Our latest ADVENTURES! I must be crazy sometimes

We took another trip to Disney, Magic Kingdom. Cole had been asking to go alot so we figured he'd have a better time knowing what it is now. They both had a blast. Cason even liked it and knew who Mickey mouse was. We saw the 3D show and it was awesome. Cole even wore the glasses and was moving at objects and dancing. It's so neat to see them grow up and it's a pleasure to see them figuring out the world. Of course, Nena (their grandma) was exhausted from working nights, but graced us with her pleasure. And in that time she forgot and gave our little one, iced coffee. You can figure it out from there. We also need to thank Pam for extending her hospitality at the park. We all are planning to go for Cole's 4th birthday as well. He can't wait.

This is where i was crazy

This February camping experience was one to go into the record books. I must have been out of my mind delirious. It was the coldest weekend of the year dropping into the 20's. Luckily we have great friends who let us sleep in their pop up with a small heater, but still it was freezing. Not to mention Cason was not having any of it. He was up all night and wasn't happy with anything we did. Cole did ok, but I think he should be a bit older. Cason just decided he wasn't going to have any fun and didn't. Therefore it was tough and we only made it one night. Like I said taking a 2 and 4 year old camping was a crazy thought, and it won't happen again for at least a year or two. One bonus on the way to the "camp ground" Kris and I saw a black bear. It was too neat. It was right on the side of the road eating. We got pictures, but I don't know how to transfer from my blackberry to the computer yet.

January was our month to experience some of the local state parks. We went letterboxing in some also. The boys loved to do the hikes and even made it about 2 miles before we had to carry them the last mile. We visited Hontoon Island where we letterboxed, and Blue Springs to see the manatees. And boy there were like 150 plus the day we went. It was too neat. We told Cole they were sea cows and he got a kick out of that. At Hontoon we ran into an armadillo and the boys went up to see it and of course right when they got close it ran off. But to this day Cole still remembers what it is called and that it was funny because they don't like people much.

We decided to try fishing in the river and a picnic. We ended up not catching anything but had a great day. We saw lots of wild life and even a few gators. We ended up in the river where the boys had fun in the shallows. There we found clams and snail and baby horseshoe crabs.

And of course the beginning of January we celebrated along with hundreds of others our FLORIDA GATORS winning the NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP again. We watched the game at Chad and Kristens. We drove up to Gainesville to the celebration there and got to see Tebow announce he was staying. I got goosebumps. Cole loved that and thought the music and atmosphere was neat. I'll also have you know Cason isn't interested in learning as much as Cole was at this age. Cason doesn't even sing songs, except for "It's great to be a FLorida gator" and when our ringtone for the phone comes on he hums that too. Crazy I know, but you have to start them young:) We also went to the Universal Studios celebration for them. We had a busy couple of gator weeks. Of course it's slowed down until August.

In case of you that don't know who this is...........Tim Tebow.

The end of 2008

Merry Christmas. I hope everyone's was great. Ours was tiring. Cole was so into it this year, Cason was soso...he didn't really want to unwrap but to play with the toys inside.

We went with Aunt K and Olivia to see Light up UCF. The kids had a blast running everywhere, but we were exhausted from the theme parks ealier. I don't know how they have so much energy

AWESOME PICTURE RIGHT?????

This is Rudy, Santa's helper. and he was very important to us this Christmas. He just kept showing up the the weirdest places!!!!

This is our trip to Gatorland. WOW I've only ever seen this many gators in one lake before and that was in college.

This is my baby after tubes in his ears. Isn't he cute????He will be so embarrassed one day, but i need to enjoy this while it lasts

Our Wonderful Summer

In May and June we celebrated Cole's 3rd birthday at a park with a bunch of friends. It was a blast but already hot. We got to go to the tidal pool at Sebastian Intet. The kids loved it because the waves weren't very big. We also go the lucky pleasure to see our long lost "neighbors" when they came to Orlando to visit. Wish they still were our neighbors, now we have to call them our friends, hahahahah. Also we got lucky when Aunt Susan, Uncle Dennis, Michael and Rachel came to good old Orlando to visit. that was fun to see them. It's been a while. Of course we took a trip to Nina's too to see the moo-cows, chickens, ducks, geese, and fish.

July, Uncle Rob came to visit and the boys stayed up for the fireworks. The bugs were bad, and the trees were in the way of the fireworks, but we all enjoyed each others' company. Cole got to start a new school too. it was trying at first but now he loves it. Our favority trip was to take the boys to Gainesville for the day. We got to show them where they will go to school for college! they got a lot out of that!

Julie Russel and her new clan came to visit. it's always nice to get together and let the kids play. Amazing we got them all to sit on the sofa, we are only missing Josaih, he was with daddy!




Cole and Olivia are just too cute together, don't you think?

Our latest trip to Universal. it wasn't packed at all, so we got to take pics with the characters. That was the best part. I LOVE SHREK!!!!!!! The kids park there is awesome. the boys loved it. they would have played in the water all day long if they could!