Christmas Fun!!

We had a wonderful Christmas holiday!!  We started our fun travels with a trip to Opelika.  Bryant and I went down the Thursday before Christmas, and Josh joined us down there on Saturday.  My ENTIRE family was there!!  I seriously can not write in words what a great time I had.  As most of you know, I have 3 sisters, and they live in Connecticut, North Carolina, and Colorado!  Therefore, we are rarely all together.  So it was truly a blast!!  We stayed in Opelika through lunchtime on Christmas day, then we headed to Bainbridge.  In Bainbridge we just hung out with family and friends.  It was also fun!  We left Bainbridge on Friday and went to Valdosta to meet up with Josh's dad for a little bit.  Although we missed out on getting to see Josh's brother and sister, we had a great time with the family we did get to see!  I of course took a TON of pictures documenting all of the good times.  This post may include the most pictures of any post ever, but in my defense, I narrowed it down significantly to just get to these, so ENJOY!! :)

 COUSINS!!  Addie (10 months), Bryant (22 months), and Tyler (5 years)

 Playing on daddy's new iPad for the first time…that was all it took to be addicted!

 Sam getting in on the fun slide action at the park!

 Seesawing with daddy!  The weight distribution was a little off… ;)

 Bryant loves his puppy dog…or as he now calls him..Sim!

Climbed up in Aunt Grace's lap with only a diaper on to play his letters game!

 Me and my precious boy!

 TWINS!!!

Having fun with Uncle Jonathan.

 We're okay with losing in family Jeopardy…we know we're still awesome!

 Our awesome score keeper!

The boys…working so hard to beat us in Jeopardy!

 MY FAMILY!!!!  Love these two guys so much!

 I truly have the BEST sisters in the world!

Christmas Eve dinner is ready and yet only Bryant and Tyler are at the table!

 It's Christmas Eve, which means present time!!

 Loves his books

 My fam :)

 He was trying to draw with his finger on the easel…it didn't work.

 Uncle Evan bringing him his cool new work bench from them.

 Bryant and Tyler playing with the tools.

Silly boy

 Look what Santa Claus brought!!

 Checking out his new toys from Santa

 All the kiddos up bright and early!

 Precious cousin love :)

Helping Aunt Hiillary go through her stocking from Santa

 Now we are in Bainbridge...and MORE presents!

 Playing with Jama and his new legos!

 Following Jama to find his last present...

 What could it be...

 A Tricycle!!!

 Playing with Anna and Katie

 Loves coloring at Aunt Becky and Uncle Stuart's!

 Chasing Ace (Peepaw's dog) around.

 Watch out Ace…here he comes!

 Lights at this house we went and looked at.  It was SO cool!

 Opening presents from Poppi!

Poppi and Bryant

Until next time…

Heather

McWane Science Center Trip!

On Monday Bryant and I went to the McWane Science Center in Birmingham for the first time.  One of the things I asked Josh's mom for for Christmas was an annual family membership to there.  Well…the membership cards already came in the mail, so I figured why not go ahead and use it!  Thanks Jama!  Bryant had an absolute BLAST!!  There is so much to do there, and he was just going, going the whole trip.  He had a great time in the "Under kindergarden age" area.  He played with sand, played with water, climbed in tunnels, and played with puzzles and blocks!  He also had a lot of fun with the Clifford exhibit they have right now.  In it is a doghouse filled with crayons to draw with.  He really enjoyed that!  We also checked out the train exhibit and rode the train, played in the snow in the Winter Wonderland exhibit, and looked at the fish in the Water World area.  All in all it was a great, fun, educational day!  With our new membership I know we will be going back all the time!  Since this was his first visit I of course took tons of pictures to remember it by.  See below.

 Playing with the sand.

 SO excited about the water toys!

 Decided I better cover him up in order not to have a soaking wet child.

 We spent the most time at this spot! :)

 Puzzles and blocks galore!

 And he's off!

 That's a big puppy dog.

 Coloring…one of his favorite things.

 He loves numbers.

 Man…not even 2 years old and he's already getting put in the doghouse by some girl!

 Trains :)

 Riding the train.

 Playing in the snow.

 He had so much fun!

Looking at some of the fish.

Until next time…

Heather

DII Football National Championship!!

We had a really fun weekend.  We went to the Division II National Championship game!  Josh's alma mater, Valdosta State University, where he played football and was a student assistant on the football staff, was playing in it.  The championship game is held in Florence, AL.  I thought that was a really strange location, but it worked out great for us because that is only about 2 hours away.  We ended up driving up there Friday evening and staying at a Holiday Inn Express.  We then went early Saturday, like 8:00 am, to the campus to start tailgating with everyone.  Lots of guys Josh played football with were there.  The game started at 12:00 pm, and the result, VSU creamed them.  It was an awesome time with friends and an awesome game!!   And Bryant had a blast at his first National Championship game.  It was funny because at the game Bryant kept walking up the aisle pointing at the numbers on the bleachers.  1, 2, 3, etc…  He would try and move complete strangers out of his way so he could see their seat number.  Luckily everyone just thought he was super cute! ;)  One more thing I have to add, I really do have a rockstar kid.  He tailgated for 4 hours and then sat in a stadium for 4 hours, and ask me if he fussed once….NOPE!  We truly are so lucky and blessed.  Below are lots of pictures from the fun day.

 Getting ready for the players to arrive.  This was our actual tailgate spot…it was AWESOME!

 He really liked the police horses.

 He enjoyed tailgating…especially the food part! Like mommy like son! ;)

 His seat of choice a lot of the day!

 Go VSU Blazers!

He was not too sure about Blaze...

Beatdown!!

Until next time…

Heather