This and that....

Happy Sunday to everyone! We've had a great and relaxing weekend. Just what we needed around here at the Ransdell's. I feel like we NEVER slow down, especially with UNCW basketball games in the mix. Last week we attended 3 games and believe me it was so nice this weekend for both teams to be away:) Both pulled out W's, so Go Seahawks!! My post is a little this and that, but I know you will enjoy seeing what we have been doing this busy week.

Most of you know Walker's school goes from K3-12th grade. It was homecoming this week and Walker thoroughly enjoyed Spirit Week. Tuesday was PJ day, Wednesday was birthday, Thursday was circus day and Friday was red, white and blue day. Walker enjoyed wearing his new favorite Cars pj's, but it did take some convincing for him to wear these to school. I will say he is his father's child....a creature of habit!!

On Friday his class attended the homecoming parade and pep rally.

Here are a few of Walker's classmates waiting for the parade to start.

I was so glad to be apart of the big day and help his teacher with the kiddos.

Let the parade begin....motorcycle police.

Super cool fire trucks.

Waving to the Chick-Fil-A cow!

Check out my thunder stick and spirit necklaces.

Mrs. Jung and all of Walker's sweet classmates.

We are sooooo lucky to have such a wonderful teacher like Mrs. Jung!

The kids were so great at the pep rally!

And....drum roll please......

Mrs. Jung's class won the ICE CREAM PARTY for the longest spirit chain. All week the entire school raised money to see how many links each class could get. We beat the elementary dept. Yea....K-3....Go Team!!

Elementary kids waiting for the competition to begin against the middle school.

Rolling an egg with their nose to center court. Elementary school won!!

Check out this cutie patootie in his 3D glasses:):)

We took Walker this afternoon to see Beauty and The Beast.

He loved it, but I will say he wasn't too sure about wearing the 3D glasses.

Walker's been doing a lot of this lately....climbing....ugggghhhhh!!!!

And a lot of this......He loves riding his bike in the neighborhood.

So stinkin' cute in his sunglasses.

And a lot of this ALL the time:)

Our sweet friends Grady and his dad Luck joined us for a UNCW basketball game!

I usually don't blog about us much, but we had a blast on Friday night with some sweet friends.

We went to the 2011 Azalea Fest Kickoff party at the Hilton downtown.

My sweet handsome husband!!

We hope all of our sweet family and friends have a great week. We love you all!!

Ice Skating

Tonight Walker's school hosted a PTA fundraiser at our local ice skating rink.

So, we decided to meet up with a few of Walker's friends and go ice skating together. We really had to bundle up because the temperature was about 40 degrees inside the rink. All of these pictures were taken with my iphone, not the best quality. All three of us came out injury free with no bumps or bruises, so I call it a good night:) and Walker was sad to leave.

Trying out the rink for the first time with Daddy.

The PVC pipe helped out, but terrible on our backs. He definitely wasn't sure about it.

We found it easier to skate holding Walker's hands in the middle of us.

Definitely get your workout in:)

A chiropractor should be on sight:)

Mommy's turn!

It is so much fun trying new things with Walker.

Our friends Keri, Owen and Jon!

Jenn and Peyton

Owen and Walker!

They are so funny together. Little balls of energy!!!!

The kiddos playing ice hockey.

They enjoyed hanging out in the snack bar more than on the ice rink:)

We had such a great time tonight. It is always so much fun trying new things and seeing the excitement through Walker. After ice skating we had dinner with Keri, Owen and Jon. The boys say the funniest things and are so cute. I believe Walker and Owen will be buddies for a long time:)

Merry Christmas!!

We hope everyone had a Merry Christmas! We had a very fun and relaxing Christmas. This was the first Christmas we didn't spend half of the holiday in the car traveling. It was so nice to drive to my parents house or Moppy and Papa's house for a few days and then back home. Both Patrick and I have been off work since December 22nd. No plans, just relaxing and spending time together just the three of us:) We are headed back to work tomorrow and I am totally dreading it. I hope you enjoy looking at Walker's Christmas. He makes things so special and so exciting. His excitement is so contagious and it's just what you need during the holidays!!

