Holiday Family Photos

Ashlea's friend Monika Bliss took some great family photos for us at the Bluff View Art District.

Mayo Family!

There's no business like SNOW BUSINESS!

we eat, we play in the snow, we eat again, we watch movies.. no work no school.. we love snow business!

Birthday Time

To celebrate Jackson's fourth year on this earth, we set up the house like a carnival with games all over the yard. Lots of Jackson's friends came to "party" with us and tore apart a sweet little lion pinata like wolves! Jackson and Maya were inseparable the whole time, as always. Gift highlights were a drum set and a bike that he didn't like. It has since been replaced by a very lovable orange scooter.

Upstate NY

Our recent trip to Upstate New York to visit Carley was LOTS of fun. We saw Niagara Falls, the Buffalo Museum of Science, Cayuga Lake and Carley's Rochester. We miss Carley already!

more photos from sheilds lake!

we're still remembering what fun it was to camp at shields lake...

camping at shields lake

Last Friday we went camping at Shields Lake in North Georgia. Jackson had so many new experiences. He and his papa caught a fish together- he grabbed it with his bare hands when it came out of the water and said "let's eat it!" We made s'mores by a fire, but Jackson would only eat plain ole marshmallows. At night we stalked around the woods with flashlights on our heads looking for spiders...then we slept on a screened porch while rain fell all night. We were joined by campers ashlea, denise, philip and harry the wonderdog. good times!

easter with family

easter weekend with papaw and mimi was so much fun!

he's a grown dinosaur now...

Jackson's love for dinosaurs doesn't seem to be fading.
He informed me that he's going to be a "Palee-un-tologist"...
I overheard this as he was playing with his dinos:
"He's a grown dinosaur, so it's time for him to get a job."

his smile shines like the sun

tmnt

jackson has become completely obsessed with the teenage mutant ninja turtles, thanks to a dvd sent by an old friend. he spends his days now playing with 80's styled Ninja Turtle toys and repeating dated phrases from the Ninja Turtles cartoon. i'm accustomed to hearing "dude" and "shredder". the pinnacle was hearing this bloodthirsty battlecry from his room: "TURTLES FIGHT WITH HONOR!!!"

bowling fun

jackson tried his hand at bowling the other day and just loved it.
it was so hard for him to wait his turn! he wanted Cousin Michael
to help him every time. it was all fun and games until he picked
up a 15 lb. ball and dropped it on my friend Holly's foot. that's when the party
was OVER.

Happy Halloween!

Jackson had the best time trick or treating this year!
he was in pirate character all night shouting "ahoy matey"
and brandishing his sword. it wasn't until someone gave him
a candy bracelet that he lost his swashbuckeling swagger.
he then became obsessed with the candy and didn't care about
getting any more "treasure". halloween is fun again- yay!