We have Steps!

Ali took TWO big steps this morning! I know it won't be long before she is walking all over the place. Hard to believe she is already at this stage! Time sure does fly by!
We are getting ready to go on our cruise! I have been looking forward to this since we booked it in Jan! I have already started packing for the girls. Somehow I have to figure out how to pack 7 days worth of kid stuff in one med size suitcase, for TWO kids! Thank goodness Megan is out of diapers, I think otherwise I would have one suitcase filled with diapers alone! I did check and the ship does offer laundry services, so worst case scenario we're sending off clothes to be washed. I am probably bring way too much stuff, but I would rather have stuff I don't use than to be without something I really need. So in just 6 days we'll be sailing away!! I'll post a review of our trip (first time on Costa Cruise Lines) when we return, with lots of pics!
In other news, the lone plant in my garden, the bell pepper, has peppers on it right now, they are still pretty small, but I have one that's at least 2 inches long! I have two lettuce plants that popped up too, not sure if they are romaine of buttercrunch, so we'll see how they do. When I get back from vacation I want to build another box and plant some more things, in the sun this time!
That's all for now!

It's been a while...

Wow, we're already well into 2008 and this is my first post since Nov.

The holidays were nice. We all went camping for Thanksgiving and despite a little rain we had a good time with the family. That trip was our 6th Turkey Day camping trip in a row and I think so far we have managed to go somewhere different each year! This year we went to Silver River State Park in Ocala, a really nice park with lots to do!

Christmas was rather low key this year. With it falling on a weekday it made any sort of travel kinda tough so we opted to stay home and enjoy Christmas morning alone with the girls.

So here we are in 2008! We are leaving in 23 days on a 7 night cruise, taking the girls along with us and my parents are joining as well. We got a Balcony Cabin so we are looking forward to that! I will try to be prompt once we return and post a review. This is our first time using this cruise line (Costa), but they offer a "kids sail free" program which most other lines don't so it was hard to pass up!

As for plans for the upcoming year we really don't have any as of yet. The house is always undergoing some sort of transformation and I think this year our concentration might be more on finishing up some landscaping and some painting inside (trim work, my favorite, not so much). I would also really like to get the carpet in the bedrooms replaced (the stuff that's down right now is the cheap-o stuff they put in here before we bought that feels like you're walking on napkins) and...well I will leave it at that, it will be a mission just to get any of that done!

So for now...that's all I've got! I am gonna put some pics below for you all to enjoy.....

Ali, such a happy baby!

another Publix employee in the family!

(this was at the "Publix" inside Great Explorations's Muesem)

checkin' out!