Just a couple of pictures taken recently that I wanted to share.  No reason, just love looking at my babies' faces.  So in love. :)

It's startling that another year has come and gone, but reality is that my sweet Baby Jack Reese is quickly growing.  No longer do I have this little person to call my baby, but rather one who is becoming more independent everyday and is growing into this amazing little boy.

Instead of planning a party here at the house, we opted for a family trip to Disney World a couple of weekends ago.  With the arrival of AKR and recently hosting Christmas for the first time, time was at a premium and I found that despite my best intentions, it had just run out.  So tonight, we had a big spaghetti dinner with family and kept it low-key.  I believe it was still a big hit.

Little man opened presents, played with family, and blew out candles on not one, but TWO Tim Tebow birthday cakes.  They represented both the Gators and the Broncos, but the Broncos one had royal blue icing instead of navy blue.  Certainly didn't have any effect on the deliciousness of the cake, I can tell you that. ;)

 One......two........

Wait! Kisses for Daddy!

 ...Three!  Make a wish!

 Hmmm, a perfectly sized cupcake made especially for me!

Deeee-lish!

Little man has finally figured out that he can easily leave his bed and wander around at his own free will.  Lucky for us, this usually occurs most around nap and bedtime.  Can you say, "Not happy!"  Naptime now has become a battle, ok more like struggle of wills to see who can hold out the longest.  Usually it ends with one of us rocking him until he falls alseep.  Who's got who trained, you ask?  

And the other time has begun happening while neither Mike nor I have any fight in us.....because we're sleeping.  We are roused by the sound of little feet running down the hallway until finally Jack comes face-to-face with Mike and climbs into bed with us.  

How long will we let this continue, that's still undetermined at this point.  But how can you not think this is one of the cutest things ever??

I would love to have more hours in the day because 24 is just not enough.  I definitely need to do an update but here it is 12:08 am and I need to go to bed.  So here's a teaser of how Christmas morning went....

 Trying to catch this kid when he's not in motion is impossible.  Need to adjust my camera settings.  Jump! Jump!

Since this is our first Christmas in our new home, Mike and I really wanted to put some thought and effort into making it look really festive this holiday season.  And one way we did that was to try and "Griswold" the house as much as we could without going overboard.  Which could be easy to do if we had a cherry picker and miles of string lights.....perhaps next year?

But instead, we had a great time with what we had and Mike proved that he is an excellent tree climber!

 Jack loved being outside and helping daddy!

 There's no sitting still for this little man.

This year, we packed up the kids and headed to Hernando Beach for Thanksgiving.  But not only was it the holiday to celebrate all things turkey and cranberry, it was also our time to celebrate Nathan Bacon's 9th birthday.  And boy did we ever.....Angry Birds style!

 Nathan and Cameron meet their cousin Addison for the first time.

 Too cute.

 Amazing Cake Pops!

 Happy Feet!