Blizzard Beach

We went to Blizzard Beach today, one of the Disney water parks. We had SO much fun! There we no crowds at all. I think this is a wonderful time to come to Disney. It was literally more crowded at the Redding water slides when we went this summer. The weather is warm but not HOT.

Dan went on every ride I think. Kyler and I went on quite a few too. Kyler's favorite ride was the Cool Runners (mini water slides but bigger than the kiddie ones) in the preteen area he also really enjoyed hanging out in the Tikes Peak kid pool. My favorite ride was the Teamboat springs. This is a family ride where you all go down in a raft. Not sure what Dan liked most but he went on the Toboggan racers three times.

The park decorations were way cute! I really liked the whole Ski park melting away theme. the played Christmas music all day and had lots of Christmas decorations up.

Santa baby

I know I said I would post this sooner. But I didn't! We went to Jacksonville to see Santa. I wasn't impressed while he was nice and all. He was way too skinny to be Santa. Kyler didn't seem to mind. He told Santa that he wanted a Yellow Transformer. Good thing that is what mommy bought. ;)

I am still sick but its getting better. I think I'll be all good for Florida. Well I hope. Life is well a little sucky right now to say the least but its not something I am going to go into on a blog. Just think good thoughts for my mom.

I got lots to do and really should go do it, but before that one more random thought. Dan and I were getting gifts for the gifts exchange last night. We saw a Spatula with a light on it. I am not sure what this is about. I have never been using a spatula and thought wow this spatula could really use a light. It would be so much better for flipping things if I had a light on it.

Just living

My mother in law told me I had been a very very bad blogger. So here is one picture from the time that they cam down after Thanksgiving. We have been so busy just living that I haven't blogged in a while.
We are 6 days and counting for Disney. Yesterday I did most of our packing and washed the remaining clothes that need to be packed. I went over the final details of the Silver Creek party with Suzanne. I think its very sad that the two people who don't work at Silver Creek are playing the party but hey it wouldn't happen if it wasn't for us. I also put together my little gifts for everyone at the party from the Edwards family. I got the idea from Ali Edwards(no relation) blog so I can't take all the credit. But I am quite happy with the cost. 4 dollars to take care of all the office.
Today we are going over to Jacksonville with Jay and Mom to see Santa and just hang out a bit. I hope its nice.
And lastly I am getting a sore throat and stuffy nose 6 days before Disney. I am calling my doctor 1st thing in the morning to see if she can get me anything to prevent a full on sickness in Florida. It better not happen!

Here are my CHEAP Silver Creek gifts. They are monogrammed ornaments. The are Rich and Suzanne's. I bought the clear ornaments from the dollar store 3 to a pack .33 cents each and the monograms are just stickers I had in my scrap stash. Dan poop pooped the idea but then said he was happy with the cheapness factor. I think they turned out pretty cute.

Family

One massive family (not everyone either.) One Thanksgiving day and one camera priceless. From Left to Right. Michelle (sister), me, Jay(Step Dad) , Sheryl(Ryan's Girlfriend and Kirra's mom), Alex (nephew), Kirra(great Niece), Ryan(nephew), Mike(brother), Maci(Neice), Judi(sister), Dad, Kyler, Mom, Cody(nephew), Danielle(Neice/Little Sister) and Gloria (Aunt). It was the BEST Thanksgiving ever. I am so glad that we all got a long and were together. It feels great that we gave my mom a wonderful day with all her kids.

And here is just us kids and Mom and Dad.

Happy Halloween

Just a quick note on Halloween. We went down town again this year. Its a great thing that the merchants do that every year. Its so nice to go out trick or treating when the sun is up. Then we went back to the Silvercreek house and hung out. This year Jonas had a 28 days later theme going on. Zombies and what not. We ate some pizza and went around the block there Trick or Treating. Kyler only got really scared one at the neighbor across the street's house. Other than that he did great! He said Frick or Freat or Happy Halloween to everyone and we made sure we thank everyone. Overall, it was a great Halloween and we had a blast!

2 for 1 on blogs

So here is the weekend update. Last Christmas I paid for Dan to get 3 flight lessons. Its something he has always talked about and while I think that he think the gift rocked he hadn't gotten around to using them yet. So after getting much crap from his wife he set up his appointment. Kyler wanted to go. He cried so we asked and they said he and I could go. We flew to Gold Beach and back in like an hour. Dan flew most of the time except during the take off and landing and when the instructor was showing us what stalls are. Just on a side note Mary does NOT like stalls. Kyler however finds them extremely entertaining. After enjoying stalls and the view Kyler fell asleep. Add that to the list of things Kyler has fallen asleep on. A jet boat ride, a dune buggy ride and now in the airplane. It was great fun . I didn't get a picture of Dan cause he was all serious business and directly in front of me so all I would have got was the back of his head.

Our house from the air. Can you make out the new deck?

The Ocean. We are pretty sure its Gold Beach area.

The Patch

So the picture part of blogger was down and I just can't seem to post a blog without pictures. So lets go back a little. Kyler and I went to the pumpkin patch on Friday. We had a great time. I just love Seven Oaks its so clean and everything is decorated up so cute. A nice lady offered to take mine and Kyler's picture there. Its a great picture but I should have taken out of portrait mode cause everything around us is clear while we are a little blurry. It was nice of her none the less. So thank you kind stranger. We got 3 pumpkins not sure what I was thinking there cause that's gonna be a lot of work. Maybe I'll let Kyler paint one.

