Dana- Little Miss Hardee County

Saturday Dana, my niece, was in the Little Miss Hardee County pagent for Fifth graders. It was such a good pagent. The girls had an opening number with a fiesta theme. They then competed in "Sports" wear. The final area was of course a dress. Dana was a boxer for her sports wear. She was a real "knock out" hahaha. The other girls had so many cute ideas. Hunters, tennis, softball, basketball, snow boarder, ice skater ect...

All the girls did a great job! I sure am proud of Dana. She is a great kid. We love you Belle Belle!

SPRINT - Don't Use them!

I swiched my phone plan in October to a sprint plan from a Nextel plan. I swiched to save is some money. EVERY month since then the bill has been WRONG! I have logged over 12 hours working to get the problem solved. The lady in the Sprint store told me this AM that they make so much money they just don't care about their customers. I am so over it. Take my advice...Don't go with SPRINT!

Happy Valentines Day!

Happy Valentines to each of you. We have had a great day! Our friends the Luznars from New Smyrna had a Valentines Party. We had a great time playing with new people and baking cookies! Nothing says fun like 8 kids decorating cookies! It was a full day. On the way home, we passed the New Smyrna Speedway. I rolled down the windows so Warren could hear the cars racing. He wanted to stop; I saw that the gates were open and we whipped in. We were able to get out and sit at the top of the Grand Stands. We were watching the real Lightning McQueen, Chik Hicks, and Thomas people. (or so Warren thought.) It was very loud and windy. Will did not like it the first time a car came by. I covered his ears with my hands and he settled down. Believe it our not he just put his head on my chest and went sound to sleep. I guess when you have spent the last 4 hours playing like a wild man nothing can keep you awake. We watched a whole race. It was so much fun. I didn't have my camera with me so there are no pics. Sorry! We are home and Will is now awake but Warren is down for the count. Will has a bright red face. I'm not sure if it is from the sun or wind but he looks quite red. Thanks Kristin and Hayley for a great party! We love ya!

OK OK

Ok I get it! the pictures of Warren are not so good. I hear you! He looks like a dirt baby or an ethopian. I will take some new ones. He was covered with chocolate from the brownies.

Hello!

Howdey! Howdey!
I have no idea who would read this. I guess my family might look at it every now and then (:
I enjoy other people's blogs so much I feel like I should give it a shot. It is amazing how just checking someone's page every now and again can keep you feeling connected with people you haven't seen in years. I guess we will see how this goes.
Warren is currently 3 and a half. Will is 14 months. Love ya, Claire

ICE at the Gaylord Palms

In December our neighbor gave us tickets to see ICE at the Gaylord Palms. So for Will' s "REAL" First Birthday we went. It was awesome. We enjoyed all the events going on at the hotel. One thing we would do differently... a stroller. Poor Dub carried Will all night. We were there hours. FYI for anyone going next year... if your kid can't walk, take the stroller!!!

Trains! Still one of Warren's favorite things.
Santa at the North Pole!
Me and the boys. A rare shot. I usually will not give up the camera.
More train stuff.
The ice slides are awesome. We spent a lot of time watching Warren slide down. Yes, Dub and I did it as well but I will not be posting those shots. [;

Both boys loved the model train display.
It was a great night. Thanks to our super nice neighbor it was all free...even the parking!

Valentine's Treat

YUM>>> or >>>YUCK
Now that is the face of happieness!
Nothing like fully enjoying your meal.

We had a big day of baking the other day. We made WW a special Valentine's Day brownie. Warren decided to top it with fresh squash he found in the fridge. Nothing says love like raw chunks of squash on top of an iced brownie. Of course, WW loved it. And yes, he even ate a bit with a chunk of squash.

To finish off the meal... lasagna.

Ice World

Ok. So we had the first big freeze a few weeks ago. Since Warren is asking when we can go see snow about every day Dub decided to make him a ice world. We ran the sprinkler all night. Both Dub and I got up a few times in the night to check the progress of the ice. It is so crazy how the simple things become so important when you are doing it for your kids. The next morning we bundled up and headed outside to check out the ice world. Warren was thrilled... for about 10 minutes. Then he decided it was tooooo cold. We went inside just long enough to warm up then he was ready to go back. This trend continued many times. I don't know how people who live in truly cold areas do it. We called WW and he stopped by to get in on the fun. Did his ice world curb his desire to see snow... Not in the slightest.