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We went boating the day after Christmas! Talk about beautiful weather...
we've lucked out this winter. Nana and Papa were in heaven.

Happy Hanukkah!

Merry Christmas!

Look who came by our house this morning!
(notice Sydney's barefoot and in a short sleeved shirt...)

We found our tree! It really does smell amazing.
(And yes we did pose our toddler with a hacksaw...)

Tree Farming

So - I've always wanted to go cut down our own Christmas tree and thought it'd be a great year for the three of us to head out to the tree farm. We looked online and found a place that boasted a train ride, a talking Christmas tree, a petting zoo, and even homemade apple cider. I hate to admit it, but I was super excited.
Here's a photo of Tom and Sydney checking out the trees. And while the "train ride" was actually a tractor pulling a string of rickety wooden carts that Tom and I barely fit into and on which I held Sydney extra tight and silently prayed the whole time that we made it back in one piece, and the talking tree was an old evergreen with a dirty Santa hat and a CB radio speaker in the branches connected to a woman talking to the kids from the large bay window of the "gift shop", and the homemade apple cider was really a hot water spicket and an open can of Nesquick, we actually had a pretty good time.
Although I'm not sure I will have much luck convincing Tom to go back next year seeing as he was the one who had to lay on the wet ground and hack away at the tree with a hand saw. I told him we could get the people to cut it down with the chain saw, but he insisted that it defeated the purpose. Oh well. At least we tried it.

check me out -

I've finally opened up an etsy shop...


it's been two days and I've already sold 4 items!
(mom, don't tell anyone the first one was from you...)

Rokita Thankskita

We just got back from a great Thanksgiving holiday in Michigan.
All the Rokita boys were there...

And Sydney got to meet her new cousin Jennifer.

What a cutie!

GranGran and GranPa were in Heaven...

& Sydney was pretty happy too (notice the new trumpet!)

Ooooo...



Ha. I love this photo. This is what Uncle Ron calls a funny face.
Okay, it's almost 2 am but I had to share these. Now I'm off to bed.
Hope you all have a wonderful holiday, too!

Saying goodbye to the cold... and to the Avis rental car with the nail in the tire. Nice...

New coat from GranGran!

Off to GranGran & GrandPa's!

Yay! Jomama & Julian are here!

Pushy Sydney...

Sydney's first fluffernutter...

DISNEY ON ICE!!

ridin in style.

Backpack Bliss

I can take her by the toy aisle without a problem, but the luggage aisle is a whole different story...

and yes Every wheeling bag is called a "BACKPACK!"

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Yay. Mermaid wins!

The Bubba Bunch

Well, we are very sad here on Legend Oaks. Bubba, G.G.Aunt Rita, & Nana just pulled out of the driveway to start their road trip back home... it was a wonderful visit and we already miss them terribly. Come Back SOON!

Rocky's in love...

Eating Sonic with Nana & Bubba!

Good Morning Bedhead!

Look who's here! & she brought syd her own rocker!!

Sydney's first pedicure!

Home Again

Well, Sydney and are are back home in SC and we had such a wonderful visit with the family, it was really sad to say good bye. To steal Lisa's word, it was "phenomenal!"
But it was also REALLY nice to see Tom again and Sydney was literally squealing when she saw him at the airport...

I'll post some pictures soon, but for now we're just relaxing and getting back into our routine.

Matty baked this Pie with our hand-picked apples!

All tuckered out...

amelia's first fish

...from Matty's phone.

On our way to see the Cohens!

Sydney's New Moves

Cousin Jakob has the Roboto, Cousin Isabelle has the Margarena, Cousin Amelia has the Cotton-Eyed-Joe, and baby Sydney has this...

SharkAttack

and YES! it's her life jacket... I can't believe how many people have asked me. Do you really think I'd put her in a "decorative" shark vest?! Come on now, I'm not that bad...

Lifeguard Sydney.

Hanna has passed without much excitement... sunny & hot once again.

didn't quite get the concept...

Check it out. I realized I can send video from my phone too...
Here's proof that Sydney has finally got over her fear of the jump castle. She had a blast on this slide... and by the time I took this little video, she moved on to the ladder UP to the slide. And yes, that is my finger in the bottom left of the video. Learn to love it.

Very sad to see her go...

Look Who's Here!

Sydney is LOVING having her Great Auntie Berta here!
Here they are last night out at dinner. Do they both look happy or what?

PS Sydney now loves Alfredo Pasta.

rain rain go away

Check out Amelia's new smile!

Out 4 a walk...

Talkity Talk Talk

Back by popular demand...

She may be up past bedtime tonight...

Jump Castle Friday

Blogging w BoohBah

What Syd thinks of food shopping.

Mmn Ms Cindy made cupcakes!

Out @ the park.

Finally full!

Blueberry picking... aka eating.

Swampthing.

Swamp Sunday.