Warm, sunny, flip-flops......aaahhhh...Heaven!

We arrived in Florida the other night. Wow, I forgot how warm it is here in December!

I spent some time with my girlfriend, Leslie, last night and her baby Evan. He's 7 months old already. The last time I held him was immediately after his birth, in their apartment in the Bronx!!! So it was great catching up with her. We'll be able to spend more quality time together after the holidays. Just like to old days, when we didn't have kids!! haha

Today we're going to the beach and the broadwalk. When Rick and I were full-time musicians, we used to gig on this beach at the ampitheater. Talk about flash-backs!

I'll post pics as soon as I can! Gotta go work on my tan:)

Pre-school Christmas Pageant

Our sweet little B was chosen to be Mary in her pre-school Christmas pageant. All the children did a fantastic job!

We were very proud:)

Homeschool PE

Wanted to post some pix of our latest ( and coolest) "PE class".

One of the Dads has a HUGE parachute from his military days. This one happens to be the large size that they use to drop tanks and trucks out of planes!!

Despite the very soggy field from the rainy day before, we all had a great time!

Crafty day

Today we spent the majority of the day being 'crafty'.
I'm totally stressing out about all the things I haven't packed for our trip, so to take my mind off it (instead of packing!) I decided to get the kids and make ornaments. We made paper trees, paper snowmen, bells, popsicle stick stars and snow flakes.
LOTS & LOTS of beads and glitter glue!!! We're very sparkley around here:)
I'll post pix when everything is dry!

Thanksgiving has come and gone. The leftovers have finally been thrown out! I have to admit, I tried to get as many meals out of that 11 lb. bird as humanly possible!

Now it's on to preparing for our next trip. We're going back to Florida for the holidays. The Grandparents aren't as mobile as they used to be. So we're taking the kiddos to them!
Never thought I'd say this, but I'm actually excited about going back to my old stomping ground.
We wanted so badly to get out of South Florida, the craziness, the humidity, the traffic, the over-progress!!! We've been gone for 2 years already. How the time flies. But honestly, there were SO many cool places we used to go. Amazing restraunts, the beach, the entertainment, the sheer accessability to things!! We walked or rode our bikes to many places.

We traded all that for quite, country-living and a sense of community. I wouldn't change a thing. But vacationing in SoFlo will be and blast. Not to mention -- WARM!!!!! :)