Let em Eat Cake, but Not On My Newspaper

The kids had no school on Monday or Tuesday, so the 3 of us went with Mikey to his work and to one of our fav hotels. Christina and Katelyn stayed over at Katelyn's uncles house. Look familiar? It has actually been pretty chilly in Central Florida recently. Highs in the low 60's or high 50's. YUCK! It was warmer further south, so it was nice to get away. I took these pics from our room balcony.

Unfortunately I forgot my phone when I went down to play golf too. Zachary hit a ball into the pool. Then... "hey, this pool is warm! Lets go swimming!" When the boys decided to swim, I ran up and got my phone so I could have some pictures of the boys swimming at 9pm in January!

Notice, I did say, "the. boys." Not me. Not Mikey. Nope. Just. the. boys. They love the water so much. They swam for an hour. Mike and I are starting to plan our Daytona 500 trip. Last year when we went we had read that NO platforms were allowed. Then we arrived only to discover that MOST people that tent camp HAD them. We have the dimensions of the site (20x35), and all the sizes of our tent and 2 canopy screen covers. Now Mikey is designing our platform, that will fit over our truck that is big enough to have 4 chairs, a tv, and a table for snackies. I'm just a little nervous.

The boys set up their playstation to play NASCAR. Caleb was kind of getting the hang of steering with the regular game controller, when Mikey hooked up the steering wheels for them. Caleb had a hard time reaching the 'gas' pedal since he has little hands. When his driver *Bobby Labonte* wasn't driving, (since Caleb wasn't holding the gas down), he said, "Bobby must be tired of racing all morning. I think he is taking a nap."

Yesterday FINALLY started to warm back up. Thank goodness! Its supposed to be high 70's. The kids spent most of their day out side. Notice my plants in the background? I didn't cover them, and they are probably dead. I haven't learned what most of these trees/plants are yet, so I didn't realize I should of covered them since we had freezing temps 2 nights in a row. Mikey is filling the birdhouse my brother Frank gave us. The boys have a neighbor girl over. Saturday night we went to our friends Diane and Al's, for Al's birthday. It was alot of fun. Mike kicked butt playing Ping Pong against Al, his sons, Kyle & Nick, and Al's Cousin, Randy. They also had WII. So the kids played bowling on that. Randy and his wife Susan have 2 girls ages 8 & 9. They got along really well with the boys.

It was alot of fun. Of course, now all 3 of them are begging for a WII.

Al is the guy in blue behind Caleb. One of his sons is next to him. Caleb was SOOOO excited for Al's Birthday Chocolate Cake. Just look at that face! He ate 3 pieces. I now know what to make him for his birthday cake! The entire time he was eating, he was saying things like, "mmmm this chocolate cake is so good. mmmm. I love chocolate cake. yummmm. I want to eat chocolate cake everyday. mmmmm, this is soo yummy mommy. mmmmmm. When can you make it? mmmmm"

Zachary doesn't like Chocolate, you can see whats left of his plate. So Caleb ate that too.

Mike and I made the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper on Sunday! I emailed the picture to them, he contacted us, and here we are!

The only thing wrong is, he thought we released the fish. By the time I got back to him, it had already gone to print, so I couldn't correct him. (We ate that fish!!! Yummy!) He wants to publish the boys fish picture next month.

My Uncle Bruce married Mauri on Sat, Jan 24. Congrats!

Many Happy Years to You two!