Lane's Trip to Jacksonville Florida

He seemed to have had a really good time with Nana and Papa. I think it was really good for him to have a break from Momma. However, we missed him tons....
Here he was getting to taste the freshly made taffy.
He seemed to enjoy ridding on the luggage vallet.
He sure did get attached to Papa. They said that every night they would go back to the hotel and Lane and Papa would go down to the lobby to get coffee. (yes it was decaf)
Here is when he got to play goofy golf. This was right down his alley. Nana and Papa said that he had a blast. You can see as you look down a couple of pictures that he was very upset to leave. My poor little man:(

Nana and Lane would sometimes hang out in the Hotel when Papa was out working.
Thanks Nana and Papa!!!!

A Weekend in the Country

We went to my friends Melanie's (Paige) house on Wednesday and came home Friday. We had a really good time. The kids played hard. They jumped on the trampoline and road the four wheeler. They have a really big yard in the country, it was real peaceful. We stayed up late playing darts and Foosball. We had a great time!!! Thanks Melanie and Daniel for letting us come!!

Gattie Town

We went to Gattie Town today and the kids had the best time. We were not thinking about it being Saturday, lunch time, and raining....so it was so crowded. It took alot of work keeping up with everyone. It ended up being an all day event.

We had Mary-Beth's 5th b-day saturday. It was a Hannah Montana party. The kids hada a great time. They got to walk the red carpet and eat cake. It was so funny to see all of the different outfits that each kid had on. Two of the adults even joined in on dressing up. (will- as Billy Ray Cyrus with the mullet and Shaun as George Jones)

Sorry, No pictures yet for this post.

(edit:1/29/08 Here is a picture of MB's head)

I just thought I would write about our day today. Mary-Beth was running to kitchen to make her pizza for lunch and she ran smack into the edge of the piano. She immediately saw blood and freaked out. In turn I got nervous. I ran her to the bathroom to clean her up and I could not get it under control. So I called Will but he had left for lunch and I couldn't reach him. So I then called my mom because I couldn't see how I would drive and hold a rag on her head. So my dad raced out to my house and helped me stop the bleeding. Mary-Beth was hysterical about the thought of going to the ER so we debating on what to do. We put some sterile strips one it to close the cut good and pray it doesn't scar bad. Then while they were napping a tree fell right beside the house. Not a big one. But a loud one. It was like 4 inches from my parents van. Then when the power went out at Alisa's house, Mason was trying to feel his was around and fell right into the brick hearth. He ended up in the ER with three stitches. It was a crazy, crazy day. I was ready for bed needless to say at 9:00.

Mary-Beth and Lane keep telling me that they want pictures of their fish on the computer. So here they are. I also added a picture of Lane on Saturday playing with his gun.

Can You Believe "SNOW"

Starting at 7:00 (YES 7:00 for anyone who knows me and my kids well you know we do not get up very early) we started to receive phone calls telling us of the snow that was falling outside. I won't name any names (Alisa, Sara, Tracy, and Mary:)) Everyone said you better go wake your kids because they will not get another chance anytime soon to see snow.. So I went to go wake up Mary-Beth and I saw the sweetest thing. She was looking out of her window at the snow (without me saying anything) I of course had to run get my camera before she saw me watching her. I took the picture and then asked her how did she know to look out of the window. She said that her dad told her when he laid her down the night before to look out of her window in the morning to see if she saw snow. (he knew he would be gone hunting) It was so cute that she did remember to do this.

Here is Mary-Beth touching snow for the first time. She loved it (even thought it wasn't much).

Lane was not such a happy camper to be woken from his sleep, but once we went out to see it he was amazed. My sweet little boy.
After playing in the snow a minute we of course headed in to get some hot chocolate. (Thanks you guys for waking us up the enjoy the snow this morning.)