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I just wanted to remind you that over to the right are links to online albums - I just added Christmas 08!

Love,
Cheryl

A Wonderful Christmas!

Well, despite the crazy economy, it turned out to be a very nice Christmas! This is the first Christmas in about 7 years that we had both Justin and Heather together!!!

We had a wonderful Christmas Eve - it was all about the kids! Charlee is just at the age where she totally was excited about Santa Clause!! It was so cute - we had her looking up in the sky for Santa and Rudolph!! She was so excited to come in the house and find that Santa had snuck into Mimi and Pap's house!

She just kept saying "This is the Best Christmas Ever!" lol Nothing like being with little ones on Christmas to make you believe the magic again!

And of course, this was Bailey's first Christmas!! Doesn't she look like a little CandyCane Elf?

It was such a nice Christmas Eve! By the end of the night - Bailey was pooped and comfortable in Pap's arms!!

Like Father - Like Son!

Christmas morning we woke up and had Heather and Alan over for Breakfast and then headed over their house for a wonderful Christmas Dinner and enjoyed a few movies and played Guitar Hero. At the end of the day - even Heather was pooped - lol!

That's what it is all about - being with the ones you love. So, it was the most Wonderful Christmas as we were together with the ones we love!!!

Definitely the Holiday Season!

Geez Louise - where does the time go?!! Hard to believe Christmas is just 10 days away - and I haven't even STARTED shopping!! At least Christmas cards are done and I have started to bake cookies, but soooo much to do!! What an awesome Christmas it is going to be with Heather and Alan here and the our new little addition, Bailey!!

We got to spend last weekend with Justin, Krista, Charlee and Bailey as we headed up to Disney for Charlee's Birthday! It was Dave's birthday too that weekend - DisneyWorld gave them special Birthday Pins!

All didn't go as planned, but it ended up being a day just full of wonderful memories!! We took Charlee to the night parade at Disney and for Cinderella's Castle fireworks!!

(Dave's back was KILLING him by the end of the night! lol - the joy of being "Pap")

The fireworks were so BEAUTIFUL!! Of course all set to Jiminy Cricket talking and Tinkerbell flying through the air (which Charlee later told me "it's a girl dressed up like Tingerbell, Mimi, and she was zipping on a rope!" She is so smart -nothing fools her!).

If you have never experienced this, take a few minutes (about 10 minutes) to watch the video I took with my camera! It was amazing - and to see Charlee's face and watch her lips move saying "WOW" was worth the world!! Here's the link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0z3R5TZqrA

Of course, Bailey was excited too!! She is smiling a lot lately and starting to make those adoreable cooing sounds as she tries to talk!!

So, now the Holiday preparation begins! I'll be doing some baking tonight - I have so much baking to do - but it's what I love to do for the holidays!! We have a Christmas party tomorrow and I want to take a tray of cookies - hmmm - maybe some baklava, some snowflake cookies, butterballs and chocolate crinkles!! I'd do some lady locks, but a little too time consuming right now - Heather will have to help me with those!

Heather and Alan are adapting so well to Florida life!! Heather started her job at the bank and it is so her!! She is definitely well suited as a banker! Alan has some extremely promising job leads and I'll bet he'll be working by Wednesday. He has been pounding the pavement and it is starting to pay off. They have made some great friends and I'm so glad! They decorated their house real nice for the holidays. We went to the beach yesterday and they took a few pictures:

And Heather and I took one too:

Be sure to check out the Online Photo Albums link to your right on this page - I have updated/added November and December albums!

So - have I bored you enough??!! Gotta get moving and get some stuff done! I'll update more later this week!

Love,

CherylAnn

Giving Thanks!

Well, I'm a bit behind, I know. I have been very busy working, trying to get my rhythm back just transcribing instead of working in management in my industry, PLUS my laptop died on me, so I don't spend as much time blogging as I used to.

We had such a great Thanksgiving. Heather and Alan came to our house and Justin and Krista hosted her family at their house - it was their first time cooking Thanksgiving and they said it all went so well! We are so proud of them! Our dinner was sooo good! This was the first Thanksgiving we have had with Heather and Alan in about 7 years! It was great! We were all so full, we could hardly eat dessert! We were going to play Wii and we were so stuffed we ended up just watchin a movie afterwards! lol Gettin old!

And of course - even Prissi enjoyed her Thanksgiving Dinner!

Justin and Krista stopped over the day after and we got to enjoy some time with them. Bailey is growing so quickly!! She's smiling now and I just love any opportunity to hold her and talk to her.

Good Lord - she looks like Justin when he was a baby!


And Charlee is sooo smart and it is just amazing how she has grown. We love having her come over and spend the night!! She was showing us how she makes a heart with her fingers and saying "I Love You, Mimi and Pap!" She is such a good big sister too! She always wants to hold Bailey and give her lovin and she talks to her! They are going to be close!

Charlee spent the night with us on Saturday and we got to go to the Venice Christmas Parade! It was a loooonnnng parade - you can see below that Charlee and Aunt Heather made the best of it being silly! She collected lots of candy and beads that was thrown at the parade!

Here's one of the floats in the parade -I love the movie "The Polar Express!"

It's hard to believe Christmas is right around the corner! So much to do, so little time -isn't that the way it always is? It's going to be a very nice Christmas, though, with Heather and Alan here - the whole family together!! I succeeded in getting my decorations up and my tree up and decorated it today - Heather and Justin both gettin on me cause they both got their's up first - hahaha!!

Love,

CherylAnn

I'll try to update more as we go through this holiday time!