Someday

Someday I will be able to take lots of cute pictures of my kids. Luke was such a great picture taker when he was a baby. He would smile at the drop of a hat. Then he went through a stage where he would scream when you tried to take his picture. For some reason he just didn't want to be still long enough to take the picture. Now he will at least sit there and say "cheese" just long enough to get one good picture but then the wheels fall off.......

Here is the good picture that I got.

This is the next picture. Luke starts crying because he doesn't want to take another picture. He wants to see the picture that I just took on the view finder of the camera. He can't get out of that wagon fast enough.

Now he is at my feet crying for me to let him see the picture. This time I decided to document it on camera.

Someday I will be able to sit my kids down and have a great time taking cute pictures of them. Although, I don't see that happening in the near future. O-well. There is a time and season for everything!!

Disney World

John and I had such a great time at Disney World. We really enjoyed the break from being parents for a little while. Just being on your own schedule was nice. Getting to sleep when we wanted to and getting to eat when we wanted to. Those were the great luxuries of the trip. We were constantly reminded of our kids though and really missed them. We want to take the kids some day but they will have to be much older. Here are a few pictures from the trip:

Picture with Pooh. Luke loves Pooh!

Race Car Ride

Animal Kingdom Bridge

John with a Lego lady

3D glasses

Fish Tank at Animal Kingdom

Aerosmith Roller Coaster

A friend that I played basketball with in college was going to be in Orlando at the same time that we were so we met on Sunday night and ate at the Rainforest Cafe and then went back to their hotel room to watch the Super Bowl. I was sad to see that the pictures didn't turn out. Don't know why.

Here are my little Mouseketeers

Kate was not too crazy about the hat.

Disney World Here We Come

John and I are leaving tomorrow to go to Disney World! We are leaving the kids behind. We feel like such awful parents to leave our kids behind but they wouldn't know what was going on. It is a place that we always wanted to go to with just the two of us. We will take our kids when they get older. The grandparents are keeping the kids and will be staying at our house some so that the kiddos can be in their own beds. The bad thing is that Luke got sick this week and has had fever for a couple of days now. He got medicine from the Dr. so hopefully he is on his way to recovery and hopefully John and I don't get sick while we are gone. I am looking forward to just being with John but both of us are going to miss the kids like crazy. Well, I better go finish packing! Hopefully I can post some pictures when we get back!

Mom of the Year Award

So, I had just gotten through working out and I take my kids to the car to buckle them in. I put Luke in the car first but don't buckle him in and then take Kate around to buckle her in. Well, Luke crawls up in the front seat and locks all the doors without me realizing it. So I close Kate's door and go around to buckle Luke up and sure enough all of the doors are locked. The first thing that goes through my head is that I just had a friend tell me that this happened to her and I totally saw myself doing this one day. So, a security car is driving through the parking lot and I sprint to catch up with him and bang on the side of his door. I think I freaked him out for a minute. He says he can't get it open so he called pop a lock. I tried and tried to get Luke to push the button again. He was just looking at me like I was crazy. He pushed it a few times but ended up pressing the lock side. So you would think that he would be a little weired out by the situation. No, he was having a ball. He found the diaper bag and proceeded to eat like 4 pieces of gum (with the wrapper still on) and started biting into my chapstick. He was in there for like 25 minutes and he loved every bit of it. Kate didn't cry at all thank goodness. I can't tell you how many times I said, " Push the button!!" People in the parking lot kept looking at me giving me sympathy looks. Even though it was a crazy moment in motherhood, it made me laugh. Gotta love 2 year olds!

Spaghetti

Kate's first try at spaghetti.

Christmas

We had such a great time this year for Christmas. We got to spend lots of time with family and just relax and have fun. We still have not had Christmas with John's family so that will come later and we are really looking forward to that. The weekend started with the Cowboy Christmas Ball that John's band plays at every year. It is 3 nights long and we always have a great time. The kids get to come because it is a family friendly place. It makes for a long night for the babies but they have fun while they are there. This year the Walkers came to the ball on Saturday night. Emma and Luke were some dancin fools! We were so glad that they came. The rest of the time was spent eating and hanging out with family. And of course Santa came. I will miss Luke saying, "Santa comin??" over and over and over. He was really excited about it. I hope that everyone had a wonderful Christmas!

My Family at the Christmas Ball (John is in the background because he was on stage.)

John playing

Us and The Walkers at the Ball

Luke and Emma Dancing

My Brother and his wife with the kiddos

Christmas Morning (nice hair)

Every little girl needs a glo-worm

After Christmas morning bath

Cousins at the Park

Meredith and I took the kiddos to the park today to try and get some new pictures of all of them. It really wears you out to try and get pictures of kids this age. I think we ended up getting quite a few good ones. Meredith took all the pictures and I was the crazy one behind the camera doing everything possible to get the kids to smile. So far the girls have been the hard ones to crack. The boys are pretty good at the smiling thing.

Mr. Luke

Miss Kate

Kate and Hayden playing with keys

Luke and Ella giving hugs

Sliding

All four in the swings. Luke and Ella are getting a little too big!

Cheesy Grin

Kate on the go