Working out

I have another workout partener, my neighbor Theresa. I'm so excited to have another friend to workout with. So now I leave the house at 6:15 and pick her up and off we go. I have so much more energy when I get up this early and workout. And I feel better about myself the whole day. It's amazing what kind of patience you can gain throughout the day after you have worked out. I have 10 more lbs to go until I'm at the weight I was at when I got pregnant. Last 10 lbs!!

Magic Kingdom with the Earps

Today we met the Earp family at Magic Kingdom (our first of many visits to Disney parks again this year thanks to my parents generious Christmas annual passes for our whole family). We had a blast going ride to ride with them!

Asher and I in front of the huge Christmas tree

Daddy and the boys driving their race car. They LOVE this ride!
Asher and his favorite Disney character, Buzz Lightyear from the movie Toy Story. It's starting to be a tradition that we go visit him every time we come to the park, especially after we have defieted Zerg on the Buzz Lightyear Ride.
Our final ride of the day was the train ride around the park. This was Asher's first time and he LOVED it! Boston and Dallas were going from side to side, making sure not to miss anything. You would think it was the first time they've ever rode it. LOL
Asher's first train ride!

"This is great!"

Lakehouse with the Earp Family

We headed out to the lakehouse for a day of fun with our friends The Earps from OKC. We had a great time. We headed over on the boat to Wooten Park in Tavares for a Train Festival but it turned out not to be very exciting so we headed back on the boat for some nature in the canal. They loved it. We got to see an alligator, a turtle, a hawk and a ton of cool birds like usual. The weather was just perfect! It was in the 70's today and some of Earp's kids even swam in the water (still a little cold for this Florida blood!) Some played soccer and the kids built sandcastles on the beach and swam and lots of fun was had by all! :-) We had a great dinner that my mom cooked for everyone (all 17 of us!) And we celebrated Chrysty's 33rd b-day with a chocolate cake. The boys just fell in love with their kids and had a blast playing. I know they only wished lived closer as much as we do.

Sean and Steven (no they aren't brothers....scary right?)

The alligator we saw

Their kids loved all the lizards around and all put them on their face and heads and laughed because they would stick there. LOL We are just so used to them everywhere here...although that doesn't phase my boys. They'd chase a lizard anyday. The old against the young...guess who one...guess who was sore the next day!
Kids love sand!

Happy Birthday Chrysty

Asher's pacifier

Asher put the pacifier in his mouth all by himself today for the first time! Ya! Maybe soon when he wakes in the middle of the night and needs it he will be able to find it himself.

A day with friends

This photo is of Asher and Boston hanging out in the boys room playing some kind of foot game Boston invented to entertain Asher. He just loves to help me out with him. I was trying to get something done and he said he would play with him. I looked in and they were just so cute sitting there laughing at each other. What a special bond they will have. Asher is so lucky to have such loving and caring big brothers. They adore him as much as he adores them. How blessed I am!

Today my friend Val came over with her two kids and we had a playdate...or adult time while the kids played! We both agreed that we needed to be around each other to pass some time in the day away. It was a great time together and the kids all had a lot of fun. Val even brought us over the DVD High School Musical for us and Boston LOVES it. After having watched it once he's been singing the songs on his microphone. What a performer! We are hoping to do this more often, since it made the morning and lunch time fly by!

Then tonight Sean's parents came over and watched the boys while we went over to visit with some friends of ours from Oklahoma City that are in town with their 5 kids to visit all the Disney parks. We had a blast hanging out with all of them tonight, laughing and telling stories. We look forward to lots of time together while they are in town!

Baby it's COLD outside

Oh my gosh, the last two days the high has been in the 40's, quite different from our high 70's to 80's last week! As I was laying in bed last night freezing I told Sean I now know without a doubt I could not survive anywhere else but Florida...LOL And I miss running around outside with the boys. 'We only last for about 5 minutes when we run inside for hot chocolate (which is a really nice winter treat we usually don't have.) Don't get me wrong, I am loving the cold, I'm just glad that it's not like this all winter long. I love the cold weather clothes and jackets that we only get to wear a handful of times throughout the year. Boston keeps asking me why it doesn't snow where we live. I try to explain to him that its a lot warmer here. So yesterday I asked them if it was cold outside and they opened the front door and Boston came back in and said, "It's cold like the mountain house." We are hoping to make a trip up to the mountain house this month and I would like to take the kids to the ski lodge there to see snow. I did this 2 years ago when Dallas was a baby and Boston and I had the best time having a snow ball fight. It's a great memory and I hope that Dallas will be able to experience this same fun this year.
Boston and Dallas in the cute outfits my mom bought them for Christmas. I just love them!
Asher wasn't too sure of the cold. He didn't last long. It wouldn't have been bad but the fact that it was so windy made the wind chill in the 30's

Tatoos

The boys come and get me now anything fun is happing to take a photo. LOL I think they are turning into me...wanting to capture every moment. Today we got out the pirate tatoos that are left over from Boston's 4th b-day party and put some one. Boston wanted me to take a picture of his sword and pirate map tatoos. He's shown them to everyone.

JT came over to play for a little while this morning as well and they all had such a great time. I love that the boys have such fun neighborhood friends to grow up with!

My fireman and police man

After baths the boys got into their costume boxes again and asked me to take a photo of them in their new uniforms. So funny. They insisted on standing in front of the front door to pose. This has been one of the best Christmas gifts, they play with all the items inside all day! To point out....Dallas always wears his hat backwards (whether it be a pirate hat, fireman hat, or any other hat) and Boston has his sword tucked in the front of his police man uniform (which is also on backwards). LOL Aren't they the cutest!!!!

Curly Asher

Asher's hair is getting curlier each day. It's even curlier than Boston's at this stage. I think he might have the curliest hair of all the boys. So cute!!! Can't wait till it gets even longer. Just look at those cute curls on top of his head. (The saying on his outfit says "Elf in training" my mom bought it and it's so cute.)

Happy 2008!

We had a very fun family New Years Day. We finished cleaning out the garage, which was actually fun family time. The boys got to run around the front yard and play on all their toys and bikes and Asher had a ball in the exercauser watching all of us. We ate dinner early and headed out to the backyard to kick some balls around and our neighbors The Stietler's joined us with their new puppy. All the kids had a great time and we enjoyed the warm weather while we could (in the high 70's) because the high tomorrow is only suppose to be 48. Crazy! The we came in, had baths, and watch the movie Open Season, that Santa brought them. They thought it was so funny. Then after the kids were in bed Sean and I watched the funniest movie, "Man of the Year" with Robin Williams....soooo funny! Especially with the coming elections.