Remember this little guy?

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

We love you!

XOXOX

FINALLY.

Clearly these pictures are all out of whack and out of order. So, in backwards land. . .here are the Starfish cookie favors that we made for Bryce's birthday party.

A little more pinata action. . .I believe we were picking tiny plastic firefighters out of the grass at this point.The cousins. . .i LOVE this picture. This is the first time I have ever gotten all four kids looking at the camera TOGETHER. Amazing!

Singing happy birthday .. .

Here's the cake!!

Seriously, posting pictures from the party has been at the top of my list .. . .its just that there were also 35 other things that got stacked on top of it. But, I am happy to say that the gifts are wrapped, the tree is decorated, the office is covered in wrapping paper and ribbon, and after one more trip to the grocery FIRST thing this morning, we are officially ready for Christmas!!! PHEW.

a quick couple of birthday party highlights. . .

Here are just a few quick pictures from my mom's camera. I haven't downloaded my pictures yet, but i swear its on my to-do list!!!!!
here's bryce in his crab/lobster hat. we can't decide which one it is, but bryce and i had fun making them for the kids. (bryce wore his for all of two seconds, just so we could take this picture!)

blowing out the candles on the fishbowl cake (I have clearer cake pictures coming, i promise!) it turned out really cute!! and the frosting. . .was SOOOO yummy.

Pinata time!!! This was the pinata that WOULD NOT BREAK. I ended up tearing it open. Perhaps the plastic bat was the problem, but this thing was pretty indestructable!!!!

Okay, more pictures coming. I promise. Tonight. . .maybe. ;)

the rest of SeaWorld!

This is about all the rest of the SeaWorld pictures that are going to make it on the blog. . .tomorrow there will be a host of birthday party shots to share, so I am TRYING to get caught up before I get behind again!!! Enjoy! Going for a ride in the paddleboats. This was Bryce's first boat ride EVER. . .isn't that crazy!?

At the Shamu show. We surprised Bryce and got him this stuffed Shamu. . . we bought it and put it in the backpack, and then when we were sitting down at the show, had bryce open the backpack and there it was!!! He was SO excited. :)

It was quite difficult explaining to bryce why there are HORSES at SeaWorld. He actually pet the Clydesdale, and was pretty brave about the whole thing! I was impressed!

How fun is this picture!!! They have a really neat underwater viewing area to watch the dolphins - clearly, Bryce was pretty impressed by it!! :)

See you soon, with party photos!!! This week - I promise!!!

XOXOX

the first of the SeaWorld pictures!

Here is bryce feeding the dolphins. this is the best shot we could get, without paying $20 to buy the photo that the SeaWorld photographers took. Oh well!!! :)
Here's my excuse, okay? I always want to edit the photos before I post them. . .get them all cleaned up and pretty. And that takes a while. So THAT is why i haven't posted them like I promised. But tonight, I am giving up. I don't want to keep you all waiting, on the edge of your seats, dying to see the SeaWorld pictures. So here they are. Unedited. These are the only two worthwhile that aren't vertical shots. (What is it about me, and ALWAYS turning the camera to take a picture?) I will work on the rest. I promise. I have to, otherwise I am going to be WAYYY behind by the time Bryce's birthday party comes and goes this weekend!!! YIKES!

My parents are coming into town this weekend, and we will celebrate the big 4 birthday with the grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins on Sunday. In keeping with our trip to SeaWorld, (and bryce's new underwater comforter for his bed) we are having an "underwater party". (No, I am not going to flood the house, we will just be decorating with fish, blue streamers, and eating a cake that looks like an aquarium. Oh - and crab hats. We will be making crab hats. Wait till you see that!)

the big FOUR!

On Bryce's birthday, we had lunch at Olive Garden, on our way back from SeaWorld. He was SO surprised when the servers brought out a cake and sang to him! I'll try to get SeaWorld pictures up over the next few days!! (We had a GREAT time!)

XOXO

Ahhh, a four year old trip down memory lane.

I won't repost a bunch of pictures you've already seen (just the latest new one that makes me giggle!). . ..but if you'd like to travel with us down memory lane, here are some happy little places to start, as we celebrate Bryce's big FOUR this weekend!

The begining

http://bryce-a-roni.blogspot.com/2005/12/now-that-i-am-one-year-old.html

Bryce's First Birthday party

The night before Bryce's Third Birthday (a video!)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to BRYCE TOMORROW!!

whatcha think?

do ya like the new banner??? might just have to keep it up all year long. i LOVE it! (i made a new one for my blog too!!)

Night of Lights

Since Eric's parents have been out of town, and Lizzie didn't have any plans, we were able to carry her off to St. Augustine, to come with us to Night of Lights this year. It is a yearly tradition, and it was special to be able to share it with her! The lights are beautiful as always, the weather was PERFECT. . .cold, but not TOOO cold. We are always able to catch up with friends from Flagler, and it is the BEST way to kick off the holiday season!!!! Here are two pictures, taken right after we got downtown (before it got dark. . .and before my camera battery died!!!)

(And because I just came across it, check out this picture of us at Bryce's FIRST Night of Lights!)

In a few days, we are heading to Sea World to celebrate someone's 4th birthday. Can you guess who it is!!??? YIKES, can you believe Bryce is turning FOUR!!!??? I think he is going to LOVE SeaWorld. We will do some fun Christmas stuff in Orlando while we are there too, and we'll let him open his birthday gifts on Saturday morning, in our hotel room. And of course, I will take LOTS of pictures!!!

the coldest soccer game EVER.

i don't know HOW the lizzie and her soccer team are surviving these evening soccer games in the cold, because we were in layers and layers of clothes, and under three blankets, drinking hot chocolate. . . .and they were in shorts, in the middle of a big windy field.

how cute is our little man!?