Charlie invited Mommy to be a chaperone on his school field trip to the Fernbank Museum. It was great fun, especially the IMAX movie. He even held my hand as we walked around the exhibits and let me sit next to him at lunch. I am one lucky girl. That's him in the back left.

This year, both boys will be on the same tee-ball team. They are the Houston Astros. Bennett is the youngest and technically not old enough to play but we begged the league to let him and they agreed. They have had only had 2 practices but so far he is doing good and the coaches love to refer to them as the “Owen’s Brothers”. Let us know if you’d like to come to games, we’d love to see you.

Mommy had to attend a conference in South Florida this year. Those mean lawyers made me work for 4 days. But I did get to stay at a fancy Ritz-Carlton and immediately began stealing the shampoos, pencils and chocolates left on my bed. Now, when the kids do homework, they can do it holding a fancy Ritz pencil.

This is also the first time I've seen a fish bar. Basically, there is a company that comes and sets up giant fish tanks and then sets a bar on top of it. Pretty cool. Too bad I couldn't take the fishies home on the plane.

He looks sweet in this picture but...

Bennett has been in trouble at school for fighting. And he’s 3!!! The first incident was kind of funny and we thought “that kid will always be in the middle of it”. But now they are sending ‘Oh-No’ reports home and they have to be signed by a parent. His punishment included no tub toys for one night and all of his dress-up costumes were removed from his room for one night. I know this sounds like a light punishment but you would have thought I cut his arm off with the crying and fit he threw once he heard about his punishment. We hope this will keep him from fighting at school again. In the meantime, I smile at the other parents and hope their kid wasn’t the one who was involved.

Brian and I (well really just Brian) finished our taxes only to realize that we pay an ungodly amount of money for daycare. Without kids, we’d be rich and we both envisioned the trips we could take, or eating out at restaurants that don’t list prices. It was a fun few minutes of daydreaming but we wouldn’t trade it for our chaotic life with our amazing boys -- and their really expensive daycare.

This Christmas, the boys received almost every lego, star wars and GI Joe ever made. Bennett loves Santa and had to be removed from his lap at the mall. Charlie, not so much.

The biggest news of all is that Natalie got engaged! Congratulations to the future Mr. & Mrs. Brad Yamaato. We are so excited to welcome Brad to our family.

Pumpkin Farm Fun!

We visited a Pumpkin Farm this weekend and had a blast. Bennett loved the slide and bouncy area. Charlie could not get enough of the Corn Maze...he raced through each section in record time! The highlight of the day was our first ever viewing of a Pig Race (3 races in total). We'll definitely be returning to Southern Belle Farms next year.