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!