Wrapping up January

It is seriously the last day in Jan, wow time goes by so quickly. January has been a busy but pretty fun month for us. 

We got to open more presents. Grandma Price sent her traditional package to the kids.

She got them each a stuffed animal that had a recording in it of her voice singing to them. They are so cute and the boys love them.

Treyson's says, "Twinkle Treyson handsome star, grandma loves you has you are!"

Porters says, "Grandma loves Porter, he loves me..in our happy Price Family!"

 Of course books too, our boys always love new books for story time.

 The boys are also loving their new small table that my Nan got them. They love that they can sit up like big boys now even though I still put Porter in the High Chair sometimes. 

 They have this new toy that is super fun. It has all the alphabet and they can put it into this little box and build words, learn the letters, and also sing their abc's. Very good toy and keeps them occupied for a very long time.

Oh yes and we can not forget that Treyson is a Sunbeam!!! I am not sure if he is ready to be in primary but he loves it.  He is learning a lot despite that he is probably the most rowdiest child in there...LOL. He is their youngest sunbeam but where his birthday fell he moved forward with the other children who turned 3 in the year 2010. My little boy is growing up...sniff sniff!

 Porter is getting so big. 15 months old soon enough. He has mastered eating with a spoon and loves to feed himself, in fact he insist that he does it and not me. I swear this child can eat me out of house and home with the food he puts down...LOL!

Martin Luther King day this month was really fun. There was a big snow storm the night before so we went and played out in the white fluff! 

Treyson was all bundled up ready to go and was just checking out all the snow fall.

 We had fun playing together!

He also loved eating the snow...LOL! I swear he at about pound of it.

 He even helped Daddy shovel the all of the snow. What a good helper we have on our hands.

 We built mini snowman's. At the end of doing this Treyson said, "He needs a hat mommy, its cold!" LOL, so we have him a little snow hat.

 Trey and Daddy made snow angles.

You probably wondering what happened to Porter. He was napping through half of the snow fun but woke up so we let him have some playing time too.

He was not sure how he felt about the cold snow. He tried tasting it but just stuck out his tongue like now way!! This s technically his first time in the snow because the last time he was just a newborn.

 Porter just loved walking about in the snow, he kept falling over because of how bundled up he was.  he was like a big marshmallow, literally with snow all over him.

It was seriously so cold outside but it was still so super fun for the boys.

 Daddy and Trey got in to a snowball fight and Treyson smoked him...LOL!

YAY for MLK SNOW Day!!!

Here some footage of the snow adventure...

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 That night we had the missionaries over for dinner. We had a MLK day theme. When Chris and I were dating this was a yearly tradition amongst his friends. Very funny and a good time. Chris was scheduled to go on splits with them that night anyways so it worked out perfect. My shirt was awesome...100% Mormon Chick and a BMW (Beautiful Mormon Women). This is how we roll!

 Last but not least we were pretty saddened by the playoffs. Our Bears lost..BOO! We had some yummy food though and our must have IBC's! We look forward to the Superbowl even though we dislike both teams that are in it.

That pretty much wraps up the month of January for the Price Fam.

8 Years in the Making...

Yes, it has been 8 years. 8 years on the 3rd of Jan that I entered into the waters of baptism. I am humbled today as I write. I was asked to speak in Church last week and through my talk I spoke a lot about my journey in the Gospel since it applied to my topic. Remembering and writing about it makes these experience more sacred and TRUE to me. I will share my little heart with you today. 

A Daily Striving or an Increased Obedience to Christ and Perfection in our Lives.

Striving: An effortful attempt to attain a goal. To devote a serious effort of energy. To struggle or fight forcefully.

Increased: Make greater in size or amount or degree. To become greater or larger. To multiply or reproduce.

Obedience: The act of obeying. Dutiful or submissive behavior with respect to another person.

Perfection: A state of being with out flaw or defect.  A state of completeness or freedom from fault.  

Now that I have broken down the definition of each of the keywords and they make sense to us I will show you how we can apply these in our lives, give examples, and hopefully convey to you what I am feeling in my heart today. When I was talking about giving this talk one of my friends said, “why don’t you just share your conversion story this topic would totally fit with it."  I don’t just want to stand up here and talk about myself but I will  try and apply all of these attributes in how I came into the Gospel.

