Tree Decorating 2008

Sisters decorating together how nice!

************************************************************************************ On the left can you see Buster in the corner?? He is so cute just plopped down right as I was shooting the picture! Micaela was here this year helping out too! Steve even said it looked like she hung more ornaments than Bry and Jamie!! Happy Holidays everyone!!!

Cousin Reunion

Bry and Caitie making twice baked potatoes (Brys specialty)

Caitlyn 13, Ethan 10, and Bryanna 13 together again

Caitlyn, Ethan and Bryana

Caitlyn and Rocky all tuckered out!!

Chicago, IL

Sears Tower just before sunset

We found out some cool things while we were up there!

I know you can see a reflection here but you have to admit it's stil quite a view

Yes that is Lake Michigan to the left there..

The girls getting a few pictures of their own

Steve and I

Bryanna, Micaela and Jamie posing for a quick pic

This Bubba Gump restaurant is at the Navy Pier that we went to right after leaving the Sears Tower

It was really cold outside but we just had to get a picture of the Hard Rock Cafe



And of course of the girls in front of it!!

Micaela and Bry posing in front of a waterfall inside the Rain Forest Cafe.

Ferris Wheel at the Pier




I know you can't really see it but there is a fountain shooting above their heads from one side of the walkway to the other. This was a realy cool greenhouse on the Navy Pier.

Chicago was a lot of fun even though we only spent about 5 hours there we had a great time. We'll have to go spend a few days there sometime to be able to really see Chicago in the daytime as we just got there at dusk. Still I must say it was pretty interesting especially driving underground. And boy can those taxi drivers go fast. Wow!! A little scary actually!! LOL

St Louis Arch, St Louis, MO

These closeups were taken while we were in the space pod loking contraption that only held 5 people that took you up to the top of the arch. The reason we are so close up is because there wasn't much room in there so we couldn't get back far enough to take the picture...

Up at the top

When we got to Missouri it was in the 50's and we had been used to 70's from Orange Beach. The next morning we woke up to a chilly record breaking 31 degrees.. Brrrrrrr! But it was still alot of fun and educational as well!

Driving up the Missisippi River

Ok so just imagine how excited the girls were to hope out of the car every time Steve pulled over after entering a new state!!! Luckily he didn't remember that he wanted to do this until on the way home.... and it was raining luckily for the girls a few times so those we couldn't stop for. Oh well...

Yep it's real... how cool is that!

Orange Beach November 2008

Catchin a Wave!

Bry and Micaela

beachcombing

for seashells.

Beautiful Sunset

Just after a storm

Jamie and I

Bry and Micaela

Steve and I enjoying a walk on the beach

Ok so this is water and pop believe it or not! Big enough? Above right the girls pose in a Wagon train. Below left Micaela getting some sorgum, YUMMY!

Bry and Micaela "Best Friends" Don't ask about the slippers..lol!

Isn't this moonlit beach beautiful!

View from the balcony after sunrise

Wow what a vacation! We were gone for 10 days and had such an unbelievablly great time!! It was so beautiful every day and every night I kept the door to our balcony open so I could hear the waves crashing while I went to sleep and hear them when I woke up! Big mistake now I want one of those sound wave things so I can hear it all the time when I sleep..lol!