Re-filling the sand pit

The kids were a big help when we dug out all of the sand in the sand pit and replaced it with pebbles. Rocks are sooo much more fun!

Power Ranger and the Princess

Photos from Christmas Morning

Here are a few photos from the joy of Christmas morning. I even posted the one where both kids are about to drink their antibiotic, since they both had strep over the holiday! Merry, merry to all!

Dean's Cookies with Santa

The pre-K cookies with Santa was quite an event - they sang Rudolph, decorated cookies AND visited with Santa!

Dean's Class Gingerbread House

Cookies With Santa: Anna Jayne

We visited Anna Jayne's school tonight, and guess who was there... Santa! The kids decorated their own cookies, drank hot chocolate and had a great time.

Nature Hike - Big Branch

we took a "nature hike" on Sunday at Big Branch National Wildlife Refuge. It was a perfect, 1/2 mile trail and the kids loved it!

Mandeville Christmas Parade

Oh what fun on the Mandeville lakefront... a street parade, cotton candy, Christmas music, lighting ceremony and boat parade (if you look REALLY closely at the photo of Dean under the tree, you can see a boat in the background that looks like a Christmas tree). That's our friend Lucy with "Fairy Christmas" and Mr. & Mrs. Claus stayed around for photos with the all the kids.

Fun with Macy

Macy and Krissy stopped by for a visit and Dean (oops, I mean "Fire Guy") had so much fun with his "zero baby" pal!

Tiger Branch 2007

Here we are hunting and gathering our perfect Christmas Tree from Tiger Branch Tree Farm. It's a beautiful, 9 foot Leyland Cypress. Let the holidays BEGIN!

Ian's Birthday Party

We had so much fun at cousin Ian's 3rd birthday party! Happy Birthday Ian!

Thanksgiving Gumbo

A few snaps from Thanksgiving night - we had Dad, Robin and their ARKANSAS pals over to Donny and Molly's in Baton Rouge for gumbo, wine and fun! Everyone went to the big game on Friday - triple overtime and the HOGS won!!! Fortunately, as fate works out, LSU is still going to the BCS Championship Game despite the loss.

Lookin' Pretty

Anna Jayne had so much fun with Jolie and Avery's costumes Thanksgiving evening. Here she is in her personal favorite, and, the beautiful dress she's wearing used to be her mommy's!

Turkey Day Fun

The kids having a blast on the trampoline at the (Don & Judy) Boudreaux's camp on the Tchefuncte River.

Pumpkin Balls!

Anna Jayne enjoying her first Thanksgiving pumpkin balls! Yum, yum!

The Last Soccer Game

Check out that motley crew of youngsters! Dean ended his soccer season in early November and got a cool TROPHY!