Weekend Top 5

Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend!

If you want to link up and share your Top 5- go sign the Mr. Linky at Kristi's of The Wheelz Are Rolling .

5. The start of our weekend was Friday evening. After dinner we all went outside to enjoy the beautiful evening weather. Ken and Gavin practiced throwing the baseball to one another. Katelyn rode her bike around for a while before she decided to get in on the baseball fun. She took one of Gavin's spare gloves and had fun catching the ball when it was tossed her way.

4. Saturday morning was Gavin's first Tball game of the season. The game was at 830 am and Gavin was up bright and early at 630 asking if it was time to go yet. He was so excited to be playing again. On the way to the field Gavin said that when it was time to bat he hoped to be first.

Once we got to the field he walked right up to the coach and said "Hi coach. What's the batting order?" My my, doesn't he sound professional?? Gavin was 2nd in the lineup and that was ok with him.

For the first inning Gavin played 2nd base. When his team was up to bat he hit a fly ball almost all the way to the fence. So awesome!

For the 2nd inning Gavin got to play the pitcher position. Since it is only Tball he is not pitching the ball but stands where the pitcher is. I could tell he was so proud to be in this position. He did such a great job and caught 3 balls that came his way and immediately turned at threw them to first base to get the runner out. I was so proud of him! Of course I think he is on his way to a career in baseball- but that's just my opinion!

3. Saturday evening we headed up to Lowes to get our Christmas tree. Gavin remembered last year how we tied our tree to the roof of the car and was excited we would do it again this year. Such little things that make him happy. Katelyn was amazed at all of the Christmas trees and kept running around like crazy touching them all. Gavin was the true big brother and kept showing her around to all the trees. I love this age for the both of them. I love that Gavin has memories of previous Christmas' and is excited for what is to come. I love seeing the wonder on Katelyn's face as she is seeing so much of this season for the first time she can remember.

2. After we got home and set up our tree in the house we headed up to the park for the annual Holiday Stroll. The park is decorated with thousands upon thousands of Christmas lights and displays. They also have crafts for the kids, food booths, Santa, and for the first time this year an ice skating rink! Unfortunately, we didn't ice skate even though Gavin wanted to. We were all wearing flip flops and didn't have socks on.

We had a great time anyways seeing all of the light and listening to the Christmas music. Again Katelyn could not get enough of the lights. She thought they were so amazing.

1. Sunday mid morning we went to my inlaws for Sunday lunch. After lunch we headed home to get out the Christmas decorations and ornaments. Decorating the tree went better than I expected with a 2-year-old. She was excited to be hanging the ornaments and did a really cute job of it. Gavin was excited to see and remember all of his ornaments and made sure he showed them all to Katelyn. Both of them did a really cute job and of course all of the ornaments are all clumped together in one spot at the bottom of the tree.

Have a wonderful week everyone!

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Weekend Top 5

Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend! If you want to link up and share your Top 5- go sign the Mr. Linky at Kristi's of The Wheelz Are Rolling .

5. As I previously mentioned, I went Black Friday shopping for the first time. LOVED IT. I got home about around noon and then Ken left to go pick up Danyelle for the weekend. While he was gone I put Katelyn and myself down for a nap.

Later in the evening we ordered pizza for dinner and the kids hung out playing the Wii. We got a great new game last week that Gavin cannot stop playing. I will be doing a review on the new game and a giveaway later in the week so make sure to check back!

4. Saturday mid morning I headed up to Michaels for some more Christmas shopping. They had the photo storage boxes on sale 3 for $5.00. Let me tell you about my love affair with these boxes. Whenever they are on sale I buy them. I have to have them. I love looking at them and filling them with stuff. Ok, enough about the boxes. I might just have to get up and go look at them again if I keep talking about them.

I also went to the grocery store while I was out to pick up stuff for Sunday lunch which was going to be at our house this week.

3. My hair!!! Oh yes. Also on Saturday afternoon I had my much over do hair appointment for a highlight and cut. When my stylist looked up my card to see when the last time I was in I wasn't surprised to find out it was June. I do that every single time my hair needs to be done. I wait and wait and wait to make an appointment until I can barely go out in public anymore because my roots are showing so bad! Now I feel like a whole new person ready for holiday photos.

2. As I am typing this all up I am realizing that Saturday was a pretty busy day. Saturday evening we met up with my in laws to go to the Festival of Trees. Hundreds of Christmas trees decorated by businesses around the city. They each have a different theme and can be purchased with the money going to charity.

Katelyn totally surprised me by wanting to be carried for most of the night. She kept saying that the lights scare her. Maybe it was a little overwhelming all the trees and lights all at once. She finally started walking on her own about a half hour after we where there.

Here are some of the trees we saw.


A pink princess tree that Katelyn loved:

A World Series tree that Gavin loved:
A Christmas in Florida themed tree:

An Under The Sea themed tree:

A white tree:

We even got our picture taken with Santa. All of us.

What a great memory!

We all ended the night up at Dairy Queen for some yummy ice cream!

1. Sunday Gavin sang in 2 of the services at church. I love this time of year when the kids choirs start singing Christmas songs. Katelyn went into the nursery for the first service we went to. She was such a big girl and walked in and said Bye Mommy. I think its the first time she hasn't cried when we drop her off there!

After church we headed back to our house for Sunday lunch. My inlaws met us here too. My wonderful husband kicked things up a notch with the hamburgers. Instead of just plain ol grilled hamburgers, he stuffed them with shredded cheese, onions, and bacon. MMMMMM bacon! They were so good I hope he makes them again.



