Happy Resurrection Day

 

Easter is my mom's favorite holiday so we always have a big family day. After a great service at church, we had a great Easter egg hunt with all the kids. A bin full of eggs and the kids were off!

 

 

 

Noni and the kids.

 

Justin and his new girl, Elizabeth.

 

The most magical place on earth

For Spring Break 2013, all the cousins went to Magic Kingdom. Seeing their joy in one of my favorite places just made my day awesome.

 

Maxon's 2 1/2 year photos

Ya'll know me- I love photos of my little dude. We scheduled a mini-session with Abbey Saxton with BUNNIES! Maxon was just awesome and it was great fun!

 

Happy Birthday to ME!

For my birthday, Matt & I took a date night to Disney with our passes. We went to Animal Kingdom to ride Expedition Everest and have dinner at the Rainforest Café, then went to Magic Kingdom for the night show. Its fun to go to Disney with the Maxonator, but its nice to go with no kids and ride everything together!

 

Goodbyes are hard to do

Thursday January 24 marked the end of a chapter for me. For 6 years, 2 months and 3 days, I worked with County Commissioner Al Higginbotham, District 4. While working with him, I got married, bought a house, had a baby and grew up. Thinking back on my beginnings with Al, I realize how much I've grown mentally, professionally, emotionally, etc. 

My amazing coworker, Eli, coordinated the aides of all the commissioners to take a group photo with me. Also included are awesome staff who support the BOCC and have been there my entire time at the County. 

The day was really hard. I cried several times and I felt like I was leaving my family. Al has been such a mentor and guide that sometimes I feel like he is a second father. As I move onto different challenges, I will always look back at the County and Al with great fondness.

January 22, 2013

Today I took Maxon to Magic Kingdom again. He has been begging to go to "Mickey Mouse Park" and so today we went. 

He was so happy to see Mickey Mouse as soon as we got there. 

 After months of trying to get him to wear the Mickey ears, he was so excited to get it today.

I even got his name embroidered.

We stumbled upon the Move It! Dance Party. He loved watching it but did not want to go into the road to dance. Whenever the characters he didnt know, like King Louie or Blue, would get close to him, he would back into me. When Mr. Incredible tried to high five him, he started crying and hid in his stroller.

 I bought him this Mickey keychain, which he held on to until bedtime.

He was so tired that he fell asleep before we even got out of the parking lot. 

January 19, 2013

Today Matt and I decided to take Maxon to Busch Gardens. It was so fun. We went to Sesame Street where Matt chased Maxon around to get some energy out. Then we walked over to the tiger exhibit, where we saw two tigers fighting over a spot in the sun. From there we walked to the Edge of Africa, where we saw the hippo swim around and the lion sunbathing.

Maxon saw the lion and said, "Daddy, I want you to throw me to the lion." We explained that the lion would think Maxon was steak and that wasn't a good idea.