It's about time

Can you believe our first visitors happened to be friends that we haven't seen in almost seven years? I'm telling you...Florida calls when the snow starts to fall. Anyway, we were so excited to see long time college friends and their four children (two of them we had never met). We had such a fun time even though it lasted for only two short days.

We spent some time at the beach. It was terribly windy that day and the tide was rough.






The kids were able to feed the sting rays and explore the touch tanks at the oceanographic center.







Our pool is freezing! How the kids manage to swim in it is beyond me. I would have never guessed (before moving here) that 70/80 degree weather is not enough to keep a pool warm in the "winter". We ate lunch at the Marriott so we could take advantage of their heated pool.










Our kids had so much fun, we were sad to see them go. From what I've heard they were sad to go too. They returned home to an ice storm and were unfortunate to have their power (equals heat) out for two days. Sorry gang, we feel for you, come back to us so you can thaw out. Seriously, let's do this again soon.

Come and gone

Is it time to sit back and relax yet? Please tell me it is. We spend months planning and anticipating a day that comes and goes in a blink of an eye. Months and months of planning and then it's gone and in the end we're left with tired feet, drained bank accounts and left over fruit cake. Is anyone else exhausted? Me too. I feel beat, defeated, and maybe a little sad that it's already over.


Friends from the neighborhood came over Christmas Eve to decorate cookies for Santa.






Christmas morning, bright and early.










We've met such wonderful people here. We were invited to celebrate and have Christmas dinner with friends.






In the end it was a perfect day. Though we celebrated the holidays so very far from family we were still able to have a memory filled Christmas. From our family to yours, Happy holidays hope your day was full of excitment and cheer.

Oh the weather outside is frightful...

How exciting it was watching a truck full of frozen ice turn into snow. Yep that's right, snow, beautiful man made snow. You people in the frozen tundra are calling us crazy but that's how we (the people of Florida) celebrate the holidays, or so we're finding out. What a wonderful day when you can take a break from the busy holiday fuss and enjoy a good snowball fight, in flip flops!



I will say that it didn't look right to me when the holiday decorations started coming out and the temperature display read 80 degrees. Seemed a bit not right however we're adjusting and Christmas? Well... Christmas is Christmas no matter your surroundings and Santa well, he hangs out here in Florida too.