Merry Christmas Eve!

Sailor, Joe, Beamer and I hope everyone has a wonderful, safe Christmas!

Here are a just a few of the great pictures Carrie took of Sailor and the Boys. Thanks Carrie, I love them all!

Yes Sailor, just like Heather said, sometimes we all feel the same way!

Christmas party at the Daugherty's

I have been a very bad blogger lately. I don't even think I will try to catch up but just fill in a few gaps. Between shopping, decorating, working, playing, cooking and sleeping, I am not sure where any free time goes anymore! Oh yeah, I almost forgot to add in a stomach bug that ran through the whole family. So anyway enough excuses!
A couple of weeks ago we went to a fun Christmas party at the Daugherty's. Sailor had such a good time running around all the boys. I say running around instead of running around with the boys, because for now she can run circles around them! The are all growing and changing, it won't be long untill she is having to keep up. Despite the terrible display of ball Tennesse played that day, we all had a great time kicking off the holidays with good friends and of course, good food!

The whole gang!

Sailor's 3 amigos

Sailor and I got lucky #1 pick on the dirty Santa game. Sorry Donnie for stealing your movie night gift. By the way "I am Legend" is really good, you'll have to borrow it!

Mini Vacation!

My dad turned 60 on December 4th as you probably saw from an earlier post. He clearly said he did not want a party so we all decided to go away somewhere we had never been. I made reservations at a Harbor near the coast of North Carolina before realizing how long the drive was. Anyway, Dad, Mom, Heather and the boys drove over Thursday evening and Joe, Sailor and I left out after he played ball that night. We arrived around 3:30am and Sailor slept the whole way! This was great being that we took the truck with no DVD! We had a really good time! Friday morning after eating breakfast we went downtown New Bern. There were really cute unique shops and amazing historical homes, which I absolutely loved looking at. Sailor had her 1st taste of Pepsi at the Birth of Pepsi museum! That night we did end up having a little surprise party for dad. Joe and I decorated our room with a banner Heather made and she even had her kids at school make him "60" birthday cards! He sat and read every one of them. It took a while! Saturday we headed to the coast to the North Carolina Aquarium. Sailor loves fish and had a great time. After the aquarium we went to the beach to play for a while. There was no way we were going that far without putting our feet in the ocean! Later that evening we went to Fort Macon a Civil War Fort on the coast which was amazing! My pictures don't do it justice. We ended the night with a Flotilla on the harbor which was a bit of a let down. I think the Caney Creek Flotilla probably put this one to shame, but we did have a great dinner at a local seafood house called M.J.'s! Needless to say we were a little tired from our packed weekend but I am so glad we went. We had a great time!

Sailor tasting her 1st Pepsi!

Shopping downtown New Bern, N.C.

Sailor the Crab!

Now that is a big trout, of course, daddy said he's caught bigger!

Notice the sting ray face on the right!

Not another frog picture mom!

Playing by the lake at our condo!

We love the beach, even if it is cold!

I'm one!

Just a swingin!

Fort Macon

Blurry Flotilla!

Happy Birthday Pop!

Happy 60th! We love you Pop, We don't tell you enough but we want you to know how important you are to all of us! Hope you have a great day and year!

Sailor loves to drive the boat in Pop's lap!

Pop and Sailor at the pool!

What a cute family!

Heather, dad and me in Myrtle Beach

This is one of my all time favorite pictures of our family pyramid smashing Pop complete with Gidget on top!

Fantasy of Trees!

After decorating our house on Friday Joe and I took Sailor to Fantasy of Trees! She loved seeing all the pretty trees and hearing the little kids sing. She was especially fascinated by the trees and giant ornaments hanging from the ceiling. We even saw Santa from a distance, very long line!

I decided the little elf volunteering to take family pictures by the pretty snow scene needed a lesson in photography. We needed a little less floor and little more snow scene. At least she was nice to offer and Joe was super excited to get in a picture!