Showing posts with label family fun. Show all posts
Showing posts with label family fun. Show all posts

Monday, September 27, 2010

I'm alive!

Seriously???  Its been over 2 months since my last post?!?!  I was WAY behind then, so you have no idea what you have missed by now!  lol
It would take me forever to catch up, so I will do a quick recap and then start fresh!  I cant tell you how fun and refreshing it is to sign on everyday and read all about your blogs!  I guess I just got carried away and forgot all about mine!
I didn't even realize blogger had made it a little easier to upload pics! (finally!) Maybe it wont be so long until I'm back!  :)

WARNING..serious picture OVERLOAD!

Football season has officially begun!  Landon started his first year of tackle and we both LOVE IT! 
These are our awesome little cheerleaders holding the sign for the boys to run through!
 Go Landon!!
 He is the kicker, line backer and tight end!
 Some of his support team! Skylah and Crystal
Nana :) 
 and of course Bryan and Gavin too!
Landon and his best bud Aidan! 
 These pics are out of order, but we made it over to Lafayette right before school started to see Grandpa, Mammy, Tyler and Tayla (Landons half siblings)
 Of course we got in some fun swim days too :)
 1,2,3 JUMP
 Last week the top dancers of So You Think You Can Dance came to Houston!!
 It is always so awesome to see them live!

Bollywood! 
Thanks to my wonderful friends Nat and Nicole for loving the show as much as I do! 
 Love this girl!!
 Birthday Dance! (as you can tell I am a huge SYTYCD fan!!)


and just to really throw this post all over the place, here is a pic of Landon's NASTY spider bite we got the week before school started!  This was day 2 and believe me, you don't want to see ANY pics from after that day!  lol
I was marking it each night to see how much bigger it was getting!  Yuck! 
 Miss Skylah turned 10 last week!!!
 and what 10 year old doesn't love Justin Bieber?!?!
 Our little family :)
 Nana, Landon and Mimi at his 2nd grade music performance!
 Landon thought they were too cool! (which they are!!!)
Kelly took some awesome pics of Landon and Tayla on picture day for football! 
 Brotherly, Sisterly LOVE!
 This is one of my favorites of the day!  They were cracking each other up!!
 So sweet!!!
 Future Pro player and Miss America!
 So needless to say, after seeing those pics and knowing that I had been in the market for over a year, I decided it was time to get a new camera!!  I decided on the Nikon D3000 and I LOVE IT SO FAR!!!  I have SOOOOO much to learn, but have enjoyed it already!
This weekend we played soccer too!  (we are crazy, I know!)
We will only play about 3 games this season, but we sign up to keep our spot on the team for spring!  lol
Trying out my new camera!!!

 Throw in :)
 Landon running through the sign!


So there you have it..a little catch up (ok, alot more than I planned on!)
I think that might be my most RANDOM post ever!  ha
Hopefully I will be back to blogging more regularly!
Hope you enjoy!  Feel free to give any tips on the camera too!  I know alot of people are very passionate about their Nikons!  :)

Sunday, May 23, 2010

Disney World (Part 1)

Wow, has it really been over a month since we left for DisneyWorld?!?!
We had a WONDERFUL vacation!  So much fun, that I will have to break our trip up in a couple posts!

Day 1
Magic Kingdom!!!
Me and my buddy ready for a fun day!
Goofy is..well, goofy!!!
Goofy's autograph!!
Landon, Aubrey and I waiting for the Haunted Mansion ride!
Our first day was just us 2 and then Ashley, Chris and Aubrey.  The rest of the crew arrived that night.  We were lucky and had great weather..little did we know what the rest of the week would bring us!

Day 2
Orange County Convention Center for Cheerleading Competion..
Landons cousin and 2 other girls in our group were competing (hence why we all went to Disney in the first place!)
The whole group wore our shirts to support the girls!
Beautiful Madison!
Stacey, me and Ashley (Landons aunts)
They did awesome!!
Proud parents!!
1st place BABY!!!!
Day 3 we headed back to Magic Kingdom with the whole group!
We all wore our Saints shirts that day! (all but Landon and I live in Lousiana!)
Mammy and Grandpa
Cousins!
Maria and Keith
It rained pretty much all day.  It started around noon and it NEVER let up :(
We wore our crappy ponchos until we were SOAKED!
Landon and Aubrey waiting for the parade...
that they ended up cancelling :(
(just an idea of how crazy we all looked!  lol)
We gave up early evening and headed back to the house.  Some of the group stayed, but I had enough rain for the day!!

Day 4 we headed to Animal Kingdom!!
They always have a bunch of characters outside the entrance, so we waited to meet a few cool guys!!
Balou Bear

Rafiki

Rafiki's autograph!
Timon
Aunt Stacey and Uncle Tate on the dinosaur ride!!
He bought this lanyard with 4 pins on it.  They have a great program that you can exchange pins with any of the Disney workers.  He ended up buying a few more pins and really enjoyed looking for new pins.  All the kids in our group did this and had a great time! (advice...Target sells the same pins for $4.99 and Disney sells them for $8.99-14.99!)
All their pins!!
He is such a ham!!
Grandpa and his ducklings!!
Meerkat!! (I love the way this pic turned out!)
One of the gorillas had just had a baby.
It was so neat to see...she carried the baby around just like a human!
Baby upclose!
The safari is one of my favorite parts of Animal Kingdom.
Here we are riding during another lovely rainstorm!!
The wet elephant!  lol
My camera was not on zoom for this.  I could have literally reached out and touched him!  Crazy!  See why I love the safari so much?!?!
A dry safari ride, round 2!
We then went to ride on one of the raft rides.  We rode and there wasnt a line, so we decided to go again.  I joked and said we were pressing our luck and were bound to get SOAKED this time (since we got off pretty dry the first ride!)  All of a sudden the ride STOPPED and we saw people turning around in line and all the workers turning around and leaving.  WHAT the heck is going on???  After about 15 minutes, we see two workers come out in wadders and start walking in the water towards us!  They had to close the ride down and we had to walk on a 2X4 to get to the emergency exit.
We never really heard why the ride closed, but it was pretty freaky!!
Here we are walking back through the "restricted area!!" LOL
Landon and Ethan ready to watch another show!  (we started to like the shows so we could get inside out of the rain!)
Two peas in a pod!  These 2 had a blast together all week!
That night we went to the Polynesian Resort to watch the fireworks.  The boys played in the sand most of the time and built a sandcastle!
Watching the fireworks!!
It was an awesome end to an great day!!!
Part 2 coming soon!
Sorry it took me so long to post!  I have been trying to make an online photobook too! lol