Shutterfly Rocks!

Okay, so Shutterfly is running a blogging promotion right now and I think it is working!  I was debating whether or not I was going to send out Christmas cards this year since it is always a little pricey, but since Shutterfly wants to offer me 50 free prints for posting a blog on them, I think my decision is made!  I have always liked using Shutterfly to order prints or send photo books to family, but this is the best deal by far!  I am now on the tougher debate...which photo card to choose!!
This one is pretty cute...

...but then there is this one...

...or maybe this one...

...ok, this could go on for a while!  Clearly, Shutterfly has a ton of cute options so hopefully I will decide on one sometime soon!  And then deciding on a photo begins...
If you are interested in the promo, check it out here:
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Flip flop!

So its official...Davis is flipping!  On Sunday, 11/14/10, Davis rolled from his stomach to his back for the first time (he did it once at about 8 wks but I think that was a fluke).  This time he did it about 5 or 6 times in a row.  Then, on Monday evening, 11/15/10, he flipped from his back to his stomach.  We like to call him the flip-flopper because he will roll from his back to his stomach...hang there for a minute, then flip back over.  I guess this is the end of being able to leave him on the couch for a minute!  Way to go Davis!

A.D.Pi girls beach trip

After about a year of trying to find a good date to take our annual beach trip with my girlfriends from college, we FINALLY found a date that worked!  This year we all met up at an amazing house on Ono Island in Gulf Shores.  To say this house was large would be an understatement!  We had such a great time seeing everyone and here are a few pics to highlight the trip...
The car trip started out great, both boys were in a great mood and Harrison was entertaining Davis.  I left Harrison in a diaper and figured I wouldn't say anything about trying to use the potty.  I didn't want to discourage him from keeping his diaper dry, however I knew it would be a much quicker car trip if he just went in his diaper. Fast forward to 45 minutes down the road when Harrison let us know that he needed to use the potty.  So we stopped.  Then we stopped again 45 minutes later.  Then we stopped again 45 minutes later.  I am so proud of my little guy for doing so well with the potty but car trips sure went a lot faster before we had a potty trained 2 yr old!

Harrison had three favorite activities this trip...
#1 - building a "water mountain" with his daddy...filling up his bucket with water from the ocean, taking it to the top of his "water mountain"...

 then letting it run down the beach back into the water...

# 2 - fishing with his daddy off the dock at our house (too bad the owners didn't leave the keys for the boat)...

and # 3 - playing with his new buddy, Ben -

Cute video of Jessica & Ben trying to teach Harrison how to play football

 The pool was FREEZING, but Harrison and some of my crazy friends still had fun playing & relaxing in the water...

Here is my roommate from college, Kendra, and her sweet, sweet little girl, Ellie...

 Harrison & my friend Allison's daughter, Anna, hangin on the porch...

The amazing view from the house at sunset...

Two of my boys relaxing on vacation...

Harrison took a few special trips with his daddy.  It was so nice for them to get to spend some quality one-on-one time and I know Harrison had so much fun!  With Lance's crazy work schedule it was nice for the boys to get some good bonding time.  They took a little trip to the beach and look how far Harrison  has come!!

This trip went so fast, I can't believe I didn't get a chance to sit on the beach at all!  My how different beach trips have become with two kids!
Their second little outing was a little boat trip.  Our house had a few kayaks so Lance took Harrison out in the boat...

"SAY CHEESE DAVIS!!!"  Poor Davis, I'm sure he is probably thinking "just wait until I can defend myself!!"

Here are the little divas relaxing by the pool...
(Ellie)

(Anna)

Harrison having fun with Aunt Amanda.

Me and my Harrison

Why can't I live here?!?!?!

Since we were at the beach over Halloween weekend, we found a little Halloween event for Harrison to go to.  He was a pirate but it was too hot to wear the pirate coat and I left his "Argh!" shirt at home...oops!

With so many kids around this trip, it was much easier to just eat at house each night.  On Saturday night though, we decided to go to Lulu's.  I'm so mad that we didn't try to get one big group picture, but here are a few pictures from dinner of the group...

Allison, Wes & Stephanie...