 Striving makes us want to be better, stand a little taller, work hard, and be constantly doing something. Elder Bednar said, “As disciples of the Savior, we are not merely striving to know more; rather, we need to consistently do more of what we know is right and become better.” We need to strive for excellence in all things. Do what is right, be a believer, and live according to the eternal truths of the Gospel. The scriptures teach us to Strive against sin. Helamen talks about how they were striving with unwearied diligence that they may bring the remainder of their brethren to the knowledge of the truth. And in Luke tells us that we should strive to enter in at the strait gate. We need to strive to become like our Savior and have more Christ-like attributes. We know that Charity is the pure love of Christ and we need to try and adopt this into our character. As spirit children of our Heavenly Father, we do have the potential to incorporate Christlike attributes into our life and character. Developing Christlike attributes in our lives is not an easy task, especially when we begin to deal with real life. If we are constantly striving towards Christlike things it will bring power, strength, and spiritual self-reliance. In my quest in learning the Gospel I was striving to be learn and grow each day.  There were times where I became overwhelmed with the things I was taught but I never stopped striving for the things I wanted in my life to change even if it took a while. I was always seeking to be better and still am.  Having an increase can mean so much pertaining to the Gospel.  We need to increase a lot of things such as, scripture study, home and visiting teaching, family home evenings, knowledge, Temple attendance, paying tithes and fast offerings, tolerance and love for others, being member missionaries, keeping the commandments, and the list and go on and on. Elder Camak said, “Increasing our faith requires trusting the Lord with our whole souls and striving to act as He would in all circumstances and Indeed, increasing our faith in Him is one of our greatest needs today. Similarly, if we want increased faith, such as Enoch gained, we must give ourselves over completely to our Lord, utterly trusting Him” In the scriptures we learn that even Jesus increased in many things. These are Luke’s words: “And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man, having found it, never forgetting its source, remembering always that “the glory of God is intelligence, or, in other words, light and truth” All of us, like the Savior, can, and must, continue to advance all the days of our lives in all that really matters. My journey in the Gospel has always been an increasing thing. Line upon line, precept upon precept, little by little I was increasing my soul and saturating myself with the Gospel.  It did not come all at once like I wanted it to but in came in tiny quiet still pieces of per joy. While increasing my knowledge I was increasing my relationship with the savior. It was something that I never had before, something that was hard at times to comprehend, yet something that change me. The increasing never stops; it is a constant progression for a more eternal relationship with my savior. I need his increase. 

Obedience is one of the key elements to the Gospel. Elder Christopherson said, “Obedience gives us greater control over our lives, greater capacity to come and go, to work and create. In the first place, the promised fruits of obedience become evident, which confirms our faith.” Also,  from the words of our Dear Prophet Joseph Smith he declared, “The object with me is to obey and teach others to obey God in just what He tells us to do. It matterethNephi was obedient in obtaining the brass plates. So having said that obedience becomes a major joy instead of a burden. When we come to learn this great principal of obedience it becomes second nature and it becomes more out of love and willingness instead of just a “have to” thing. There are many times in my conversion where I learned the obedience. I could tell you countless stories but I wont go into great detail. Don’t get me wrong obedience did not come easy all the time yet I just know the more obedient I was the more my testimony grew, and the more my testimony grew the more happier I was.

