A VERY Snowy day....not so much!

The Nutcracker!! Christmas 2008

HAPPY 5TH BIRTHDAY MEGAN!!

Hard work in the new house.....

I closed on the new house in early, mid December and it has been a whirlwind since then! So many people have asked for pictures and updates, and I have just been too overwhelmed to get it done. Here is my first feeble attempt! I have been poor at best about taking pictures lately.
Margaret's room was the first one finished. It was an unbelievable amount of work! The short version is that with the MANY layers of wallpaper that came down...most of the wall did too. oops! We had to completely re-do walls with sheetrock mud and LOTS of sanding. YUCK! It was done by my deadline of Christmas Eve and Margaret was able to go to the new house and see it all set up and pretty for the first time on Christmas morning. Santa had even left a dollhouse for her in her new room. She was delighted!! Sadly, I did not take many or well any that I can put my hands on, pictures of these renovations! UUUGGG! Pictures of her finised room will be posted SOON!
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Margaret's Christmas Program

An Apology

I am posting today to say how sorry I am for being SOOOO incredibly slack with blogging. The past two and a half months or so have passed with warp speed and I am behind on everything. I had totally forgotten how much time, energy, and emotion that moving takes; and buying a new home is completely unchartered territory for independent melanie. YIKES! I have been overwhelmed and can't believe I have not even found the time to finish blogging about our Disney trip! One day I will catch up.....hopefully? I console myself by thinking about Melissa's blogs (both of them, which are up to date).....Margaret can look at her blogs and books and see her childhood memories if I continue down this overwhelmed and unorganized path. Melissa is over the top organized and timely. I wonder how she finds time to do it all, but she always seems to do it. I aspire to be a mom and blogger like her.
More posts to come in the next few weeks....after the move. FYI--we are completely out of the rental house, have been living with mom for a week and two days now and closing for the new house is SUPPOSED to happen tomorrow!! I pray that I do not lose my head before while waiting for everything to work out!

Day 3- Magic Kingdom

We began our second day of park fun by missing the early morning shuttle. We got to the Magic Kingdom around 10:45 and started out with a FAVORITE...."Mad Tea Party." Melissa, Elliott, Olivia, Margaret, and I all jammed into one pink teacup and spun so much that I thought we would all be sick. It was great. There will be funny pictures and maybe even a video from this crazy ride! Next we went through "The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh." Olivia did not love this ride. She got really scared and screamed thought the second half of it. It was heartbreaking to see her so scared. Margaret LOVED it (the ride--not seeing O scared). We followed the the fear with "Mickey's PhilharMagic." This is a 3-D production and was amazing. Margaret was a bit miffed that she got a little wet, but liked the show! One of my favorites was next..."It's a Small World." Funny enough we got stuck on this ride too. We were stopped for several minutes in Margaret's favorite room--how lucky!! The girls were excited to ride "Cinderella's Carousel." We played in "Pooh's Playful Spot" for a little while before our AMAZING lunch at Cinderella's Castle. We were all thrilled to meet Cinderella and get pictures with her before going up for 3 course lunch for all eight of us. During a really tasty lunch, we met, got autographs and photographs with ALL of the other princesses! This was a very exciting event and Margaret announced that it was definitely her favorite part of the day! The "Haunted Mansion" was pretty scary, but we all did it. Olivia and Margaret were both scared, as they should have been. This is not a ride I would recommend for small children. We lightened things up a bit with the "Country Bear Jamboree." This was a show were funny looking bears with missing teeth sang country type songs. Funny stuff!
I was VERY excited to ride our first roller coaster!! YEAH!! There will also be some FUNNY pictures and video from this ride. Margaret was semi-terrified after we started going, as was Jonathan. I really did not make them ride because of my selfishness....I thought they would like it. In the end, Margaret said she did like it, "a little bit" but wanted to go on a smaller roller coaster where she would not get wet.
TO BE CONTINUED...this mama is tired!