The trip so far...

Jackson is doing such a great job traveling, I could not be any more impressed on how well he is acting and behaving in the truck and in the hotels. We stayed in Ocala, FL last night and were swimming at 8:30 last night...in the hot tub at the hotel. We also stopped this morning in Wildwood, FL at Grandpa's favorite place, the "75 Chrome Shop". Wow!!!! Hope you enjoy the few pictures I've taken so far.

Jackson and Midnight traveling...Jackson has either been playing with the trucks he brought or watching movies on the DVD player! Midnight is enjoying all the comfy blankets Jackson brought.

Jackson's reaction to the Chrome Shop...just like Grandpa's!!!

Jackson and Grandpa looking at the inside of a Semi with LOTS and LOTS of Chrome...

Brock's Christmas weekend

We were able to celebrate Christmas with Brock this weekend. Here are a few photos:

Opening gifts at Dad's house with Jackson...

Jackson opening a gift early with Brock at Nana and Papa's house...

And Brock opening one of his gifts...

The ornaments that the boys opened were very cute that I couldn't pass up. I bought two ornaments that had "Brother" on each and said "A brother is a true friend, From day one until the very end." These gifts were to each other and then I bought two more that had "Son" on each and said "There is no greater gift than the love of a son." These are the boys ornaments for 2008.

We also put the tree up finally on Saturday when Brock was home. There will be more pictures to come of the tree and the outside of the house with the Christmas lights...it's just too COLD to be outside. The temperature is only...zero degrees!!!!!

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Updates

Just a few updates on the Poling Family...

I will have our laptop back today and be able to post some pictures for everyone to see. I had to have the computer completely wiped out and redone. Seems there were too many viruses to take care of each one individually, so he took care of it all at once. So we should be good to go for a while now.

I just found out yesterday that I will be laid off almost the whole month of January. So after talking Joe and taking care of a few things at Jackson's school...we have decided that Jackson and I will be heading to Florida with my Dad on the 28th of December. It will take us 2 days to get there with a one night hotel stay, we should be in SUNNY Florida no later than the 30th. We will be flying back home on the....are you ready.....the 18th of January!!!!!! I have to go back to work the week of the 19th and then laid off again the week of the 26th. I will be volunteering in Jackson's classroom that week and spend some extra time with him during school.

I hope that while we are in Florida, I will be able to give a full attempt at the "POTTY TRAINING" while we are able to be outside and in the warm weather. We are very excited, Jackson is happy he gets to ride in Grandpa's big white truck and the DVD player will come in handy. This will be a true test as to how good of a traveler he really is.

A quick update

I wanted to let everyone know that we are having a few virus issues (about 150!) on our laptop at home and we will be having it fixed hopefully sometime this week. We will not have access from home but I will be checking things from work. When the laptop is back up and running correctly, I will let everyone know. Until then, you will have to call our cell phones to reach us.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Our Poling Family Christmas Photo

More pictures to come but I wanted to get this one on the website so everyone could see our updated family photo from Saturday's Christmas party at my Mom and Dad's: