope is to make my 36th....I mean 31st(ha) year a healthy, spunky, fun, and a bit more relaxing year. Okay, okay....I've stopped laughing at myself with that "ya right" snicker.

Here is a snap shot of me with my girlfriends. We all went out to celebrate Abby and my birthday. I love my gang!