Start to a good day is a good breakfast!

Santa gave USA griddle so we could have a fun camping cookout with bacon, eggs & pancakes! Then off for a bike ride where we wandered up on a gator! Really! (Tina got photos... I will post later). And we came up on some horses too. The couple even let Eli & Naomi ride it. Now we are off to the beach. :)

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First family camping trip in our "new-to-us" pop-up camper!!

We arrived safely about 3pm at Jonathan Dickinson state park, in Jupiter FL. In no time at allwe were all set up and ready to go. And thanks to the generosity of my parents and there christmas gift to my wife last year... The whole park thinks we are all Alabama fans. (I need to invest in an Auburn tarp or flag for next time!)
 
After dinner we will get a good nights rest, then hit the bike trails in the morning... and the beach in the afternoon!
 
More soon!

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Naomi is a Rockstar in training!

This morning over breakfast we made the unusual discovery that both kids can wink and roll their tounges. But Naomi won the "longest tounge" contest, so she struck the only "tounge pose" she knows when decided to take photos! Gene Simmons look out!!

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Naomi's best buddy, Benny!

On the long drive to get pancakes at "the pancake place" (which you can see a video we shot about at our YouTube page... www.YouTube.com/jeffcornett ) Naomi is enjoying speribg quality time with her cousin Ben. He is the family comiedian!!

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Eli & Naomi's very 1st piano recital!

This is video shot of the Eli and Naomi’s first recital after their first 6 months of piano lessons.  They were very excited and surprisingly not very nervous at all. Naomi especially!  She wanted to put on her “performance outfit” from the time she got up that morning!  We are so very proud of them.  And not that we are biased or anything, but we think they did fantastic!

 

 

~jeff

 

For a fantastic North Carolina mountain getaway,

check out www.CornettCabin.com

 

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The Official 2008 Cornett Christmas card

"The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear."

-Buddy the Elf

 

…now, the Cornetts dance!

Click the link below to see a little number we've worked on for you...

**(link to web site)

 

Wishing you a Merry Christmas....

Filled with the grace, hope and forgiveness brought to us by God's precious and Holy Son, Jesus.

 

Much love and joy,

Jeff, Tina, Eli and Naomi

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The Official 2008 Cornett Christmas card

"The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear."

-Buddy the Elf

 

…now, the Cornetts dance!

Click the link below to see a little number we've worked on for you...

**(link to web site)

 

Wishing you a Merry Christmas....

Filled with the grace, hope and forgiveness brought to us by God's precious and Holy Son, Jesus.

 

Much love and joy,

Jeff, Tina, Eli and Naomi

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The Official 2008 Cornett Christmas card

"The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear."

-Buddy the Elf

 

…now, the Cornetts dance!

Click the link below to see a little number we've worked on for you...

**(link to web site)

 

Wishing you a Merry Christmas....

Filled with the grace, hope and forgiveness brought to us by God's precious and Holy Son, Jesus.

 

Much love and joy,

Jeff, Tina, Eli and Naomi

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a visit to the "Christmas tree place"...

The family went to the Santa Land Tree Farm to get their Christmas tree,
visit Santa, pet animals, and pony rides.
And what holiday experience would be complete without a little time
in the reindeer pen throwing hay... Yes, throwing hay.   Who knew?

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is betting that Chris Martin is now REALLY regretting this quote!

**If you do not know why, or what I am talking about, check out http://bit.ly/q7ns

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Gameday Pie!

Tina and Naomi (because of my request for pie after watching Pushing Daisies) decided to bake a cherry/raspberry pie in honor of the Alabama Crimson Tide's big game today against the gators.
 
This is it just before baking. It says Naomi on the left, Tina on the right, and roll tide roll top/bottom. Not sure you will be able to read it after it cooks (cause it will be eaten so fast!!)

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The newest addition to our family!

Thanks to the generousity of Tina's cousin Tonya & her husband Sam, we are the proud new parents of a teenager! Well, actually older than a teenager... A 1984 Starcraft pop-up camper!! It is in really good shape and ready for a new family with kids like ours to take it out into the wilderness! We drove it home from Alabama to Orlando, and are really excited to take it on it's maiden voyage camping trip in FL right after Christmas. I am sure that more photos and videos will follow!

Tina & the kids, in Tuscaloosa right before we headed back home.

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Naomi's first ribs at DREAMLAND in Tuscaloosa!

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Tina is ready for the Iron Bowl!

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Just outside of Monthomery AL, I was happy to make this purchase!

$1.65 a gallon! Amazing!

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Eli lost another tooth.

