Wonderful Warm Weekend

Wow - a weekend of two days above 70 degrees! We needed it and enjoyed every minute of it. Here are some photos of the fun outdoor play.

My sweet boys... yep, Will has another scrape on his face. He ran into the fence on the playground at school on Friday. Poor kid!
The boys thought it was fun to hit the ball off the tee and try to hit me. I had a little fort built to protect myself, but as I was taking a picture of cute, little Sam...I got SMACKED! Here is Sam giving me fair warning..."Hey mom, I'm going to hit this ball and it's going to smack you." I ignore him and just try to get a cute photo...

Ohhhhhh, no! Here is comes. Yep, smacked the lens of my camera. Luckily it was a wiffle ball. : )

"I told you, mom." He was so proud of himself.

Will is getting into the action. I really had some major cover for this...

Will posing! Yep, camo shirt and pants...that's what happens when we let him dress himself on weekends. : ) Uncle B, I think you are responsible for this.

Just hanging out enjoying the beautiful day!

You might be a redneck if...

...your son's kindergarten Principal calls your cell phone to tell you that your son has been showing off a spent shotgun shell at school all day. I would like to extend my most sincere gratitude to the great folks in Macon, GA, for this highlight in my life (from an email Rich sent out to the family).

This was last Monday after the boys and I spent a fun weekend in Macon. The boys got lots of Uncle B time and Will ended up with a spent shotgun shell in his pocket as a prized possesion and of course it made it to school the next day. : ) lovely! Anyway, the boys were introduced to a pellet gun this weekend as well. Here are the boys just loving it all...

Thanks to Aunt Beth for being the photographer... : )

Uncle B showing Will the ropes...

Uncle B showing Sam the ropes...

Did Sam fall asleep?

Can't get enough of this...it's so cool.

Even Uma got into the action...

Look B, you shot it...

Let It Snow - Day 3!

Day 3 and I still can't get enough fun snow pictures! We'll call today "Ice Skating Day"... all of the snow was completely frozen over. The backyard was an ice skating rink for the boys. Be sure to check back tomorrow - it's yet another day off of school so we'll have to see what we get in to.

Careful walking boys...
WIPEOUT!

Peak-a-boo!

Let it Snow - Day 2!

Day 2 and the snow and ice is still here! School is actually already canceled tomorrow (Day 3). : ) I couldn't help but to capture a few more smiles today...

Let it Snow!

Wow! We got some snow (and ice). On Monday, we got about 8 inches of snow that was then followed by a layer of sleet and ice. We weren't able to make a snowman, but the boys got to enjoy sledding for the first time and they built a snowfort. Here are some pics of the big, big smiles and good times...

Very serious about his Ice Pizza...

My snow boys!

Peeping at the enemy through the window in the snow fort.

Snowball Will...always ready for a snowball fight.

Sam eating the snow/ice. He loved it. I'm thinking it reminded him of some type of candy. : )

Will's first trip on his homemade sled (thanks, dad)! This was on the little hill in front of our house. He was all smiles!

Smiley Sam on his first trip down the hill.

Once they became sledding experts, they wanted to hit the giant hill in the front of our neighborhood. Sam wouldn't ride alone, but he sure still loved the trip! He laughed and giggled the entire way down the hill. It was precious!

Will loving it all the way... here he is skidding out!

Another trip up the hill.

Will borrowed someone elses sled to see if he could go even faster... notice how his hat is peeled back - he's flying down the hill and loving every minute of it. : )

Remote Control Cars

Boys will be boys! Here are the boys trying out their new super fast remote control cars in a wide-open parking lot.
Will is taking it very seriously...attempting to jump a ramp with his car. : )

New Years Beach Time!

After Christmas, we went to St. Simons for 8 days to celebrate the New Year and we had yet another Christmas celebration at Nana's! We got to spend time with Aunty JoJo too - it was so much fun.

The boys spent lots of time over the week in "Man Town" with Daddy and Pops. They explored the island every morning. Trips included breakfasts at Waffle House, McD's, Cracker Barrell, a trip to the top of the lighthouse, a bike ride all the way to the village from the house (both ways), a trip to Buzzard-ville (you'll have to ask them), and many other things that they say they can not tell me because it was "man town." I know they had a ball!

The beginning of the week was chilly. We had to get the boys out of the house so we tried out a new playground on the island.

Uma is "roasting (pretend) marshmellows" on the beach with the boys...

Not really sure about something that is going on...

Merry Christmas!

What a wonderful Christmas we had!!! We got to enjoy time with all of our family. It was the best! The boys were so excited leading up to Christmas Eve and Christmas. They couldn't wait for Santa to come and were so excited to leave the reindeer food and Santa cookies...

Here is the Holland Family with Uma and Pops. Uma, Pops, and Nana joined us for Christmas Eve service at church and dinner at our house!
I thought this pic of Uma and Pops was cute...

The boys outside spreading their reindeer food on Christmas Eve...

The boys coming down the stairs on Christmas morning... They were soooo excited!

Digging into their stockings... they didn't even realize that Santa had left their "big" presents in the other room. They were just excited about seeing their stockings full.

After working on the stockings for about 5 minutes, Will looked in the other room and saw all the things that Santa left. Needless to say, they came back to the stockings later...

Clone Trooper Will!

Happy, happy Sam opening a present from Santa.

After Christmas morning at our house, we went to Uma and Pops' house for Christmas dinner. Here is a picture of Sam shooting his sling shot from Uncle B and Aunt Beth.