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 : )

FIRST EVER TRIP TO DISNEY WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Joey's First Trip to Disneyworld!!!
(Or as he calls it Mickey Mouses House)
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First...forgive the amount of pics, there were too many to choose from (in 2 1/2 days we took over 150). Joeys first trip to Disneyworld was the BEST! His favorite part over everything else were the characters and his favorite ride was the teacups...if we got near them we had to ride them!
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We arrived on Friday night and could not wait so we checked in quickly and caught the first bus to the Magic Kingdom. Here's Bill and Joey on Main Street.

We got to Cinderella's Castle just in time for the fireworks. This was Joey's face when Tinkerbell flew over top of us : ) You see he was AMAZED!

Next we walked around and the only ride without a line was the first we rode and then 2 days later the last we rode, the Teacups became Joeys favorite ride. He loved to see my face when Da would spin us round and round (I get sick)...here is his impression of me :)

Then we went to see the man himself Mickey Mouse in toontown. Joey was SO excited he kept hugging and kissing Mickey and ooohhing and ahhhing over him. It was even making all the other people in line say how cute he was. You could tell it was an amazing experience for him to meet Mickey in person!!! Just look at that hug.

So we woke up bright and early Saturday and Joey immediately asked to go to Mickey's House : ) So we caught the train to Frontier land..oh wait did I say TRAIN!! Joey loved the train, of course!! When the whistle blew he would say "all aboard" very cute!

Almost right away in Frontier land we met some people we knew. Joey was so excited waiting to see Jessie and Woody I thought he might not be able to stand it.


Here he is waiting like a good boy, but you can see on his face...it is very hard!!!

Finally the moment and he is star-struck

Our whole family with the Woody Round-up gang...well except one other and he is coming up! Joey also got a kiss from Jessie and talked about Jessie "his girlfriend" and how he kissed her all day :)

So then we headed 'round the corner and who do we see, Captain Hook and Smee! I think Joey was on overload at this point and could not believe his eyes!!! Stay tuned more Capt Hook in a later post...he is after all Joey's Favorite!

After watching the Tiki Birds, riding Pirates, Jungle Cruise and walking Swiss Family we decided to head back to the Haunted Mansion (Joey had ridden it the night before and was requesting more ghosts!!!) Who do you think we came upon? The entire Woody's Round-up Gang and a bunch of pretty cowgirls. Here is Joey's face when he saw them!!!!

The cowgirls picked a few handsome boys and girls to dance with them and of course Joey was in the bunch!!!

Then they were told to dance around the "mountains aka the adults" to "She'll Be Coming "Round the Mountain"- the other kids were a little shy....but not our bucking bronco he danced his little feet off.

Then he got to meet the one he was looking for.....Bullseye! We had no idea he liked Bullseye that much, but the kid loves him!!!!

The next day was Sunday and our last day and again we went to the Magic Kingdom. We entered early AM using the Extra Magic Hours for parents of Toddlers staying at a Disney Hotel (highly recommend this feature) Wouldn't you know it we walked in and Mickey and Pluto were organizing a game of Duck-duck Goose and Joey joined in.

He was so patient waiting for Mickey to choose. Look at his face...so cute who wouldn't pick him!!!!

I LOVE this pic, you can see what he is thinking..."Pick me, pick me" looking up at Mickey with such adoration!!!!

Guess what boys and girls!!!! Mickey DID pick him! The light of a 2 1/2 yr olds life - being chosen by Mickey!!!!!!

Mickey took him by the hand and they went around Duck, duck, duck,

Duck, duck.....

Goose...Joey chose Pluto!!

Then before the end of a wonderful trip to Disney Joey saw some of his other favorites.
Giving Goofy a Hug

Laughing with Chip and Dale....he LOVES Chip and Dale.

THE END!!! For now....