At my 20th class reunion

We still look pretty good, 20 years after high school!

Happy Fall

At a photo op when cruising on the Parkway.

Fall colors

On the Blue Ridge Parkway

The beach

A warm, fall day

Trunk or Treat

We went to a trunk or treat in the area where we live. We decorated (tricked our trunk) and kids went from car to car for treats.

Halloween

Cindy rock star, Timmy alien, Gabby witch

Hungry Boy!

Shadow at home.

Shadow

Our new kitty, Shadow!

The Ducks

We love feeding the ducks at the creek.

Our new golf cart

We drive this all around the campground - the kids think this is so fun! We also walk or ride bikes to things. The pools and store are not too far. The beach is the farthest, but it's an easy bike ride there.

Sunrise

Dave and Tim get up early for the sunrise at the beach.

Our new beach house

This fall, in front of our new beach house in Myrtle Beach. We love it.

Nice pants!

This picture is too funny to pass up! Dave's sister Deb, strikes again! Pac-man, mario, simpsons.

Gingerbread House

Candy Cane roof, sugar cone tree, marshmallow snowman, pretzel fence - fun!

Yearly Xmas Pic

Big kids!

Us!

A picture of us together!

SNOW!!

No school this morning - 2 1/2 inches of snow! Kids have already built a snowman and had a snowball fight. Fun morning so far!

winter in NC

We have had a real taste of winter last night and today. About a 1/2 inch of snow - not too bad. Very windy - a huge branch broke off by our house. Very cold - teens this morning with high winds and flurries. It feels like January! More snow than all of last year.

Timmy and Gabby were very excited! This morning Gabby got up early, had breakfast, dressed and went outside. Dave said "Where is Gabby?" She was already outside! He put some more clothes on her and sent her back out. Later, both Tim and her went outside and disappeared! They decided to do the 10 minute walk to the creek to see if the water froze solid! Dave didn't know where they went - so he drove down to pick them up - it was too cold to be out for so long!

2008!!

Well, that is hard to believe - 2008!

One New Year's Resolution - to keep up to date with my blog. So here comes my first post of the year.

Disney Quest

Timmy's favorite place. We went to Disney Quest, which is an indoor gaming center. Tons of video games and video rides.

hotel

Big Rubik's Cube and 8-track cassette tape at the hotel.

Stitch

One of our favorite characters - so silly! Fuzzing Timmy's head.

Day 7 - Ohana

We had breakfast with Lilo and Stitch at the Polynesian resort. The kids do a parade through the restaurant and shake maracas.

Dave and Timmy

Looking handsome.

EP - pirate ship

The kids doing their "arrgh" pirate faces.

EP - Stitch

Timmy in front of a big topiary of Stitch as a pirate.

EP - dinner

We ate at the Coral Reef restaurant at the Living Seas pavillion. There are big tanks of fish to watch. At this moment, some divers came up the windows and waved to all of us!

EP - family

One of all of us with flowers!

EP - the mist

Gabby plays in the mist.

EP - flowers

It was the flower and garden festival at Epcot. Very beautiful displays.

We're cute

It's Princess time!

A Dream Come True

Gabby finally meets Aurora - Sleeping Beauty. She is her favorite - she has 3 Aurora costumes at home, and is dressed up in one to meet her. We ate breakfast at the Akerhaus in Epcot - Norway for the princess breakfast. We also saw Belle - beauty and the beast, Mulan, Snow White, and Ariel - the little mermaid.

EP - Mickey and Minnie - in Million Dreams Clothes

Again we got up early. Unfortunately, it was the first day the weather looked good, and it was much warmer. So everyone decided to do Epcot this morning - uugh! We fast-passed a lot of rides and saw some countries. We still had fun.

Day 6 - Epcot

Dale is teasing Gabby and wearing her princess crown - too funny!

Hotel

"Big" big wheel in our hotel.

AK - tree of life

There is a secret trail - meaning nobody else is on it - that leads you all around this incredible tree. It fascinates me.

Some animals - a walrus above Timmy's head. On the tree - on the far left side is a turtle, then next to it is a gorilla face. Up in the branches is a rhino. Below that is snake. There is an ant in the middle roots. Facing to the right is a tiger face, below that is a raven, and above it is a porcupine, then a crane, then squirrel.

AK - Mount Everest

Our favorite ride! We rode it 2 times - really fun, and surprising!

AK - tigger

I always love Tigger - so bright orange!

Day 5 - Animal Kingdom

Due to the cold, we decided we would freeze at the water parks - so we changed plans. We ended up doing Animal Kingdom when it opened. It was one of our best days.

This was the cutest thing that happened. We had no plan or agenda this day - very impromtu. We noticed that the character landing would be opening in about 10 minutes, so we decided to wait - there was only one family in front of us. When it opened, Pooh came out took the hand of the child in front of us and walked her to the stage. Then Eeyore came out and took Timmy and Gabby's hands, and walked them to the stage. It was so darling. OK - now the funny part. Eeyore is a very big "animal" and can't see where he is going. Poor Timmy - was pushed into the wall and rope many times. He kept looking back at us - meaning "help me!"

Long Day

Timmy asleep on the bus, going back to the hotel!

MK - Goofy

Goofy signs on Gabby's head!

MK - Chip!

High Five from Chip!

more chef mickey

At certain points during the meal, everyone swirls their napkins above their heads - even Donald Duck!

Tinkerbell!

Before the fireworks, Tinkerbell flies out of the castle over the crowd. It is a real person!!

mk - minnie!

Gabby loved Minnie. We ate at the liberty tavern in MK. She is a colonial Minnie!

mk - merry go round

Nice picture, Dave - me in the background, both kids on horses!

Magic Kingdom Rain

Very wet - looks fun doesn't it?! It was crowded, too! We were die hards though, since we wanted to see the fireworks show - so we stayed and rode some smaller rides/shows.

MK - rain

It was so cold and rainy all day today - uugh!

Day 4 - Chef Mickey

All the characters were dressed as chefs. We had breakfast at Chef Mickey at the Contemporary Resort. Goofy is "too goofy"!

Our Hotel

We stayed at the Pop Century at Disney. Note the big playdough and funny 60's sayings.

a visit

Keri, Randy and Hayden visit us at the playground by our hotel room.

mgm - Indiana Jones

We received another "million dreams" dream. While we were in line to see the show, a cast member gave us fast passes we could use right away, for front row seats. It was awesome! We got to meet Indy after the show!