Gingerbread houses

The kids enjoyed decorating their gingerbread houses with their friend, Sarah Howard, this year. Evan's is on the left and Anna's is on the right.

A close up of Anna's...the peppermint stick with pretzels is a grill, by the way.

The back of Anna's house

The front of Anna's house...

A close up of Evan's house...

Finley checking out the new fish! He really does do that...no kidding! Our 2011 Christmas tree and my snowman table.

Waynesboro Christmas Parade

Anna walked in our annual Christmas parade on Saturday night with her Daisy Troop. She is in the middle row with a hot pink sweatshirt hanging out from under her coat. She was very proud to be able to do this!

Napping at its best!

After putting our Christmas tree up, Rob decided it was nap time. Anna helped me with hanging some ornaments but tuckered out after a while. As you can see, she decided to snuggle with Daddy. Finley was definitely not going to be left out of this snugglefest! He walked all over Anna before choosing this spot... she never budged. In the second picture I took, I think he actually stuck his tongue out at me!

"Young Virginians" Day in Evan's class

The students in Mrs. Turner's 4th grade class had to choose a famous Virginian to do an oral report on. Evan chose William Clark who was the Clark in "Lewis and Clark." He really enjoyed reading and learning about him and then getting to dress up like him. All the kids did a great job and really enjoyed listening to each other's reports.

Celebrating Thanksgiving

Some pics taken over at Aunt Carver's house on Thanksgiving Day...the kids and adults all had fun playing some outdoor games as the weather was beautiful! We have so much to be thankful for!

Nan-ee's Birthday Weekend

Here are some pics taken of the three kiddos at Nan-ee's house... playing around with a pumpkin, waiting to go out to dinner and playing on the big tractor!

Trip to Florida- November 2011

Waiting to catch our flight to Orlando...the kids worked puzzles I had made to figure out where we were going! This trip was a total surprise!

Ritz Carlton

A few pics from right after we arrived at the Ritz Carlton to meet up with Aunt Carver...what a hotel experience.

Universal Studios- the Studio Side

This was the first park we visited and as you can see, it was actually chilly!

The Back to the Future Delorean used in the movie...and the license plate too!

Here we are in Amity Village with Jaws! Interesting ride...to say the least.

At Curious George's play area...

This was a fun show at Universal Studios called Animal Actors. We got to see many different types of animals used in movies starring

themselves such as Babe the pig, Marley the dog, the pug from Men in Black and many more!

Having fun at Universal Studios- the Studio side.