A few weeks ago we took a trip to Disney World. We had a great time seeing all of the characters, having a Princess Breakfast and being within 10 miles of the Rabus family and still not being able to see them :).

Molly's absolute favorite ride was Small World. We rode that thing 6 times if we rode it once. She can't get enough of it and loved pointing out dolls left and right. We even took a vidoe of the entire ride so she can watch it at home.

Marty and Molly outside of our Princess breakfast at Epcot. Brady refused to be in the picture.

Molly and Brady and Belle.

Molly was visibly startled to meet Cinderella.

Brady and Ariel. Brady was so excited to meet any character that he ran after Cinderella for not gettng to the table fast enough.

Outside the Nemo ride at Epcot.

Animal Kingdom Minnie

We went over to Hollywood Studios so that the kiddos could meet more of their "favorites" and they had a ball.

Mater and McQueen. Brady went nuts.

Molly and Buzz Lightyear! Brady wanted to meet Buzz and Woody but when we finally got to them he played scared. Woody had to pull him in. Molly jumped right in.

Molly strapped to Sid's Rocket, in line waiting to see Buzz.

Brady on the rocket!

Posing with the Little Green Men.


Molly and I went to Pixie Hollow to meet the Fairies. She meet three and had quite a conversation with Tinker Belle who sang her a song about Mississippi.

The kids loved Tom Sawyer Island. It was great b/c there are no lines and lots to run and play on.

We waited for quite some time to see the fireworks one night. Turns out, we were on the wrong side of the Castle! Even so the kids had fun with their light toys and watching the Electric Parade.

Molly and Brady with everyone's favorite elephant.

Marty got the kids hooked on one of his favorite rides, the Carousel of Progress.

We waited in line TWICE to see Jessie only to have her leave right before we got to her! Finally during a parade Molly got to "meet" Jessie! Very exciting.


After Disney World we went to Tampa to visit my Memaw and Uncle Mike

We hope that everyone had a wonderful Christmas. Our trip to Virginia was a blast! Seeing all of our fmaily and just being together was such a blessing. The cousins are all getting bigger and doing new things, the grandparents loving on the kids like there was no tomorrow, it was wonderful. Cold, but wonderful. We are glad to be home, although I think that we will be unpacking for quite some time, we need a bigger house just to fit all of the new stuff.

Brace yourself...there are a lot of pictures here...

Watching Charlie Brown's Christmas with Grandad.

Mimi helped Molly and Brady and Nathan make ornaments for the tree.

Brady wanted to eat them, Molly had to remind him of the glue holding it all together.

Brady helping Marty play Uno Attack, didn't help much. :)

Grandad helped Molly paint her ornaments after they had dried. They had a blast.

Brady with Aunt Chi Chi!

Brady looking up to Uncle John on Christmas morning.

Brady had a thing about presents, he wanted to stop and play with every present he got, especially at Grandma and Pop Pop's house. Marty had to read every book the Mimi gave him before he could move on to the next present. Molly was not troubled by this need, she went through things like a wild woman.

Marty with a great present, his very own wii. He had to much fun playing tennis on it at his parents house that he took out a Christmas tree ornament and shattered a candy cane

while swinging. It's been fun.

John got a great present too... a Florida Gators snow globe with a picture of me
on one side and one of Tim Tebow on the other. PLUS it plays the UF fight song. What else is there to want?

Molly gave me this beautiful pink scarf, she had to have a pink one, very sweet.

Mimi gave Molly her very first Barbie car. Can you tell that she's excited?


Every year we get something funny tucked into our stockings, this year it was a wax mustache.

Here are the results:

My brother John breaking up a lovely moment between Marty and myself. :)

Who are those weirdos on the end ruining this sweet picture? I almost knocked Marty over.

For some reason Brady was eyeballing his new Diego toy, I have no idea why, he loves the toy.

Who could have thought that checkers could have the power to send you to

couples therapy?

Molly finally got her Zippity!

Molly and her Grandad

Mimi was loving on Brady and Molly became jealous so she jumped into the chair too.

Molly at Grandma and Pop Pop's house for the big Virginia Tech game

Grandma sitting with Brady, fresh off of his nap.

Molly and Brady loved on poor Cousin Ethan a little too much.

Molly is watching Brady like a hawk.

Our sweet, and now 2 (!) year old, niece Natalie!

Molly LOVED playing pin the nose on Elmo at Natalie's birthday party.

Grandma made Molly's week by playing it with her over and over, it was fun for both of them.

Brady loving him some of Natalie's birthday cake

Grandma putting Elmo's nose on Pop Pop

Marty and the Slovinsky Cousins watching Tinker Bell on the iphone.

Molly and Grandad dancing it up the night before we left.