Life is what you make it....

Monday, February 21, 2011

Busy Bee

I have been so busy lately, school, work, kids, Life! Here are just a few pics of some fun things we have done lately.

My ride, Chuck...the unstickable, got stuck

Stuck like Chuck

Weird mud boat/truck looking thing stuck at Hogwaller

8:00 am, at the Daytona Speedway, ready for a good time!

Trav and I at our seats

Pre-race festivities....Brad Paisley

Friday, January 7, 2011

Christmas Videos

Our videos are too long to post on here but I have uploaded them on YouTube, and here are the links....enjoy!!! :)

Merry Christmas Ya'll!

Eye Clops Night Vision Binoculars

Rollin' On The River...

Tik Tok

Jump Jump!

We had 4 Christmases....One with Mema, Granny Glisson, Uncle Mike, Aunt Julie, Unle RL and Aunt Eloise....one with Big Papa, Mimi, Uncle Brian, Aunt Jodi, Tessa, Sam, Uncle Wade, Aunt Kim, Katie, and Kassie......and then Christmas Eve, Travis and I had Christmas with my side of the family...the Crockrell's.....and Christmas Day, Trav and I opened one present from each other in the morning and later opened gifts with the kids that afternoon. We had such a great Christmas, God has blessed us with such amazing family and friends, it couldn't have been more perfect!

Post Black Friday shopping extravaganza in our garage, picture taken by my shopping buddy, Aunt Vicki! We had a blast....can't wait til next year!

Mom and Ashlee came over to make Christmas cookies with Kayleigh and I, what a masterpiece!

Red Room Christmas tree at our house

Family room Christmas tree at our house

Kayleigh, Uncle Mike, Aunt Eloise, Uncle RL and Trav, at our house, Christmas #1!

KK snapped a cute shot of her and Travin...cuties!

Mom and Ash joined us for Christmas #1....KK was eyeing all the presents!

Christmas #2, KK and Travin playing hand games at Big Papa's, waiting to open presents.

Tessa got the Carnival game for DS that she had been wanting.

Ash, Trav, myself and Mom at Aunt Vicki & Uncle Jon's for Christmas Eve.

Ash, myself and Mom, Christmas Eve.

Ash, Papa John and I, Christmas Eve.

My Love and Me! Our First Christmas together, was the BEST I can remember!

OK, the shoes.....My Papa allows me to buy my own Christmas presents from him, and then I'm not allowed to have them until Christmas, so I found these shoes Black Friday, and I have been DIEING to have them ever since, so Aunt Vicki HAD to take a picture!

Another Gator shirt for me! Thanks Ash!

Christmas morning at our house.....pictured above you will find.....TRAVIN: football, basketball, Shawn White Snowboarding game for Wii, Camo backpack with his name on it, Nerf basketball goal for the door in his room, Nerf Rapid Strike machine gun, Cuponk, and other unwrapped gifts, ALSO missing from this picture is a huge portable basketball goal outside. KAYLEIGH: bookshelf with pink and green baskets for her room, CD/MP3 Player, pink legos, pink fuzzy pillow, memo board, personalized backpack, duffle bag and makeup train case, Just Dance 2 game for Wii and Game Party 2 for Wii among other unwrapped gifts! They really made out and loved it all!

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Fall Fun

I just wanted to share some pictures from when we made caramel apples and the boys carved our jack-o-lanten! :)

Run, Water, Run!!

On October 21st, mom, Ash and I ventured out on our first airplane ride (big airplane, Amanda, not your dad's :). We flew out of Jacksonville, to Atlanta (craziness!), to Rochester, NY. Drove to Buffalo that night where we stayed in a Hotel that weekend. The flight was nerve-wracking, well not even really the flight, security check, boarding, and waiting was killing me. When the plane took off, I thought I was going to throw up, or squeeze my mom's hand off, but I didn't! The flight from Jax to ATL took no time at all, before we knew it the seat belt sign came back on and we were landing in Atlanta. I was really confused once we got off the plane, because we had to change terminals, which meant grab all of our crap and lug it down the hallway, up the escalator, down the hall again, down the escalator, on to a tram thingy where I almost fell over because the thing took off so fast, off the tram and down the long hallway to the gate. All of this while wearing heels, carrying 2 jackets, my purse, pulling my luggage, and talking to Travis on the phone....dang, I'm pretty talented! :) The other flights that we took on the trip were easy, it was just the first one that I had to get over.

Before take off, Jax to Atl

Once in Buffalo, we went shopping at a way awesome mall, the Walden Galleria Mall- Buffalo, let me just say, my sister and I were mesmerized by the 2 story Forever 21, we could have stayed in there for hours, but we only had 1 hour....it was crazy! Friday night we went to a Buffalo Sabres NHL game, uhm...that was an experience, and I must say that I still like football better! It's too cold in the arena!

Pre Game

Club seat level

Me, Ash, Mom & Bob

But we didn't go all that way to shop and watch hockey...we went to Niagra Falls! Saturday we headed north, like only 30 miles north, to Niagra Falls, we spent a few hours at the park, amazed by the water, just thinking how can this be? God created this for us to see...it’s definitely a spectacular, a must see...bucket list item! We also went out on the Maid of the Mist, and yes it was cold, and WET, very WET, like being in the middle of a hurricane, but it was way worth it!

Sunday, our day of departure, we spent some time in the small "village" of Ellicotville, a ski resort town with a few shops, a winery, a brewery, and that’s about it! We ate lunch and watched some of the Buffalo Bills game at Ellicotville Brewing Co. and not long after lunch, we headed back to Buffalo for our flight back to ATL, then home to Jax.

I had a great time and went somewhere I never really thought I would go...but boy was I glad to be home! I missed Travis and the kids so much, I was so happy to see them all! :)