Posts Tagged ‘Christmas’

Merry Christmas–FL style!

Sunday, December 28th, 2008
Susan and her mom shelling at Lover's Key Beach (Elli's shadow)

Susan and her mom shelling at Lover's Key Beach (Elli's shadow)

Paul and I returned from Christmas with my family in Ft Myers, FL (they have a condo down there). Elli and Michael (and of course Zoe the Zygote) were there too. We arrived on the 25th in the evening and just got back tonight (Sunday) about an hour ago. Here was the basic schedule:

Wake @ 7:30am; exercise til about 10-ish; big breakfast; pool time (80 degrees and no clouds); dinner (we rotated which couple cooked); games; bed about 9pm. That’s right folks–I almost got my 12 hours/night of sleep!

Other activities that were interspersed were shopping (Paul bought Life is Good pj pants and a ball for Maggie), reading (yep–Paul too!!), shelling (girls only–the picture shown) and napping (ok, mostly me there). It was very relaxing.

We are both off tomorrow, and we have the kids so we are planning some activites: pool, movie and getting the kids their library cards!! I promise we will blog about their birthdays and celebrating Christmas–there is so much to tell and so many pix, its hard to narrow it down to a blog.

Does Santa Wrap Your Presents? [Poll]

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008

When Susan and I were talking about Christmas presents she was surprised to hear that presents from Santa were wrapped. Santa always brought my presents wrapped so I was curious what he did for everyone else.

Does Santa Wrap Presents

  • No (53%, 9 Votes)
  • Yes (47%, 8 Votes)

Total Voters: 17

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Extreme Makeover–Gingerbread Edition, v5

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

gingerbread-party

Lauren and Elliot Blue host THE most awesome fundraiser EVER each year at Christmas: a gingerbread party! For $25 you get a blank house, all the “fixings” and food and drink (including beer and wine for those so inclined). Last year I went as a single 33 year old crazy cat lady, this year I am a 34 year old married mother of 2. What? What a difference a year makes. What a difference kids make at the G-bread party! Here is the picture that Buck (the official from our wedding) took. We did not have any other pix–I dropped our camera and it is busted. I can’t even talk about it. We are back to the old camera for the kids’ birthdays and Christmas and who knows what else.

Life Is Not Fair

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

Well it looks like Tyler and I are both getting motorcycles for Christmas.

Susan has also seen first hand now that kids are sponges and anything you say will come back at some point. Recently Anna was saying something that Tyler wasn’t interested and his response was “blah, blah, blah”. Later that day Susan was joking with me and said blah blah blah to me…it immediately hit her that he got that from her.

Now back to the motorcycles. We were on our way to my mom’s house to have a birthday party for the kids, and Tyler was talking about us getting motorcycles for Christmas. Susan told him the same thing that she has been saying ever since he first brought it up a few weeks ago, “sorry, but you two can’t get motorcycles.” (I like the idea of getting a motorcycle so I don’t like this answer either :) ). His response was “sorry Susan, life isn’t fair– we are getting motorcycles”.  So December 25th Tyler and I will be excited to get up and see that Santa brought us our motorcycles!

Tis the Season!

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008

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