The Atchison Family

Christmas Mayhem

More Christmas Mayhem

Christmas Eve

Hadley passed the time waiting for Christmas by doing her own hair.

Hadley put out milk and cookies for Santa.

And Sprinkled reindeer food on the lawn. Sometimes if you aren't sure how good you have been a food offering may help your cause.

St Augustine

Here are some pics of our Horse and Buggy ride through St. Augustines festival of lights. Shellies Mom is visiting and we took her down Saturday to attend mass at the oldest Catholic church in the nation -- the cathedral-basilica in Saint Augustine. Then we took a horse and buggy ride through St Augustine and ate at the best pizza joint south of NYC.

Live Nativity

We went to a live nativity in Ponte Vedra. They recreated the town of Bethlehem. It was really neat there were beggars, live animals and of course Baby Jesus.

Hadley's Fashion

Hadley loves to dress herself. These are two recent outfits she's put together. I'm thinking fashion designer is in her future.

Santa's Visit

Santa made a stop at Hadley's School.
She told him she wants a kitchen and a singing
Barbie doll.

Daddy There's Santa

Our Trip to the Zoo

We took a trip to the zoo Saturday and saw LOTS of animals.

But none of the animals could compare with the train. You would have thought the stinkin thing was going to Disneyworld. Hadley really NEEDED to ride this train.

The Zoo is right on the water (like almost everything here). Heres me and Hadley on the Zoos pier. You get free admission if you come to the zoo by boat. Think Shellie will buy that as a good reason for me to buy one?

Some of the animals were amazingly tame. This one really put up with alot!

The Zoo even has alot of really cool stuff like vines setup OUTSIDE the monkey cages for the kids to play on. I'm not sure if the kids had more fun watching the monkeys or the monkeys had more fun watching the kids.

Heres Hadley being adventerous about 20 feet in the air at the zoo's new "Playpark". It is one of the coolest play areas I've ever seen and is new this year.

Halloween Parties and Trick or Treating

The Cowgirl doing some Halloween decorating before the school Halloween Party

Somebody better have ALOT of candy !!! (Hadleys classmates)

She's got her Daddys big mouth ... makes bobbing for apples a cinch! (Moms Halloween party at the Loprestis)

Yet another Halloween Party (like we needed more candy)

This is Hadleys Godparents little boy Nathan -- They went trick or treating together and got a BUNCH of loot. As you can see Nathan was prepared to take the candy by any means neccessary.