Summertime ..

I love the new activities that summertime has brought lately ... again less clothing is more in our backyard ..

Lots of tent making indoors to escape the heat outside .. and yes that is dust on my chairs ..

A trip out to the Wiseharts farm will cure any type of summer boredom ...

I'd say the chicks were a hit with Rex ...

More frames a minute

It only took me 3.5 years to figure out how to get a good/smiling pic of a kid ... buy a camera with a lot of frames per second ... um why did someone not tell me this!!
Sweet Rexy with his Dot-Dot Annie doing some amateur modeling .. ha

Mac debuting his pirate face for the blog ....

In recent days

Rex loves how the summer heat makes clothing optional in the backyard ... Annie enjoyed the Memorial day parade from grandaddy's shoulders ...

Mac thinks the leash I attached to the board above the slide is like spiderman's web(let's not ruin it for him or the hours of entertainment and peace it has brought this mama) ..

Venom

Annie was so happy that Mac received a new red and blue spiderman outfit for Christmas because she hads inherited the old Venom black outfit Mac no longer cares for ... she has no interest in her princess costume. not any. none

Snowed in and getting creative ...

Dern the sideways picture!! O well onto the post ... Last week Gainesville saw the most snow ever since I have lived here .. We had a good 6 inches plus a half inch of ice on top of that!! So what else to do on a snowy morning?? Rex and I decided to make some cookies .. he likes being the taste tester dont ya think??
The snow was fun for a while ... Zach and I actually ended up in the local newspaper(apparently the photographer wanted to pick the most flattering picture right?) ...

Then the snow felt more like being trapped .. so I painted to ignore the children going stir crazy around me ... sorry yet again another sideways pic ...

Then I had to get really creative .. this is the setting for at home date night .. if ya cant go out and you need to break up the snowed in monotany this was actually fun ...

Mac got tired of all the coloring books and started coloring his body ...

All in all the snow was fun but we were stuck for far too long with 3 kids under 3 in the house ... come on spring we are ready for you!!!!

White Christmas

So this picture was actually taken a few months ago but I forgot to post it .. It's funny because his poppy sits EXACTLY like this when he is watching tv .. haha .. now onto Christmas ... It was such a busy morning besides video this was the only picture I got ... Mac got a new red and blue spiderman outfit(he had been rockin the black venom outfit since september .. and when I saw rockin I mean he was wearing it as his regular clothing in public at least 4 days a week .. the people at mellow mushroom asked me last time we went to lunch there if he wears it everyday because that was the only outfit they have ever seen him in .. ), a buss lightyear tent, football, spiderman blanket and a few other odds and ends ... Annie(though she too really wanted everything Buss Lightyear I opted to steer her more in the girly direction) got a princess costume, tree tent, elmo slippers and a purse ... They were thrilled .... Thankfully nothing had batteries except for Rexy's toy .. his one and only toy that I dont even have a pic of him with .. :(

Snow fell on Christmas day for the first time since 1947 in Gainesville ... nifty .. and the kids enjoyed it too :)

Celebrating ..

So its been a busy couple months ... It all started out early November celebrating Mac's 3rd birthday ... My sweet first born is 3(feels like he should be 20 just sayin .. ) I love him to pieces he is extremely obsessed with everything Spiderman and Buzz Lightyear ... loves legos, anything chocolate, playing in the garage with his daddy and sneaking into our bed almost every morning around 6:00 ....
Then we celebrated Thanksgiving(sorry for the lack of pictures .. you should be used to my poor documentation skills by now) .. followed by Rexy's first trip to see Santa ... after this "standing in line pic was taken no others pics went quite as smoothly so we will leave it at this ...

Then we celebrated Annie's potty training .. hey its a big step!! Here she is taking a break from changing her own babies diaper ....

Then the celebration of Rexy graduating to big boy food!!

And drumroll ... Our Christmas celebration .... Here is our 2nd annual Happy Birthday Jesus Cake !! I will post more Christmas/ snow pics but this is all the pics this post could handle ...