I'm Back in the saddle again!

I am gearing up for another busy tax season. Need to start posting again so I can keep up with everyone. Trying to get some pictures uploaded tonight from our trip to Disneyland, Christmas, & Matt's 8th birthday party.

But for now here are some of the Chistmas card picture rejects. What? You didn't get our Christmas card? That's odd? I will take that up with the post office! :-)


This just makes me smile...or laugh hysterically!

It just seemed weird to have our Christmas picture in a sleigh when it was 80 degrees outside.
This is just one of the many funny pictures in my "2009 Memories"...
I made Pluto get down next to Luke because we paid for his dinner and the little S _ _ _...I mean scoot (as my Mom calls him) fell asleep at the very beginning of dinner! I want to show him this when he is older! :-)


This was last Easter. The boys had the flu. They had gotten a movie from their Grandma Casey for Christmas and I can rarely get them to sit still. They didn't move. In fact shortly after this picture they fell asleep. Bummer of an Easter for us! :-(

This was taken in Florida on our summer vacation to Disney World. I will look at this picture and remember what it felt like that week when it hits 115 degrees here in AZ. I LOVE the Dry Heat!

Squirrel...

One of the few family pictures we have. LOVE Luke's shirt! Isn't it funny!

Showing off our Cardinal pride!!! (And my LOVE for Kurt Warner!!!!!) For some weird reason TJ wanted that stuffed reindeer in the photo. Things that make you go hummmm?

And my #1 reject....

Need I say more? I guess it doesn't look so bad when I preview, but TJ's eyes look like they are going to pop out. It probably isn't that funny to everyone since you can't see it close up. It reminded me of his "military picture." I wish I had a copy of that to share so you all could laugh with me.

Cozumel

Ok-ok-ok...Here it is! I FINALLY am making the time to sit down and write about our trip! It's killing me because I should be cleaning the kitchen (I still have bowls of frosting to clean after making Brynn's birthday cake), but oh well! Life's too short!
We were lucky enough this summer to take a family vacation to Cozumel. My brother-in-law, Brad, is turning 40 this year and he and his family were going to Cozumel so they extended the invite to whomever wanted to come and help him celebrate. There ended up being about 40 people that went! It was awesome! The water was beautiful, the weather was GREAT (except for some humidity) and the experience was priceless! I have never been to Cozumel so it was an experience in itself. The resort had a lot to do for the kids so we were lucky that way too! Matthew spent the whole time in the water. Luke took it all in and just loved being outside a lot. I loved relaxing by the pool, drinking a few Pina Colada's (they were basically virgin ones) and some Blue Hawaiian drinks. TJ snorkeled, tried to get some sun on his white belly and drank lots and lots of beer! My Mom and TJ's Mom and her boyfriend, Bob, went too. We loved spending time with them all and then catching up with the others after they got done suba diving and such.
One day TJ, Matt, and I went to see some Mayan Ruins, called Chitzen Itza. Not sure if I spelled it right, but I remember it from someone telling me that their tour guide called it Chicken Pizza...therefore, I can remember the name! Crazy I know! I will attempt to add some pictures here, but if I don't get them up I will have my friend, Amanda, come over and tutor me on how to get them up! Thanks for stopping by and I hope to update this again soon! School will be starting in a couple of weeks so I might get back into a routine soon!

Relaxing at the OC

Brad and Steph built a cabin last year and we were lucky enough to go and use it over the 4th of July this year. Brad's parents have had a cabin in Greer for years and it has been referred to as "The cabin". Therefore, I have heard Steph refer to their cabin as the OC, "Our Cabin". Not sure if they still call it that, but it is kind of catchy!
Matt and TJ went fishing, and Luke and I hung out at the cabin in our jammies alllllll day! I was going through some pictures and thought this little video was funny and I wanted to see if I could figure out how to add a video now. Now that I have this thing down you might get sick of all my postings. I have some old things that I wanted to share especially for my Mother-in-law who lives in Ohio and want to keep her updated on the AZ boyz! Enjoy! This is how Luke eats sometimes...I thought it was because he is part puppy, but I think he is just showing some traits of being a boy...laziness! :-) Just kidding! Well kind of!