December Highlights Part 1

After I posted last night, I realized that there were so many fun things we did this December that I wanted to remember. Most of my pictures are missing or pretty awful.  Poor pictures shouldn’t keep me from putting my memories down, though. Since this is a diary of sorts, I feel like I need to do a December round up.
On December 8th my lovely friend, Stef, had a milestone birthday and her husband outdid himself with a surprise party.  We all went to Rose Island and had quite a fiesta at Sandy Toes.  I took 4 pictures.  We were there for over 6 hours, but 4 pictures is all I managed


And one of my pictures is of the pig!
It was such a fun time, that most of the pictures would not have been great for our family blog!
Speaking of family, our Elf, Scout, had to keep tabs on our boys who bordered on crazy each and every day in December!

We participated in Junior Junkanoo again this year and it was fantastic.  Too bad I forgot my camera and used my cell phone camera to capture this ONE  picture!

and a couple from the good ol internets

On December 15th we went with our friends to see the Festival of Lights.  My pictures don’t do it justice.  The thought and effort that went into preparing these boats for the display is huge!




These pictures were taken from the internets!

Some other friends were following us in their boat.  The kids were so excited to see each other!


Again, we were directly under the fireworks. It is amazing, but please don’t try this at home!


The water was pretty rough, but we had an amazing captain and we were in the best hands!
I also hosted my second annual cookie exchange and decorating party.

We each brought cookies to exchange and we also decorated sugar cookies.  So much fun!

Here is Viviane all gammed up and wearing her daughter’s apron!
It was a wonderful night  with super fun friends!
Whew!  That has me worn out already.  Are your eyes hurting from all the “stunning” photography yet?  Part 2 coming soon where I promise even more mediocre photography and better photography stolen from other people!

Merry Christmas

It is just a few days left until Christmas, so I think I’m going to take the next few days off from blogging.  Until we meet again!

Lego Land Day 2

I know that you thought I had covered it all in my first post about Lego Land, but there’s still more (said in my best Bob Barker voice)!
It was about 2 hours into our first day that we addressed that we were not going to have time to do everything that we wanted to do in just one day.  We made the decision to let the boys do anything and everything they wanted to do.  We only got them to a few shows that were scheduled, other than that we just went wherever their hearts wanted. 
And it was Awesome!



The boys were able to meet a few of the Lego characters and they were so delighted!!  This is Buddy.

The things that Miller told him….


This is Max.  The boys had gotten Max shirts the day before and were wearing them that day, so you can just imagine seeing Max while wearing Max shirts!!

I think that we have a couple of roller coaster lovers in the family!



We rode all the rides over and over again, but on this one you could score points by shooting colored lights. Who won, you ask? It is not the one who is smiling in the picture. It is the one with the “eye of the tiger”!
There were just two rides that Miller wasn’t tall enough to ride, so we did some things in Duplo Land

MiniLand has Lego sized representations of famous landmarks.  The details are amazing!
So glad that Miller finally got to see the Statue of Liberty!  Ha ha!

We caught the shows.  This one was called “The Big Test”.    Of course they loved it!  Jackson was all about being in the “wet zone” at all the shows!

By far their favorite show was Captain Brickbeard’s Adventure.  LegoLand is on the sight of Cypress Gardens, which had a famous skiing show.  Captain Brickbeard’s adventure was on the same lake and the skiing was impressive.

Jackson was fortunate enough to be able to man one of the water cannons!  The boy was in total heaven!

He was tickled pink when he got to shoot the pirate in the bottom and the armpit!

Miller thought it was awesome too!  he just wasn’t willing to get wet to get in on the action.
Afterwards they got to meet three of the Characters from the show

Miller told her some very interesting things.  Look at the face of the pirate who is listening to him!! 
We have told everyone who has asked and many that haven’t asked what a fantastic place LegoLand is.  We would go there again and again.  The lines were virtually non existent and the whole place was made for kids!
We’ll be back!