Perfection. Hum, let face it we all want to be perfect and we are taught that it is indeed obtainable but yet if we think we are perfect and with out error then we are boastful and full of pride and need to repent..LOL! I also was reading and its said to become perfect we cannot shrink and I thought well I am done for then since I am so short..LOL! Reminders that we are not perfect come repeatedly. We can however become perfected but only with Gods help. Elder Miller said, “As we move towards perfection, it is easy to feel that we fall short. We have the potential to eventually become perfected in Christ, this is our divine inheritance.” As we seek to serve our Savior, keep the commandments, and work toward continual improvement in the Gospel we can to become perfected. The Church is not a perfect place for perfect people, it is where people come to be perfected.  The Temple is also a place like this. When we partake of the sacrament and renew our covenants this is also a way we become perfected each week and what a beautiful thing it is that we get to do this. One of the principals of the Gospel is perfecting the saints and each of us is in a process of perfection. In reference to that the Savior has asked us in Mathew to become perfect even as our Father in heaven is perfect. In modern revelation in DC 67, we are told that "we are not able to abide the presence of God now, neither the ministering of angels; wherefore, continue in patience until ye are perfected.” The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints provides opportunities for all members to become involved in many different kinds of activities that develop them mentally, morally, physically, and spiritually in the perfection process and so we are not alone in our adventure towards perfection. Its like stepping-stones or climbing a latter, each step we get closer to a more perfect state. I believe our trials can perfect us and refine us as individuals. I know I have come to know God and the Savior more through my shortcomings are trails then any other times in my life. Christ is perfect. Did you know that he is so perfect that when you are struggling with an addiction, or stand grieving at a loved ones gave, or make mistakes, or even going through the hardest time in your life…Did you know that his perfect power of the atonement can perfect you? It can and it will. It saved me. His resurrection is one of the most divine things he did for us. In Alma we read, "The soul shall be restored to the body, and the body to the soul, yea, and every limb and joint shall be restored to its body; yea, even the hair of the head shall not be lost; but all things shall be restored to their proper and perfect frame." WOW, isn't this amazing? That God would give us such a great gift of giving us our perfected bodies back? This may not mean much to you but think about the soldiers who die in battle and their parents have to bury an empty casket because there is no body to bury. Think about the people of September 11th, or think of the little babies who get aborted each year. I think of Christian's sweet brother Danny. He was born with multiple disabilities including being blind, def, and he had autistic tendencies. He also had different facial and body abnormalities. The reality of it is, is that he will be able to run and not be weary, he will be able to hear and speak, and he will be transformed to a perfect state. This is the power of the Resurrection. The reality of the Resurrection provides to one and all that peace that surpasses understanding. Christ's Resurrection, as part of the atonement, opens the way for all of us to be resurrected and perfected.   

There are so many times in my life pertaining to the Gospel I have felt the feelings of perfection…

When I learned about the plan of Salvation. This was something I had never heard before or even thought of..."That families can be together forever?" I remember looking at the missionaries with tears streaming down my face and asking them, "so you are telling me that I will be able to see and be with my mother again?" Their answer sparked something inside of me that made my heart swell, a feeling a hope, a feeling or rest, a feeling that his hard to describe in words. It is amazing to know that Our Heavenly Father has a perfect plan set for us. To return to him, to be exalted, and one day even become perfected. 

When I was baptized. When I came up out of the water, I felt clean, I felt pure and wholesome. I remember I asked if I could watch the water drain so I new all my sins were gone for good..LOL! Even though I felt so un-worthy to be apart of this Gospel I really felt that day that God had forgiven me and that my Savior had his arms wrapped around me saying, “my daughter my hand has always been stretched out for you.” I felt PERFECT in every way, so perfect I remember not even wanting to shower because of the cleansing power I felt from being immersed in the water. This was the start on my journey towards perfection.

Another time is when I gave birth to my first son. Being completely un prepared for what was to come. He could not have been more perfect and my state of mind could not have been more perfect either. I also had these same feelings of perfection when I delivered my second son too.

Another example is when I was married in the Temple. None of my family was there but all of my home ward family showed up to support me. I was feeling a little down and stressed out. Christian and I were able to sit in the Celestial room for a little bit before we were sealed and it could not have been a more perfect feeling then that. All of my worries went away and I felt so much joy and again I felt perfect. All in white we knelt and were sealed for time and all eternity. We learn in the scripture in order to obtain complete perfection that certain temple ordinance must be done. Endowments and sealing are for our personal perfection. 

I know that God gives us little perfected moments like this to let us feel a little bit of eternal perfection. Though we may never comprehend it all in our mortal lives I know we will in the Eternal life to come. Enduring to the end can help us receive exaltation. 

We need to be a striving people.

We must increase areas that need work in the Gospel.

We definitely have to learn obedience.

And we can certainly gain perfection.

We can not do any of these things with out our Heavenly Father and Savior, we need them.

One of my favorite songs that was also song at my baptism says it all. 

1. I need Thee every hour, most gracious Lord;
   No tender voice like Thine can peace afford.
2. I need Thee every hour, stay Thou nearby;
   Temptations lose their pow’r when Thou art nigh.
3. I need Thee every hour, in joy or pain;
   Come quickly and abide, or life is vain.
4. I need Thee every hour; teach me Thy will;
   And Thy rich promises in me fulfill.
   I need Thee every hour, most Holy One;
5. Oh, make me Thine indeed, Thou blessed Son.
   
