New Years Eve

We spent New Years Eve with the Marquis family and I can't begin to describe how much fun everyone had.  We let the kids make mini pizzas,  smores, shoot fireworks and do a little dancing. The image of Hank and Michael dancing is forever burned in my mind! We are looking forward to a wonderful New Year.

Cutter enjoying a little dessert before his supper.

 

Making mini pizzas.


Sailor is quite proud of her creation.
  




 It's about to get dangerous.

Oh yeah, we are teaching good things.

We celebrated New Years Mardi Gras style!

Bring on the daiquiri's! I think the hat makes him look much more professional.

Time for smores, and I'm pretty sure this picture of Alli can be used for blackmail if we ever need it.

The fog was amazing, these trees are directly next door in the neighbors yard.

Once again setting a good example, they all attempted to jump over the fireworks, kids included.

Time for a little dancing.

 

Words cannot begin to describe how funny this was. 

Happy New Years!

What a trooper, he stayed up until past midnight!

Christmas Morning 2011

Christmas morning was quite busy around here. In addition to the gifts Santa left, the kids still had lots of presents left to open.

 The only thing Cutter had asked Santa to bring him was an orange dinosaur, so glad he came through!

 

It took awhile but we eventually found the floor!

 Cutter is currently going through a dinosaur phase, he was quite excited with these.

 Still opening presents.

Finally done and checking out the toys.

Christmas Eve 2011

We let the kids open a few presents on Christmas Eve. They were so excited with the items they received and spent the rest of the evening playing.

Please mom, just take the picture so we can open a present!

Cutter loves anything John Deere.

Sailor and her doll got matching pj's, they immediately changed into them.

Playing with domino's.

One of Tucker's prized possessions, an Angry Bird shirt.

Zoo Lights

Our local zoo offers many different events throughout the year and during the holidays they put on their zoo lights display. This is the first year we've gone. The kids all seemed to really enjoy it although Cutter didn't care one bit about the animals.

Most of the animals were put in their houses for the night but there were a few left out in the petting areas like this baby deer, so sweet!

Everywhere you walked or looked they had displays up.

They had a bubble maker that the kids thought was really neat, until they ended up soaking wet and muddy!

Avaiation Museum

After our lighthouse climb we took the kids across the street to the Naval Museum. If you are ever near Pensacola it is a MUST visit location while in town. Not only is it a wonderful learning experience with more to see than imaginable but it's free, not many places offer that these days. We have been several times, and Tucker has been even more than that, but there is always something new to see. Cutter doesn't remember going previously so he was quite excited to see so many airplanes and helicopters.

Cutter's favorite, the shark plane.

An entire new hangar has been added since we last visited and already it's getting quite full.

There are plenty of hands on "toys".

All that looking is exhausting!

Pensacola Lighthouse

While the kids were out of school for Christmas break we took one day for a trip to Pensacola to see the Lighthouse all decorated. And for the first time we were able to climb it. We had to make the trip in pairs as Cutter wasn't big enough to climb, and boy was he mad about it.

I promise Cutter was with us, he just refused to cooperate.

That's a lot of stairs and I felt every bit of it for the next few days afterwards. :(

Sailor and I both had flip flops on that day and had to climb the lighthouse barefooted.

The still functioning light, we can see it when cross 3 mile bridge from Gulf Breeze to Pensacola.

Tucker was very intrigued with this room and the history behind it. Pensacola Lighthouse is supposedly one of the most haunted lighthouses in the country. There have even been several ghost hunting shows filmed there.

Merry Christmas!

From our family to yours, we wish you a very Merry Christmas and many blessings for the upcoming New Year!