Disney Pics - 2010

I know it's hard to take your eyes off of this handsome boy, but if you look just behind him you will see a Giraffe. We stayed at the Animal Kingdom Lodge, which was awesome! It's really a must if you have never done it before.

We took 2 trips to Disney so far this year. This is CJ at Animal Kingdom. This shot was taken toward the end of the day. He was pretty much over the park at this time.

Here is the Bull/Buffalo...not sure what it is from the view from our room. The horn on the right side of his head was so big that he couldn't walk straight.

Here are zebras that we could see from our room.

And finally some giraffes. It was really cool, because it was like the animals would rotate spots every half hour or so.

I think this shot was taken in the Bug's Life movie.

Here he is at the Robinson Treehouse. I hadn't been through there in years. It was a lot of fun!

This was another trip. This time we stayed at one of the All Star hotels. We were waiting to get the bus to Downtown Disney in this shot.

Here he is at the Lego store.

Waiting for the bus again to go to the Magic Kingdom. He was very excited to be on vacation.

Exploring our hotel. It's definitely a kid focused hotel.

Christian has definitely inherited my love for staying in hotels. He loves it and never wants to leave. He always says..."Can't we stay just one more night?"

Road Race for CJ

This race was in January. I went earlier and ran the 5K and then Daddy and Aunt Penny came up later with CJ so he could run in the kid's race. It was a half mile.

He was all excited to get his number on and be official. We did some stretching.

I hate to admit that he is more flexible than me. I'm really glad he is able to touch his toes, a fete I have never accomplished.

He finished the race in just under 6 minutes and he has the medal to prove it.

Penny was upset that she did not get us racing to the finish line...so we pretended for her.

It was such a fun day! The year before he was very winded. This year he ran nearly a 1/4 mile non-stop. When we turned around he walked for about 30 seconds then decided to run again. When we were nearly to the finish line, there was a little boy (about 3 years old) that was crying for his Daddy. His parents were no where in sight. So I picked him up and ran with him. This slowed me down, so I told CJ to go on by himself. And sure enough...He Did!! Once he saw Daddy and Penny at the finish line he just kept going. I love that he enjoys doing stuff like this.

Christian's 5th Birthday Party

Christian is 5 this year! It's so hard to believe!!! This year he had a slide in the front yard for his party. He was so excited about it. It was supposed to be a waterslide, but we ended up having a cold front come in and it was too cold for the kids to put the hose on it. They still had a blast riding down it dry though. Uncle Herbie and Herbie Lee sliding down.

It was time to put that batting practice to use. He wallopped the pinata.

He loved his slide!!

I love this picture. He is so handsome...I can't even believe it!!

Here he is with his already 5 year old cousin Madison.

Smiling for pizza.

Cupcakes this year...with a Halloween theme of course. Herbie Lee looks excited.

Chowing on the cupcake...although the icing is all that ever gets eaten.

Posing for a picture with Uncle Moe and Aunt Penny.

On my new 4 wheeler Daddy got him. That's his friend Luke next to him. He is a good sharer by the way. Especially for being an only child.

Here with Daddy on his new 4 wheeler.

A new truck Aunt Penny got him. It was a great birthday. He just keeps on getting more awesome as the years go by. I know awesome isn't really a word, but there aren't words to describe how amazing he is!! He's my little man...forever!!

At the Zoo with my cousins

Karen and Rosey were in town, so along with Penny and Pam we all went to the zoo one day. It was a fun day. It started off pretty cold and poor baby Bella started to get sick. The animals were pretty ornery. We went to see the chimpanzees and one of them was charging all around and throwing "dirt" at the guests. The boys got it in thier hair and Rosey got it in her mouth. Ewwwww!!! Penny was extremely excited to feed the giraffe as you can see. None of the kids were too anxious about feeding the giraffe with her.

Could it be because Aunt Penny made it look so appealing? LOL

She kept talking to it nicely.

Devon finally got the nerve to try it. Here he is telling Christian how cool it was.

I got to take Lizzie and Christian on the skyride. They thought it was so much fun. It was like we were birds, flying over the trees. Christian was all over the place making me nervous, but Lizzie was so still and just held my hand the whole time. It was such a great day!!

Fish Fry

For the past 3 years, my work has given me tickets to the local rotary club's fish fry. Although I don't really like fish, I love this event. It is so much fun for the kids. They have the bouncy's, petting zoo, a live band (which usually consists of an 80 year old lady singing), face painting, a play area and this year they had a rock climbing wall. We only had about an hour and a half this year to spend there because Christian had a Tball game that afternoon, but we made the best of our time. Riding a pony. The crazy thing was he had a dream the night before that he was riding a horse. So when he saw he could ride this one, he was pretty excited.

Petting a baby chick.

A bunny rabbit.

A turtle. He kept putting his fingers in to pet the turtle. Why they would have a turtle at a petting zoo...I'm not too sure about.

I could barely get him out of this thing. He loves to bounce.

Doing a perfect somersault. I need to get him into gymnastics.

Attempting a cartwheel. Not too bad!

On the swings. He can now swing by himself.

He was very excited about the rock climbing wall. He wasn't scared at all!!

There he goes. Doing it all by himself.

He's probably up about 15-20 feet here.

He nearly made it to the top. I'm so proud of him.

Halloween 2009

We had a busy Halloween this year. Christian had a Tball game that afternoon at 1PM. So we went to that and then came home to carve the pumpkin, put the decorations up (again..since they fell down) and get ready to trick or treat. He barely put his hand in before he pulled it out and said it was gross!

I asked him to put his hand back in again for the picture. So he barely did.

He had fun carving the extra pieces though. He is such a good boy. He waited so patiently until I was done carving the pumpkin out.

Here is the end result. Nothing fancy when you are on a limited time schedule.

Here's our spiderman. Spiderman was very popular in our neighborhood this year. I think we saw at least 5. The funny thing is for about a month he kept saying he was going to be a skeleton and then when it came time to get the costume, he became Spiderman. I'm wondering if his friend in school was going to be Spiderman. :-)

Here he is with the witch. It cracks me up that he is holding her hand. He picked this witch out last year and loves it.

Our scary spider.

With the decorations up...at least for now. Then it was off to trick or treat. We went with the neighbors next door. Christian adores the neighbor girl Maria who is about 11 years old. They had a good time together. He walked "most" of the way, but was pretty wimpy about carrying his candy once the bucket started to get full.