Christmas 2008

We had a great Christmas time with my family visiting from CA, including my brother! Prior to Christmas my parents took our family on a 3 day Disney cruise to celebrate mom's 65th birthday and their 40th anniversary. We all had a wonderful time and as I sit here today I can't believe a week ago I was sailing out in the Bahamas. Christmas day in Florida gave the CA people a taste of our humid weather, but it has dried off now and we are hearing about a cold spell coming through this week. Also as I type, Jason is sitting in the Salt Lake City airport. His plane left FL at 6:30 this morning and arrived in Salt Lake around 11 (9 their time) and found out his next flight had been canceled....he has spent the day trying to get on a flight. As of right now he has a boarding pass for the 9pm flight, we are keeping our fingers crossed. He has said that Christmas next year will be in his apartment. Hopefully this is like childbirth and he will not remember the bad part of the trip and board a plane again in the future.

The kids are enjoying their presents, a favorite is the Wii. They had no idea it existed before Christmas and we have a hard time keeping Nathan off of it. He has mastered bowling and is working on the baseball.

The Big 7!

Andrew had a great day at school for his birthday. In the morning he shopped at the Holiday Shop for his family (I was there to help guide the purchases so we did not get Sour Patch kids...). His class sang to him, his birthday was announced in the morning announcements and he shared cookies with his class in the afternoon. This was an issue with me, a couple of months ago the district decided that all food going into the school had to be bought and brought in unopened packaging. I really liked baking for his events at school and am sad I can not do this anymore...

We went to chick-fil-a for a quick dinner before his cub scout meeting to try the peppermint chocolate chip shakes....not so good. I don't know if they guy who made it put in too much peppermint or if that is the way it is suppose to taste, but it was way too strong. Almost like drinking pepto bismal with chocolate.

A Pirate Party

Andrew celebrates his 7th birthday this month. Yesterday we had a fun party for him. Six of his friends came to help him celebrate. Thank goodness we had wonderful weather (last Sunday we had squalling winds and rain!). They had a treasure hunt and decorated their own cookies and cupcakes. Andrew was up early this morning to play with his new toys.

Fun with our cousins

My Aunt and Uncle came down to Disney last week along with my cousin Katie and her family. We were able to meet up with them on Wednesday evening at Epcot and on Thursday evening at Studios. Although the week started out cold it never rained and I think they all had a good time. The lights at Studios are really pretty, that is where the shots are from.