Jacksonville, Florida

In Early December we took a trip down to Jacksonville, Florida. My younger brother, Aaron was in Radio City Christmas Spectacular show. The show was wonderful and I thought that Alex & Brady would enjoy it. I was right. It was a great show and my brother did a great job. He is an awesome dancer. The drive kind of sucked. It was a 12 hour drive. The kids did a good job traveling however, Brady had a few issues. He had so much to keep him busy but of course, nothing did. All our movies, books, coloring books, notepads, a ball, cars, his favorite toys, my IPOD but nothing worked. At one point during the trip he asked if I would read the road signs to him and I did for 2 hours straight. Brady has been learning sign language in kindergarten and loves to come home and teach us. At one point on our trip because he was so bored he decided to take his clothes off and sit in his boxer shorts. Once we looked back at him he was signing cow and mooing. You probably have to be there but it was so funny. Anyways we did make it and had a great time.

pictures are out of order... The show has real animals in it. One of which is a camel.
2 camels, a donkey and a couple of sheep. We took a fairy ride from our hotel to the show. It was really beautiful & cold.

On the fairy...the kids in their antlers and Santa hat

Just cute...Brady was so done with pictures...I think that is his worst favorite part about the holidays because my camera is always out.

In the evenings we spent a lot of time playing pool. The kids have never played and really loved it. They added that to their Christmas list last minute.

The water front in Jacksonville.

Jacksonville Beach

Look how beautiful the beach is. White sand and gorgeous water. It was so cold but I fell in love with Florida. At least their beaches anyway.

Again, so beautiful

Sorry I could not get enough of the beach. It made me miss Monterey.

Family picture

Uncle Aaron and the kids.