Benjamin's good mood

Benjamin was in a stinky mood all day. But tonight at midnight he decided it was time to play!

ICE!

At the end of our vacation, we went to Gaylord Palms to see ICE! This is our 3rd time going. The first time was the Christmas we were pregnant with Will. We went to the one in Orlando and LOVED it! So last year we took the kids to the one in Nashville. Once again it was great. This year stunk! It was very short and not very impressive. Most importantly it was Way Too Expensive! $25 for adults, $10 for kids, and you had to pay $12 for parking! (not true in nashville). we still had fun and the kids had a blast, i just don't think it was worth all that money.

Disney!

So much to say. We had a great day. I wish we could have gone another day but oh well. When the day began both kids were in grumpy moods as you can see here, but thankfully they got over that pretty quickly.
Our first stop was to hear Belle's story time. Very cute. and we got to take pictures with her afterwards. Kirstine was very excited until it was our turn, then she got shy.

This is on our way to meet Tinkerbell. They shrink us down to fairy size while we are waiting.

Kirstine started out okay with Silvermist. She talked to her and took a picture with her.
But when we had to wait to walk over to Tinkerbell she got VERY shy! She wouldn't talk at all and almost immediately grabbed my neck and dug her head in and then started to cry! I couldn't believe it! Tinkerbell is her favorite person in the whole world right now. If we could have gone back at the end of the day she would have been better.
She was a little better with Rosetta, even talking a tiny bit.

She was overall pretty traumatized by this so we skipped seeing the fairies and Mickey and Minnie (Will also said he didn't want to see them). A few minutes later we saw Tigger and Pooh out in the street and Kirstine started crying hysterically. So we turned around and went the other way. (We also then saw Jasmine and Aladdin and again she wanted nothing to do with them).
Here are the kids on Tom Sawyer's island. Will said his favorite part of the day was shooting the guns in the fort.
Sometime towards the end of the day we were close to the princesses again and since there was only a 15 minute wait we decided to try it. The wait was actually only about 7 minutes so it was great! (fairy line was about an hour). Kirstine did great. She talked to all 3 of the princesses, and still says today "I wasn't shy with the princesses."

While we were in line for dumbo we saw Ariel and Kirstine chose Ariel over Dumbo. She again did wonderfully. The funny thing is that all evening after we were back at the hotel and for the next few days all she would say about disney was "i didn't ride the elephants." silly girl, it was her choice!
And here is the castle at night. So beautiful the way the christmas lights are on it!

Go Gators!

Scott and I had the privilege of going to the UF vs. Vandy game a few weeks ago. The kids tailgated with us for a while, and then Gran and Papa came to pick them up and take them to Tampa.

Halloween

A little old, but here are the halloween pics I've got.

Funny sleep

Here is Benjamin's first funny sleeping place. (I have a pic of both Will and Kirstine sleeping like this, i'll try to remember to post them later!)

Benjamin's First Photo Shoot

Trying to see if this works:
Here are Benjamin's first pictures...

pumpkin carving

Barbie

Tinkerbell

Dirtbike

Monster Truck

small group halloween party

Will refuses to take a group picture

but we finally get him in


Here's Kirstine's lovely attempt at bobbing for apples: Attempt 1 she copies all the other kids who got the apple by the stem. but she couldn't get it with her teeth, so she just picked it up and put it in her mouth.

After that she tried to get it with her mouth, unfortunately she forgot to use her teeth:

After all that hard work she really enjoyed eating it.

Kirstine's new seat

Here is how I found Kirstine watching tv the other day:

Pics of Benjamin

This is Ben's first time in his baby einstein seat:

Here he is at the Homewood football game 2 weeks ago. It was really cold that night!

crestview, al

i just noticed that our weather blurp on the side now says hoover, al instead of crestview. yay!!!

Rivalry Week!

dinner conversation tonight

Will and Kirstine had the cutest conversation tonight during dinner. It began with,
W: I loooooove football.
K: I don't.
i don't remember exactly what happened next, but it went something like this:
W: Do you like sports?
K: No
W: Do you like football, baseball, tennis ball...?
K: I like pretty things, pretty dresses, tinkerbell, mermaid, (and listing every girlie thing you can imagine).

way cute.

Bible Verses

The kids are memorizing verses for church. Here are the first 2 Kirstine has: