Wild Animal Safari Little White House

During Spring Break we took a little trip to Callaway Gardens, The Little White House and Wild Animal Safari.  It was a great trip!  The first day we, along with my parents went to Wild Animal Safari.  We rented a van and drove through to feed all the animals.  Then we visited the small zoo they had on the grounds.  We saw a Liger, bears, and many other animals.  After that we visited the Little White House and toured the it.  The next day we went to Callaway Gardens and saw the Birds of Prey show.  

The Little White House

 Ben feeding a goat at Wild Animal Safari

Funny Pictures

 Mimi and Papa with the boys

Christmas snip its 2011

Making cookies with Mimi

daddy and his shepherd

Making gingerbread house

Aunt Sarah and uncle Jonathon sent a bowling set

Christmas party at jake's school

Throwing reindeer food out

Mimi and Papa's tree

Pic with Santa

Thanksgiving 2011

Granny and Jake

Mimi and Jake

Mimi and Papa and the rest of us at

Jake's school's Thanksgiving Feast

Jake and Daddy at the feast

Jake's things he is thankful for

Jake is the pilgrim on the top in the middle

Mimi and Papa at Ben's Thanksgiving feast

Halloween 2011

I am so behind on my postings!

Ben as Raggedy Ann

Jake wearing my wig!

M&M and Mario

Jake as Mario

Ben and I dressed up for trick or treat day at school!

Being Spontaneous!

Labor Day weekend we packed our stuff and headed out the door. We headed towards the mountains and ended up in Asheville, NC. It was so crowded and every hotel was booked, so we drove towards TN and ended up in Maggie Valley late that night and finally found a hotel room. It was really nice drive, but we were tired of being in the car and glad we had a place to stay. We then got up the next day, had breakfast and headed towards Gatlinburg. We found a nice little cabin in Gatlinburg to stay in the 2nd night. We had dinner in Pigeon Forge and we were going to play mini golf, but it started to rain, so we went to a ride/game park. They had games inside to play and once it stopped raining, the boys rode some rides. We had a great time and the views were awesome!

The boys taking in the view

Our first hotel

The Great Smoky Mountains

Down by the river

Riding the ferris wheel

Ben's 4th birthday party!

Ben had such a fun birthday party this year! We usually just have family over to celebrate, but this year we had an actual party. We had it at the Alpharetta Community Center gym. It was a gymnastics party and they had a blast! Ben and Jake both took gymnastics there this summer and loved it. There were two instructors there doing different stations with the kids. We then had pizza and cake. I can't believe our little guy is 4 years old! He is such a sweet, smart little boy and makes me laugh every single day. I am so proud of you Ben! Happy Birthday!

Ben and his friends

Warming up

Lily and Ben warming up

Posing in the foam pit

Pretty Lily

She has been in Ben's preschool class last year and this year. Such a sweetie!

Presents!

Is that Ben or Sponge Bob?

Ben's friend Jackson and Jake helping blow out the candles

Enjoying his yummy cake Aunt Gina made

Opening presents

Our family on Ben's special day!

First day of Kindergarten and preschool!

I can't believe I have a kindergartener. I am a little behind, but Jake started kindergarten on August 15. Ben and I started on August 8th. Jake loves school, but says it is a really long day. This makes me laugh because he goes the same amount of time he did in pre-k last year. He is also a little hard to wake up in the morning, but he adjusting well. His teachers are very nice and he attends the same school as last year, so he kind of knows the ropes.

Jake in his class

Showing off his backpack in front of the school

Ben with his Mater bag ready to head out to preschool