Fred, Amanda, Michael, Kendra, Ellie, Ben & Jessica...

Harrison goofin off w/ Aunt Steph...

One last pic of Harrison and his buddy Ben...

And the best part of the trip...we made it back in time to trick-or-treat!  We got home at 6:45 pm, rushed inside to get Harrison dressed up, when Harrison decided to melt down b/c he didn't want to wear his pirate costume.  Thankfully we have an Alabama football jersey that he wears on football weekends, so I asked if he wanted to dress up as an Alabama football player.  He thought that was a good idea, so he walked around in his Julio Jones jersey, but told everyone he was  a police officer.  At least he has a good imagination!

This year Harrison wanted his daddy to walk to the doors with him...apparently mommies were not allowed to trick or treat!

Davis' first trick or treat!  Poor guy, we were in such a hurry to get out the door that I didn't even bother to get him dressed up!

What a way to end a fun weekend!!

The Month of October - where to begin?

I feel like its been so long since I've updated my blog that I'm not quite sure where to begin!  The fall is always such a busy time of year for us with football season and traveling back and forth to Alabama and while it can be stressful traveling so much with two kids, it is worth it to get to see family! 
The month started out with the Florida game.  I actually took a week off and stayed home with the boys, while Lance headed over to Alabama with his dad.  Harrison and I watched the game from home and I thought this was a cute video...he did this for about 30 minutes straight!

When Lance got back from Tuscaloosa, we took the boys to a pumpkin patch.  This was one of the most random experiences of my life!  We picked the one that looked the closest to our house and when we pulled up the drive, this is what greeted us...

Who would have thought that you would find camels at a pumpkin patch in N. Ga?  They were also accompanied by zebras, chickens, some other birds I didn't recognize and goats.  Random.  Harrison had fun looking at the pumpkins but he was definitely more entertained by all the animals!

After the pumpkin patch, the boys celebrated the season in their halloween jammies.  I love this picture...Harrison just can't resist laying on Davis's mat anytime I put Davis on it.

 Here is another video clip of one of the funniest things that Harrison does right now.  He came home from school one day, looked at me very seriously and said "Hey mom, look, this is how the boys dance" and then he did his little dance.  I assume he learned this from school, but it cracks me up b/c he does it all the time now...

Poor Davis...I walked into the kitchen one day for a minute, and when I returned this is what I found...Harrison decorating Davis in his jack-o-lantern stickers...

 

Next up was Alabama's homecoming.  It has always been such a fun weekend, but is even more fun (and completely different!) with kids!  On Friday night they have a big pep rally and bonfire on the quad.  We took Harrison last year, but I think this was the first time that he actually understood what was going on.  My Uncle Kim and cousin Emily also came down this year, so here is a picture of Harrison w/ Uncle Kim...not the best picture but the only one with the bonfire in it!

My BFF Teresa's daughter, Madeline, hangin with Harrison.  Love this one!

Another sweet picture...my sister Julie and her oldest son Trey...

Harrison just loves his big cousin Jack...

Mom and Dad with baby Davis...

The next morning, well this year it was afternoon b/c the game was so late, is the homecoming parade.  The real estate company that sold my sister's house always has a big party and they are located right along the parade route so we always get to hang out there to watch the parade...here is some of the gang.

"ROOOLLLL TIDE!!!"

Lance's dad somehow convinced his mom to come tailgate for the weekend.  She swore off tailgating a few years ago so it was nice to see her there too!

Harrison spent about an hour playing by this tree.  Its kind of funny b/c this tree will have been a little part of our tailgating story.  We always tailgate in the same area and a few years ago, it didn't really catch on fire, but started smoking.  Since we were the closest tailgate, all of our tailgating neighbors blamed us for the "smoking tree" when the firemen came...we still don't know how it happened.  Now we have Harrison, and he was having so much fun playing in the same hole of the tree.  Just made me laugh to think about it...

Harrison was such a trooper.  He stayed out on the quad with us all day until my mom took him home at 7 pm.  I think this was only the 2nd time in his life that he did not have a nap and I have to say, he did remarkably well!  He didn't fuss once but when we walked to the car, I put him in his seat and he crashed before we even drove off!

