Florida - Part 3

Helloooo! 
I AM still alive!
I have been so very busy doing the things people do during the holidays, so I really haven't had any time to sit down and blog. 

I wanted to share the last set of Florida pics before I moved onto all my Christmasy pics.
I promise I won't wait so long in between posts again. (maybe)

See you soon!

Thanksgiving

I decided to take a little break from posting Florida pictures and show you a little of what went on around here for Thanksgiving.

My goal this year was to decorate cheap (as in free).
For name cards, I cut up a Trader Joe's bag into the shapes of little leaves, wrote everyone's names on them, and tied them onto the napkins with twine.

My mom brought a bunch of Indian corn, so I made a corn garland using twine and hung it on our dining room mirror.

John's mom brought flowers for the table.

My sweet friend, Megan, quilted me a runner for my birthday. 
It looked great on our table!

John's mom brought a cute turkey to put flowers in for the food table.

Oh, the food was pretty good, too! :)

My dad made sugar free/gluten free desserts that were DELICIOUS!!
He made a pumpkin pie . . .

 . . . and a cheesecake (low carb, too!!).

If you would like the recipes for these, just e-mail me at FiveKoz@sbcglobal.net .

Florida - part 2

Oh my!!

I took almost 600 pics while we were at Disney.  I chose a few of my favorites to share with you.

We went to Animal Kingdom the first day.

We got completely SOAKED on the river rapids ride.

Expedition Everest was a favorite ride and we didn't have to wait in line at all for it!!

We saw tons of animals on the safari ride. Caroline really liked that.

Goofy posed with us.

Pocahontas was so sweet to Caroline.

Jake discovered funnel cakes.

Minnie was sooo sweet.

Minnie's float in the Christmas parade was piping out chocolate smell . . .mmmmm.

The kids got Mickey's autograph.

The second day, we headed over to the Magic Kingdom.

On our way to the Magic Kingdom.

We took the ferry.

There it is!!

We finally made it to the Magic Kingdom!!

Caleb loved the "It's a Small World" ride.  Uncle Colin and Auntie Diane did, too. :)

I would go on this ride again just to watch the look on the kids' faces as they looked around at everything.

We had to go on the teacups!! Can I say . . . d i z z y ??

Big Thunder Mountain . . . a favorite.

I completely remember this bridge as a child.  So fun!

Turkey legs anyone??

I really could not keep my eyes off of the castle at night. . . .

. . . and it kept changing colors.

Yes . . . it SNOWED on Main Street USA . . . magical indeed.  Like goose bump magical.



 . . . to be continued . . .

Florida part 1

Whew! . . . Thanksgiving is over already!
(now it's CHRISTMAS TIME!!)
Before I post pics of  Thanksgiving, I wanted to share some pics of our Florida trip.
This was one of the most exciting parts of our trip.
The kids had never flown before (Jake did when he was a baby) so they were pretty nervous.  Once we got up in the air, they were fine.

When we got to our resort, the kids swam for a while in the water park.

We all enjoyed the palm trees that were everywhere.

Our resort was lovely.

Caroline managed to catch a gecko, which she brought in the tub to play with. (can you see it on her finger??)

There it is!!

Luke and Caleb enjoyed "making cookies" on the iphone cookie app.  (sooo cute!!)

We went to bed in anticipation of going to Disney's Animal Kingdom the next day.

To be continued . . .