Easter 2013

I know I am horribly behind on updating the blog….I am just going ahead and skipping to this weekend . 

Tampa

We were invited to Blair’s Uncle house to spend the weekend before Christmas and celebrate the “Thomas family” Christmas.  This is the BARN that went with the house.  SO pretty!  Uncle Richard’s stepdaughter is a champion English rider and they take care of the horses for her.  It was so neat!

 

The girls enjoying looking at the pretty horses.

Waiting for their turn to ride Deedee.

Taylor loving it!

Alice did great too!

Bailey…all smiles.

And Ada demanded to ride too!  She did AMAZING for only being 17 mo old (she thinks she is 3 . lol)

Taylor just had to go a second time.  She was in heaven the whole time we were there…..loved petting, brushing, looking and riding the horses.

Cousin fun in the corral with mud.  Does it get any better?

Cooper David’s growth

11 weeks (and yes….that is a bump ).

13.5 weeks

18.5 weeks

21 weeks

27 weeks

28.5 weeks (my belly seemed to all the sudden pop out!)

Lowry Park Zoo

We spent the weekend before Thanksgiving in Tampa visiting some of Blair’s family.  On the way back to Gainesville we stopped for the day at Lowry Park Zoo.  The girls and I had been one time before 2 yrs ago. It was fun to see them be able to ride more rides this go around!

Carousel- Taylor’s fav. part of the zoo  

Grammie and Bailey in the front row.

Papa and Tales in the second!

This ride went pretty fast for a kids ride…preggo women not allowed

Being train conductors

Petting zoo fun

BAT- Bailey, Alice, Taylor

Flying high

“Splash Mountain”.  Only Bales was big enough to ride, so Uncle Johnny took her. 

This is afterward.  Bailey was so NOT sure what to think.  She wasn’t a fan of getting wet and I think was a little scared.  Uncle Johnny had a blast. lol.

Inside the bird exhibit.  We were able to feed them “nectar”.  They had some sharp claws and were big fans of my hair.  blech.  Bailey did better then I .

All in all it was a good day full of memories for the whole family (minus a special someone). 

Christmas Eve 2012

Christmas was spent at the Cellon’s in Gainesville this year.  Here we are at the Christmas Eve service.  I think the girls are so beautiful!

Nutcracker

The girls and I went to see the Nutcracker on Saturday afternoon.  Santa AND Nutcracker in one day…Bailey went home afterward and put on her “Best Day Ever” shirt. lol.  It was a fun time! 

The girls had never seen the Nutcracker live.  It was put on by Taylor’s Dance Company and we knew one of the performer’s (a pic to come..)

Here are the girls and one of the performers (whom Taylor loved for some reason?)

And here is our star! We love Emily and loved watching her be one of the mice in the show.  (Emily’s little sister Addy is in Tales dance class).   The show was almost 2 hours, but the girls both did fantastic.  Tales was in hog heaven the whole time .

Blair’s work Christmas Party

 

We went to a Christmas Party for Blair’s work on Saturday morning.  The girls were SO excited to meet Santa.  They loved the decorations….

They had a lot of activities set up for the kids including making their own gingerbread men….T couldn’t resist the icing

Looks like B couldn’t either. lol.

We made stamp Christmas cards..

and ornaments!

Tales stood in line patiently for her kitty cat balloon.  She wasn’t so sure about Santa (Gunny Clause version ), but did tell him what she wanted. 

This girl had no reservations meeting Santa.  Biggest SMILE EVER!

Fun morning full of memories. Was hard to see all the complete “families” there, but glad we went anyway.  The girls had a blast!