OUR 9 YEAR ANNIVERSARY

Justin and I Anniversary dinner

Justin and I ready to go to celebrate our Anniversary

Justin and I at Simon and Seaforts

Its been nine years

I dont know if you can read this but it was -19 degrees outside. We live in an icebox.

Today was Justin and I's nine year anniversary. The kids were nice to let us sleep in until 1030am thats only because they were up playing with some of their new toys to almost midnight last night. We spent the day with the kids showing them how to use their tag reading systems and laying with them with some of their new toys and Justin hooked up our new dvd player and we watched kung fu panda. Then we had a babysitter for the kids for the evening and Justin and I were actually able to go out by ourselves without the kids. We went to Simon and Seaforts which is a very fancy steak and seafood restaurant that has the best food. We started off with crab cakes for our appetizer and Justin had Alaskan crab and hallibit for dinner and I had prime rib. Our table was decorated in rose petals and we had a seat right by the window overlooking the inlet. For dessert we got a complimentary dessert of creme brulle which was out of this world and I usually dont eat dessert but this was good. After dinner, Justin and I went to the movies and saw the new Wil Smilth movie seven pounds. Not really knowing much about the movie before seeing it. The movie turned out to be a very good movie with great acting. We had a very nice evening and came home to the kids having fun playing with their new moonsand with the babysitter. She said the kids showed her all their new toys from the holidays and we very well behaved while we were gone which made us happy cause hopefully she will want to come back and watch them another time so we can have another date night in the future.

EIGHTH NIGHT OF HANUKKAH

Last night of Hanukkah

Daniel lighting all the candles

Hailey and her barbie cruise ship

Daniel and his Diego Rescue Mountain

Daniel and his Diego jeep and winch

South Beach Barbie

Hailey and her South Beach Barbie doll

Tonight was the last night of Hanukkah. We saved the kids biggest Hanukkah presents for last. They have been wondering for a whole week what these could be. Thank you very much Grandpa and Grandma. Hailey loves her South Beach barbie doll and Barbie cruise ship. It's really neat just like a real cruise ship. It has a cabin that the bed converts into an entertainment center and a swimming pool with real working water and a jacuzzi and a disco that really plays music and of course the spinning buffet just like the midnight buffets on an actual cruise ship. Hailey is using her south Beach barbie on the ship and her royal caribean barbie she brought him from our cruise last summer. Daniel loves his Diego rescue dinosaur mountain and diego dinosaur transport jeep with actual working winch. Daniel said right away the jeep had the same thing that Daddy has on his real jeep. The kids had two very nice holidays and the best way to end the holidays was the Dolphins winning today and making it into the playoffs. GO DOLPHINS. We hope everyone has had as good a holiday season as we did and we wish everyone A Very Happy New Year. As we are going to take all our decorations down tomorrow and put away till next year.

SEVENTH NIGHT OF HANUKKAH

The kids opening their Hanukkah stocking

Hailey lighting the menorah

Daniel lighting the menorah

Hailey has Zack's Hanukkah present

Daniel has Storm's hanukkah present

Daniel has Mr Beans Hanukkah present and Oscar got a thing of fish food

Hailey got a sleeping beauty horse

Daniel got kung fu panda

Tonight was the seventh night of Hanukkah. After the kids lit the menorah we were able to get on the web camera with Great Uncle Bernie. He watched as the kids opened their presents. Daniel got kung fu panda that walks and talks and fights and Hailey got sleeping beauty's horse to go along with her sleeping beauty doll she got a few nights ago. Thank you Grandpa and Grandma. Zack, Storm, Mr. Beans, and Oscar also enjoyed opening their Hanukkah presents and Storm even came downstairs to see Uncle Bernie on the camera along with Zack and Mr. Beans. We also want to Thank Uncle larry, Aunt Joni, Jordan, and Hayley the kids loved their stickers and can't wait to go to Target to go shopping and use their gift cards. Tonight im going to attempt to make the kids some more potato latkes so they can eat them one more time before the holiday ends. Hopefully I dont set the smoke detector off this time around. Tomorrow will end the holiday and then the holidays will be over for another year. We look forward to getting on the camera for the last night tomorrow night with Grandma and Grandpa as the kids open their big Hanukkah presents after the Dolphins hopefully kick the Jets butts tomorrow. Go Dolphins!!!!

