Cute Little Faces

 While I was working out at the YMCA, the childcare workers did a little face painting for the kids.  Walker wouldn't participate, but Jake chose Batman.  Super cute!

Walker as Santa Claus. :)

 As you can tell by my pictures, we've had a slow week this week.  The boys finished up school last week and have 2 weeks off until they start the summer session.  I had originally planned to do some traveling these 2 weeks to see family and friends in Georgia and Alabama, but my ENT wouldn't let me out of my weekly post-op follow-ups.  Plus, Jake is playing t-ball this summer, so we have to stick around for that.  So we've been stuck at home this week and it has rained every single afternoon here.  :(  We have hit the pool pretty hard in the mornings and made lots of trips to the YMCA and some other fun places, though, so I guess I shouldn't say we've been stuck at home...it just feels like it with all the rain.  Thankfully, we have some fun things planned this weekend and next week to help pass the time.

Ok, so this is like the most boring post ever.  I hope y'all have a great weekend!!    

Coach O'Leary's Beach House

 Walker was trying to dump the water in the hole, but ended up dumping it on himself instead.  Zoe wasn't impressed. ;)

 Notice anything funny about this picture?

 Here is a close-up for you. :)

 Jake LOVES Miss Megan!!  She is one of his all-time favorite babysitters.

 Some of the girls- Kristy (director of player development), me, Sophia (engaged to coach O'Leary's son who is director of football ops and asst AD), Danielle, and Megan (who are both coach's assistants)

Tyson with Kirk (our secondary coach), who insisted on having his photo taken.

This weekend, Coach O'Leary had the UCF football staff over to his beach house.  We couldn't stay too long because this nasty storm rolled through, but the water and sand there was beautiful for being on the Atlantic!  The boys loved it!  Jake asked Coach O'Leary if he could spend the night there. Hahaha!  

Jake is so cute towards Coach O'Leary; he said at one point during the party, "let's go find Coach O'Leary...I want to talk to him."  Ok, Jake...I'm pretty sure most people are scared to death to approach the man, but you go right ahead.  And he did. ;)  Jake and Coach developed a special little relationship during their first meeting at a basketball game.  You see, it was right when we first moved here, and Coach O'Leary had invited our family to sit in his box for the UCF basketball game.  I was sick as a dog, so I stayed home with Walker and Jake and Tyson went on to the game.  Well, apparently, Coach O'Leary has his own designated row in the box and prefers to sit alone at the game to be able to concentrate.  Sure enough, Jake decides to plop down right next to Coach and starts eating out of Coach's popcorn!  Everybody got a good little chuckle out of it, though, and Jake was in tight with Coach after that. :)  Super cute!

We sure are lucky to be here at UCF.  I know I'm awfully down at times on Orlando and Tyson's crazy hours, but how many times do you get fired from a job and actually end up with a better one?  Not many, that's for sure!  I'm so proud of my husband and so thankful for Coach O'Leary for giving us this opportunity.  (And I'm not just saying that because I'm pretty sure Coach doesn't read this blog...I truly am that thankful). Football season is definitely going to be more exciting this year for sure!  Not much longer!!

"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star"

Ok, so this video is a little hard to understand what Walker is saying, but my sweet boy is singing "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star."  This song is by far one of Walker's favorites, and he sings it constantly.  Silly boy even changes it up in the end and adds a line from Dora by singing "How I wonder what you ate for breakfast?"  This little boy sure does make me smile!

Summertime!!

Jake's End of the Year Program

 Looking for Mama.

 Singing his little heart off. :)

 Jake leads his class on stage for their class song.

 Jake's class.

 My little drama king...not quite sure what he was supposed to be doing here. ;)

 I was doing the crazy "pageant mom" thing trying to get him to smile.

 My big boy!!

 Jake's friend, Brady, wanted to be in a picture.  A lot of little boys around here sport the spiked-do.  Jake calls it "tall hair."  Hahaha!

 I was talking to one of the mom's when I spotted this out of the corner of my eye...my heart melted.

Walker was so proud of his big brother!

Jake's school had their end of the year program the other day. (Walker's class didn't participate since they are so little.)  Jake had been talking about this "end of the year program" for a long time, so I was excited to finally see it all come to fruition.  I'll be honest, I totally expected Jake to get up there and be shy, not sing the songs, and possibly even pick his nose, which is what he's done at past performances.  I was totally shocked, though!  He did perfectly!  He got up there and sang his little heart out, did all the motions, and didn't pick his nose one single time.  He didn't smile, though, as much as I would have liked, but I was still so proud of my big boy.  And Walker was so proud of his big brother, too...he kept yelling, "hey, Jake!!"  Love it.  I couldn't have been more proud of my big boy.

Sorry if there are a ton of pictures; my video camera on my camera stopped working, so I didn't want to miss a beat. :)  Plus, Jake asked that I take "a million pictures" for his Daddy since he couldn't come.  Enjoy!

Wait for it...

Ok, so here is the "crazy blog post" that I promised from my time with Casey Rae.  Does anyone know whose house this is?

Wait for it...

Wait for it...

Wait for it...

This is Casey Anthony's parents' house!  Can you believe her parents' house is like 10 miles from our house?  CRAZY!!  Anyways, it turns out that Casey Rae is almost equally as obsessed with the Casey Anthony saga as she is with Disney World, so I promised her we would do a drive-by.

I'm so not a risk-taker and was scared to death, but I had to do this for my bestie.  Turns out, it wasn't as scary as I thought...Casey Anthony didn't jump out from the bushes and attack us or anything...and the cops didn't arrest us and seize my camera.  In fact, it was just a normal little neighborhood and a normal little house and we were the only crazy people driving by like some annoying paparazzi or something.  Ha!

Crazy times.  Sad situation.  Anything for Casey Rae, but never again.  Don't judge.  She made me. :)

Disney with Casey Rae!!

 The boys with Casey Rae

 Can't get enough of Walker in this hat!

 And the boys can't get enough of their new autograph books!

 Buzz Lightyear

 One week post-op...don't judge.

 Minnie and Mickey!!!!

 Umm...believe it or not, Casey Rae was more excited to see the mice than my boys were!

My little mouse!

Casey Rae, one of my best friends and nurses that I used to work with in Birmingham, came to visit us this last week.  Little did I know, Casey Rae is OBSESSED with Disney, Mickey Mouse, and all things associated with the Mouse.  Needless to say, Disney World was definitely on the agenda despite my "nose-hole surgery" (as she says). ;)  It really wasn't that bad on me...the first time we went to Disney World.  You see, we decided we didn't get quite enough done at Disney World with the kids in tow, so we left the kids with Tyson on Saturday and went to the Magic Kingdom just the two of us.  OMG!!!  We had so much fun!!  I will say this, though, Space Mountain probably wasn't such a great idea one week and 2 days after sinus surgery.  I'm definitely paying for it now, but it was so worth it at the time.

We had so much fun with Casey Rae this past week.  I have one more blog post about our time with Casey Rae...it's probably the craziest one I've ever done, so stay tuned.  Casey Rae brings out the rebel in me sometimes. ;)