The travelin' babes!

This has turned out to be quite a busy fall...as most fall seasons are for us!  Usually we are just heading to Alabama for football games, but we recently took our 2nd trip to Cincinnati since Davis was born.  A good friend from my high school days got married, so I figured, what better reason to head up to Cincy for a week!  Thankfully, both of my boys are turning out to be excellent travelers.  I had to make the trip up to Cincinnati by myself again and, all went smoothly.  I am still amazed at the fact that I have been able to make the 8 hr car trip with just one stop each way.  I'm sure once we get serious with potty training that will be a thing of the past, but it is nice for now!
We had such a great trip getting to spend more time with my parents and Harrison is loving his time with his grandmommy & granddaddy.  I tried to be good about taking pictures, so here are just a few highlights from the trip...
We tried to think of a few new things to do this trip, so we decided to take Harrison and Davis on the ferry boat across the river to one of my parent's favorite restaurants.  Harrison is still talking about how we drove our car onto the boat but we didn't fall into the water.  He had fun on the boat but was pretty nervous and didn't want to let go of me.

You can see he was not thrilled that I wasn't holding him here...

Harrison and Davis at Cabana Grill w/ grandmommy.  Harrison loved watching all of the barges & boats cruising down the river.

Here is Davis meeting our neighbor, Laura Cary...he is getting so big, so fast and still looks SO much like Harrison!

We met up with my friend, Marci, and her two kids one afternoon at Beach Acres park.  Harrison and Blake had fun going down the slides and running around...

The park also had a sprinkler area which Harrison was a little hesitant about at first.  Once it warmed up though, he lost all fear and let loose!  Blake had more fun pushing the button for Harrison to keep the sprinklers going.

You can see the excitement without even looking at his face!

The best part was that since I didn't realize there was a sprinkler park, I just let Harrison run through the water in his diaper and shorts.  After about an hour of playing in the water, Harrison's diaper was so full of water that it hung down to his knees.  I was trying to get him to run to the car so we could hurry up and change him but he couldn't run because his diaper was so heavy.  Poor guy, but it was pretty funny to watch!
Okay, the highlight of the trip, that I just HAVE to post.  We were playing with spiderman stickers one morning and at one point I left the room to grab something.  I came back and noticed that Harrison had moved on to playing with some of his other toys, so I asked him, "Harrison, what did you do with your stickers??".  He turned around and before he could answer me, I was on the floor laughing!  This picture says it all...

Another fun thing we did this trip, was go to a place called Entertrainment Junction.  They have the largest indoor train track in the USA w/ over 2 miles of track.  Harrison, of course, LOVED it!  They also had a Halloween exhibit, which made it even better...trains and candy, what more can a 2 yr old ask for!?!

Harrison, Davis and myself in the Halloween exhibit...

That evening we had our family over to visit and see the boys.  At one point, Harrison was walking around and my uncle picked him up and had him "walk" on the ceiling.  This started a new game and Harrison was cracking up...and so were we!  Here are Ben (my sister's fiancee), my dad & Harrison

Liz & Davis, soaking in the fun...

That night Harrison stayed up past his bedtime and you could tell he was getting tired b/c he got so wired.  If you watch the following video, this is what he did for at least 30 minutes straight!  Needless to say, he slept like a rock that night!

Lance flew in after working for the week so Harrison, Davis and I went to pick him up at the airport.  We told him we would be circling outside, but we surprised him by waiting at the greeting area.  Harrison was so excited to see him, and also the airplanes!
I thought this video was too cute...

Yeah Daddddyyy!!!

Can you tell they're related?!?!

After picking up Lance we met the rest of the gang at Zips...the best cheese burgers...period.

One happy family...

One last picture.  It was gorgeous weather on the day that we left, so Harrison played outside while we were getting packed up (this is quite a process with two kids!!).  I thought this was cute...very focused on his airplane!

We had a great trip, and as always, it went too fast!  We can't wait for grandmommy and granddaddy to move down south!  We love you, thank you for hosting us for the week!