Max Is One!!

Max had a busy first birthday. We went to Chucke Cheese with our friends the Johnsons. It was Max's first time to actually do anything there, and he really had fun. He also ate an entire piece of pizza! (Which was more than Connor ate, I might add). After Chucke Cheese we went home for cake and presents. He has a party on Saturday too, so I'll post more pictures after that. We think he accidently popped himself with the elastic on his hat in the picture where he's crying, but I couldn't resist putting it on here.





Max's new car from us.



Whoa... chocolate overdose!

Max enjoying opening his presents. (This is after his cake which is why he has no clothes on!)

Connor's "sister"

So, Connor has really started to like Diego lately. On the show, Diego has a sister named Alicia. Well now, Connor talks about HIS sister Alicia all the time! He tells pretty much everyone about her. At school during the soccer presentation, he told everyone in there about her. Last week, he went with his Mimi and Granddad to small group and told some people there about her. Those people actually thought he had a sister that his grandparents just hadn't brought with them! He also has said he wants to give Max away so he can get a real sister (and name her Alicia of course!). It's all pretty funny. Now I'll just pray that when we do decide to try for baby number three that it is a girl. I'm not sure how Connor would react to another baby brother!

Proud Mommy

Connor had a great day at school today! They were having a speaker for the 3 and 4 year olds and Connor was the only child from the 2 year old classes invited to attend! Then, during the presentation when the speaker asked questions and asked for volunteers, Connor was the only one that participated!! What a big boy. All the 3 and 4 year old teachers could say was how smart and funny Connor is. Now all we have to hope for is those two things don't get him into too much trouble in the future!

Shooting Hoops and Walking

Check out Max!!!

Best Birthday EVER!

Shawn took me to Las Vegas for my 30th birthday, and we had an amazing time. He made a point to make me feel special the whole trip and it was GREAT! The first day we arrived he had some flowers delivered for me. We went to a different show every night we were there. On the second day we had a super fancy meal at a great restaurant called Rosemary's. The third day was my actual birthday, and he had the Venetian come to our room and spread rose petals around and put balloons everwhere. Our sweet friends, Josh and Meredith, had champagne and chocolate covered strawberries sent to us on my birthday, too. We rounded out the trip by ordering room service for breakfast our last morning there. It was so much fun! I guess since there was no way to avoid turning 30...then this was the way to do it!! Here are some pictures.

Dinner our first night at Batista's Hole in the Wall. A family tradition in Vegas.





My pretty flowers!





At the Wynn











Our room decorated for my birthday!




Happy Birthday to me!

A Few More Pics From the Snow

I didn't have any good pictures of Max in the snow, so I had to add those. Plus, later in the day Shawn and Connor were doing snow angels, so I thought I'd post those as well.

Winter Wonderland!

Here is a little video of Shawn and Connor having snowball fight and another video of the snow coming down. It was like a blizzard!!! (For Alabama anyway) These pictures don't really show how much snow we got. I'm looking out on the patio right now and there is about 2.5 inches stacked up on the arm of the chair. To warm up, Shawn lit the fire and we made smores. YUMMY!!! It was a fun day :)