Christmas Day

Christmas is here!  Christmas is here!  The high is 75 degrees, so we are glad Santa brought Teagan some new flip flops.

 Christmas tree after all the opening.

 An afternoon walk on Turtle Beach.  It was so nice and sunny the kids wished they had worn suits so they could go swimming--tomorrow we'll know!

 Wearing gold skirt at the beach--a true style statement!

 Showing off his New England Patriots shirt--thanks Bevboss and Grandpa Steve!

 Stockings!

 Enjoying his new Harry Potter Page to Screen book--very detailed and already loved!

 Slinky loves his new toys.

 Fancy Christmas nails from Santa.

 Breakfast

A family game of Book Lovers Scrabble--thanks Braeden!

House

Tonight when our house was picked up and we were able to open it up all the way to the lanai, we took some pictures.

 This is the front and side of the house.

 This is a couple of weeks ago, Braeden and Teagan pointing out the egret strutting on our lawn.

 Our friendly bird visitor.

 Looking from the livingroom out to the lanai.  Tonight we moved a couch and coffee table out there so we could enjoy some time out there before dinner.

 The lanai and the light tree Jeff set up out there.  The couch and table are not normally there, but we need to get some furniture for the area--it was wonderful to be out there before dinner!

 Looking from the lanai to the living room and the front door.  Those pictures are the pictures of the kids at school.

 The craft area in the Florida room.

 From the living room into the dining room.  There used to be a wall there, but Jeff took it down.

 Living room

Living room including the piano area and the Christmas tree.

Christmas tree and kids

Teagan's birthday dinner

We had friends of ours over to celebrate Teagan's birthday with dinner.  By her request we had stuffed shells, pesto bread, and salad.  For dessert we had a chocolate/peppermint ice cream cake.  It was the first time we had ever made one, but it turned out pretty and quite tasty.

 Teagan's cake, decorated to her specifications.

 Teagan, Trinity, and Annie

 Lighting sparklers in the shape of a 10.

 Woo hoo!  Watching the sparkler.

 Watching the sparklers with the Christmas lights glasses on.

 Cake!  With Baylee and Trinity

 Singing Happy Birthday

 The inside of the cake--the pink is peppermint ice cream.

 Braeden, Annie, Baylee, Trinity, and Teagan

She's ten!

Teagan turns double digits today!  

 This picture, when she covered her face with snowflake stickers, is from a play date a couple of days ago.

 Opening presents this morning!

A happy ten year old!

Teagan has been up and dressed since early this morning.  We started the day by opening the couple of presents she gets today (the rest will come in June).  Then we had a yummy breakfast of pumpkin pancakes.  Today we will finish making her peppermint ice cream cake--Teagan has elaborate plans for the decorating.  Tonight friends are joining us for dinner to help Teagan celebrate.

Taking the hot rod out

We are babysitting the school hot rod over vacation, so the kids went out today in style!

Teagan's haircut and the hot rod

Teagan's haircut and the hot rod really have nothing to do with each other, but the pictures were taken around the same time.  Teagan got a cute, short bob.

 At the beach, showing off her haircut.

 Jeff in the hot rod at the beach.  It belongs to Tim and is meant to be used to advertise the school, but we get to bring it home some days because it is a long way for Tim to drive it on the highway.

 The purple stripe is a temporary, every now and then look!

Student demo night at school, demonstrating the flat bead frame.

We visit the New House!

The appraiser came to the house on Tuesday, so we got to visit as well.  This time we could take pictures and measurements.  Here are a few of the pictures of things we may have told you about.  Although we plan to take down a wall and some cabinets in the kitchen and have a lot of painting to do, it really does not need too much!

 The crazy red closet in the master bedroom.  Removing the red thing from the lamp is all we'll need to do to actually match our clothes!

 Looking into the kitchen from the dining room.  We are thinking we will take down that upper level of cabinets to open things up a bit.

 Probably Braeden's room.

 Probably Teagan's room.  That is fabric on the walls!

 From the front door.  You can see the covered bridge just beyond the tree.

 Lanai.  The question is...is it big enough for a pool?  Time will tell!

 The Florida room--it opens to the living room, dining room, and lanai.

Dining room

We also found two orange trees and a pineapple plant!  The living room picture wouldn't load.  I'll try to add it later.