Happy new year!

We are at a GMT New Years party up in durham at our college friends kyle and stacey's house. here are a couple highlights. Awesome time for the kids!

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Seat upgrade!

Lets go Duke!

First presents!

Boys opened their one Xmas eve gift and they got sleeping bags for camping. A big hit! They wanted to try
Them out in the living room.

Merry xmas eve!

This is as dressed up as we get! Handsome men!

More treasures from Decatur

We have been working REALLY hard on ornament art for our tree. As Luke says, "it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!"

Snowman Art

Good point, Luke

Luke: "Dad, can we go to Disney World today?"

Dad: "Not today, Luke, we can go in a couple months."

Luke: "But Dad we just did a couple months!"

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Looking good in the sandbox

Graham Bam loves his Legos!

Lego store!

We are down in o- town for tgiving and made it to downtown Disney today. Lego store is a highlight!

Halloween pics!

Handsome men!  Luke the dolphin ("don't call me a shark!) And Graham man Mickey mouse. 

A suspicious package

A suspicious package arrived in our living room.  Graham went to inspect.  And look what he found inside!  ( in case you cannot tell, that is Luke jumping out of the box).

This was subsequently reenacted at least 40 times over the last 24 hours...

Little man independent reading!

Graham can now sort of entertain himself - a big milestone.

Bomber city!

Our new city built specifically for efficient energy usage. 

Summer's last fruit

As summer comes to a close, we picked this big watermelon from our garden.  Nice, red and juicy!

Argggh matey!

We got a new pirate ship a few days ago.   Then, captain hook came to visit tonight...check out the left leg and left hook!

First day of school

Okay, so it is not the first day of school for either of them, but it was the first day at the new school, a BIG transition for us.  A good change but bittersweet- we had been going to old school since Luke was 5mths old. 

Synchronized diving

We have been inspired by the Olympics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y2Pba2V0ak&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Playground fun

Weeknight treat!

Home depot tool race take 2

Saw, hammer, drill, paintbrush

The hammer ALWAYS wins.

Home depot tool race

The braves games have a tool race sponsored by home depot and it is by far Luke's favorite part.  Here is our best homemade rendition. 

Graham discovers his blocks

The anticipation...
the experiment...
brother helps with the destruction...
look at this beautiful mess!

Part 3

We all got to blow up the animal beach balls Aunt Robin and Uncle Dana sent.

Part 2

Kristina made graham cracker sandwiches.

Getting ready for Graham's big day!

Uncle Bob helped assemble the blocks.

Living it up on vacation

Bike riding and Big G enjoying dinner outside. 

Vacation with little ones

Yesterday, our first day at the beach, which in fairness is in the central time zone, we got up, G and Daddy took a walk, we all had breakfast on the patio, cleaned up and went to the beach, played there in the sand and in the water, walked back home, and cleaned up. Pooped, Graham had some milk and laid down for a nap. It was 8:55 AM.

Raiding the Pantry

Soccer!

Today was day 1 of the Decatur soccer league.  Luke's team is the Jedi Knights, and they look very imposing in their ridiculously big black jerseys.  Here are a few photos.

comparing soccer balls with Big Jack 

on the bench

G enjoyed playing soccer as well

high five after the "goal"