Christmas Shirts

Every year I love to buy Christmas shirts for the boys. They just look so cute in and it helps to get us all in the Christmas spirit. Today I was able to snap a few pictures of them wearing their shirts. Tommy has a Grinch shirt. He has really been into reading the book this year. He quotes the Grinch a lot too! AJ's shirt says Mama's favorite gift...the jury is still out on that one lately!! :) I don't know why but when I uploaded these pictures and looked them...the boys just look so big! They are growing up too quickly!

They also have cute Christmas jammies. Look for a post on those in the near future!

Happy Birthday, Poppy!

Today we celebrate Poppy's 90th birthday! We were fortunate enough to see Poppy over Thanksgiving while in Connecticut. Unfortunately, we won't be there for the big celebration, but want to wish Poppy much happiness, health and love this day and everyday!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, POPPY!!

Gingerbread House

Last weekend Tommy's class had a gingerbread house activity for moms and kids. We had so much fun! Tommy and I made a date out of it! I took him out to lunch beforehand to anyplace he wanted to go. He chose Jimmy John's! Of course Chris made me pick up a sandwich for him too because he was not going to miss out on Jimmy John's. Jimmy John's is very popular in our house. So after lunch, we head to school and made our gingerbread house together. It was so much fun to make and see all the other different gingerbread houses too! Tommy's classmates are all very creative. What a great holiday activity.

St. Nicholas Day

St. Nick came the other night to our house. Looks like so far everyone has been good...no coal in anyone shoes yet!

Carousel Family Fun Night

The Silver Beach Carousel offers a family fun night every Thursday evening. We have taken advantage of this a few times, it's a great way to pass the time in these colder months. Carousel rides are only a dollar on these night and the few times we have gone, we have seen Santa! The carousel does such a nice job decorating for Christmas, if you live in the area you should definitely check it out some Thursday night, it's a great way to get in the Christmas Spirit.

A Great Christmas Craft

We made these paintings the other night, it was a fun and easy project for us. The kids enjoyed getting their hands full of paint too! I bought two canvases at Michael's along with some finger paint. Then the kids stuck their hands in the paint and away they went. Being older, Tommy was a bit easier to do, though I am happy with how AJ's came out too. We just learned to get his hand full of paint once and just keep going. Telling him to high five the canvas worked too! Now we have something nice to always decorate the house with at Christmastime.

Tomorrow is St. Nicholas Day, don't forget to put your shoes out!

Tommy's hand print Christmas tree.

AJ's hand print Christmas tree

Happy Birthday, AJ

AJ is TWO today! It's so hard to believe! Where does the time go?

AJ loves his brother. He has to do EVERYTHING Tommy does. One of the cutest things they do together right now is when walking down the stairs they count them, Tommy first then AJ. It's the sweetest thing ever, and now AJ can count to 13 thanks, big brother!

AJ is always on the go, no hugs or snuggles from this kid unless he is tired or sick. He is exhausting and fun at the same time. He has no fear, we have no idea where he gets this quality from. He is daring and can't miss out on anything.

At two years old he is talking more and more each day and understand directions well, doesn't always follow them but knows them nonetheless. He has a devilish smile and you know when he up to something. He loves to laugh and loves to make people laugh.

Happy Birthday, AJ! We love you so much and can't wait to see what this year holds for you!

Disney's Biggest Fan

Family Pictures

We are so lucky that one of good friends is an amazing photographer! Damon Corso is a friend that Chris has had since he was very young and they have remained close throughout life. Damon was a groomsmen in our wedding, but also did some pictures for us too. They turned out amazing! For the past two years Damon has come to visit us and during his visit he has done our family pictures. We enjoy these visits so much and wish we could have more with him! Tommy has really developed a close relationship with Mr. Damon. I just think it's neat to see the relationship Damon now has with our kids too, it's very special to us. Thanks, Damon for visiting and taking amazing pictures for us! Can't wait to see you this summer! Here are a few of my favorites!

Silly Mr. Damon

Fall Fun

We have had such a great fall this year. The weather has mostly cooperated with us too which has been nice. We have had lots of visitors and filled our weekend with pumpkin patches, cider mills, fall fests, and even a book signing for the kids! We have had so much fun and can't believe we are already getting close to the holiday season, time just keeps flying by. Here are some pictures of our fall fun this year.

Halloween Fun

We had so much fun Halloween weekend! We trick or treated in downtown St. Joe on Friday night with friends which was a blast and then trick or treated in our neighborhood on Monday. They boys had a blast, and I'm just glad Halloween is over and the candy is out of the house!

AJ was absolutely amazed at our friend Abby who was dressed up
as Jessie from Toy Story.

A Halloween Sneak Peak!

Tommy struggled for awhile as to what he wanted to be for Halloween this year. It seemed like he changed his mind about every 5 minutes! So we waited for a bit before buying anything until one day he decided he wanted to be Paul Konerko from the White Sox. As mentioned in previous posts, Tommy is obsessed with baseball, ever since Chris and Poppy T. took him to a White Sox game. So I think it's fitting that he is a White Sox Player. He loved his costume and loves the painted goatee on his face too. Here is a preview of his costume.