Christmas in Valdosta 2010

Here are a few pictures of our Christmas morning! We had an a nice Christmas breakfast first, and Makenna couldn’t wait any longer!

Forcing the kids to wear their Santa hats for a picture!

Posing with the presents

Princess book from Santa! (What she wanted in her Santa letter)

Love the fireplace in the background!

Makenna helping Grandpa open his gift.

This worm feels funny!

Helping Uncle Kevin

My cutie pie.

Nana with her new water kettle

Shane playing with the new Ipad!

Mele Kalikimaka

Christmas Eve, 2010 in our Church attire.


Its so much fun when your child is so excited about Christmas! Makenna had a blast, and that made me have a great Christmas. We also love having Nana and Grandpa here too, having family here is the BEST! We've had so much fun playing trivial pursuit, watching movies, and just spending time with each other. We've had lots of cookies, pies, and other yummy foods. Can't wait till next Christmas!



Trying to get the "perfect" Christmas Card pose


Playing with (destroying) the ornaments



Makenna with Nana and Grandpa!

Since its been a while since I've posted, here's a pic thats a few weeks old, Makenna peforming in her school program:



Be back in the next post with Christmas morning pictures....Hopefully before next year ;)

Air Show

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This past weekend, we did the Air Show on Base… Mike worked the static display, and Shane ablsolutely LOVED watching the planes!

Cinderelly Cinderelly, Night and Day its Cinderelly…

She still keeps talking about her costume!

Friends Aubrey and Andrew!

I found a good picture of Shane smiling in his costume!

Bibbity Bobbity BOO!

Sorry for the lack of updates, sometimes I forget I have a blog!

Halloween 2010. Mike was on a TDY unfortunately, so he didn't spend it with us this year. My friends Andrea and Ricardo and their sweet twins Aubrey and Andrew came up for a visit from Colorado though!!! We all had such a blast, and Makenna absolutely loved seeing the twins again!!! The last time I'd seen them was 2 years ago, but the kids played like they never left eachother! It was great!

Valdosta celebrated Halloween the day before, on Saturday. First, we went to St. John's Fall Festival. I volunteered at the Sweet Shop selling baked goods for an hour. It was fun! I also won a raffle basket worth about 250 dollars! That was cool and unexpected....It was the exercise themed basket which contained all kinds of stuff from an Ipod Shuffle to a yoga mat to dumbells, etc, so it was perfect for me!

Makenna had a total blast Trick or Treating. She absolutely LOVES Cinderella and couldn't wait to dress up as her, and was excited that I dressed as the Fairy Godmother! Shane was a little Firefighter. Unfortunately, I couldn't get a really good picture of him, he wouldn't wear the hat, and fell asleep after only a couple houses!!!

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Group of friends ready to go!

Birthday Boy!

Its so hard for me to believe I had Shane 4 years ago!! We had a small, simple, easy party this year, just a few friends, and Janell's hubby even drove down from Panama city, which was great! Here are a few pics!



Cake i made, first time using Fondant frosting.... He LOVES the alphabet!

Makin' cupcakes...

It's official....

I have a Daisy!

When we got home, Mike helped me make cupcakes for Shane:

Once again...

I am sick, Shane is sick...and I haven't updated in a while! Something about Georgia just doesn't agree with me I guess. I am always sick here!

Lots of things happening in October, its such a busy month, and I'll be taking lots of pictures. Tomorrow is Makenna's Investiture ceremony, where she will officially become a Girl Scout Daisy! Friday, I will be taking cupcakes to school for Shane's 4th Birthday!!! I can't BELIEVE he will be 4 in a couple of days! We are celebrating on Saturday, having a few friends over for lunch. Janell's hubby Jamie is even coming down! (he is in Panama City for a while). Here is a blast from the past, a picture from his FIRST birthday!

Eleven years!

Our anniversary was spent here at home, we took the kids to a birthday party at the Y M C A gymnastics:







Mike and I went to a dinner and a movie!



Mike had wine, and I had dessert of course :)

St. Augustine Beach

Here are a couple more pics from last weekend, the kids on the beach:







We ate at this cute restaurant called Mangos right near the beach...It was great!... Mike had teriyaki chicken and was presented with this:


I had corn cakes and it looked like this:


Wish we had more time to spend in Saint Augustine! Its a cute town and there seems to be a lot to do. Makenna was fascinated with the castle. Hopefully we can take another trip down there soon!

Surfer's for Autism...

More Surfer's for Autism pictures!! The rest of them are on my Facebook page. I hope we get to do this again soon! It was such a wonderful, rewarding experience!! I was so proud of Shane and proud of Mike for volunteering!

Wednesday Weirdness...

This has been my breakfast lately... Overnight oats and an organic apple! I soak raw oatmeal in vanilla almond milk overnight, and add some chocolate protein powder. The next morning I swirl some raw organic almond butter in it and top it with cacao nibs. Its sooo yummy!! LOL you probably don't care what I eat for breakfast, but I run out of blog ideas!