I love the holidays and getting together with family. Connor and Coleman get along so well. I love that we can carry the same tradition on for our kids as we all did when we were growing up. Courtney & Brandon are expecting baby boy #2 so our family just keeps growing. I cant imagine in a couple years if all 5 of us have more kids, or for the other 3 start having kids, how many will be running around!
Our family growing, and we are still missing about 4 people!
Mary my BFF in the whole wide world was getting married 12-12-12, in the Virgin Islands, but was having a bachorlette party before then. I defiantly wanted to go, and better yet surprise her. I set it up with his sister and soon to be husband. I took a long weekend off work and drove up on a Friday and back on a Monday. It was about an 8 hour drive each way. It wasn’t as bad as I was dreading but it was so worth it. She was very surprised. It was a good weekend.
There are a few traditions I started with Con and plan to stick with them. One of them is Apple picking. We head up to Sky Top right over the SC border in NC. It is always busy. And the best thing of all they have these amazing-hot-fresh-melt in your mouth- DOUNUTS! Best thing in this world, and my mouth is watering right now as I type this, and I have a good 8 or 9 months to wait for some. Olivia had never been apple picking before she she came with us. As did Meggie and the kids.
Ninja Time – Connor choose to be a ninja this Halloween, turns out so did the neighbors.
Other Oct. fun included a friends birthday party at the Children's Museum with pizza afterwards. The pizza was the biggest I have ever seen!
Olivia turned 10 and we celebrated while she spent the night.
Connor went and stayed a day with Michelle while he was out of school. Michelle and Kyle took him to the state fair.
We decided to give Soccer another chance. Last year we tried when he was 4. It was a disaster and I mean a huge epic fail! He didn’t want to go out there and just cried and cried. After 2 times and the whole week between games him talking about not going I didn’t take him back. This year was different he asked over and over to play. So I figured we would try. This time it was a huge success. He loved it YAY! He turned out to be pretty good also. Of course the season went by way to fast and the kids were just getting the hang of the game and getting use to the other kids and it was over.
Augusta also brought the start of school! Connor Started K5 at AJ Wittenberg. It is a school with engineering and science curriculum. I think its an amazing school, and so far he is doing so well. He is learning to read and its awesome to see him learn something new everyday. He has a teacher that he adores and in his eyes is never wrong. She is so patient with the kids. He is learning so much I know I wasn’t learning that much when I was 5.
This year they have been on several field trips all ready. The Children's Museum, Happy Cow and High Cotton downtown for lunch. I was luckily enough to head to Happy Cow with all of the k5 students. Happy Cow is a creamery that makes their own milk, butter and cheese from their cows. When we walked into the building where the milking is done, all at once they said ewwwww… and boy were they right it stunk bad. He still has a couple more field trip to go on before the end of the year.
Ohh and the best thing I forgot to mention is that they wear uniforms!!!!!!! I love it, there is no fight about cloths, he has 2 color pants to pick from and 3 shirts.
OK so I am having to post backwards because I am super slack. A chance came up for me and Connor to take a trip to Disney World the weekend before school started, and we could not pass it up. It was for 4 night 5 days. I was tight budget wise and seeing I had decided 3 weeks in advance I knew we would be able to do only 1 day at the parks. I was also afraid of the drive. I borrowed a DVD player for the ride. I was stoked and couldn't wait to let Con know. I made a gift bag up with Disney theme things for him to do in the car. I wasn’t going to tell him until Wednesday the night before we left. One because I wanted it to be a surprise but the main reason was I didn't want him to go on and on for a week if it was time to go yet. He knew the concept of Disney. He always sees the castle at the beginning of his movies, and I told him one day we would go. So come Wednesday it was time to revile the surprise. I had my mom record it, I was really hoping for a memorable response. It wasn’t the exact memorable response I was hoping for but it was memorable. He wasn’t happy at all. He said he wanted to stay home. I can’t help but look back now and laugh, because he is such a home body.
Thursday morning we get up and leave and the 7 hour drive was not bad at all Connor did really well in the car. That night we went out to eat and played at an arcade. We made it a early night because Friday we were going to Magic Kingdom. Another surprise I had for him was for him to get dressed up like a pirate. It was so much fun! He loved it. We also rode on some of the rides. It was hot but not as bad as I was expecting it to be. Come about 3pm he was over it and wanted to go to the hotel. So eventually we made it out of there about 4:30. What I learned was that you defiantly can’t do everything in one day. It would have been perfect if we stayed on propriety to avoid the traffic and be able to take a nap. Once we were back at the hotel he saw the pool and instead of laying down wanted to swim.
Friday in the middle of the night Connor woke up throwing up. He was sick all threw the night and into the morning. In the early afternoon he finally stopped throwing up and I had to drag him across the street to get meds and fluids. He was so pitiful and I felt horrible about having to take him out but with it being just me and him I had no other choice. I let him go in his pajamas and brought along a bag incase he got sick, which he did. There was a pizza hut right by the hotel so I also stopped and ordered a big enough pizza I could eat for lunch and dinner. We went back and spent the rest of the day and night in the hotel. Connor still was sick part of the night. Sunday we woke up and he was feeling better but we took it easy. We went to Wonderworks which is a science museum, and then that evening walked around universal. Monday morning we were up bright and early and headed home. In all it was a good trip even with the sickness.
Well today is the start of 2013! Its hard to believe how fast time moves when you are an adult. I know I have said this over and over, but I am truly going to start.. well try my hardest to write more. I love reading back over past blogs. I ended off with Summer in the last post and so much has happened, which I will be catching up.
This year I feel like is going to be a awesome year for us. I have some personal goals set that I plan on achieving. I feel like within this past year I have really found out about my self and just kind of became who I was meant to be. I am comfortable with my life, I love being a mom. It truly is the hardest job ever but I feel like I am learning to be a better one everyday. I can’t wait to see what this year has to offer. This year we have no milestones and nothing big planned unlike the past couple years. Here is to 2013!
