Joey Z.

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Jedi Camp - Disney Hollywood Studio's

Not long ago, we took our last trip to Disney before our yearly passes expired. Joey had been wanting to participate in Jedi Training Camp. So we waited over an hour for the opportunity. It is VERY popular!! Here is the video of him taking the Jedi Oath and then fighting Darth Vader. More pics of this coming soon!

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Frogs and Butterflies

When Target ran their Christmas toys on sale, they had a butterfly habitat on 75% off clearance, so I snagged it and we ordered our caterpillars.... it was only a week or so and we had 3 nice cocoons.

They were soon 3 beautiful butterflies. We fed them flowers, oranges and watermelon

Pretty from the side, such an awesome thing to get to watch them transform from ugly little caterpillars

Here is Joey letting the butterflies land on his hand before we released them. You are only supposed to keep them for 7-10 days, after that they can no longer lay eggs and will die.

One of the butterflies on Joey's hand for release ; O)

We have been hearing lots of loud barking on the front porch and thought it was our neighbors yappy dogs...but turns out our culprit is much smaller. A tree frog living in our front garden...and it loves loves loves crawling on Joey...In fact it was hard to get it off

what a cutie

big green eyes and big green frog

We thought he may jump off if we left the porch

Nope, he loved Joey!!

Tuesday, June 08, 2010

Diamond D Ranch

This March, Joey's class took a wonderful field trip to the Diamond D Ranch here in Florida. It was a great trip...other than the fact that it was FREEZING!!! The middle of March here at the beach is typically shorts weather...but we had to bundle the kids up ; )

First the kids got to feed all kinds of animals, Joey started and finished with the goats....he did not like their "spit" on his hands ; )

Here is Joey and his pal Timothy, Joey didn't want to feeds the cows so he was watching his friends do it ; )
During a class about milking cows, this little Shelttie Pony kept approaching Joey. He loved it...and so did the rest of his class ; )

Joey and his pal Michael TRYING to ignore the pony after being told they needed to pay attention to the demonstration. They are trying poor boys ; )

Joey on the barrel roll. he loved being upside down

Joey and Michael "The Cowboys"

Joey, Emma and Michael being pushed by Angel (who Joey says he is going to marry)

Joey and his lovely girlfriend Angelina...not to be confused with Angel who he says will be his "wife" while Angelina is still his girlfriend ; )

Monday, April 19, 2010

Butterscotch

Joey was recently Star Student at school and that meant in addition to lots of other VPK 4 Year old honors, like being line leader,etc.... ; ) he got to bring home the class pet,. Butterscotch (a stuffed Monkey) Joey was SUPER excited to bring him home. First thing he did was show Butterscotch his playground

Then he joined us for our nightly game of Sorry ; )

The next day we took Butterscotch to Joey's School Carnival where he saw his Teacher's Husband, Mr McCubbin and son Ethan (Joey LOVES Ethan, he comes to class sometimes and heps his Mom. Joey just thinks he is the COOLEST boy on earth...well besides Nick & Ben of course ; )

Then he rode his school train and told the other passengers all about Butterscotch. Poor Joey, he is so shy and never talks....NOT!!!

Doing the obstacle course with Butterscotch

Then at Walmart of all places we saw Joey's favorite girlfriends from school, Angelina and Arriana!!! They were so excited to see each other on a weekend ; )

Saturday, February 27, 2010

Valentines Day 2010

Let me say UP FRONT that I am well aware of what a terrible blogger I have been recently. However, our family has been going through some struggles lately and it takes a while to get back to normal during hard times. I would ask that if you are reading this blog and you are a person of faith, please say a little prayer for us. We have a lot of hard decisions and trials in our future and a little divine guidance is sure to help : ) Thanks in advance and I will try and update more regularly. Now on to what really matters!!!

Valentines Day!!

The Valentine's Box filled up by the "Cupid", the dog was from Mom and Da!!

He loved it best of all, we knew he wanted it!!! He named her Daisy, isn't that sweet!! It really seems to have helped with his sadness and mourning at her (our real dog Daisy) passing

Ohh look at those goodies!!!

Yay, he got his power miner legos!!!

Joey also had a Valentines Party at school and I volunteered to help. Here he is eating Valentine goodies at his assigned table, YUM!!!

Me and him in his class. I felt so extra-special blessed to be able to be there for him during his school party!!! My Valentine!

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Christmas Day 2009

I am finally doing Christmas Day (sorry) we have had A LOT going on on our lives right now. So without further delay here is Christmas Day 2009!!!

Joey had us up at the CRACK of dawn, and as you can see from this first pic taken, he was READY!!!

So while Da went to see if Santa came yet, Joey opened his Elmo stocking (Santa fills two at our house, one upstairs and one down : ) Joey was partial to the dump it all out method this year : )

Turning the corner around the stairs and first seeing that Santa came!!!!

Most important!!! Santa came with his Toy Machine...what a happy kid!!! Joey had been saving and saving quarters in anticipation, but Santa also brought him 2 extra rolls of quarters, woohooo!!! He emptied the entire machine in a little over a day!!! Let me say when Joey put this on his list Santa just about had a coronary...but actually they are pretty reasonably priced ; )

Only one per quarter??

Joey got a great little tool kit and wore his safety goggles almost the entire rest of the day, too cute!!!

Yay, he got his fishing pole!!!!! Him and Da have even been fishing already, more on that later!

Again with the dump it method of stocking stuffer removal

A Fireman costume from Mom and Da, it has become a tradition for us to buy him costumes, good thing too, all the stuff from his dress-up box was too small!