Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na BATMAN!

Lisa and I got Liam some Batman PJ's for Christmas, and we just think that he looks so cute in them. He was so funny running around in them.

Lafayette Shopping Trip

This isn't a very interesting blog, just what we did on Saturday!

Since Christmas is getting closer and closer, and we have yet to finish our Christmas shopping we thought it would be fun to go to Lafayette and shop there. Since Alexandria has nowhere to shop except wal-mart, and Lafayette is only an hour away.

Saturday morning Lisa, Liam, and I got up and made our way to Lafayette. We still had Liam, Aiden, Laura, Robie, my mom, my dad, Lisa's Grandparents, Mrs. Jeannie, and Mr. Danny. Basically everyone. Of course when we get there Lisa wants to stop at a Scrapbook store that she always wants to go to. We stopped there and she bought something so she can scrapbook our Disney vacation and Christmas. Then we made our way to the Toys-r-us store. We have been looking at all three wal-marts here for a fold up tunnel for Liam. It was crazy in there!! We could barely move. We couldn't find the tunnel, but we were able to find one of Aiden's presents.

We left Toys-r-us and went to the mall it was lunch time now, and Liam was getting hungry, so we went and got something to eat. Then looked around the mall and found my mom's last present that we needed for her!! She's done yay! One down a lot more to go! We also got something for Lisa's dad. Then we left the mall and went to the Bed, Bath, and Beyond! We got Laura a few things from here, and now we have her finished up too!! Then we went to Target to look for a few more things, didn't find what we wanted from there, however we did get Liam a pair of jeans that he looks really cute in.

We then found wal-mart, and got some things for Liam's Babysitter, Lisa's Principle and assistant Principle. Then called Stacy and asked here where she got Garrett these little wooden food that you can cut, and she said that they had them at toys-r-us, which we couldn't find the first time, so we decided to go back by there and look. Before we made it back to Toys-r-us we stopped at Hobby Lobby and got something for Lisa's Partner teacher. Then went back to Toys-r-us and got the other gift for Aiden. We finished with Aiden for his birthday and Christmas.

After all that it was time to have supper so we decided that we would eat at Olive Garden, because we don't have one in Alexandria and we both like it. Liam did really good. He just sat in his high chair and ate the food that we gave him. After that we made our trip back home. We both had a really good time. It was nice to just get away and spend the day together.

Santa I Want...

Saturday Lisa and I decided to take our family Christmas picture, and once we finished with that ordeal since Liam was dressed in his Christmas outfit we decided to take him to go and see Santa at our mall. We got to the mall at 6:10 and as we walked up to the gate to see Santa we noticed that there was no Santa in sight. There was a sign up saying that he would be back at 6:30, so we decided to do a little ornament shopping for Lynette and Robert. We got their ornament and walked back to where Santa was. There was a line now, so we got in line to wait to see Santa.

We still had about a 5 minute wait for Santa. We are standing there and then I notice the two heavy women??! standing in front of me with a little boy who is about 4. First off they were mean to the little boy who was just so excited to meet Santa. Since we still had some time left to wait Lisa decided she was going to go look in one of the stores close by. As I'm in line with Liam I started listening to the two Lesbos’s conversation. One Lesbo ( I think who is the real mother of the boy) says to the other Lesbo (Who looks like a man) "I don't know which one of you is worse you or him (the little boy)". As I'm standing here listening to this tiff between two lesbos I'm thinking, "why did I have to come back to the line at this time, why couldn't I have come earlier?" When the "mother lesbo" said this I guess it struck a nerve with the other "man Lesbo", because she turned and walked away. Then the "mother Lesbo" screams out to "man Lesbo" "see that's why we fight!"

Finally Santa arrived, and now we won't have to stand by these people much longer. We are standing in line waiting and we are looking at the price list for pictures which is outrageous! For one 5X7 it was $14.99. I brought my own camera to take pictures, when they open up the line to go in the helper lady says that you can take pictures with your own camera, but you have to be outside of the gate area by the store next door, and you can only take two pictures. I got out of the line so I can stand by the other store to take Liam's picture, because we weren't going to pay that for a crappy looking picture that they take. Lisa told me later that while she was waiting in line "man Lesbo" leaned in to kiss "mother lesbo" and "mother lesbo" turned her head, and said that she had a headache. GAG ME!!!!

