A Random Assortment of Late...

Ringing in 2011...

Yep folks, we had a crazy, wild NYE with some of our sweet friends...a small gathering complete with delicious food, yummy wine, fun people, and lots of laughter! We barely made it to midnight, but we made it so that's what counts, right?! Happy New Year!!!

(see what I mean...how tired do we look?!)

Starting out 2011 with my sweet girls, LOVE THEM!

SNOW DAZE...
SNOW, YIPPIE! We survived the "Blizzard of 2011" ;) Seriously, why does the south fall apart when the white stuff falls?! For real ya'll, people were posting pictures of empty grocery store shelves on Facebook...I mean, dang, what the heck?! Thankfully we had no shortage of food around our house though ;O) We spent our days having a blast sledding & playing in the snow. It was so fun to have Tony home for an ENTIRE week with us too, double YIPPIE! Owen tolerated sledding the first day or two, but mid-week he finally got the hang of things & LOVED it! He's STILL asking when we can go sledding again :)
He got quite a kick out of playing on our neighbors' playground with snow all over it!
Evan stayed nice & cozy when we took him out to experience his 1st snow!

Touch a Truck...

We went to "Touch a Truck" a few weeks ago & Owen had a BLAST climbing on, around, and inside of both a firetruck and an ambulance! The fridgid cold air couldn't even slow this kiddo down :)SOOO excited about the firetruck!!!

Driving the ambulance with Uncle Matt riding shotgun

Sitting inside the firetruck with BeeBee

Owen showing off his fireman's hat with his Pops

Silly boy :P

Adventures in clothing...

Owen loves clothes. Seriously. He changes his clothes approximately 5 times per day (and this is NOT an exaggeration). Some of his clothing choices are a little less practical than others. For instance, a few weeks ago, with 6 inches of snow on the ground, this boy thought he was going to go play outside in this:

I try to let him wear whatever he wants for the most part, but I just had to draw the line with flip flops in the middle of December. Sorry, not gonna happen little man. Please note, Owen is wearing his #1 favorite shirt in the world, his beloved helicopter shirt. I have to do lots of quick talking and bargaining to convince him that it's not socially appropriate to wear this thing out in public for 8 days straight.

Growing & Changing!

Evan is at such a fun age :) He's starting to really reach & grab for things--and even gives big brother a piece of his mind when toys get taken away from him. Evan is becoming so interactive & it is a blast to play with him and also to just sit back & watch him explore this fun, big world. One of his favorite victims subjects to explore is Margo. How precious is this?! Margo is such a good sport...really she is LOVING the attention :)