Disney Trip #3

What can I say we are addicted to Disneyworld. Every time we go we see something new, its amazing!!! This time we were boarding the boat to Tom Sawyers Island and Joey said "Good Morning" and waved to a Cast member and next thing you know they asked if we would like to board a private boat and tour the island. Well we said you bet!!! Bill joked that having Joey is better than a new puppy : ) haha

But really it is something they do for new Cast Members in training...to learn how to do a tour of the island. They are supposed to tell us all about the island, but I think Joey did most of the talking : ) Just like his Da!! Here he is discussing the Indian encampment with a Cast Member.

And showing this one the ducks.

We got a great view of the Haunted Mansion and saw a hidden mickey!!! Very cool

Our tour guides! What an awesome experience!!!

Then we saw some of Joeys favorite people, Capt Hook and Buzz Lightyear!! You can see Joey doing his pirate face here!!

And so happy to see the REAL Buzz!!

This time we stayed at the All-Star Movies Resort...and I think this is where we will be from now on. It is a little boy PARADISE...and at a rate of $79/night I think we love it too!!! During peak season it only tops out at $94...we highly recommend this place for sure!!! Good Food too!!! Anyway, Joey LOVED the Toy Story theme and loved "riding" RC

Climbing Rex and the larger than life Woody in the background!! Notice the Army men in top of the buildings...sure beats the Holiday Inn!!


A super-huge Buzz, Joey only comes up to his foot!! See the small arrow, that points to Joey!!

The sidewalk lights at Epcot were a huge hit!!! I think we stood here for about 10 minutes!!!!

Anyway, trip #4 is coming soon, so be prepared for more Disney pics. This time we are going to Mickeys Very Merry Christmas Party, where I am told is SNOWS on Main Street! and Santa is there!!! I can't wait!!!!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas....

everywhere you go. And our house is no exception. Here are some of the very cute yet unsuccessful attempts I have made at getting a great Christmas Card picture. Finally I gave up and let Joey pick his own picture.... and pick a good one he did! Just wait you'll see..... if I EVER get our cards mailed : )

Okay, I had this idea to get a good face pic in the tub...did not work.

Stand still? But I am a 2 1/2 yr old boy THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE!


Well you asked me to look up.

Santa came early this year for Bill!!!!!

Joey's Da must have been a very good boy this year! Mr. Cheapo finally went and bought himself a nice car - after driving business people around in his truck : ) ! After much negotiating he bought a brand spanking new Caddy. (He flatly refused to get rid of that truck!) Joey loves the new car and Bill is about to die if he takes a sticky lollipop in there : ) Congrats Da you deserve it!!!!


Who is that handsome driver???

Thankgiving Day!

We had a nice quiet delicious relaxing Thanksgiving. We hope you did too!!!! I asked my boys to pose for a picture right before we ate and this is what I got tongues out and tired of pics : ) Joey had already dug into a roll : )

I had a very handsome young helper in the kitchen this year. Joey LOVED helping me mix stuff up....and trying out all the ingredients including most of the chocolate chips for the derby pie : )

The adorable apron he has on was sent to him special delivery by Uncle Rick and Aunt Martha along with a car cupcake pan...more on that later when we make Gingerbread.

After dinner we decorated the candy tree and Joey helped with the cookie ornaments.

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!!!

Happy Thanksgiving Everybody!!! We are so thankful for all of you this year! I am especially thankful for Joey (of course) and all of my wonderful family and friends. We thank God especially for blessing us in more ways than we ever could have imagined. In short if you are reading this, we give thanks for YOU!!!
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Our cutie pie in a cheesehead hat Bill brought him back from Milwaukee.
Pics from our recent trip to the beach, its still warm here : ) Joey on a mission to find another shell or catch a fish....the boy is determined!!!!

Looking for shells in the tide pools

Just a cute pic of a tall boy, we took him to his new Pediatrician and he has grown to 97% in height for his age...almost 40 inches!!!!!! No wonder the kid is rail thin!!!! and in a size 9 shoe....he skipped 8 altogether : )

Anyway, Happy Turkey Day everyone! Check us out again soon for more visits to a famous Mouse we all know and love : )

HALLOWEEN 2007

Well Joey's 3rd Halloween was AWESOME! He was Capt. Hook (this was VERY MUCH at his insistence since I wanted him to be something else- a good guy like Peter Pan for instance) and I was Mrs. Smee. I tried to paint a mustache on him too, but there was going to be none of that!!!

Here we are getting dressed. You can see the kid is pumped and ready to go...

Joey has made a friend in the neighborhood so his new pal Declan and his parents went with us. One cul-de-sac setup a whole table of goodies. Here are the boys surveying the goodies.

And then, the two buddies insisted on not moving any further until lollipop (or as Joey calls them Popsicles) samples were made available for tasting

The two of them trick or treating with Bill keeping a watchful eye. Joey loved peoples houses, in fact he started to walk right in a few : ) He was great at knocking, saying trick or treat AND was really super-stupendous at saying thank you. We had practiced and I was quite proud of him.

Capt Hook saying come along folks....he was always running ahead of all of us. One time when I was talking to a neighbor he turned around and said "Come Mama, trick or treat time!"

A lot of our neighbors got into the act. Joey loved the JoJo lady (JoJo is a clown on Playhouse Disney Cartoons: )

I have to say though....his favorite of the night was seeing all the "friendly monsters" and giving them candy. One little boy was dressed as Thomas and was being shy and Joey took him candy and said "Take candy Thomas". He had a BLAST!!

These girls thought he was the cutest thing since sliced bread...and actually I agree with them!!!!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!!!!!!

Halloween Decor

October was an INSANE month for us, but we maneged to actually get some Halloween Decorations out finally and Joey had a blast with all of it. Now he is asking when we are decorating for Christmas!

So here are some pre-Halloween pics I meant to get posted earlier, Halloween is coming soon : )

Almost first thing Joey found his costume from last year. He wanted to put it on and it was small but he loved wearing it around. Here is his monster growl face.

Showing Skellie how to shake hands...very cute!

More funny faces "helping" Da with the decorations

Is this where spiders go?

I'll fix it Mama! What a good little helper I have

Watching Da carve the big pumpkin

Helping Mama with our smaller pumpkin. The kit we bought for this one was great, kind of like a Lite Bright for Pumpkins with little pins Joey could hammer in...he loved being able to help. Very important to him, Mr. Independent. We had 3 pumpkins but we soon learned in Florida you do NOT leave your pumpkins outside.....they quickly rot in the heat :)

Checking out the finished product

Finally we had a costume show to determine what Joey would go as on Halloween night...
Will he hook us all

or steal out cookies? Stay tuned to find out : )