Christmas in Florida - Part 2

We went on an air boat ride in the Everglades.

 Abby liked going fast.

 Reagan wasn't too sure of the alligators being so close.

 This bird's name was "Pretty" and flew right onto the boat when called.

 Christmas Morning

 We pause the gift opening for a moment of silly faces.

Christmas in Florida - Part 1

We headed to Florida for Christmas this year. We were very excited!

Technology on the plane made the flight easy!

 Backyard Football

 How cute is my nephew!

 Reagan made quick friends with Brewster.

 Reagan's smile was not quite so large earlier in the day when she fell in the pool!

 Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dumb

December 2012 Phone Dump

I seem to have my phone with me more then the camera lately.

 Reagan's letter to Santa.

 My view ;-)

Christmas Program 2012

Abby was very excited about her Christmas Program this year. Reagan was very confused about just sitting in the crowd and watching though she ended up singing and dancing in her seat anyway. Unfortunately getting to the school at 6:45pm when Abby needed to get there meant that we ended up with horrible seats. :-(  I couldn't see poor Shorty at all. Dad was able to get a couple of pics. What little we could see we saw that Abby was singing and signing like she was supposed to and doing quite well.

 Abby was pretty excited about the birthday cake for Jesus! 

Oh how we love this sassy girl!

Reagan's First Race

Scott needed to sign up for a 5K and found one close to home that also happened to have a kids 1K. He asked the girls if they wanted to do it and Reagan jumped at the chance.

 Dad running with Reagan a bit to get her to the finish line before he started. 

 She finished wonderfully!

 Abby danced & practiced gymnastics while we waited. After getting there she was bummed she hadn't signed up to run. I told her she could next time. 

 She was cute company though. :-)

 We saw Dad turning the corner. 

Look at that sky!

That sky you see above continued to open up on us the whole time we were there. It was hot and muggy. Just a perfect December day right?  But everyone did fantastic regardless. Reagan came in 4th in her age group and Scott came in 2nd in his!

A Visit with St. Nick 2012

Reagan was ecstatic to go and see Santa this year. Abby was cautiously ready as well. They did rather well and even both told Santa what they wanted.

Contest Winner

I entered a photo contest that one of my favorite photographers was having. It was a back to school contest. I submitted the following picture:



and then had to have people on Facebook vote on it. this went on for a few weeks and it was really close down to the last few minutes but we won!

We've used the wonderful Kelley Loftis before a couple of times and were thrilled to work with her again. Here are a few of my favorites: