Spontaneous Indian Rocks Beach Trip

After a really busy week and hardly any quality family time, Matt surprised the boys and I with a spontaneous trip to our favorite West coast beach, Indian Rocks, after church on Sunday. It was bright and sunny when we left Orlando, and the minute we got into Indian Rocks, a thick fog had rolled in over the ocean!

What can you do?! 

Despite the fog, we still made the best of it, and had a great time! Carson

loved finding tons of shells... 

And the boys waded in the water... 

We made sandcastles and dug in the sand... 

Mommy stayed covered up with my beach towel...

While Matt taught the boys how to skip rocks on the water...

Although we really missed out on seeing our sunset, what we really love most about Indian Rocks is the restaurant Crabby Bills! 

Their seafood is SO yummy! 

 

 

Chalk Drawing

Carson drew a picture of himself (left) and Tanner (right) on our back porch. Thought this was the cutest thing ever!

 

Santa 2012

Christmas Lights on the House

We got right to work on the house lights! Matt let Carson help him while Tanner napped. Never too early to start teaching your boys how to do Daddy duties!

Carson was a big help! 

We add a little bit more to our house lights each year. This year we bought "Frosty"! Frosty is the highlight of each morning. Sometimes we turn him off and on several times a day!

Not sure what we'll do when Frosty has to come down, the boys are quite attached! 

Love their faces light up each night when it gets dark!

 

Christmas Tree Decorating

We love kicking off our fun Christmas season by getting our fresh Christmas tree the day after Thanksgiving!

Carson helped this year by cutting off the strings on the tree.

Tada!

The boys helped by putting on the lights.

And Carson put on our star this year!

Matt and I finished the ornaments after the boys went to bed. Our family tradition every year is I make homemade hot cocoa and chocolate chip cookies...

And we watch a Veggie Tales Christmas movie while we decorate the tree.

Love our little family!

November Preschool Recap

Carson had another fun month in preschool! He loved hat day!

He wore his Mickey Mouse ears for his hat. He loves his Happy Bunch friends! 

The kids dressed up like indians and pilgrims and had fun songs they sang. We loved hearing Carson sing his cute little songs!

The Tuesday before Thanksgiving, Carson's class had their own Thanksgiving feast. He was so excited to tell us all about the new foods he ate!

We are SO thankful for Carson and Tanner's school and how much they love our kids!

Family Photo Shoot

We love our good friend Tracy Hougham and the beautiful photography work that she does! We were so grateful that we were able to squeeze in a family photo shoot with her and LOVED every image she captured. Here are some of our favorite ones!

 

Our sweet 2 1/2 year old Tanner Matthew... 



Our handsome 4 year old Carson James...

So blessed by these 2 sweet boys...

Couldn't have asked for a better husband and Daddy!  

Daddy and his boys...

Mommy and her boys...

 

Love our precious family of 4!