Saturday, August 16, 2008

Spread-Head in the making?????

It seems like I am not the only one excited about Widespread Panic coming to town.....I was cooking tonight listening to the radio and McKinley joined me and jammed out.

McKinley would like to dedicate this show to Uncle Scott.....maybe we should have gotten 3 tickets instead of 2!

Enjoy!

Trigger the T-Rex

To reward and celebrate McKinley doing so well at school, we went to Build-A-Bear to make a new friend. About a year ago, we made Toby the Triceratops, so today we decided to make him a friend.....Trigger the T-Rex.

McKinley and the Gang!


Wednesday, August 06, 2008

First Day of School

Today was a big day for McKinley. It was his first day of school. He has gone to a local preschool for the last few years, but that was only for a few hours, 2 days a week. Today he started big boy school which is all day- 5 days a week. He was very lucky to get into a class at Aunt Tammy's school, which makes mommy feel better since he is not at school with me yet! Here are some pictures from our morning. He was most excited about his bookbag and lunchbox. He was so excited that he put them on at 6:40 this morning and did not want to take them off even though he was not leaving for school for another 20 minutes. He was ready! McKinley is showing off his muscles in this picture. He is telling me how strong he is and that he can carry all of his stuff.




McKinley said he had a good day and that he liked it and wanted to go back tomorrow. I have tried all afternoon to ask him about school, but have not gotten much , but I do know that.....

1-you have to wear your shoes during naptime in case of a firedrill

2-he could not play on the playground because they were sweeping it (they were cutting grass and weedeating.....isn't that too cute....I guess seeing somebody weedeating does kind of look like sweeping)

3- Miss. Tracy and Miss. Misty are just like Miss. Susan and Miss Amy (his teachers last year) but more fun!

Friday, August 01, 2008

Our Big News!

We are very excited to announce that McKinley's World is growing!
Baby Gore is due March 1st.
(This is not the best ultrasound picture. It was taken a few weeks ago, but you can kind of see the "baby" speck to the left!

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

First Swim!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here is McKinley ready for his first official swim!

He loves his new shark and alligator floats! Thanks Maw-Maw & Paw-Paw and Uncle Brian for the cool new floats!

We are so excited that our pool is finally swim ready.....now all we have to do is finished the yard and fence!

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

We are almost finished!!!!

The Gore Backyard Oasis is entering its final phases. Putting in this pool has been a huge headache for us and we are very excited to almost be finished. Here are some pictures of the work being done over the past few days. The pool company should be finished at the house tomorrow. Hopefully the next pictures I post will be of us enjoying our new pool. Yesterday, they poured the concrete decking and put in the liner.
We started filling the pool up with water in the afternoon. By the late evening we had about 2 1/2 feet of water. McKinley was very anxious and could not stand it any longer, so we let him try out the pool. Him and his daddy had fun and made a water slide.

McKinley had such a good time, he told me we should leave the pool just like it was because it was just perfect for him.



Monday, July 21, 2008

Vacation Bible School Power Lab 2008

Here are some pictures of our Vacation Bible School this year. The theme was Power Lab- Discovering Jesus's Miraculous Power.




Monday, July 07, 2008

Playground Fun

Here are some pictures from our trip to the park Saturday. McKinley loved it because he had the whole playground to himself.


Little Firecrackers!

The Kanner's and Gore's had their own fireworks spectacular on the 4th of July. Here are the kids watching the show. McKinley did not like the loud noises, but really liked the sparklers.


(check out his shoes- he put them on himself!)

Friday, July 04, 2008

Fun Times with Addie

Yesterday, we went to Aunt Holly's house to play with the twins and Addie. We had a yummy pizza lunch and then let the kids play. Here is McKinley and Addie playing in the kiddie corral. Go figure, McKinley hated it when he was little, but got in there by choice this time and loved it. After the twins went down for their nap, we headed outside for some fun. First some sidewalk chalk.
Then a few kicks with the ball.
Rock climbing

I love this picture.....it shows how much fun McKinley was having.
And finally, tree climbing.
Look at the monkeys in the tree.


Playing at the Park

This week we met Aunt Tammy and Kate at the park for a picnic, and some play time. Here are the kids eating their lunch.After that we went over to the playground.


Sunday, June 22, 2008

Catching Lightning Bugs

McKinley and I went on a lightning bug hunt tonight. We went to Aunt Holly and Uncle Scott's house because they have the perfect yard for hunting. Uncle Brian gave McKinley the greatest bug catcher that was a perfect home for our bugs. Here are some pictures of McKinley showing off his bugs...we caught 9 lighting bugs tonight. What a perfect summer night!
Here is McKinley with his girlfriends, Bonnie Kay (left) and Molly Margaret (right). A couple of weeks ago McKinley told me that he was going to marry Bon Bon and they were going to have a baby named Flickety Flack. Well tonight when we got home ,he informed me that he was going to marry both of them and have a Flickety Flack and a Clickety Clack.
Where does he come up with these things?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Friday, June 20, 2008

Hole in One

We went out for some "Family Fun" this morning. The bowling alley in town has just opened a brand new glow in the dark minigolf. It was really nice and we all had a really good time. Here are some pictures from our game. Watch out Tiger Woods!
McKinley was really excited to see the train at the end!