While eating a hamburger at Sonny's tonight, he looked up and said "hey, my tooth just fell out!". Bottom right (as you look at the photo). It is the 5th tooth he has lost. Looks like the tooth fairy will visit the hotel tonight. :)

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Eli's favorite football teams...

The other day, Eli decided to write down the names of his favorite college football teams. He got his USA map puzzle out and found all the names himself (or did them from memory). I was really impressed, but was also very disapponted to see that my beloved Auburn Tigers were not on the list. I guess I have a lot of parenting to do!
*(even though it is not on the list, the Auburn fight song is one of his favorite songs!)

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The nearly perfect November day

Today, right after church we decided the day was too pretty to waste
so we decided to go out and eat.  We headed to HOTDOG HEAVEN (Fantastic

Chicago Dog!) We ate all we could stand while staringout the window.

All of us commented about all the things we “could” do witha wonderful

weather day like today.  I jokingly said “Let’s go tothe beach!” only

to have Eli, Naomi and even Tina say excitedly that they thought it

was a great idea! So we headed home to change and load up…

 

It was not really cold when we got there. It was sunny and warm,

just windy.  They may look cold in the photo, but were trying to

do a “cool pose” back to back for the photo. (They got coldlater,

after they went swimming and got out…)

 

Yes, they did get in the water.  Eli swam a while. Naomi only

got into water about to her waist, but kept getting in and out.

 

We were there for hours enjoying the sun and surf, digging holes,

building sand castles, and feed crumbs of CHEEZEITS to the baby

sandpipers who came right up to us.  One even got brave enough

to get ON our towel, right next to us in order to get the crumbs

his friends were not daring enough to get themselves. 

 

It really was a nice relaxing family afternoon. We told stories

and bad jokes, made faces, sang songs. We walked and looked for

seashells. We watched a lone fisherman cast into the surf for dinner.
We watched a couple of seahawks fly in repeating patterns back and forth

along the beach surf looking for food. Not a cloud in the sky. 

No others around except about 4 local retires doing their midday beachwalk.

There was No stress. No distractions at all, except the occasional

seagull looking for a handout.

 

We stayed until it was getting dark and we hated to leave, butcontinued

the fun on the way home listening to and singing Christmas songs all
the way home.   It was a nearly perfect November day.

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At the beach for the afternoon 11/23/08

At New Smyrna Beach, it is windy and cool but sunny without a cloud in the sky!

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The beginning stages of Addiction!

Ok, it is decaf, butit IS Starbucks. This could begin something Tina and I will live to regret.

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Never trouble trouble til trouble troubles you.

Seems like good advice.

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How the Stock Market works

Once upon a time in a place overrun with monkeys, a man appeared and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10 each. The villagers, seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest, and started catching them.

The man bought thousands at $10 and as supply started to diminish, they became harder to catch, so the villagers stopped their effort.

The man then announced that he would now pay $20 for each one. This renewed the efforts of the villagers and they started catching monkeys again. But soon the supply diminished even further and they were ever harder to catch, so people started going back to their farms and forgot about monkey catching.

The man increased his price to $25 each and the supply of monkeys became so sparse that it was an effort to even see a monkey, much less catch one.

The man now announced that he would buy monkeys for $50! However, since he had to go to the city on some business, his assistant would now buy on his behalf.

While the man was away, the assistant told the villagers. "Look at all these monkeys in the big cage that the man has bought. I will sell them to you at $35 each and when the man returns from the city, you can sell them to him for $50 each."

The villagers rounded up all their savings and bought all the monkeys. They never saw the man nor his assistant again and once again there were monkeys everywhere.

- Now you have a better understanding of how the stock market works.

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Day at Animal Kingdom with the kiddos!

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The nice woman at Regions Bank helping to straighten out our banking mess. $1800 in electronics bought with our check card number in Smyrna GA last weekend. She is going to get our money back, but it will take 2 weeks!

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my first thoughts

I am a grown man.

At 41, I have done most all of the things I expected I would. I got a college degree. I have a career. I got married and we have two kids. I do guy/dad things like cut the grass, clean the gutters, build tree houses and grill meat. All this makes me feel very manly... most of the time.

Tomorrow is different. Tomorrow I will be going to a princess party. What I have in store is lots and lots of little girls, all dressed in hot-pink princess regalia to celebrate our little friend Katie's birthday while playing in giant blowup castle bounce-houses. It is more than most men could handle, but being secure in my masculinity, I am ok.

I love being a dad. I get to do all kinds of cool stuff and use my kids as an excuse. (like how I convinced Tina into letting me get Disney passes "for the kids".) This is one of these things. Hopefully, I can be manly and still tea-party with the best of them. And just wait until they get me into that giant moonwalk!

(I just hope that at least the cake is not pink!)