Biking Buddies

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ok, so I know this may be picture overload, but I couldn't resist the cuteness of my boys helping each other out.  Walker just finally figured out how to ride the bicycle, and Jake insisted on giving him a starting push.  So, so sweet!!  And it is so fun now that Jake can ride his bike by himself and Walker can ride with training wheels!  I see a lot more biking adventures in our future!!

Jake's 5th Birthday!

 Celebrating Jake's birthday with his karate class.

 

  

Jake's Beyblade birthday cake that I made him.  He thought it was the most awesome thing ever!

 

 

As if we haven't celebrated Jake's birthday enough, when his actual birthday came around (last Friday January 4th), we did a little bit more celebrating. :)  Tyson was out of town recruiting, so it was just me and the boys for the day. 

 

Jake woke up to find this cake that I baked for him along with his final birthday present, a tablet.  Yep, I let him eat cake for breakfast; you only turn 5 once. ;)  We were supposed to go to Disney, but it turned out to be a yucky day, so we played with Jake's new tablet and then went to the movies.  It was a very much needed, low-key day, and Jake was perfectly fine with that.  He kept telling me all day, "this is the best birthday ever...you are the best mother ever!" Ha!

Happy New Year!!

Jake and his silliness

Holly's heart

My "J" for Jake

My "W" for Walker



Capitol One Bowl Game

 

Tyson and I figured out that this was the first college football game and only the 3rd football game we've been to together.  This is a bad photo, but it's historical so it had to be done. ;)

Dierks Bentley!

 

Since Tyson and I celebrated our 6th anniversary (December 30th) at the Nick Hotel for Jake's birthday, we decided we would make Georgia's bowl game our anniversary date.  My cousin, Trey, and his girlfriend Holly ended up coming with us, too, so it wasn't so much of a date, but it was a kidless date, nonetheless.

 

Speaking of the kids, I had secured a babysitter for the game the week before with a college girl that I've used many times before.  Well, 11 am hit, and no babysitter; I started calling and texting her, but no response.  Finally, I get a text back from her phone...but from a bar manager!  Turns out our sitter had a little too much fun on New Years and left her phone, keys, and purse at the bar.  So needless to say, our sitter was a no-show.  Ugh!!  Luckily, though, our awesome neighbors volunteered to take the boys at the last minute, though.  We ended up being late to the game, however, which was probably a good thing since it was so stinkin' hot at that game!!  Ha!

 

Go Dawgs!  And happy anniversary, Tyson!!!

Nick Hotel: Character Breakfast

Pure excitement!!

Jake saw that Blue didn't have anyone following her, so he went with Blue during the character parade.  Sweet boy.

Walker just HAD to be with Dora during the character parade.

Squidward

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Dora is the only character Walker has EVER gone near in his life and didn't scream his bloody head off!

Dora sat with us (after trying to sit with Walker and falling out of the chair, which is why Jake is dieing laughing) and fed Walker.  Tyson almost had a coronary. 

Jake dancing with Spongebob during the birthday dance.

 

 

Another birthday cupcake!

Blue

Spongebob

 

Patrick

 

The waterpark

Slime!!

 

 

Sorry it took me so long to update; I'm so behind, but the blogger wouldn't let me upload any more pictures until now.  I guess I reached my limit on pictures?  Ha!

 

So the second day at the Nickelodeon Hotel started off with a bang with the character breakfast.  We got to see all of the characters pictured above, and we got to spend a lot of time with them since the breakfast wasn't very crowded.  The boys had a blast!  (Especially Walker who had his life-long dream (all 2.5 years of his life, that is) of meeting Dora fulfilled).

 

After the breakfast, we explored the mall some and then went to watch some of our favorite Nick shows in 3-D.  We had really big plans that day to go to Disney and see the electrical parade that night, so we called it an early day and went back to our hotel room to nap.  Well, long story short, I started getting sick during nap time; we ended up cutting our trip short and went home.  We did let the sweet family who takes care of Sam while we're gone take over our stay at the hotel, though. 

 

I felt so bad leaving early, but we did pack a lot into that 24 hours that we were at the hotel.  Jake had the best time of his life and hasn't stopped talking about the Nick Hotel yet. :)

Nick Hotel: Ninja Turtle Edition

 The boys' room had two twin beds, a TV, and a Spongebob mural- they were in HEAVEN!

 Michelangelo

 I'm not sure of this guys' name...Jake kept calling him the "bad ninja."

 Raphael

 Leonardo

 Jake made this sign for the ninja turtles that he held up while the turtles did this little song and dance routine.  I'm pretty sure Jake thought he was at a football game with all the hooping and hollering that he did!  Ha!

 "Ninja training"

 

 Walker finally worked up the nerve to join in on the ninja training.

 The "Signature move"

 Donatello

 Ninja Walker after his 2nd bowl of icecream. :)

 My boys :)

 All the birthday kids came to the center and got to dance with the turtles.  It was so stinkin' hilarious!!

 After each meal, Jake got a birthday cupcake and got sung "happy birthday" to.

 

 

 

As I mentioned in the previous post, Jake chose to go to the Nickelodeon Hotel for his birthday instead of having a party.  We've passed the Nick Hotel coming back from Disney a few times and it looked pretty cool, plus our friends, the Wensyels, went there this fall and told my boys all about it, so we were dieing to check it out.

 

The Nick Hotel has a pretty awesome water park (which I'll show you in another post) that I was hoping we'd be able to get to use, but as fate would have it, last weekend was the coldest weekend we've had this year in Orlando.  Figures.  We still had a great time, though.

 

As soon as we checked into the hotel, Jake got a birthday button that alerted everyone that he was celebrating his 5th birthday.  Anytime you passed the hotel staff, they wished Jake a happy birthday.  He thought he was big time. Ha!  And as I mentioned above, Jake also got a cupcake and was sang and danced to at every meal.  He got the royal treatment, indeed.

 

Our first night there, we went to dinner at Antonio's Pizza-Rama with the Ninja Turtles.  No lie, I have never seen Jake Summers so happy!!  He had the time of his life!!!  Walker started letting up towards the end and had a good time, but those characters just scare him to death!

 

Ok, more on the Nick Hotel later.  I have lots more pictures from day 2. :)