We spent the rest of Sunday just hanging out at the house with each other.



Have a great week everyone!

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5. Friday night was my monthly scrap booking night up at our church. I've been working on a huge project for about 8 months now. I am putting all the names and dates on the backs of pictures from the 1970's til present. I think I've got about 3 more months of work left before its done.

Since I was up at the church until around 1130, that meant the kids were home with daddy. So can anyone guess what I came home to????? The kitchen looked like a tornado had come thru it and for some reason I think every single toy in the house had been pulled out of the kids bedrooms and were scattered about the rest of the house. Nice.

4. Saturday morning at the unseemly hour of 8am, we had another Tball practice. After the initial shock that the temperature was in the 40's, we got going. Katelyn decided that we couldn't leave the house until she had a hat on like Gavin, so he chose to let her borrow his Mickey Mouse hat.



I brought a chair to the field for Katelyn to sit on instead of keeping her prisoner in her stroller. She was a good girl and sat in the chair and ate some crackers for a little while. But then she was up. Since it was only our team practicing I let her run around behind where I was sitting. Where she found a little friend. She kept calling him her baby and trying to tickle him under his chin.




Practice went well. For some reason my son seems to think he is the best player on the team and told a couple of the other kids just how awesome he was. So we had a little talk after practice about how of course Mommy thinks he is the best player ever, that doesn't mean he is and its not nice to tell other kids you are better than them.


3. The rest of Saturday was just spent at home. Gavin played the Wii off and on and Katelyn played outside in the backyard for a while. Gavin and Katelyn also colored together. Nicely. Which I could not believe.
















1. Yep, I skipped #2 because we really don't have one. Sunday morning my inlaws picked us up again for Sunday lunch. With Thanksgiving almost here Ken is working nonstop. We hung out at my inlaws until around 430 when Ken got back from work and picked us up. While we were there the kids had wonderful time. Katelyn spent some time jumping on the bed:



or maybe she was trying to jump on Ryan and Gavin.

She also played dress up by putting on Mr. Potato Head glasses. They surprisingly stayed on for about a half hour.

Once we finally returned home Sunday evening we had a light dinner and relaxed.

Have a wonderful week!

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5. Friday night after dinner I took Gavin, Katelyn, and Danyelle up to the rec center. The rec center has an awesome skate park they built a couple of years ago. Friday night they were having a skateboarding competition and I thought the kids would enjoy watching. We got there about15 minutes after it started and it was packed!! I would say there was about 30 kids ages ranging from 7 yrs to 16 yrs. It was really neat to watch with all the ramps and stuff that they have. Gavin thought this was the coolest thing ever to watch. And of course it didn't take long for his imagination to take over, and before ya know it, he is running around pretending he was on a skateboard. He did his best to imitate all the moves.

The space shuttle went off on Friday night too. It launched around 8pm and we walked into the middle of the parking lot at the skate park to see if we could see it. Unfortunately it was a little too cloudy for us to be able to see it. Whenever we are at home and it launches we have a great view from our driveway. Oh, well, maybe next time!


4. Saturday morning was Gavin's first T-ball practice for the new season. His team name is the Giants. I was excited to see that he has 2 other players on his team from last years basketball team. And the coach this year of Tball is a father of one of the players that he knows. The practice went well and Gavin was happy to be out on the field again. What didn't go well was having Katelyn on lockdown in her stroller. She complained the entire time about needing to get out and run. And goodness knows if she was on the loose she would have been on the field trying to run the bases with the boys. So in the stroller she stays!


The team took turns playing the outfield and batting and running the bases. Our next practice with be on Monday night.

3. The rest of Saturday was spent at home. I got alot of stuff done around the house that had been neglected. I had about 3 weeks of coupons that needed to be clipped and put away. Considering that I get double coupons each Sunday, that's alot of coupons to go thru. But now its done and I am ready to go grocery shopping this week.

We also had a house guest this weekend named Hailey:

She is my brother's beautiful St. Bernard. Since he was away at the National Guard this weekend we had the pleasure of taking care of Hailey. Katelyn absolutely loves her and followed her around all weekend trying to hug and kiss her while saying " You so cute Hay ee"

Danyelle and Gavin had fun on Saturday playing the PlayStation together. We recently moved the PlayStation into Gavin's room too.

2. Sunday mid morning we went over to my inlaws for our Sunday lunch. Here's a picture of the kids playing in their back room:

Chris and Danyelle helping cook in the kitchen:

Katelyn helping herself to some grapes in the fridge:

After lunch we took the kids up to the park at the end of the neighborhood. They had fun running around playing tag and also throwing a frisbee around.

And for some reason the teeter totter was the funnest part of the park. Everyone got in on the teeter totter action: Katelyn, Gavin, Danylle, Grammie, and even Great Grampa Martin!!!

Oh- and to all my northern bloggy friends..... the temperature this weekend finally dropped into the 60's! Yes, that is cold to us Floridians. If you notice in the above pics, Gavin and Katelyn are wearing jackets!!

1. Sunday evening was spent at home. I thought the kids had run off all of their energy at the park, but nope, when we got home they headed out into the back yard to play. Since Hailey had spent much of the day inside she was more than happy to chase the kids around.

We capped off the night with some ice cream cones too:

Have a wonderful week everyone!

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