Christmas 2008

Christmas morning began with Arianna and Bernie opening all of their presents that Santa brought to them. This included many art and coloring sets, a tool workbench,a tent, a princess bike, a ball pit, and much more!

Marty prepared a wonderful breakfast which we enjoyed with my parents. Of course, they came bearing more gifts including a fun puzzle pull toy, farm set, tools, awesome bath fizzies and squirting pigs for the bath.

We had some of Mom's homemade brownie, in which we put candles in and sang Happy Birthday to Jesus.

After a 3 hour nap, we headed to Marty's parents house for presents and Christmas dinner. We wrapped up the day with some fun time on their patio with eggnog and a small fire overlooking the bay. What a great ending to a wonderful day!

Thank you everyone for a wonderful Christmas!

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Who says you can't use your Christmas present early?

Today was a beautiful 60 degree day in sunny Florida, so the kids and I decided to take advantage of that and my new Christmas present!





Arianna looking at the camera for once





Who needs modeling school?
I got the moves.




I asked Arianna to go sit by her brother
and this is what she did!

Thanks Marty for sacrificing for so long so I could get this great new camera!

Our Tree is UP!

Thanksgiving

Last week Josh and Ashley came to visit us! Thankfully, after all of their car troubles, they finally made it here in a trusty rental car.

My family may be weird, but we celebrated Thankgiving on Monday night so we could all be together without any work schedules conflicting. Mom made all of the wonderful dinner and Ashley made her first pumpkin and pecan pies. I know the pumpkin was delish!

Tuesday we headed to Universal Studios/Islands of Adventure thanks to Dad and his free tickets from Chick-fil-A.

Below are a few pictures from the day aka Arianna and BJ in Dr. Seuss-land.

Thanksgiving day we enjoyed some time at home with the four of us until Marty had to work at 5pm. However, he gets to work and found out he didn't need to be there afterall, so he joined the rest of us at his parent's house for yummy food.

While Dad and Mom, Josh and Ashley were getting up at 3 am to serve Chick-fil-A at the mall on Black Friday, I was with Marty's sisters racking up the bargains at Toys R US. $10 for a box of diapers!

Unfortunately, Friday night we had to say goodbye to Josh and Ashley. I think Arianna bonded with Ashley like best friends. By the end of their time here, Arianna pretty much imitated Ashley's every move. I'm thankful for such a great brother and sister who love to spend such quality time with their niece and nephew every time they are around.