My sister Jackie came to visit us over Christmas. Jake and Sydney were more excited for her to come than they were for Christmas day. The love her!! She is one fun aunt!! We kept busy playing as well as being lazy and enjoying the holidays.
Decorating Christmas cookies
We went to the beach a few times. It was abnormally cold for Florida while she was here but still plenty nice. There were a few days that were warm enough to head out to the beach. We actually went out on Christmas day for quite awhile. Jackie and Mike were crazy and spent lots of time boogie boarding.
Bizarro's Pizza on the beach! Love white pizza.
sand man
Christmas morning!!
On left below: Sydney is Mary, Jackie is the donkey, Jake is Joseph pulling the donkey, and of course Buddy is baby Jesus:)
On Right below: our Christmas tree
On left: We all went to the driving range to hit golf balls. Jake trying out his new golf clubs he got from Christmas
On right: Jackie and Sydney taking Buddy for a walk
The day after Christmas we went to Orlando and stayed one night at the Gaylord Palms. We went to their Ice and Snow exhibits while there, which is fun for us Floridians since there is no snow at Christmas. 9 degrees is cold. The ice sculptures were amazing.
Playing in the snow!
Love how the hotel is decorated and loved the entertainment. We ate at a really good buffet there for my birthday. Lots of yummy food.
snow ball fight
On the way home from Orlando, we stopped at Harvey's Groves and bought #2 Honey Bells. So good! They are called #2 because they don't look pretty enough to ship to stores so you can get them cheap in bags. They taste the same. Honey Bells only come on one month out of the year. We had fun juicing some of them in our new juicer my parents gave us for Christmas. Mike has been going juice crazy around here:)
Jackie posing with the oranges
Since it was so cold here, we were able to go see the manatee huddled together trying to keep warm. So sad!! They aren't use to cold temperatures. They are so amazing!!
For my birthday, Jackie took Sydney and I to get pedicures with her. Jackie and I are quite simple girls and had NEVER gotten one before. So... we figured we'd try it together. Thanks Jackie!! We had fun and our feet felt great. Those poor workers had years of calluses to scrape off of us.
Before Jackie left, we had to got to Sea World. Love that place! Here is some pictures of the kids and Jackie feeding the dolphins.
And last - might as well put some embarrassing video of us dancing to Sydney's new Wii game - Just Dance 2. These were some of our first tries at these songs. We definitely need to do them more. Lots of room for improvement! We laughed a lot.
Sydney & Jackie
Jackie & Kendra - obviously Sydney was doing the video:)
No comments:
Post a Comment