Oh, the Laughs!

Ice Skating Adventure

We had a few free passes to a little outdoor ice skating rink in downtown Raleigh and were finally able to make it down there this Saturday.  It had been forever since I had been ice skating and I forgot how fun it is! J.R. and I were quite the duo...haha! To my own surprise we made it the entire time without crashing.

Lacing up!

Connor, just getting his chill on

Enjoying a recovery snack

J.R.'s favorite thing to do...

Sunday Smiles

The baby is just full of smiles. He seem to just be bursting with happiness and barely able to contain it.

Christmas in Raleigh!

J.R. was amped this year with all of the gifts.  This was the first year that he had a grasp on the whole Santa bit so it was entertaining for Jeff and I as well. Here's a few pics of the morning festivities.

Classic bow-hat shot (gotta love that pose! haha):

Scoring a goal between his new cones with Jeff's volleyball (gift for Jeff from J.R.):

And now tennis time with the new racket:

His favorite part of the morning:

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

The Roller

The big news around here...

Connor Debut

First Outing

So I made my first solo outing as a mother of two this past Monday.  And it was not completely horrible :)  We headed over to the beautiful Pullen Park.  J.R. was such a trooper.  We brought a dumper and digger for him to play in the sand with and he was just having a blast.  Connor on the other hand, being stuck in his car seat/stroller, was just crying away.  After about 20 minutes of him crying I told J.R. we probably needed to walk around a little bit to help Connor feel better.  J.R. said "Yeah, because that will help him to be so happy!" Sweetheart.  So we walked around the park with J.R. pushing the stroller.  So funny to watch him just pushing that stroller so fast...he was all business!

Of course after a while of pushing, we had to stop for a snack break.