Finally it was Liam's turn to take his picture, and I actually took like three pictures, because the lady wasn't around. The Santa wouldn't look at me for the picture. Liam was very interested in Santa he just stared at him, and tried to pull Santa's beard. We thought it was very cute. Here is one of the shots of Liam with Santa.
These other pictures are of Liam yesterday he found the cereal box on the floor and opened it up and just started eating out of the box. We thought it was really funny.

1st Birthday!

Today Liam Turned One today! I can't believe it. This past year just went by so fast. We had Liam's First Birthday Party this past Saturday.

The theme for Liam's birthday was Trains, Planes, and Automobiles. We have been getting ready for this party for like months. Lisa has been planning and preparing everything and having me do different little jobs. One of my jobs was to create an invitation for the party. This is the invitation that I designed and created to send out:

One of my other jobs was to create a backdrop scene to take pictures and this is a picture of it with Liam in it as well:
This past Friday Lisa, Liam, and I left Toledo Bend where we were spending Thanksgiving to go back home to get ready for Liam's Birthday Party that we were having that Saturday at Lunch.
We got back in town at about 6:30 and went straight to Sears to pick up Liam's Pictures that he took, so Lisa could finish his scrapbook with those pictures. Then we went home and started getting the house ready for a bunch of people coming for his party. We had to pick up all of your luggage from Disney and Toledo Bend. We had to clean all the bathrooms, sweep and mop all the floors. We couldn't do any of that while Liam is awake because he is into everything and we have to watch him. While Lisa was watching Liam and unpacking and washing clothes I was baking sugar cookies for the party. Once I finished baking the sixty cookies we had to let them cool. We put Liam to bed and started cleaning the house. Then Lisa and I started Icing the cookies with butter cream icing dyed blue. We were up until 2:30 in the morning getting everything ready.

We got up the next morning at 6:15 and started working again. I started by putting the cookies in bags and tying ribbon around the bags to give out as favors. Then I ran by SuperOne to get the balloon filed with air, and to pick up the two cakes. One for Liam and one for everyone else. Pictures of the cakes:

After I got back with the cakes I put up the Scene and put the tables and chairs up under the carport while Lisa cooked Shrimp Soup and Taco Soup. We also had chicken nuggets and macaroni for the kids.

Then everyone started showing up at 11:30. We all ate, and I took everyone's picture with Liam in the scene. Then it was time for Liam to open his presents. He had so much fun. He liked looking at everything that he good. He wanted to play with everything. Here are a few pictures of him opening up some pictures.

After he opened all his presents we sang Happy Birthday and we had cake. We let Liam have his own cake and he thought it was really good. We had a really great day celebrating his birthday, and I still can't believe that he is one today.

Giving the Thanks!

This year was the McGee family's year for Thanksgiving. We rotate it every year between my family and Lisa's family. So this year we have Christmas with Lisa's family. Well for Thanksgiving we had decided a long time ago that we were going to send it at my sister's house in Longview, Texas. Since my sister is pregnant now my parents decided that they didn't want to travel all the way up to Longview for Thanksgiving because they will have to travel there for our family Christmas because my sister will not be able to travel by then, and then they will have to travel back up for the birth of the baby. Well my sister said that they were NOT going all the way down to Houma, so I came up with the idea to have our Thanksgiving in Toledo Bend where we spend all of our Thanksgivings when we were kids. They all liked this idea. So we decided to tell our other family members to see if they would like to join us for old times’ sake. My grandparents, Aunt Melinda (Meme), Uncle Sammy, Cousin John and his wife Angele, Cousin Jenna and Husband Hunter all decided to come too.

Our Plane landed Wednesday at about 11:00 in Shreveport from our trip to Disney World, we picked up Liam from Lisa's parent's house, and then we headed to Toledo Bend. We were all very excited about seeing everyone and having a good time playing games. That night for supper we went to my grandparents camp and we had a bonfire, made Hotdogs, and roasted marshmallows, and made s'mores (Yum). Well my grand paw wasn't feeling all that well he had been sick that day with stomach issues so we didn't want to stay that long with the babies, so we headed back to our camp we were staying at. We played canasta which is a card game with my aunt, uncle, and cousins.