A little photo shoot

Kyler and I took a little walk along the property yesterday and I took some pictures. This one is my favorite from all the rest. Doesn't he look precious? I think so but I am pretty partial.

Dan got his birthday present early yesterday cause the silly mail carrier put a slip saying that Dan had a package. Well really Mary had a package. Which wouldn't have been to bad cause Dan wouldn't open it. But the invoice was taped to the package stating what was inside and how much it cost. Ugh! So I just opened and let him have it yesterday. It is a leather jacket by the way, he looks super sexy in it. So I can not post a picture ;)

Layouts for the Crop

As I promised here are the layouts from the crop. I got 7 total done which I thought wasn't too bad at all.

This was a Blue Print Challenge from Amy Elkins. I won the challenge along with two other people and we got Amy's book Layout Blueprints 2.

This and the next two are part of a class I am taking on Big Picture scrapbooking.

So Excited...

I went to the Southern Oregon Expo yesterday. They had lots of vendors and make and takes. And it was great event. I also signed up for the crop later that night from 1 to 10 pm. The crop was so nice. Each and every person won a little something. And for the challenges the ladies running the event went and picked out 3 of their favorites and then the rest of the croppers voted on those 3, very diplomatic. At most crops its just based on votes from the croppers and the group with the most croppers wins everything wether they deserve the win or not. They also had a scrap celebrity Amy Elkins, cool huh. Anyway. I had a blast as you can see, but one top of that they did a drawing for a Cricut and I won! I won the best prize of the night the Cricut. I have been wanting one since last Christmas. I am so, so, SO jazzed. The lady that put this on did a great job. I'll have to post my 7 layouts later. I am too busy playing with my new toy.

How we spent the weekend...

Working on the deck. Dan was a complete slave driver this weekend and I was the slave. It might have been the last nice weekend of the year so we spent the time finishing the railing for the deck. It does look nice but it took us two days to finish and Dan had to stay home this morning and stain it. We still have two large steps left the skirting and staining the deck itself.

Now I am feeling run down. Kyler has had a cough for a week or so now but never came down with anything, So maybe he got me sick and maybe the deck just plain wore me out.

I finished reading the "Unofficial Guide to Disney World with Kids" during the breaks in time when I had to wait for Dan for the next step on the deck. I am SO excited now. I feel like I am somewhat knowledgeable about Disney too.

Did a page

I did this page for one of challenges over at Sherri's Scrapbooking. The Challenge was "what 3 means to you"

Check this out...

A great online store I frequent are having FABULOUS specials right now for their 3 anniversary.

Just a little update.

Life has been hectic. I don't have much time to update because I need to pick Kyler up in like two minutes from school. Here is a picture of him with my tripod, he thinks he can use it like a camera. He has been going around taking pictures of me, telling me to say cheese and making a shutter noise. Its pretty darn cute. He also has been singing up a storm these days. He is learning lots of new songs at school. He still really likes school, I think it is one of the best things I could have done for him. Well I better go pick him up. I think we will go to the park since its nice and then to Ray's and pick up something for dinner.

3

Many birthday wishes for my little guy today. He turns 3. We are having his birthday party tomorrow and driving up for my great niece Kirra's party. They share the same birthday.

We had a little morning birthday celebration with just the 3 of us. Kyler got a cupcake and to open a few presents.

On a entirely different subject. I watched Oprah yesterday, she had Sean Penn on a he was promoting his new movie Into the Wild. I had never heard the story of Christopher McCandless. Very interesting stuff. I am not sure if he was stupid or a genius. I am thinking maybe a combination of both. But I have to admire him for stepping out of the box and having a little adventure. Makes me think I should be more adventuress, not to his extreme but something. I think I may read the book. Anyway I gotta go get ready to head up to RB and Party down with Kirra. :)

I did two more... I am just rolling them out

2 Scrapbook pages

For those who have noticed...

My weight ticker hasn't moved. I seem to be holding steady at minus 31. When the gym closed for a week for club scrub it threw me off schedule so I am having a hard time getting back on the exercise band wagon and I have not been making very good food choices. But hope to remedy one and then both of these issues soon. I made it to the gym twice this week and have every intention of going tomorrow. So that one step in the right direction. Just thought I would share and maybe someone out there could give my booty a kick start.

Joss Stone @ Britt

I took my dad to a Joss Stone concert on Thursday. He really likes her and his birthday is this month so I treated him. Britt is a small venue over in Jacksonville. It only holds about 2,200 people so its very intimate a great place to watch a great concert. We were not suppose to take photos so here is my one sneaky attempt. The opening act was Ryan Shaw. He was fantastic and I have been listening to his music every since. Joss was very entertaining as well.

School House

School house that's what my dear Jay always referred to school as. "Its time for school house." "Time to go to sleep so you can wake up for school house." All the way up until I graduated. Now he is going to be picking my son up from school house. My time have changed :) Anyway Kyler is at school house right now as I type this. Neither one of us cried which is good. He just went right to playing as Dan and I made our exit. I imagine in about another half hour he will turn around and notice we are gone. :) I like the school already, they gave us print out of what the kids schedule is and what they are going to be doing. I don't have to wonder. And they took pictures of us coming through the door.

Anyway I am going to go enjoy some of this free time I have by cleaning up the kitchen. Here are a couple more pictures for you enjoyment.