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Ice Ice Baby

January 17, 2017

What a BEAUTIFUL long weekend we just had – sunny and 72 degrees in January! Even crazier is that we were covered in ice one week ago! Yep, last Friday the kids didn’t have school because of the impending winter weather. Now, nothing started falling until Friday night but when it started, it stuck! We woke up Saturday morning to 16 degree temps and everything covered in ice. Unfortunately it was just ice – no snow at all – so not a lot of fun for the kids. That didn’t stop them from wanting to get out and at least try to play in it…

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It was bitterly cold. I think it was in the low 20s when we were out there playing. I used to live in NYC and could handle some majorly cold weather but I guess my bones are too Southern now because it was almost more than I could stand! It didn’t seem to bother the boys at all…they stayed out there forever trying to dig holes in the ice!

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ice

I love these pics of Spence…

spencer

spencer

and I really love this picture of Maxwell. If you zoom in you can even see his breath in the sunshine…

spencer

All in all the ice was fun, not as much fun as snow but we’ll take it. Of course, my favorite part was definitely this….

ice day

The first day of ice was fun…by the second day we were all going a little stir crazy! More to come tomorrow…

ice day

Brrrrrrr!

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Blues

January 16, 2017

We wore our Sunday blues yesterday…

blues

but we don’t have a case of the Monday blues because we’ve got the day off! Woohoo!

blues

Well, 4 of us do. Robert has to work. Booooo.

Enjoy the day off if you’ve got it!

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Double take

January 13, 2017

My parents definitely have favorite pictures from the blog that they’ve remembered through the years. One of my Dad’s very favorites is this one of Maxwell from January 2012:

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Not really sure why he remembers it but he does and he loves it. Susan decided we should recreate it with Samantha and, well, it’s pretty darn cute and funny too!!

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That’s for you, Daddo! Hope it starts your Friday off right!! Nothing cuter than babies in hats and boots…and nothing else!  🙂

Have a great weekend!

ps – Friday the 13th?! Spoooky!

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More Florida

January 11, 2017

We had a nice stay in Naples with plenty of time to go to the pool…

naples

(Samantha looks like a little figure skater! ha!)

and the beach!

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beach

beach

We only lasted about 15 minutes on the beach before the boys started asking to go up to the pool! Not surprised! Of course, there was also time for breakfast at Skillets…

skillets

playing outside…

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naples

plenty of good food…

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and, when the temps dropped a little, movies! We saw Sing and Rouge One. Both really good! I promised to take the boys to get ice cream after Sing and, note to self, take something other than your Amex with you to the ice cream shop because you can’t pay with that! Luckily Robert drove up with cash and saved the day!

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ice cream

Overall, it was a lot of fun…

naples

and Robert and I loved getting to spend quality time with our 3 favorite people…

naples

Unfortunately, the week came to an end so we had to hug everyone goodbye…

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naples

naples

and make our way back to the airport to head home.

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It was a great trip and we can’t wait to go back! Bye bye!

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See you tomorrow!

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FL or bust!

January 10, 2017

After Christmas we had one day at home to play with new toys (yay!), get all the Christmas decorations put up (ugh!), and apparently get strep throat (double ugh!). Yes, by Christmas night Maxwell was in tears because his throat hurt so bad and when the fever came too, I knew it was strep. We were up at the doctor first thing the morning of the 26th and got that strep positive test! So thankful we had a day at home to rest and start a round of bubblegum medicine!

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I was also pretty proud of myself for getting the tree down and ALL the inside decorations put up that day. I knew I wasn’t going to want to come home from the trip to a decorated house so I made myself get it done. Check check!

By the morning of the 27th, we were feeling good and ready to head to sunny Florida!

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With thanks to GJ, Samantha now has her own “baby iPad” to use for trips! Between that and plenty of gummies, we did just fine on the flight!

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When we got there, the kids wasted no time making themselves at home…

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and then opened more presents!

florida

My favorite gifts were these hilarious Star Wars masks (Chewie was the best!)….

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The boys’ favorite was these light up cars and track…

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and Baby loved her purse and sunglasses!

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Fun fun! We sure were glad to be there in the sunshine! See you tomorrow!

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