The holiday aftermath

Okay, so I didn't blog about the holidays. They were wonderful. We went to wonderful parties, enjoyed our wonderful traditions (although we skipped the neighborhood candy houses and just did our 4 kids, I learned my lesson though and won't let my neglected neighbors down next year!), we spend time with wonderful friends and opened our wonderful gifts.

The only noteworthy things were braving the Orlando cold so Dan could run his annual marathon. Way to go Dan!

Celebrate 15 years of marriage by leaving the kids and heading to the gulf coast for a little kayaking, shelling, musueming (is that a verb), and boating. My goal was to do some things we wanted to do, but the kids wouldn't enjoy, Dan's goal was to escape the chaos. We did both and Dan commented that he wasn't used to doing things without a bunch of noise. Isn't that the truth! In 15 more years I expect the noise will have dimmed, but it may take 30 more years before I will miss it!

The other thing of note that we did was take the girls to Phantom. While Dan and I loved it, the girls were a little more on the fence. The words are just a little difficult to understand, but the sets are amazing and the music is beautiful. I loved it and am looking forward to Wicked! again on my birthday.

Here are some pictures of the yard and decorations I took of the front yard upon our return from our relaxing two and a half day jaunt. The holidays were definitely over!