   
   
   

   
   
   

   I need Thee, oh, I need Thee;
   
   
   

   Every hour I need Thee;

   Oh, bless me now, my Savior,

   I come to Thee.

I bare you my testimony that his is the TRUE Gospel of Jesus Christ. I know this work is true, that I know with a surety that our Savior lives, and that He guides and directs His Church here upon the earth.  Heavenly Father change my heart, this is so hard to explain in words and I am trying the best way I can but sometimes it is hard to find words to describe my raw feelings of the Gospel. I hope this is making sense and that I can covey my pure feelings my Savior to you. This month marks my 8^th anniversary of being a member of this great Gospel. So it has been 8 years in the making meaning I still make mistakes but I know how to make them right and I know that making the decision to be a member of this Church was the best thing that ever happened to me. I know by the witness of the Holy Ghost that The Book of Mormon the Word of God along with the Bible. Prayer is real and I am grateful to have a way to communicate with my Father in Heaven. Jesus is our Redeemer, the Savior of the World. I love the Gospel so much and if I could stand on top of a mountain and declare it to the world I would. I am not ashamed, I am proud to be a Mormon Girl! I could never deny my feelings or the way I feel and if I were to than I would not be being true to myself. The Gospel has transformed my life into a magnificent masterpiece. Yes, my life is far from perfection and I know their are still things that need to be better at but I know this is the light and the way, the way to eternal life. The Lord answered my submissive prayer when I asked, "show me the way, what is the right way!" He did show me the way more then a few times and when I got off track he was always there to get me back on the straight and narrow path..  Joseph Smith did see what he said he saw and how grateful I am for his courage that even in his death he never denied his Savior.  We have a Modern Prophet today, Thomas S. Monson who leads and guides us in this modern day. All the keys of the priesthood have been restored.  I know all this to be TRUE. I am grateful for my amazing family, my husband who is my hero and makes me want to be more patient and hard working, my boys who make me smile and bring laughter into my life everyday, and for extended family and friends who have supported and cheered me on along the way. I rejoice in this great Gospel. The Savior is real and I know he LIVES and that he loves us, everyone of us no matter who we are. Before I just knew of him and now I KNOW him...his miracles were breathtaking, his life was an example, and his love had no conditions. When he comes in all of his majesty and glory we will know that he truly is the Messiah that the prophets testified of and every knee show bow and every tongue will confess that he is indeed The Christ. We will come to know him and know he sacrificed for us because he loves us. I know he loves me and for this I am truly humbled. I stand amazed today as I speak to you. It is him who I bow my head to, and it is him who I love so much. The Gospel is TRUE, this I KNOW!

   In the name of our Savior Jesus Christ, Amen.
( I am sorry for any grammatical errors. It was hard to get through this)

A New Year...1/1/11

Can you believe it? It's really the year 2011. This year has just flown by. For the new year we were still in FL and so we welcomed the new year by started off with a cook at our Carpenters Park. It was supposed to be nice weather but it ended up being really overcast and rainy.  It was colder then we expected but we did not let a little rain spoil the fun.

Trey had so much fun playing at the little park they had.

Porter was being such a little goof and mostly hung out in the stroller the whole time.

 That's my boy, always laughing with food in his mouth..LOL!

We tried the keep the boys out of the rain as much as possible but they did not really seem to care. Jax had a blast and was showing off his tricks to everyone. Trey at least stopped playing or a moment to have a little hot dog but then he was back playing again.  I swear he never slows down.

We had some excellent food thanks to the Chefs which were my brothers.  Smoked ribs and pineapple, lots of different sides, and dips. This is how we do it in the South.

 We had a great time. 

Great Family, Great Food, and great FUN!

They had a little duck pond and Trey and I had such a fun time feeding the ducks.

 He would just laugh and laugh and yelled, "duckies, quack quack!"

There was a time when it started rainy extremely hard and it took us a little bit to round all the kids up since they did not want to come in the gazebo. Treyson was drenched, sopping wet, and covered in sand. He did to seem to mind at all though.

 Luckily my Nanny brought some extra clothes for him and by this time Porter crashed out in the car.

 

Later that night my Uncle Robert (my moms brother) came and hung out with the family. He was making Treyson laugh pretty hard. I have always been really close with my Uncle and I am so glad he came.  It was great to catch up and just hang out.

