Post Christmas Fun

Got these cool bikes from Nana and Papa...stayed on them almost all day yesterday.  At some point, Colin thought he needed his helmet :)

Action pic...

 

Gavin wanted to take a picture of his toys

 Gavin is the controller!  He keeps ending up in the leaves.

Front Page News!

Gavin was on the front page of the Anniston Star this morning! Using his ipad to learn.

Christmas!

Hanging out

 Colin and Santa at Breakfast with Santa at work

 Gavin with Santa at school

Kindergarten Christmas Program

Blitzen :) There was a little confusion up there I think...

 

Exciting!

Hanging Out and Basketball

Invited Ellie down to watch The Grinch

 Colin's first basketball game

Colin in action! (future all-star)

The Weekend!

Colin being silly for the camera

 We ventured out to the Gadsden Cultural Arts Center to see the trains and play at the Imagination Place...turns out they had a snow exhibit - YAY!  They had a ball - ha!

 Walking in the snow...love the shoes

 The fake snow seemed to have a certain effect on Gavin - here's to not having real snow - who knows what would happen then!  :)

 Mad skills...

 

So I check in on Gavin and he's being 'examined' by a 'doctor'...

The perfect end to a perfect weekend....cleaning up the brownie batter bowl.

Oh yeah, and we raked some leaves (again!)

Enjoy!

Christmas Time and Roll Tide Anyway!

Day after Thanksgiving festivities! Took a trip to pick out our Christmas tree! YAY!

 Think the kiddos enjoyed playing with the ornaments a little more than actually putting them on the tree. I think at one point I saw a bulldozer ornament in the bed with Gavin :)

Salute!

 Colin took a picture of the top of our tree :)

 ROLL TIDE ANYWAY!!!!!

Although the tide did not roll during the Iron Bowl, we were still sure to sport our Alabama gear.

 And yes, Papa, you will be getting copies of these!  :)

 

 So we looked over at Gavin during the 1st quarter of the game and he was out! Too much excitement!

Thanksgiving Lunch!

Colin and his indian buddy

 Me and Nana joined Colin and Gavin for a thanksgiving lunch - school cafeteria style!  :)

Leather, Leaves and Fall

Biker Bros

This was before heading to Oxford to shop around. When we got home Colin said 'That was a fun adventure'.

Biker Bros from behind  :) 

(Gavin will definitely be a legend of some kind)

 

So Colin wanted to rake leaves Saturday. This was not a planned event by mom and dad :) I figured he'd be tired of raking about 15 minutes into it - WRONG! - we raked all day, even got our neighbor Ellie to help out. Got most of the front yard raked. Then we took another adventure on our bikes down the road to the creek. In between all that, Colin practiced some basketball skills with dad. Definitely a good day - Colin approved - he said several time that 'this was a fun day'.

 

Couldn't get Gavin to be still for a 2 second photo so these are a little blurry.  Funny, but blurry.

 Gavin made me take a picture of the back of him.

 Sunday morning pics...had to get that beautiful tree in the background (almost as beautiful as our kiddos but not quite).  Fall...one of our favorite times of the year.

 Gavin wouldn't let me take that bug catcher to take a picture so he hid it behind his back.

Colin has been dressing himself lately, I'm starting to really like his style  :)