Happy New Year!

Yummy dinner at Bonefish and then a few dance moves in the parking lot. Can't see the license plate clearly, but we're gearing up for "our" game tomorrow. Happy New Year to all and, Go Seminoles!!!

Merry Christmas (a few days late!)

We were at my Mom's for Christmas. It rained most of the day, but that was really fine by us since we stayed in our jammies all day! We did shower and dress for Christmas dinner........probably only because my sister and her family were coming over!! :) Katey was beyond excited the night before.......more heightened when we heard Santa's jingle bells right outside the bedroom window!! I explained to her that Santa was probably just doing a "fly over" to make sure she was in Sarasota and not Tampa. She woke up 3-4 times throughout the night and then was up for good at 5! (ugh!) I finally let her drag me out of bed closer to 6 (again, ugh!) and let her tear into her stocking. Fortunately, she has the biggest stocking on earth so there were lots of little goodies in there to open, which took some time. I made her wait until 7 to wake my Mom up to open the other gifts. She got everything she asked Santa for (an animal book and a journal......easy child!) and then (of course) a TON of other stuff. Mom made (yes, made) all of the kiddies blankets which were the hit of the day. Can't believe it's over for another year........Katey has begged to leave the tree up for a while and since I don't have any desire to tackle that project any time soon, I said ok! :)

The Nutcracker, starring SUSAN! (well, to us!)

We went down to Sarasota yesterday to see Susan in The Nutcracker ballet. She was wonderful! The rest of the show was ok ;) but our star was SUSAN! So grown up and graceful!!! Katey, Maggie and Bruce were real troopers through the 2+ hour show.....!!!

Worth the trouble?

That's a good question. I thought it was a messy ordeal. Katey thinks it is perfect. So, worth the trouble? Absolutely!!! :)

Ho Ho Ho!

We headed over to the mall after school yesterday, hoping that the line to see Santa wouldn't be wrapped around and around like it was on Saturday. We were in luck and were 2nd in line. Katey snuck Rudolph out of the car and by the time I realized it, we were halfway across the parking lot........Friday afternoon, too tired to fight it. Santa seemed pleased to see Rudolph and Katey had a smile ready so all ended well. Same Santa every year.......gotta love the consistency.....and no questions about why he looks different! Hopefully will get a few more years of "Santa!"