The Galea Gang

 It was just so sweet and nice to have all the family together for the ending of 2010.

 Seriously, it was such a great way to start off a New Year. YAY for 2011 baby!

 The cook out ended later in to the evening and we were supposed to go over to my Brother Kody's house and hang out but Chris was not feeling the best, he had indigestion really bad. It was probably because his body is not used to eating that much red meat...LOL! Anyway,  I was also already worn out from the long day at the park so we decided to stay home and say so long to 2010 early. We did not even watch the ball drop. I know I know, we are lame but it was sure nice to have some snuggle time:) 

Now on the New Year's Goals and things I hope will come to pass in the year 20eleven!

~I will learn how to coupon, can more food, and sew a little. All of these things I know how to do a little but I would like to enlighten my skills just a little bit more.

~I will try and get ready (ie put make up on, get dressed, do my hair, ect) at lease 2-3 days a week not just weekends.  I now this sounds like a pointless goal. I usually do not get ready because I don't have a car so I stay home all day and when Chris does get home we just go straight to the gym anyways.  I want to start doing it more because it makes me feel better to get ready and even though my husband says he does not care I know he likes it better too.

~I will launch my health and wellness blog. I have not launched it yet because I am still working out the kinks and getting it perfected. I am excited about it, to share my recipes, goals, tips, tricks, and knowledge.  Not that I am an expert of anything but I just have always wanted to do it. 

~I will work on my spiritual development. From family Home Evening, prayers, scripture reading, visiting teaching, my calling,  and everything I need to do to keep me on a spiritual high. 

~I will work on my family history and get my kids scrapbooks done.  These things are so overwhelming at times but I know I can get them done this year. 

~I will maintain my physical health and get in the best shape of my life before we decide to get pregnant again. I have much work to do, not necessarily in the weight department but in toning up and developing my muscles. I lost so much of my muscle after Porter but everyday I get stronger and stronger. I would also like to start teaching Turbo Kick again.  

~I will grow our family business, strive for leadership, and continue to change people lives. Great things are already taking place and I am so thankful to be apart of that.

I have plenty more but I wont bore you anymore. Hope all of you had great new year and Cheers to all the blessing for 2011!!! 

Holidays in FL

It's halfway through January and I am still writing about the Holidays, I know I am a slacker! I would spread out our adventures more but I am so behind that I am just doing it in one big post. Anyway, the day after Christmas we made the long 10 hour drive from Ft. Lauderdale to my grandparents house in Milton Florida. We arrived in the late evening and did a little Christmas celebration with some dinner and present opening. 

The boys got lots of goodies!

They were both spoiled rotten!

We got some pretty cool gifts too. Christ got hooked up with some BEARS attire and I was given some pretty good books on raising boys and health and wellness. 

Treyson loved the Grinch and my Nanny has this Santa Clause Grinch that sings the Grinch song. Its really cute and Trey certainly out played it.

The boys also got cute Christmas Jammie's!

It was a great "after" Christmas with my family. I love all of them all so much. All of them play a huge part in who I am. 

left to right- Kody, Kirby, Papa (Bob), Chris, Me, and Nanny (Pat).

We ate lots of yummy southern food while at my grandparents. You just can't say no to any of it..LOL! One of my favorite breakfast that my Nanny makes is biscuits with tomato gravy, bacon, and cheesy eggs. YUM!

Also I learned in the south if you do not want flies to come in your house then you fill a Ziploc bag half way with water and put 4 pennies in it. Weird I know, but the people down here swear by it!

Treyson and Porter had such a good time and Nanny and Papa's house. They were in toy land and ate far too much candy but that what happens when you are at grandparents house right?

Porter loves music so he loved the play guitars that they got for Christmas. He would push the button then then start dancing. He might be my musician when he is older.

Treyson got a box full of so many cool toys, hulks, teenage mutan ninja turtles, robots, dinosaurs, really any boy toy you can think of. Like I said SPOILED!

The kids really had fun playing with their Nanny. They love her.

These boys, can't live with them yet you can't live with out them!

They got this Caterpillar crawl thing that opens up into a tunnel so you can crawl through it. This was a really fun toy for them. Back and forth, back and forth, and sometimes even fighting over who's turn it was. LOL.

Bath time there is always fun too!

The weather there was perfect so we played outside a lot. There was so many outside toys to play with from cars, to wagons, and swings. Unfortunately we did not have room to take these things back home with us.

