Birthday boy 9 years old.

Its really unfortunate to have your birthday so close to Christmas, but Tate decided to be born then. Technically he should have been born on December 26th but he arrived just after midnight so we celebrate his bday on the 27th. This boy brings so much joy into our lives!!

Last year on his 8th birthday he got a present named Graham, so these are the 2 birthday cousins!

We always end up traveling back home after Christmas on birthday so this year we let him decide what to do, he wanted to stay and this was the itinerary he gave us for the day: 1. Breakfast at Ihop
2. Jump Street
3. Chuckee cheese for lunch
4. A movie "Megamind"
5. Goofy golfing
6. Dinner at Texas Road house.
Well as much as we love him that was a fully loaded day so we did the ihop, a family party with Graham, Pizza, Wii playing most of the day, the park, going to the moto store, goofy golfing and Sweet tomaoes for dinner. I think he had a good day. When we asked him what he wanted for his birthday present, he said " I guess whatever I dont get for Christmas" poor kid!

Karaoke and cousins

Santa Left Grandma and Grandpa a karaoke machine for all the grandkids and boy did they have fun with it! Tate and Ashley did their own off key renditions to all the famous christmas carols, Matt should have been a late night bar singer and Grandpa even entertained us! We had a great time and I got to meet my newest neice baby Sydney who is so precious, No shes not Buffys baby shes Michaels and Sarahs.

Christmas

This year Christmas was spent with my Allen side of the family these pictures sum up our activities.
I love this picture of Remy running down the stairs on Christmas morning to see if Santa had came, and he had in full force!









Can you guess who the grinch is in this picture? He was actually delivering gifts though and we were almost caught in the act!


Here is the throw together nativity scene, Remy decided to be the star The angel is in the dance costume on the side Gunner a donkey and Tate I think was Joseph, Next years costumes will be better!












This picture About sums up our Christmas morning mess! I think Santa did good!

Merry Christmas.

more pictures from paradise.

Cruisin.

Cade and I went on a fun trip with some good friends, we ate, snorkled, zip lined throught he jungle, played with monkeys, ate some more, cave tubed, broke down in Belize, talked over more food, relaxed on the beach, swam with the stingrays and had lots more fun! We even had time for the gym and steam room daily. Fun Times and memories made.