SARA-11 YRS

ALL EXCITED!!!We celebrated Sara's birthday on the 27th. She is now 11 years old...not sure how that happens so fast. She chose an ice cream cake and it was really good, but very hard to cut! Ruth got her a Hannah Montana card that plays one of her songs, and she got a Hannah Montana shirt, along with other things.

A Florida Christmas

We arrived at the Judd's the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring because the kids scared them so much! The stocking were hung by the pool with such care, in hopes that St. Nicholas would take the swimming dare. When what to our wondering eye should appear, but a tooth from our dear Ruth, it popped out without fear. Now off to bed they all scamper with a whine, wondering if Santa and the tooth fairy would share a ride.



Christmas in Florida is hot! We had a great time and loved all the sharing time, and gifts too. Santa and the tooth fairy did their thing.



MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL


We also made it to the beach and collected our share of shells.

A very Disney Christmas

We have returned form the land of make believe. Mickey sends his regards to all. Jeff and I are still recovering from 5 days, with a few days off in between, of sun rise to sun set Disney. The girls and I rode splash mountain a number of times and were totally soaked....a great thing when it is warm, but not so great in the winter. We loved thunder mountain next door too and by the 5th time, Sara rode with her arms in the air, and Ruth was finally opening her eyes. Both girls got to dance in the Lion King presentation. To the kid's thrill, High School Musical was doing a show at MGM and we watched it 3X! The girls got out and danced with the final number. One day we saw the opening time wrong, so we were there really early....first family there! Funny the second and third families also had very young girls from china...one home a year, and one home 2 months! Since we were the first family, we were escorted through the park before they opened and chose the safari ride and got a private safari trip with our own guide, and a fast pass for all day to that ride! The girls got to ride in the front of the monorail 5 times! The Polynesian Resort where we stayed was beautiful and had a heated pool with a huge water slide through a volcano! We all loved the animated talking turtle Crush at Epcot. We watched it twice. Sara loved the China section in Epcot and took photos of EVERYTHING there!

One day our friend Shirley and her daughter Fu, Mailia came for the day. Mailia came home the same day as Sara and lived in the same SWI and now lives near Orlando. Mailia is now 7. It was like they were never apart, except that there was no Chinese spoken, only English. Ruth enjoys Mailia too. They swam in the pool, played at the beach, played game cube, rode the monorail a few times. We left the 24th for Jeff''s parents house to be there for Christmas morning.

Christmas-early

We had our Christmas celebration last night, and this morning for the gifts I forgot where I had put!!! The girls were please and I managed to make sure that there was the same number of gifts for each. I think the biggest hit was a digital camera. Don't go crazy on me, they were not expensive, but can do a lot....technology is getting cheaper. These will come in handy at Disney World and they have been strictly advised that if lost, they are without until they get a job and earn the money to replace them....let's hope this threat works.

Happy birthday to me.

Today is my birthday....again. Jeff and I had a wonderful "date" night last Saturday--without kids--yea!!!! This was dinner and a movie. I highly recommend date night to all couples....it really helps with the sanity issue, and don't even pretend you do not know what I am talking about.

Florida Christmas

We will be heading to Disney World and Nana and Papa Judd's house for the holidays. We are so excited. The girls are mixed about being pulled out of school early. Ruth does not want to miss the parties, and Sara is sad anyday that is not a school day. We will be busy doing make up homework. Got the car ready for the trip today...ouch!

We are having really freaky weather. We go from 80-30-70-40....all in a 48 hour period. I have the windows open now to warm the house up, will need to close them and run the heater tonight, and the A/C in another day! This does explain the saying if you don't like the weather, wait a minute, it will change!

The leaves are rapidly changing and beautiful. These trees are at our church.

Sara's birthday party

Last night we had Sara's birthday party/sleep over. We had two girls come, and one spent the night. It worked out great. The girls played on the trampoline, ate pizza, did crafts, watched a movie, did cake and ice cream, played games, played math flash cards (only my kids), and were in bed and asleep by midnight. This morning I got up and we all went for doughnuts and then to church together.







My little sister Lisa came for a short visit with her daughter Angie, then another of my sisters Chris called for a visit....I guess I will call my other sister today so I can give my love to all of them.