A friend of ours, Mrs. Sarah made this sugar cookie gingerbread man for Walker, so we brought it to Moppy's house for everyone to enjoy. How clever and so sweet of her to make Walker a giant cookie for Christmas. He loved it!!

All ready for Santa!

We left Santa a cheese stick, two different type of cookies, milk and of course carrots for the reindeer. All of Walker Leigh's favorites:)

Santa was so good to Walker!

Santa brought all of his favorite things, a super cool CARS bike and lots of trucks and cars.

Checking out all of his stocking goodies!

Mommy's present for Christmas!!

Moppy and Papa gave him just what he wanted.........

A super cool saxophone!

And he is so good at playing his instrument.

All geared up to ride his bike....such a handsome boy!

And he's off!

He is such a pro at riding his bike.

And check out my new Pirate rain boots Santa brought!

We loved visiting our friend Zuri!

Who needs toys when you have an empty box to play in!

Helping Uncle Ben put together his really cool excavator from Uncle Ben, Aunt Mandy and Cousin Logan! One of the highlights of our visit was Walker getting to play with his cousin. Walker absolutely ADORES Logan. They play very well together except for when Walker told Logan he was on the "naughty" list. Lets just say that did not go over very well:)

Matching Excavators!

We also got to visit with my sweet elementary school friend Diana and her kiddos Mason and Anna Claire. Walker and Mason are too funny together:) They were showing each other how well they can play Angry Birds on the ipad.

After we got back from SC we had more presents waiting on us from the Ransdell's.

Walker loves his new train book and all of the goodies Jules, Pops, Beck, Uncle Matt Matt, Aunt Sandra, Aunt Laine and Uncle Harry sent to him.

And finally...................

Santa dropped off an extra special present while we were in SC.....

A TRAIN TABLE!

This was all Walker asked for and he was so upset when he woke up on Christmas morning and he didn't see it. We told him Santa might have brought it to his house in NC. This is all he talked about and could hardly wait to get home and see. And what do you know....Santa dropped his train table off in his playroom while we were gone! He was soooooooooo excited when he say it.

Playing Wac-A-Mole with Daddy!

I won, I won, I won!!!!!! I beat DADDY!!!!

Thank you to Moppy and Papa for such a special Christmas and to all our family and friends we saw while we were there. We had such a great time with each and every one of you! An extra special THANKS goes to Moppy for taking Walker back to SC a few days early and allowing Patrick and I to have some free time in NC. I'm not sure what I would do without my parents! Thank you both for your continued support and LOVE! I can hardly wait until next Christmas. Each year the holiday season gets better and better with Walker. We have lots of things to look forward to in 2012! Happy New Year from us. We love you all!

Walker's Class Christmas Party

We had so much fun at Walker's class Christmas party! All the teacher's at his school performed a really neat program in front of all of children and parents. After the program we went back to Walker's class and made gingerbread houses and ate pizza. We were so excited to have Moppy join us for his party. It's always nice when we get to share the fun with grandparents:)

Walker with his friends Kellum, Madison and Owen decorating their gingerbread houses.

Concentrating so hard (check out the tongue) just like his Daddy! He did such a great job!

I was very impressed and couldn't believe most of the candy landed on the gingerbread house and not in his mouth:) Although, he was definitely on a sugar high when we left.

Meet Walker's sweet friend Owen and his mommy Kerri!

You can see Moppy in the background helping one of Walker's friends make her gingerbread house.

Carefully placing oreos on the side his gingerbread house.

Our finished product minus the terrible picture of us:(

We had such a great time at the party. Walker's teacher is so awesome and we feel so blessed to have her teach him everyday. God was definitely watching over us when we made the decision on where he would go to school!!