Welcome to Disney

We started our day way to early, 6:30am. So by the time we watched a few tunes and had breakfast we were still nearly the first ones at the pool. So we visited a few pool and the beach.

Outside the Lego store. (Jenna still crabby after falling asleep in the car on the way there).

Outside the Disney store, Little miss Hollywood!

Jenna's first excitement of the day, Mickey and Minnie!

We spent the afternoon at Downtown Disney.

The girls took a mini-train ride. Notice big sister Taylor has her arm around her little sissy!

We had an early dinner at T-Rex. Jenna was a little nervous at first, but had fun once we were there.

Then we came home and took a bike ride around our resort... It was A LOT more work than you think. 30 minutes and we were done!

A quick boat ride across the lake and we headed home for an early night. Tomorrow is the big day, bright and early, at Magic Kingdom.

Happy St. Patricks Day

After school I wanted to get a few pictures of the girls because they looked so cute in their 'green' clothes, but they were not very cooperative! I did actually get Jenna to look at me for a couple.

Not the best back ground, but they actually sat together here.

Jenna spent more time running from the camera, and Tay tried to be good, but was quickly bored.

They seem to be getting to big lately saying the funniest things. I really wish I would write more of them down when they say them. Just tonight I asked Jenna which book she wanted before bed and it is usually Brown Bear, Colors or Passie book, but tonight she says Dr. Seuss!

We have been working with Taylor on her reading (thanks to Blake who loaned us his hooked on phonics book) and she has been doing so good. Tonight especially it is like it finally clicked, she flew through 3 books and now only has one left. Of course it is still a challenge sometimes to get her to sit down and focus enough to actually even attempt to learn. But... I told her is she read 28 book then we would work on getting her a Nintendo DS. She has been asking for one since last summer. Well now she is flying right along... I may have to call in some reinforcements.... (AKA Grandma, Grandpa, Mimi, Papa, Granny and Papa ) So I think I am going to change and offer her a dollar for every book she reads!

Winter Fun and some random fun!

Papa and Daddy helped the girls make a big snowman.

Papa and Tay on the snowmobile

Beautiful woods in the snow.


Daddy and Jenna took a little spin on the four wheeler.

The girls dressed Chase up with a little princess crown.

We took the girls to the RV show a few weeks ago to look at some campers.

Sledding at home.

Getting ready to shovel the driveway!

First time bundled up together for the winter.

Sweet little Jenna Bean!

Kindergarden Field Trip

Last week I joined Taylor on a field trip and spent the morning bowling with a bunch of 5 and 6 year olds. Here is Tay with her friend Sarah.

Taylor and Lydia.

Glow bowling!

Miss You Bumpa

Grandma Mary, Jenna, Taylor and Bumpa late 2007.

Christmas at Uncle Steve's house

Grandma Mary, Brad, Me and Bumpa *April 13, 2002*

We miss you so much Bumpa.

Basement Project

Yeah, We are finally done with our big project. We started the weekend after Christmas and we are done, well mostly. Still a few finishing touches to be done. But here are our pictures of our work.
1) Big nasty, dark, dirty basement. Framing done. Tons of electrical work cleaned up (Thanks Dad for all your time)

2) Drywall up.

3) After finishing drywall and several days of painting. Doors are up and carpet is being installed. (Thanks Gary/Papa and Jeff)

And just a little P.S. I am tired of painting. My wonderful dad made all our trim, but I had to prime and paint it!

4) Tada. We are done. The kids have a great playroom. We have great storage areas all cleaned up and organized. Best of all we have our family room back!

Its seems like a lot of work for one main room. But we have a huge closet, a neat storage area and I have a laundry room!

Mr. Max is 3 months old

So cute. I can't believe Max is 3 months old already. And he was so good for his pictures there are tons of great shots!