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| I will always remember the summer of 2004 as one of the sweetest seasons of my life. For most of the summer, I enjoyed being pregnant (ALWAYS a favorite time of life for me) and lived life to the fullest with our three and four year old daughters. Then, on July 25, we were blessed with this wonderful little boy. At 6 lbs. 9 oz., he was smaller than either of his sisters had been and he was just the cutest little thing. All four of us were completely in love with him immediately. We called him little J and he added so much fun to our lives right away. Within his first month, he had experienced the county fair, his sister's fifth birthday party and gone to see her off on her first day of Kindergarten. I honestly feel like I blinked, and here we are at HIS fifth birthday and in two and a half weeks, we will be taking him to his first day of school, although it is pre-k for him. He is such a great kid and I am SO thankful God chose Eric and I to be his parents. I can't wait to see what God does with his passionate little personality. Feel free to take a moment and look at last year's post where I went a little nuts on a picture look back at his life. For today, here's two.
I'm sure this was taken just yesterday...
And tonight, with his birthday pup-cake...
Happy Birthday, Jason!!! | | |
| We are LOVING vacation. We've done all the Disney parks and a TON of swimming. We still have Bippity Boppity Boo makeovers for the girls, Arabian Nights, Kennedy Space Center, another day at the Magic Kingdom, a lot MORE swimming and then a day at the Georgia Aquarium on our way home. We have had a great time as a family. I love just being with the kids and not having any other responsibilities. It feels so weird to just go to the playground and do nothing but watch them play, or sit by the pool and just enjoy their hilarity. I read a couple books on the trip down, but haven't done any reading since we've been here. I take care of work emails or stuff at night. So in the day, it is just the family and I love it.
One thing that has really stood out at me is how blessed my kids are to have each other. They each have a built in best friend. I can't imagine the girls without each other or the boys without each other. They are just the best little pairs. Who doesn't want their best friend with them all the time. All four of my kids have that. God was really good to our family when he gave us our kids.
For the first week of vacation, they had cousins too, which they loved. The girls would take Mia home in a minute and the boys and Carson are just three peas in a pod. My kids were very sorry to see them go yesterday. But boy am I glad we still have a week. It is going to be SO hard to go back to winter. This feels normal...I like 80 degrees, tank tops and shorts, tan shoulders, etc. The idea of going home and bundling everyone up every time we leave the house STINKS! I am thankful for the break, but I think it will make the rest of winter that much more painful.
I also realized that I am dreaming if I think I will have time to do major picture posts when we get home, so I'm doing the smart thing and doing them now. Enjoy!!!
Thanks to facebook, we've recently reconnected with some of our old family friends from WAY back in the day. When I was a little girl, Nicole and Merry Hancock were two of my friends. We were able to stop and meet their families in Tennessee on our way down. It was truly great.
They were sweet enough to throw Brady a mini party for his birthday. He played shy, but he loved it.
The trip down was LONG. Here are Nicole and Brady playing follow the leader in Subway to burn some energy.
This is Brady doing his new pouty posture when he was being too loud and told to sit down. Cute, yet totally unacceptable.
The sweet boy sleeping on big sis's shoulder.
If we're at the house, they're in the pool!
The girls got their faces painted at the Magic Kingdom. Beautiful...
Jason was tall enough to ride a lot of rides...Big Thunder Mountain, Splash Mountain, Tower of Terror, Dinosaur, etc...He absolutely loved them all and was proud as punch that he could go with Mommy and Daddy.
Brady missed the cut-off by about an inch and a half and was pretty sad...
The kids at Nemo
Last time we were here, Renee was too short for the water slide. She has loved it this time.
Let me just answer both your questions...First, yes. Nicole is becoming quite a lovely young lady and we know what's coming as she gets older...and second, yes. I am aware that I really need to get my haircut so I have bangs again. Can you say freakishly large forehead?
I LOVE this shot!
The boys got their faces done at Hollywood Studios...it took Jason a few hours to decide he liked it.
No kid should be this cute!
Even superheroes need their rest.
I love my boys.
After a long day, Renee needed a rest and a foot rub from Daddy while waiting for fireworks.
I am so glad she's still a little girl in a lot of ways. You wouldn't believe how happy these ears made her.
Brady loves the splash pad.
There was no way I was buying him this ridiculous hat that he loved, so we compromised by just getting a picture of him in it.
Jason has developed a deep love for "Fluto" so this was his toy choice.
Character greetings...
My bugs.
Brady's glasses were evidently too tight on his nose.
The cousins had a ball.
But they didn't have any fun at the dinosaur playground.
Renee loved the parades.
Brady was awed.
But I think Jason was the most impressed. :)
My valentine and I had a WONDERFUL evening on the Boardwalk.
And that's only the first half of vacation. Much more wonderful pictures to come...
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| I'll admit it, it's hard to give time for a real post on xanga when you can just flip through facebook and post a status quickly. But we need more than that! I'll post and comment more if you will!
I thought I'd give a little update before we leave on vacation. We leave soon for a two and a half week vacation. It won't all be play because Eric is going to work remotely for one of the weeks and we are doing at least one week of school while we are gone. But it is going to be in nice, warm, snow-free Florida. We can't wait. We'll do the Disney thing, the Kennedy thing, etc. I'm just looking forward to a break from winter and a chance to watch my kids have a ball. Not that they don't have plenty of fun even when locked up inside, as you'll see from some of my pics.
Not much new going on here. Our biggest excitement is that we are finishing our basement. This is the "hang drywall week." My poor boys hardly ever get solid naps anymore since there is constant banging and sawing going on downstairs, but they are hanging in there.
We are still loving homeschool and are 99.9% sure we will homeschool the girls again next year. We loved school and it seemed fine when we were in it. However, now that we've been out of it for a while, it seems absurd how much of our life had to be scheduled around it and how much time our kids spent there versus how much time they had with the family. We LOVE home education. We may still send Jason for some morning preschool next year, but that is to be determined.
I'll leave you with some pics from the last month and I will try to give you some updates from vacation while we're gone. Pray that we stay safe and healthy!
Nicole felt Brady behind her holding something to her head, saying, "I'm gonna fix you." She THOUGHT it was a play screwdriver until she heard a snip and pulled down a small handful of hair. Thankfully, she has such a mass of hair, you can't really tell unless you pull out the short part. Brothers!
I never posted pics of Renee's haircut. This is after a month of growth. She looks so cute with short hair.
We went with the slight stack in the back for some variety.
The kids have had several opportunities to see little miss Mercy (our youth pastor's new daughter) and they love her dearly. They are hoping her mommy goes back to work so we can babysit for them again. :)
The kids spent over an hour creating a playdough picnic one day. It took forever to clean up, but they had a blast.
I came out from showering one day and the boys had dragged a large part of their animal collection down and made an audience for themselves.
Their adoring fans.
A close-up of the performers and their microphones.
I love my family!
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