Summer and Fall 2012

We stayed very busy this summer.  Trips, scouts, family pictures,

zoo visits, family visits, more scouts, more famil pictures,

and just enjoying time together!

 

Brian and Ian at the Boulder Cafe 

 

Ian earned his Bear Scout Award (this is him

coming out after his "encounter" with the bear)!

 

Kids watermelon eating contest!

Adults watermelon eating contest!

Cub Scout Day Camp

The annual Lagoon trip. There's always got to be a new stuffed animal!

 

Ian at the beginning of an ice cream eating contest at Lagoon!  He Won!!!

 

First Set of Family Pictures 2012 

 

 

Sam, Ian, and Emmett at Hogle Zoo

 

Before the Derby.  Ian with his "Ninja-Go" Car

 

After the Derby showing his 3rd place (over all) award!

 

Ian and Connor sharing an ice cream sundae at Leatherby's

2nd set of Family Pictures 2012

 

Florida Vacation

We had the awesome opportunity to go to Florida for a whole week and do some amazing things.  We surprized Ian by just waking him up and telling him that we were going to Disney World!  The video we got of him is cute, he was SOOOOO excited!  Thanks to Mark Peters, a wonderful friend of Brian's, we went to Disneyworld for 4 days and just had an amazing time doing that! 
Also, Brian and I went tandem skydivinig for the first time and it was SOOOOOO awesome.  Brian wants to open his own skydiving business now (don't think it will happen though, sorry hon).
We also met friends and went to the beach for a day, and it was amazing.  Ian loved the ocean and was in it for hours!
Florida is a beautiful state and we REALLY enjoyed our time there.  I will post a few pictures and if anyone wants to see more, I'd be glad to invite them to look at the 400+ pictures we have saved through Shutterfly or Wal-Mart.  400 was a few to many to post on here, lol!  So here goes......

Mark (our gracious host) and Brian

Halloween, Karate, Birthday and Christmas

 I (Shelly) was really motivated to get caught up on the blog, but it took over 30 minutes to download the pictures and when it did it scrambled the order I had them in.  By that time I was getting unmotivated to keep working on it.  So, here are some pictures from Halloween through Christmas.  We had a good season filled with Ian's karate advancement to an Orange belt, his 9th birthday (celebrated with friends and his Mom and Dad), and a great Christmas with the 3 of us at our house.  I'm sure you all can figure out which pictures goes with each season, lol and just enjoy the extras "just because" Ian is so cute! 

For Christmas I thought it would be fun to get us "matching" sweaters, without them all matching exactly.  We also had a little fun with Ian and put a present, inside a present, inside a present, etc. (about 7 in total I think, ending in a pretty big box).  It was hilarious watching him open them all!  

It's been a mellow winter and we've enjoyed being able to get out and enjoy our time together in mild weather.  So there you go! :-)