Thanksgiving day all the adults were cooking, and Lynette brought a outside game that we all really liked it was called Redneck Golf. What you do is throw these ball things tied together by rope at this thing with bars. It's kind of like horseshoes, it's a lot of fun. We all like playing it. I think my mom and I played it all day. My grandmother woke up sick like my grandfather was, and was getting dehydrated, so my aunt and grand paw ended up taking her to the hospital for a couple of hours. That night we were all sitting around and Liam decided that it would be a good time for him to start walking. He was taking about 6 or 7 steps. yay. That night we played a fun game like cranium it was called pop cranium. We were laughing so hard. One funny thing was Lynette had a celebrity card and it was Ozzy Osbourne, and she decided to act it out. She made this really funny drugged up looking face and was acting like she was trying to mess with a remote. All the guys were on the same team, and we knew who she was suppose to be because we looked at the card. We were cracking up. The girls had no idea what she was doing.

The Friday that we were there it just rained all day, and Lisa and I left that day to get home to get ready for Liam's birthday party that we were having on Saturday. We hung out until about 4:00 and then we left to make it home.

We had a really good time see and playing with family. It's been a long time since we have had a chance to hang out like that, and it has been missed. We had a pretty good Thanksgiving holiday with family.

Disney Trip

Lisa and I took our 5 year anniversary trip to Walt Disney World, and had a really good time this is just a little of what we did while we were there:

Saturday: We went to Hollywood Studios because it was the extra magic hours that morning, and we walked on and rode tower of terror and Aerosmith first right when we got there, we walked right on the rides no wait at all. Then we just went and did all the other stuff there watching the shows and riding the other rides, and just taking it all in. We finished everything there at about 5, and got on the boat to go to Epcot. We did a few of the countries, and ate in Japan we had to have true Sushi, I took a picture of the Sushi and the time card for Epcot with my cell phone and sent it to a coworker of mine, because I told her that I was going to have sushi in Disney and she didn't believe I would have sushi there. We did Test Track, Mission to Space (felt a little sick after that) I keep burping up the funnel cake that I had right before, not a good feeling!! I had a bad headache before I went on Mission to Space, so it got worse, then we rode Spaceship Earth. I think I fell asleep on it hehe. We watched the fireworks here. Then we went on back to the hotel when the park closed at 9.

Sunday: We got up and went to Magic Kingdom. We did everything!! Rode all the rides and watched all the shows. We stayed here all day the park opened at 9 and closed at 11, but it was magic hours in the evening, so it was open until 2 am. We left about 12:30 we were tired. We watched both Parades the regular one during the day, and then the light parade. They were really good. We watched the fireworks, and the Cinderella’s Wish show, and Mickey’s lighting of the Castle of the Christmas lights. We rode the Haunted Mansion four times HAHA. Pirates was updated too it was good. We rode a lot of these rides three or four times, because we had the fast passes. Magic Kingdom was Lisa’s favorite park.

Monday: We got up early for morning magic hours for Animal Kingdom. We rode the Yeti ride, then went and did the safari ride, watched the Lion King show, and did the 3D bugs life really good! We did other things at this park, but we were done at 12 at this park. Animal Kingdom was our least favorite park. We left animal kingdom and went back to Magic Kingdom and stood in line to meet Mickey and Minnie, and did a few other things, then went back to Epcot and eat supper in a country I think Mexico. Then we went back to Hollywood Studios for Evening Magic hours, and rode a couple more rides that night. So on Monday we went to all four parks.

Tuesday: We got up and did morning magic hours at Epcot, we did Soaring, and a couple of other rides and shows and spent a lot of time in the countries, because before that day we didn’t see them in the day time. We both really liked Epcot. We did the American show thing there, and they had people singing before the show. Lisa fell asleep in the movie show of America we were so tired. She said, “I can’t believe I fell asleep in that I teach History!!” We ate in London that day. When we did everything there we decided to go back to Magic Kingdom and do a few more things mostly to get our free picture, and to do some shopping. I think we stayed out until 10.

Wednesday: Then we had to get up at 3AM to catch our 4 am bus back to the airport, which was 2 o’clock Louisiana time. EARLY TOO EARLY.

We had a really good time at all the parks. Our parks in the order as we liked them were:
1. Magic Kingdom
2. Epcot
3. Hollywood Studios
4. Animal Kingdom

The weather was great. Cold in the mornings and late at night. I was so glad that I brought shorts. I wore shorts and a hooddie jacket every day, and was comfortable. On Tuesday when we went to Epcot it started to do a light drizzle for like 5 minutes, and that was it, so the weather was nice every day. Some days it was hot, so we would definitely wouldn’t go in the summer, I think it would be really hot. Think if we would go again it would be during Mardi Gras. One of the bus drivers said that it is really slow that time of year.

And finally the picture that Lindsay requested.

Picture of the Sushi we had in Epcot that I sent to my coworker.