Merry Christmas and Santa Visit's

First let me say Merry Christmas 2009 everybody!!!! We had a great Christmas and hope you did too!!! More pics coming from Christmas Eve and day soon. In the meantime, here is Joey waiting to see Santa at West Town Mall : ) Isn't he handsome!

He was just talking Santa's ear off...yadda yadda...I want a candy machine really bad!!

Finally we got him to sit for a cute picture

and a hug, gotta get those good boy points in!!

and then he was right back to telling Santa ALL about it, haha!!

Then our neighborhood has their annual sleigh ride and Santa greet. Here is Joey climbing into the sleigh

In the horse-drawn sleigh with Da

sitting on Santa's lap....you can see his face looks DEEP in thought...and on our walk home he informed us that THIS was not Santa, that the real Santa was in TN and this guy was just a lowly elf from the North Pole standing in for Santa. Guess next year we need to visit only one Santa, heehee

Up next....was Joey good enough to get his candy machine from Santa?

Merry Christmas Eve!!

Merry Christmas Eve- Eve everybody! Joey is so excited it was hard to get him to sleep tonight, just wait until tomorrow ; P Anyway, here are some highlights of our decorating... Joey became a huge fan this year of pretending he was Santa, so here he is playing the bug Mr.C, so cute!!

and again, I busted "Santa" filling our stocking with his own toys : )

Joey and Da decorating our live tree

Decorating the tree house : )

Making faces at Mom as she TRIES to get sweet pics : )

Picking out our live tree

Decorating Joey's tree in his playroom

Decorating the candy tree in his Buzz Lightyear PJs

More of the season coming....Disney and Santa!!

Smokies Trip

In November after taking Joey to his first UT game, we rented a nice little cabin in the Smokies...it was a great relaxing time!! Here is Bill and Joey in the Hot Tub...it was AWESOME!!

Joey hiking in the Chimney Rocks, he LOVED hiking

Another cute pic

We acted just like tourists, Joey loved panning for jewels


At the hat store

Hiking again

We told him the water was COLD, brrrr!

This little bug hung out on our deck and Joey had a great time studying it

awwww, HOME!! Just look at those beautiful mountains

Joey's First Ever Piano Recital

Here is the rough video of Joey's Piano Recital last Sunday. He played Ode to Joy and Deck the Halls. He was the youngest ever his teacher has had at recital. We are very proud of our boy : )

May need to mute the jukebox at the bottom of the page to hear him playing.

First UT Game Ever!!!!

In November Joey went to his first UT game ever, Thank to Grandmother and Grandaddy Fox who gave us the tickets, THANK YOU!!! He had a Blast!!!!

Here he is tailgating with all our family and friends!!

Hugging Molly at the Tailgate : )

All seated and ready to go with his shaker...and sock hat, it was COLD!!

Poor Bill got the shaker in the face ALL NIGHT : )

The NicBen and Joey got bored and started making funny faces

The power T

Joey, Bill and Nick

Joey screaming during kick-off

We had a blast!!! Go VOLS!!!!!!!!!

Halloween Night

This Halloween was so super duper AWESOME!!! Joey was very specific about what he wanted to be: Obi-won-kenobi with blue spiked hair (not real sure WHERE the blue hair came from : ) He was really good at getting into character and watched Episode 1 about 20 times to learn the moves.

Here is a weary traveler on the road....

No wait, its really a Jedi Knight, Sith run in fear : )

Moves down pat, blue spiked hair and a padawan braid : )

My cute Jedi : )

With his pumpkins doing the Jedi Mind Trick on me

Joey and his trick or treat pal Declan, an Astronaut this year

Joey and the beautiful Allison (a bumblebee) My son is such a flirt!!!! So funny Allison's Dad kept calling her a Cougar, haha!!

Joey and Allison's sister Caroline, what a witchy cutie pie!!

Joey and his other best pal Alexis and Mama's Pal Kathy (Alexis's Mom)

So much CANDY!!!!

School Harvest Celebration

I volunteered at Joey's School Harvest Party on the Friday before Halloween. It was so much fun to be in his class with him!!! Here is the whole group, his teacher Mrs. McCubbin on the left and Mrs. Osborne her assistant on the right.

Joey kept talking about getting married (even asking if he could marry my cousin and his 2nd cousin Molly : ) being in his classroom helped me to see the whole picture....the little girl who he has a crush on Angelina (who BTW has an identical twin that Joey does not like : ) has been dressing Joey up as a cowboy, dressing as a bride and they pretend to get married! So cute!!

Once he was dressed up..I kindof thought Joey looked like a member of the Village People

Me and Joey making Indian Corn : )

Joey and his pals John and Michael (also twins) 30% of Joey's school is twins this year, amazing!!!! They were coming to our house for a playdate after school!!!

Michael being silly at our house after school!!

Up next Halloween!!!! and Disney for Molly!!