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!!

Picking a Pumpkin

Since our Saturdays have been filled with soccer and piano there wasn't much time to go get pumpkins, so late one day after a soccer game we stopped (in uniform : ) to get our pumpkins. We told Joey he could have ANY pumpkin he wanted but he chose this cute small pumpkin!!

How cute!!!

As we learned last year, when you live in Florida you do not carve your pumpkin in advance (they rot from the heat VERY FAST!!) So we carved them on Halloween Day : ) Here is Joey and Da carving his pumpkin...such a very cute picture. You can see what a cuddlebug we have : )

Quick flashback to his 2nd Halloween picking Pumpkins, how he has grown!!!

Soccer Practice and game

Joey at his first soccer practice ever, wanting me to hurry up and take the picture : )

His first soccer huddle & his Coach Connie

Stealing the ball in practice

Joey and his pals Ryan and Nic before their first game

Joey is number 10...he is good when he decides to play, haha....at first he would get MAD when he got pushed on the field (Mama had told him it wasn't nice to push) so we had to explain that in sports people push and its okay to push back, he is getting the hang of it : )

these games can be frustrating with all these 4 yr old boys it is kindof like herding cats...i.e. it doesn't work. They play for about 5 minutes and then want to do something else, it doesn't help that is it still around 97 degrees on game day, VERY HOT! But Joey has made some new friends and is having fun and that all that matters : )