Santa Pictures

I think everyone was shocked at the portrait studio tonight. These pictures were excellent compared to last years pictures. She listened to what they asked her to do and she was SO happy to be with Santa.

Holiday Decorations

We have been working hard to get the decorations up and the house together for the tour (in 11 days!). Here are a few pictures of the progress.

Front Room Tree (technically this room is the 'library', but I have a hard time calling it that when we don't have one single book in there :))


Ornament Details







Front Porch


Looking into the family room from the front porch. This tree still needs ornments.

Happy Thanksgiving!

We've had a wonderful day. Everyone (but me) was sleeping by 8PM tonight. Avery missed her nap today and Scott, well he is always tired. Poor guy is cursed with not being able to sleep in, so he HAS to go to bed early.

After 10 hours of sleep last night (finally!) we got up around 6:30 and starting making the cheese rounds and squash casserole. Even after quadroupling the SQ recipe, cooking the cheese rounds and getting ready, we were able to get out of the house by 10:00. :)

We got over to Cedar Key and hung out with the family and got everything ready to eat. Caryn and Shawn's house is looking so nice. They're just about done with the addition.

We stuffed ourselves with some pretty tasty food and afterwards headed down to a new boardwalk and walked around the marshy areas. The lighting was nice, so I snapped a few pics (below).

Like a crazy woman, I'm contemplating going shopping tomorrow. I need to get another tree for the family room. I had planned to get a real tree, but now that I have these fake trees, I'm in love. I can't believe I waited this long. I want to do those big old-fashioned bulbs on the family room tree, just with our ornaments that we have collected over the years. No color or ornament theme - just a plain old tree.

I plan to share the house decorating pictures this weekend. We should be able to make some progress tomorrow.

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving with your families.

Swinging on the porch swing

Turkey bow!

These girls were so sweet together - lots of hugs. :)

Scott found a fiddler crab and of course had to pick him up. Avery didn't like him much.

Back from Disney Part 3

Just went down the slide - check out the hair


Splashing in the water with Nathan

Avey and Alexis enjoying the pool- this was a GREAT kids pool at the resort

We decided to go to Mickey's Very Merry Christmas party on our last night there. A cold front came through and it was pretty chilly. Here she has 1/2 awake (she took a late nap and we had to wake her up) watching the parade.

These pictures aren't the best. These are all from the holiday parade

Back from Disney Part 2

This is one of the shows we watched. Avery was mesmerized.



Watching with Daddy



Playing in Pooh's Corner


I caught them tasting the honey from the honey pots!





Piglet Saying HI


This picture is SO blurry (wrong setting on the camera), but she is SO happy to be with Tigger, I just had to share it.


Avery with Pooh


This stage coach was outside the resort. She loved getting up in it.


Playing at the playground at the resort