Honey Bells

I have been watching commercials for Honeybells for the past few years. This year it was on our Christmas list. Honeybells for those who don't know are cross between a tangerine and a grapefruit. Honeybells come to their ripeness in January, so we had to wait for ours. They are so good. Very juicy (hence they ship with a bib)






YUM!

Christmas Cactus???

I have two Christmas Cactus plants. They have bloomed in the past, but this year, I have lots and lots of blooms. They just started blooming about a week ago, and they keep getting more....




So, they can't read the calendar....maybe they should be MLK Day Cactus? Doesn't matter to me, I like them.

Napping

So you know I was sick. Well I coughed so hard, I actually pulled a muscle in my back. So one afternoon, I laid on the floor with an icepack on my back and a blanket. I discovered Stormy wanted to cuddle up too. So I let her be all covered up too. Kevin snapped this of the two of us.

Happy Birthday Pauline

Pauline is now 18 years old! Yea! Hope she has a great day.

We really look forward to her visiting in:

What is it 2011 already?

Ok so I have been "out". Let me give you some updates...to catch you back up....

Before Christmas...Kevin had a birthday, we took a day off work, went to Denver, did some shopping had a great dinner out and came home.

Christmas....had all the family here. Big group, great food, fun.

Then it all turned......The sickness fell in.

First I had it and was in bed for a few days (not how I dreamed of spending my vacation), then it spread around the house and all 4 of us have had it.

New Years Eve...in bed by 10, sick

New Years Day...stayed home and tried to get well.

Back to work for 2011, busy as usual, still recovering from illness. I think we are all now down to that point where you just have an annoying cough leftover.

This coming weekend is a holiday weekend, plan to take it a little easy, and finally put some Christmas stuff away, we haven't been able to do so yet.

So you can see while we haven't posted...there isn't much to say....

Stuffy Bears

Today we were talking with Mom and Dad, and we also got to talk to Kassidy. She made us some Stuffed bears and emailed them to us. The Pink Pirate for Kevin, and a Blue Cowgirl for me.

I have been wanting this

So for a long time I have wanted something like this....do you know what it is?


Can you see the Mickey's? Yes this is my Mickey fabric...


This is a place for me to store and display my watches. Cool right? I love it!!
Thanks Mom for sewing the fabric and Kevin for helping me put it together and hanging it up.

Things have been hectic around here, but we did manage to get a few Christmas things up. We haven't finished completely and there aren't any outside yet, but it is a good start:

Yes there are two trees....one for me (Mickey) and one for Kevin :-)

Stormy

I posted about Deogi, and so to be fair, wanted to post about Stormy. She is very cute and sweet too (unless she is with Deogi, they still don't get along so are never together). I don't think these need anymore description.

Things..

When we were on vacation, Desirae had her third baby, Harlow. So while at Universal, we bought them all shirts....Thing 1, Thing 2, and Thing 3....(from the Cat in the Hat)

Thing1: Caelum
Thing 2: Josyln
Thing 3: Harlow

Caelum loved his shirt and was so proud to be Thing 1. Very cute:

Table

Since we have had our new table, we haven't yet put in all the leaves to seat a large group. We did that for Thanksgiving. It is a big table...yet still not big enough for our whole group...

Deogi

When we got back from vacation, we decided Deogi needed a play date, so we traded dogs with my brother for a few days. We sent Stormy to his house, and brought home Boo Boo (the yellow lab).

Boo Boo is a real sweet dog and she wasn't sure about how wild Deogi was at first but after a day or two, they decided they could play, and then they had a great time. The pictures are a little blurry, but as fast as they were running around and wrestling, they were sorta a blur in real time too.




Many of you know Deogi has a growth on her head and it is Bone Cancer. At this time she is doing fine and is still very active and happy and eats well etc....so we have decided her quality of life is more important than doing a bunch of expensive tests and putting her through all that pain. So the growth continues to grow, and we continue to watch her. She is so happy and sweet it breaks my heart sometimes. Here is the latest pictures of her.

How can you not love that face.....

Lemon Blossoms

I haven't done too much baking in the last few weeks (well none while on vacation :-) )


I last baked right before we left. I had my first paying customer. So yesterday while I was working (or should have been), I saw this recipe that Paula Deen made on foodtv.

Now I had most of the ingredients, so I made up the rest. They just sounded good with the Lemon....


Next up? Pumpkin Cheesecake for Kevin.

Deck update

It is done! OK, I know it looks like the other one, but hopefully this one is more sturdy and not made of defective product!

The Loot

This time on our trip I didn't really buy too much. Just a few small things for me and a bunch of silly gifts....

Walt Disney World

The main part of our vacation was spent at Walt Disney World. Kim and Ron are vacation club members so they know all the ins and outs and they shared with us.

We did have a lot of fun and some good meals.

Breakfast at Chef Mickey's

Oh and of course Kevin ended up in Jail....AGAIN

I hate Deadlines...but I think Walt Disney had a very unique vision and leadership style and I admire him for that. Then I find this.....I will let it pass

It was Halloween while we were there....


The lines weren't too long, but sometimes we had to entertain ourselves while waiting. I also had to be careful, Kim is a big line cutter and kept trying to cut in front of me ;-)
You know are are at Disney when you see the castle.

Outside the Christmas store, we think this should be their Christmas card.

Me and the love of my life. (I will let you sort that one out LOL)

Kevin liked Donald and Goofy here...but after this picture when I was posing with Donald, Donald looked at my wedding ring and pointed at Kevin and shook his head no, and then pointed at himself. I don't think Kevin is a fan of Donald anymore.

Its a bugs life, with our bug eyes



Kim's favorite character is Tigger. That is T-I-double G, rrrr


These green army men from toy story were so cool. They are Real men. I need a green army man like this one.

I know I said this last time I was at Hollywood studios, but I really NEED this too, in my yard.

One night at Epcot we ate in Germany. This is the little German village (for our German friends to see)



Is this a real drinking hat?

Pauline, we know you like big glasses...what do you think? Are they me?

Inside the restaurant.

We really had a great time and for once we took a vacation. That means we didn't constantly check email and phones, and we relaxed and enjoyed ourselves. Thanks again Kim and Ron, now we just need to get together to exchange photos. You can find more photos here, and when we trade photos we will post more too.