Sea World...visit 135....

We now have seats reserved for us at Shamu stadium...it is marked..reserved for the Grogan family...at least I feel they should! We go so often..Wesley loves to go! Sea World is all decked out for Christmas and it was great to be there listening tho the Christmas music and to get into the Christmas mood. We were lucky enough to meet Jack Hanna and see some animals that he brought..even a reindeer! He was very nice and signed pictures for the kids and let us take pictures with him. We took a great family picture with him too...but I have to photo shop it, then i will post it. Shamu has a night time show..all done to Christmas music. And I was very pleased that Sea World put the show to center around the birth of Christ..not the happy holiday stuff...but Christmas and Christ. Way to go Sea World!! And Wesley got the cutest Santa Shamy fin hat! He wanted to wear it to church today...thankfully he left it in the car. Dave had a friend Dustin Duvall in high school and they haven't seen eachother since before Dave's mission. We met up with him and his daughter Mariah...and had a blast with them!

The Big sky ride and Christmas tree of lights. They light it and put on a light hsow with Christmas music..it was alot ot fun!


The cute Santa hat...


Dustin, Mariah, Samantha, Dylan, Wesley, and Dave


Attack of Wesley the shark!


I found the kids in the Christmas tree maze!


This was hidden in the maze...


At firs tI thought you could buy a tree..but it is a fun maze with little surprises...


Jack Hanna with the kids...


Dylan was in awe..and told Jack Hanna...I love your shows...he was excitd to meet him!


Jack Hanna


Cute decorations...


The entrance of Sea World is all decked out...

I love them!!..but can't pick just one!!

I received my family pictures in the mail this weekend and was so excited to view them! I was amazed at how good they were as well. I have so many to chose from..so now I have a problem. These are alot of the family pictures..I have ones of the kids and Dave and I too. Which one do I chose?? So I guess I will just print them all and make a big book...like I need another scrapbook project..haha...I want to thank Melissa Hyde for her fabulous work and her patience with us to get these great pictures for our family!

Our family Christmas card...

...I think...I have a few choices..but isn't it cute?!? Thansk Melissa for giving me a sneek peak! You are the best!!

our family pictures

We finally, after 5 years, took our family pictures! We had an appt. set with a good friend of mine who does amazing work and Dylan got sick. I was so disappointed. We came across another opportunity with a different photographer a month later...who I highly recommend by the way. She rocks! She is so good and we had so much fun with her! She is sending my pictures to me but she posted a few to view so I thought I would do a blog post to share our first family pictures with our 3 kids! I dont know about you, but I hate pictures of me and I thought I needed to get over it and just do it! My kids won't know what I look like if I don't! haha I am so glad that we did and very pleased with how our pictures turned out...at least these 4! The kids started getting into our shoot and would pose and turned into "models"...I was impressed with their ability and thought that all the years of me taking tons of pictures was actually a good thing! So keep clicking away...that is the lesson learned! (: Thanks so much Melissa...you ROCK!!! Her blog is on my blog list as Moments Matter...check her out!

Festival of Trees

We went to the Festival of Trees today with my family. It was alot of fun and got us all in the Christmas spirit. The trees were so pretty and we were able to see Santa to let him know of our Christmas lists. It was a fun day!