The boys sure love to swing!

Trey was in love with on of my grandmas dog. His name is Tebo and he is a Pomeranian. He is a feisty little thing but Treyson just loved him.

My Papa thought it would be funny to try his mullet hat on the boys...LOL! It was funny and they defiantly looked like southern boys then:)

My Nanny loves her birds and she can do anything with them. They know all sorts of tricks and can talk really well.  Trey also liked them.  He did not learn very well and got nipped at a couple times. 

She also has a pet squirrel, Charlie. When he was little he was hurt and my Nanny took care of him so he comes back to visit from time to time.  My Nanny can hand feed him or she just leaves him a little pile of nuts to pick up and eat. It just shows how much love my grandma has for any kind of animal.

One animal that was not wanted was the rats. It was pest season and my Pops was mouse trapping so many of them. Trey did not know what to think. Gross!

Of all the animals that my Nanny loves, her dogs are her babies. There are 4 total, 3 of them are Poms and one is Yorkie. There names are Sophia, Mac, Tebo, and Sam is the Yorkie. They are treated like kings and queens. 

My twin brother Kirby lives with my Nan and Pops while he is going to school.  He has a special relationship with my Nanny.  We all do.  Never met a greater women, period.

We had tons of fun with my brothers and played lots of card games.

We would stay up late playing games or just chatting.

 I LOVE MY BROTHERS!

We have a very close and great relationship. The "GALEA" Posse. It's amazing the older you get the more you appreciate you siblings. They are not prefect and are very different but I could not ask for better brothers. 

My older brother Kody works for a great company as an inspector.  His lives with his girlfriend Dana which I really like her.  She is almost done with her special education degree and will be teaching soon.  You all know the Price family has a special place in our hearts for children with Special needs.

We played Wii Sports a lot. My grandma smokes Chris at bowling..LOL!

We went out to eat at Texas Road House...YUM, one of our favorites.

We are so did the traditional SUSHI night. We went to Fuji's this time and they have these little cute Japanese Rooms you can sit in with a small table.  They seriously were so cute!

I want one of these room in my dream house one day. Chris said he would put it on the list..LOL!

They even had these little cute cushions you can sit on. I was seriously in love with this little room and all the detail that went into it to give you the most Japanese sushi experience. 

Of course the boys made a mess but were loving the fried rice and edamame.

It was exceptionally good.  We went during happy hour which means you get half off each roll so we ordered about 15 rolls and tried some that we never had before:)

Again, it was nice to spend some quality time with my siblings.

My TWINNER, Kirby!

Kibbles and Bits is what we call him. I love him and am so proud of the changes he has made in his life recently. 

We had to snap pics of just the gals too. 

Dana, Me, and Carrol.

Porter was making everyone laugh halfway though dinner with his high pitched cheesy squeals.

Treyson was too but he was more concerned with the fish pond in front of the restaurant.

It was a late night for us and we were worn out, especially Christian.

We also went to the movies.  We saw Tron because Chris loved it as a kid and had been dying to see it. It was a pretty cool movie. 

The night before we left. We all went out to eat as a family. 

Later that night we went and saw my sister Shannon (we have the same Dad). Chris wanted to stay home and sleep with the boys since we were getting up around 1am to get on the road. I had all my stuff packed up so I had to go over in my Pajamas. I was so nice to see Shannon and her little boy Ethan.  He has gotten so big and its almost 5 years old.

When people see our sister they always say, "is that really you sister!" She is really tall, Blondie hair, blue eyes, very pretty of course. She looks exactly like her Mom and I am a spitting image of mine.  We really don't have a lot of our dads traits so that's why we look nothing a like. She is awesome though, and I love her.

We played Wii dance the whole night.  This is totally the game for me and my sister.  We had a blast!

Even my brothers played and it was very entertaining to watch them.  They were breaking a pretty good sweat..LOL!

We had so much fun.  I miss my sister Shannon and I wish we lived closer so we could spend more time together. I am not sure I could ever convince Chris to live in the South and I do not necessary like it either..LOL.  I think since we do not get to see each other as often as we want that he time we do spend together is treasured more. I love you Shannon! 

Before I had to take off we all took a group shot in front of the Tree. This was a great way to end my vacation.  With the people I love.

Well, that it for the Holidays in Florida. YAY, for the Holidays!