Thomas the Train

As I have mentioned in previous post, my sons LOVE Thomas the Train. They own almost all the trains and has approximately 100+ pieces of track. So Dad and I have mastered the ability to assembly random train tracks at any given time and any room of the house. Most of the time we have one in the playroom and the living room. Here is a picture I took the other night when Dad, Kristin, myself and they boys put one together in the living room floor.

Another Sunday evening get together!

We love to cook, entertain and invite our closest friend over to have a good time. We spend all morning cooking, cleaning and shopping to get those couple hours of laughs, giggles, and sometime even tears. Then by the time that everybody leaves with their extremely full bellies, the house is a wreck but all the memories are worth the clean up.

This Sunday we had Ashley, Andre, Bennet, Kendal, Kristin and Emma over to watch the race, even though Andre isn't a nascar fan! We hate homemade burgers, hot dogs, baked potatoes, mac-n-cheese and chips. Then the kids had Mickey Mouse hamburgers (that you can get in the frozen food section as your local Kroger's), hot dogs, ketchup, mac n cheese and chee-toos! Doesn't that sound delicious! Wait, we haven't got to the best part yet...DESSERT!!!! Which was a New York style cheesecake topped with strawberries and whipped toppings. YUM YUM!

When all the guest started arriving it was still daylight of course of the kids had the play outside and yes I said kids, just look at the pics and they tell the rest of the story!!!

























So all in all I think EVERYBODY had a good time, What do you think?

Riley and Hayden's First trip to Wasabi's

Well, this past Saturday night we were doing some shopping in Knoxville, actually we were shopping for Craig a suit, yes you did read that correctly a suit. We will be attending a Masquerade Party at the end of this month and Craig still didn't have a suit, I had already purchased my gown, which is gorgeous, and our masks. So I decided that we should eat at Wasabi's, which Craig and I love to eat there, but hadn't taken the boys yet. So of course on our way there Hayden fell asleep. The parking lot was PACKED when we arrived so Craig went on in and put our name on the list, when he came back he said, "There is an hour wait, do you just want to leave and come back another night or do you want to stay." So we decided to wait, it would give Hayden time to get his nap in. So sure enough Hayden woke up about 15 minutes before our buzzer went off.

Riley was ready because he loves to help Daddy cook, so we had been telling him that the chef cooks right in front of us.



They LOVED the fire, even though is sorta of scared them!
Then Riley yelled "DO IT AGAIN"...lol, so the chef did! Then he told Riley to make sure he didn't try that at home, thank god he told him, or he would have.
Then the famous volcano....
Riley was just amazed with the fact that the chef could throw some rice balls in the air and it land in my mouth!
But then Daddy missed the first time!!!!!
Then he finally got it!
All Hayden could say was WOW!!!!

Needless to say, they had the time of their lives. As soon as we got them buckled in, Riley ask if we could got back tomorrow. They talked about it the rest of the night and told Nana all about it the next day. It is another priceless moments!!!

Tagged

Well this afternoon we were tagged by Miss Brylee to list 8 things about Riley and Hayden! With these two boys this shall be easy!

8 things about Riley and Hayden

1. First and foremost we are all boys! We love being outside! We love the dirt! We help Daddy outside all the time. We help in the flower beds and with all the landscaping. We help him mow, weed eat, pruning and watering. We love tractors, big dump truck, fork lifts, 4-wheelers and cranes. (All I can say is thank god we have a farm!)

2. We love Thomas the Train! We actually went to Target today and got 4 new one. All together we have almost the whole Take Along parts. Plus we have 4 small individual tracks from Thomas. Then for Christmas, Sissy bought us are first sections to the new Track Master set.

3. We love for Momma to read us books! She usually reads to us the book of our choice at bedtime and then throughout the day she will read to use whenever we find a book that we want to read. The book store is a weekly trip. Books A Million is our favorite, we call it the Super Cool Book store. We actually was there today. They have a big wooden Thomas the Train track set up there for all the kids to play with.

4. We love bath time! Every since we both were born we loved the water. The more bubbles the more fun it is. We love to take a bath in Mom and Dad's bathroom because they have a HUGE garden tube, which mean more bubbles and more water!

5. We love to cook! We help Momma and Daddy cook all the meals in the house. Our favorites are Mickey Mouse pancakes that Mom makes us, chicken noodle soup that Dad makes. Of course let's not forget that we love to help Dad on the grill. (Maybe they will be chefs on day)

6. We really enjoy taking pictures! I guess we get that from our Momma. We both have our own lil digital camera and we go around snapping shot all the time. Thank you to all those people that we have captured your crazy faces and moments!

7. We all ready love sports! We enjoy attending Momma and Daddy's softball games every Tuesday night in the fall/spring. Momma can't wait till we can play on our own teams. We are always kicking around a soccer ball, throwing the baseball, and passing the football. Hayden is always throwing with his left hand, which he has quiet an arm.....Dad loves that because he says he could go pro right away if he is an accurate left handed pitcher!!! Yankee's here we come!!!!

8. Last but not least we love to watch TV! We have a hefty collection of 100+ cartoon DVDs and 50+ Disney DVDs! Some of our favorites are Elmo, Blue's Clues, Bob the Builder, Noddy, JJ the Jet Plane, Thomas the Train, Sponge Bob, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Sprout, Dragon Tales, Max and Ruby, The Backyardigans, Back in the Barnyard, etc.....

We tag Ace and Blaze & Nolan and Jonas!

Happy 2nd Birthday Hayden!!!!!!!

Happy 2nd Birthday Hayden!!!

Well, today is Hayden's 2nd birthday!!!! I can't believe it is already here. WOW, how time flys by. It seems like yesterday I was posting this announcement on my myspace.

January 16, 2006

January 21, 2007

January 12, 2008

We had a birthday party for him this past weekend, which all our close family and friends attended. Thanks again for all of you guys that made it. He celebrated his birthday with a Blue's Clue themed party or "Bues" as Hayden calls it. I was thrilled just watching all the lil kids play and carry on together. Hayden did get very embarrassed when we all sang "Happy Birthday". However he got over that really fast when it was time to eat cake! We want to thank everyone who attended.

Hayden's very own cake!




This is what they are always doing!

Skylar and Boden

Emma loved the fruit and veggies!

Brian and Boden

Lil Miss Kendal

Then of course the balloon fight....

Brandy, Levi and Skyler

Bryson

Bennet

"The cake goes here, Momma!"

Now everybody goes in for a lil bite, look at his poor embarrassed face!

Now he decided he would get a bite!

Then time to open all the presents!!!!!!

Then they had to try out the race cars outside!

All you have to do is look at this face and it will tell you how much fun he had!!!

I want to thank everybody again for making his day very special and memorable!!!!!!