Thanksgiving Holiday 09 slideshow

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Thanksgiving Holiday Fun!

I created a slide show with all the pictures from Thanksgiving but I put a few of my favorites from the week here.

We had a wonderful week visiting family in Dallas. We started off the week with a rough start. As we were were getting in the car to leave for Dallas, Delaney got the tummy bug. So we delayed our trip a day while we waited for her to get better. So on Tuesday, we went to my family's house. The kids had a great time playing and visiting. In a separate post I will talk about Delaney and her princess day on Wednesday. Then on Thursday we had Thanksgiving lunch. Yum! My mom "cooked up" a great meal from Daddy Jacks. After lunch we took the kids out to play. My parent's neighbor was out of town, and they always invite us to play over on their swing set. I took the opportunity to get a few action shots of the kids. They swang on on a pogo swing. The lighting was excellent! The sun was streaming through the trees creating cool shadows on the grass.

The second half of Thanksgiving week was spent at Adam's parents house. When we arrived we mad it just in time for Thanksgiving dinner. Dinner was great. Delaney and Patrick had a great time with their second cousin Ryan. They made a gingerbread house that looked scrumptious, just joking. They worked so hard on it. Every square inch was covered in candy and sprinkles. They fell asleep to the new Disney Pixar movie UP.
Friday I got up to do a little Black Friday shopping at Allen Premium Outlets. It was a mad house! Luckly Adam's family lives litterally in the neighborhood around the corner from it. So Adam dropped me off on the corner and I walked in so that I didnt have to worry about parking. Delaney came with me. She was a good shopper for one store but was tired half way to the next store. I got a few good deals. At Children's Place they were having a sale and then on top of that until noon they had an extra 40% off your entire purchase. Then I went over to Eddie Bauer and found a 70% off rack and then they also had a sale until noon of 30% off entire purchase, so I got about $450 for $90! Yea.
That night we went to the Gaylord Texan Hotel for ICE. Which is an ice sculputre thing. It was 9 degrees in the building so we had to wear parkas. Unfortunately I didn't undersand what we should be wearing. We bundled up like crazy, but found out when we were walking in to the freezers that they had parkas for us, so we ended up with too much stuff. And to top it off you couldnt bring in a stroller which was carrying every thing we brought! I snuck it in anyway's, lol. They kids were pretty tired going into the ice dispalay so we had a few "melt" downs. So it was hard to really enjoy the full effect. So I took a few pictures to look back on.
Saturday we took Christmas pictures for Adam's family. The kids wern't very interested in smiling but we got a handful of good ones.
Sunday we wrapped it up spending time with my family for the last day before going home.
(Driving to the Gaylord Texan all dressed for the ice display)
(some of the ice display)(Ice slide)
(Gigantic parka on Nolan)
(beautiful nativity)
We had a wonderful time seeing every one. We cant wait for our Christmas/Birthday/Anniversary visit!

Delaney's Princess day

Tuesday was a very special day. My sister, Whitney, is getting married in May, so Delaney needed to try on some flower girl dresses. So we headed over to Priscilla of Boston in Highland Park. We let her pick out a handful to try on. She felt like a princess. She found "the dress" but Whitney and Delaney had their eye on two different ones. The dress that we picked for the flower girl dress is a sweet, dress with a collar, buttons down the back, with a bow tied in the back. It will be a beautiful fig purple color, which Delaney is thrilled about. The dress Delaney liked was a spaghetti strap pink satin dress with a tulle skirt. The twirling possibility with this dress is what she liked about it along with it being the perfect color, PINK! To top it off the woman who was helping us with the dresses brought Delaney a crown. With the dress ordered we decided to do a few things around the shopping center.
We ran over to Swoozies for a few princess accessories. Then we were off to Corner Bakery for a little lunch. The little princess ordered an egg sandwich.
After we all had full tummies, a little pampering was in order. We drove down the street in search of a nail salon. We found one next door to Aunt Whitney's favorite store. We walked in and they could fit Delaney in. She chose her colors on her own from a wall of many. She went with "A Grape Fit" (purple) and "A Passion for NY Fashion" (pink) The Nail lady added a nice touch of white polka dots. Jen Jen gave Delaney her princess gift she bought for her at Swoozies. It was a crown, a wand, bracelets, and lip gloss.
She had a wonderful day of pampering. All in a day in a life of a 3 year old princess

Hacked

Oh the wonders of Technology and the enormous waste of time it causes. About a week and a half ago my email was hacked and a message was sent out to my entire address book of over 300 people! Luckly many of the email's were no longer active, but unfortunately many were. The email that was sent out has no subject line and only a link to a web site in the message box. I attempted to email my contacts of the unfortunate email, while praying that it wasnt spreading virusus to peoples inboxes at that moment. Well I couldnt get an email to every one so I posted on my facebook wall about the situation, while may were emailing me about the email they recieved from me. It was good to catch up with people that I hadnt spoken to in a while. Unfortunately, again today I woke up to find that yet another email was sent out just like the first! I am so sorry to every one who is getting these! I have yet to find the source. My computer is updated on all of its virus protections, ect. So I decided that there has got to be something wrong with my YAHOO account. I got that account in 2002 so I decided that it is probably time to change my email anyways. Yet what a process it will be to go through and make sure I have changed my email with every one! Friends /Family, I Phone, Facebook, Blogger, Ebay, banks, colleges, favorite stores, and the list goes on and on! I guess this will be my late night, after the kids go to bed project for the next couple of nights. Oh being "connected" is more trouble than it seems to be worth some times. It seems to be costing me, rather than saving me more time these days.

October 09 photos

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