Happy New Year, uhm a couple days *cough* late...

It is 2009! Happy New Year! What? that was like 2 weeks ago? Uhm...well...We've been busy! New Years Eve itself was not very busy. We had a nice little family evening though. Daddy made dinner (which is always a good thing, especially if you want it to be edible) and then we all put on our PJs, grabbed some popcorn and watched A Toy Story in bed. I think Maddie was the only one that stayed up and watched the entire thing - at some point both Ron and I had fallen asleep well before the ball dropping on 2008! But you know, it works for me!

I had to work the 2nd but as Amy said in her blog...New Year, Old Friends! On the 3rd Maddie and I headed up to Pennsylvania to visit and have a kiddie playdate which went really well if I do say so myself! Hopefully Lily didn't pick up any of Maddie's bad habits while we were there! It takes about 1.5 hours to get from our house to theirs (Amish country roads do not lend itself to driving fast when horse and buggies could be around every corner or over ever hill). May I say, and I may since this is my blog, that Maddie did NOT stop talking the ENTIRE drive to their house... At first is was asking questions if it was going to be a long long long long....etc, ride or a short ride, or a medium ride. If we were going to the Renaissance fair (we went to the PA one in the fall). If we were going to see baby Lily (no she's a little girl now, not a baby so you can call her Lily not baby Lily). If I saw the oodles of horses, cows, sheeps, what was that Mama? (one time it was a llama, the other an emu) Did I like the brown horse or the yellow horse, etc, etc, etc. Lily isn't a baby, she's a little girl and I'm a big girl right Mommy? She would ask me to sing songs (which leads me to believe that she's tone deaf because I KNOW I can't sing) She would sing songs then tell stories that involved her horsey's house as usual... Oh yes, it was a long car ride there but well worth it!


Maddie and Lily playing with playdough and cookie cutters. They worked out great! Maddie loves playdough and Lily was getting into it as well!


Me, Maddie, Amy and Lily before we headed out to lunch. We had a great time playing & need to do it again soon!!!

The rest of the time that I haven't posted has revolved around trying to get the house in some sort of shape (clean apparently not one of them) and sort out a packing list and last minute shopping needs for our vacation. WHOOOP! Yes, that's right, I said vacation baby! You know, I've been more excited about this than Christmas.

So, where are we going you ask? Well...very early in 2008 my sister said, we're going to Disney next January (meaning this month), who wants to go too? We all said ME! Yes, we're all going, my parents, Kristy & family, Kevin & family and Ron's mom. We're also stopping to visit Ron's sister in Northern Florida too while we're down there.



I really think that the reason I'm so excited is that Maddie is at a great age to go to Disney. Despite my best efforts, she LOVES all things princess and the idea of going to the Land of Mouse and visiting Cinderella's castle..oh my She's going to be in heaven, and my heaven is going to be seeing her experience it.

It gets even better. My sister picked the week, so I can not be blamed....but we're going to be down there for her 4th Birthday. So, she's going to be celebrating her birthday there too - now we'll just have to keep expectations in check for next year though *laugh*

I really haven't taken many photos yet this month to share but I'm positive I'll make up for that very soon!



Fake attitude trying on one of her new bathing suits. Which is a "bikini" - two piece. Ever since she was in Viriginia with her ChangDe friends, she has wanted a bikini like all of them. I found 3 bathing suits on sale at LLBean that were really cute and I coud sell her on them being a bikini. She actually liked all of the bathing suits but she kept this one one and danced around the house for the rest of the evening.


Hrm, this one isn't fake, this is real attitude *laugh*