A few more fun pictures from our trip...

Look who's on a roll now!

Here is part of our big gang that was down in Florida...in addition to our own family, we have Uncle Brett, Aunts Sarah and Erin and Uncle Rich. We were posing during our ice cream eating. :)
Do we look like sisters??

Holy cow, Ethan is beyond excited to be at his favorite restaurant Da Ru Ma....the Japanese steakhouse near our condo. Bring on the the food!!!!

Ahhhh...a peaceful morning on the Gulf. How I wish I could be back there right now!

Beautiful little Claire at our Christmas Brunch.

It's a miracle......

OK....my computer FINALLY cooperated with me. And wouldn't you know, it was a practice run with the pictures I chose so let's just see what we have here. There is so much to catch up on that I think I may just move forward and not go back to all the xmas ones.

We drove to Florida again this year - 23 hours in the car with 3 kids straight through the night. They did remarkably well and slept most of the night. We had fantastic weather while we were there and lots of fun each day. Here are Ethan and Anna in front of the Ritz-Carlton hotel, which is just up the way from our condo. They hire a castle-builder for the week b/w Christmas and New Years. We walk down and check out the progress each day.

Here we are after a great dinner at The Dock. I don't know where the rest of my kids are! :)

This picture will give you a good clue about what our big gift was this year for the kids (and secretly for ourselves). We have all loved having a wii - even Joel who didn't really want it in the first place but now golfs every night. We have all had sore arms from boxing and tennis and the kids love Mario Kart and have gotten really good.

This is a classic Christmas Eve pose....Anna and Ethan eating so many strawberries w/powdered sugar they're about to burst. No sugar highs in this house! :)

This was also Christmas Eve. Gigi and Papa's church has an "unrehearsed" Xmas pagent (sp?) and the girls love to dress up as angels. They were very sweet. Ethan is now "too old" for this stuff plus HATES doing anything new in front of a crowd.

Now that my computer seems to be a bit more agreeable I will see if I can post more regularly again....Thanks for not giving up on me!