Have Snow?... We'll travel

Well, since we didn't get much snow at our house, we decided to go to my parent's house so that Harris and Elliott could finally see snow (even if it wasn't much). Lou and Joseph met us over there and we got to play for a couple of hours. The kids really had a good time. I don't know what they would do if we really got a good snow. Here's a couple of pictures before it all melted.


The snowman was at the neightbor's house. We started building one, but it never got very big before Harris would come tackle it.

Playing after Christmas

Here are a few pictures from week between Christmas and New Year's. Harris and Elliott are both having fun riding Elliott's new Chrismas present.








Playing in the mud. This is what happens anytime there is mud in sight. It is like on the Death star in Star Wars... turning on the Tractor Beam - They just get sucked in!

WHOS READY FOR MONSTER JAMMMMM????

Yesterday Me, Harris, my Dad, Johnny and Jackson went to the Monster Truck Race at the BJCC. It was a lot of fun. Harris is really into monster trucks. This was the second year he went and he is all ready to go again. We went early to to see the trucks and the drivers in the pits and take pictures. This was fun seeing them up close. Afer that we went to find our seats and they were on the front row (the tickets were a Christmas present to Harris from Nana and Pop).

In the pits before the race.

We were sitting so close that Harris got hit with a piece of dirt while Monster Mutt was doing donuts. He was really impressed with that!

Here is a picture of Blue Thunder (One of Harris' Favorites). He came in 2nd place.

And the winner is GraveDigger (of course!!)

It was a lot of fun, we are just waiting for it to come again next year when Elliott will be old enough to go.

Christmas Party at Laura's

Last Friday we had a party at Laura’s House mainly to see Greg, but also to get together with everyone, since we don’t get to see each other too often. Let me say, I had a really good time. I am really glad that I have such good friends. Most of the people in the pictures below, I have known and been best friends with for over 25 years. Most of them I still see/talk to on a regular basis, which I think is pretty good since we graduated almost 15 years ago. My parents are always talking about how lucky I am to have such a special group of friends. I have never met anyone who still has such a large group of childhood friends that they still keep in contact with. Here a few pictures from the party.

Greg and Ashley
Mark Grainger pulled a few strings and was able to get Greg an Auburn helmet signed by Tommy Tubberville (which I think Greg appreciated, since he is just little bit of an Auburn fan!)

Of course we couldn’t make through a get together without a picture of Swindle’s derrière (at least it is covered!). I'm still trying to figure out who is groping this poor boy

The guys (and Laura)

Pictures with Greg (I know he really got tired of having his picture made that night)



Man Streety, you are HOT!!

And so is Stefan!

More pictures as the night progressed. We played some games (and I'm not talking about Connect 4) that I hadn’t played since we used to go over to William and Stef’s dad’s house.

All in all, it was a great night with some great friends. I hope we can do it again sometime soon.

Christmas 2007

Here are a few pictures from the Christmas season this year.

Somehow I didn't manage to get the Christmas lights put up on the house, so Harris said I had to at least put them up on the clubhouse (I wonder if this will work every year, it sure was a lot easier).



Santa Claus on the firetruck at my parent's house.



The first couple of tries in the quest for the perfect Chistmas card picture (neither of which Momma's final cut).


A few pictures from the Chistmas Festivities.



Just some random pictures taken before one of the many family parties.



Playing outside the day after Christmas.



Just chillin' after a long day of playing with new toys

Love me some OREOS

Fall Trip to the Mountains

We went to Gatlinburg over Veteran’s Day weekend, with everyone and I do mean everyone. Here are a couple of pictures from the trip (of course mostly of Harris and Elliott)


The obligatory picture of the entire clan in front of the National Park sign











At the top of Clingman's dome



Dang it's cold











Pool Shark

I sure do enjoy having my picture made next to large set of shark jaws.

At the Ripley's aquarium (or Requarium as Harris calls it)


The amazing Herbie the Lovebug…Harris and Elliott’s new favorite show
Harris and Elliott went to the Build a Bear store…Here is Thomas the Tiger