Christmas Cookies

The kids had a fun time decorating Christmas cookies for Santa the day before Christmas.

Santa Claus is Coming to Town...

Every year santa makes his stop to hand out candy canes to the children in our neighborhood. Needless to say, all the kids get a big kick out of it. (Ethan was outside waiting, in the cold, for well over an hour...) We will definetly miss this next year...

Ethan's Christmas Program

Here is Ethan's Rocky Bayou Christian School Christams Program. Ethan HATES to sing so we were very surprised to see him actually singing!

Here he is with his buddies before the performance...

It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas!

The closest we will get to snow is our Frosty the Snowman...
Riley looking forward to opening up her presents!!

Christmas Photos...

Riley (4) and Ethan (7)...sorry for the typical pose this year :).
They are both looking forward to daddy coming home for the holidays as well as visiting Luke and Aubrie in Ga this year.











Riley asked Santa for:
a Dirty Kitty bed ...(aka groovey girl's bed)
Dirty kitty clothes
Barbie big dollhouse
beads

Ethan asked for a Webkin dog


After our night of photos and shopping at the mall all Mommy wanted was some Zoloft and a hot bubble bath!!! (hahahah) Needless to say, a very stressful evening!!!!!!

On our cruise we saw the real Davy Jones Pirate Ship...

Pirate ship on Castaway Cay


Riley getting some sun at the beach

Disney Cruise!!!

We decided last minute to go on a Disney Cruise to the Bahamas. It was the best trip we have ever taken as a family. The kids loved going in the kids clubs and me and Shawn loved having free time. The pools were great. I can not wait to go again in 2008. I only wish we had done this sooner.

Latest News...WE ARE MOVING!!

For those of you that haven't heard, we will be moving by the end of this year to Northern Kentucky (just outside of Cincinnati, OH). Shawn got promoted as a Vice President of Business Development into another division within his company. We are looking forward to starting our new adventure there soon.
You can check out this website to see what it is like there: http://www.nkycvb.com/

Basketball and Cheer...

Ethan played basketball again this fall and Riley tried out cheerleading for the first time. They both did great!

Riley's off to school!

I thought for sure she would cry...but she did great. She was very reluctant to leave Mommy, but waved goodbye with her teacher, Mrs. Mandy. Riley even left her "Dirty Kitty" in the car! Can you believe it! She is getting to be such a big girl.

I told her Dirty Kitty would be waiting for her with a special candy treat when I pick her up. :)