SIXTH NIGHT OF HANUKKAH

Tonight was the sixth night of Hanukkah. The kids opened their big Hanukkah present from Mommy and Daddy. They each got a tag reading system and 3 books to go aong with their tag readers. Daniel got a dinosaur book, king fu panda book, and a book called Walter the farting dog goes on a cruise. He loves the orginal Walter the farting dog book and since hes going to be going on his second cruise this summer we thought hed like it. Hailey got a little mermaid book, miss spider's sunny patch kids tea party, and chicka chicka boom boom cause she loves that children's book and always has me read it to her. The kids also opened their presents from their cousins Joe, Alison, Ben, Lily, and Max. Daniel loved his transformers walkie talkies and spiderman school set and Hailey loved her pink barbie cell phone and princess school set. It is snowing pretty badly here and they even say we could be in blizzard warning later tonight. So we will be styaing inside today and most likely the rest of the weekend. The kids are keeping busy playing with all their new Hanukkah and Christmas presents and not really complaining much about staying inside.

CHRISTMAS DAY

Santa was here

The kids in their new diner

Thank you Aunt Tami and family for our new bath toys and towels

I got scene it for the x -box 360

Love my new Vera Bradley laptop bag thank you Mom and Dad W

Love my new coach purse and change purse

I guess I was a good girl this year

Justin got rock band 2 and some game points

Justin got more video games and movies

Justin got a way cool Rickey Williams Dolphins jersey Thank yoy Mom and Dad W

Hailey checking out the diner

Hailey got a bunny rabbit from Santa

Hailey loves her crawling pinkie pie pony Thank you Grandma Cindy and Pap-Pap

Hailey pretending to cook some food on the kids new diner

Daniel preparing some food in their new diner

Hailey got the swim with me puppy she asked Santa for

Daniel got the tumbles the dog fur real pet he asked Santa for

Daniel loves his new batman batcave Thank you Grandma Cindy and Pap-Pap

Hailey's pile of gifts from Santa

Daniel's pile of gifts from Santa

We had a very good Christmas. The kids slept in until 10am and then they came in our room and asked us if they could go downstairs and see if Santa came. We had been tracking Santa all night on the computer and last time we checked before they went to bed he was in Arizona. Well Santa did come and he brought the kids lots of goodies. The first thing they saw when they got downstairs was a 50's diner kitchen/restaurant. They loved it. They had just recently gotten rid of their dora kitchen cause they were getting too old for it. This diner even had a small booth for them to sit and pretend to eat with a real working jukebox on the table. Daniel was very excited to get the fur real pet dog tumbles that rolls over and the air hogs rc gravity race car that climbs the walls and ceilings. He also got some computer games, and movies, and benderoos, and moon sand, some dinosaur and diego toys and a hulk transformer from his sister. Hailey got the swim with me puppy which she asked for everytime she saw santa, the my little pony amusement park, my little pony remote control scooter, a hannah montana make up glam kit and singing hairbrush, some computer games, and movies, benderoos also, 2 new pair of earrings, and a singing Hannah Montana doll from her brother. I was very happy with my new coach purse to go along with my coach wallet I got for Hanukkah and a coach change purse the kids got me. I also got the dvd Mama Mia and the xbox 360 game scene it. Justin got Rock Band 2, Shaun White snowboarding for the wii, iron man and journey to the center of the earth movies, and a very nice leather jacket he wanted. Santa also remebered Zack, Storm, Oscar, and even Mr. Beans even thought he has been on the bad list lately. We were very happy to get on the web cam today also with Grandma Cindy and Pap Pap and Aunt Tami, Uncle Kerry, Angel, Daulton, and Lindsey. Thank you for all our Christmas presents as well. Justin loves his Ricky Williams Dolphing Jersey and I love my new vera bradley laptop bag and Taylor Swift Cd. Daniel loves all his new batman stuff and him and Sissy have been playing Gator Golf all night. Hailey loves her leapster and princess stuff and is taking her crawling pinkie pie pony to bed with her tonight. After a long day of opening presents and putting stuff together the kids are finally winding down and getting ready for bed. We hope everyone had a very happy holiday and we are looking forward to 3 more nights of Hanukkah and then the holidays will be over for another year.

FIFTH NIGHT OF HANUKKAH

Today was a very big day for the kids. It was the fifth night of Hanukkah as well as Christmas today. Most years Christmas and Hanukkah do not fall on the same day but this year Hanukkah ran right through Christmas. Tonight for the fifth night of Hanukkah Hailey opened a sleeping beauty doll from Grandpa and Grandma and Daniel opened a pirateland matchbox cars playset. I will write a much longer blog on Christmas a little later once I get the kiddos up to bed. They have had a very long day.