Happy Birthday to Me! Heehee. Look what the boys did for me for my birthday breakfast! Cookies!! These are the flowers Leonard and Michelle and Elektra got me! Are they ME or what? Thank you guys!! I love them! My birthday cake that I made for me. Carrot cake. Yum. Homemade too, with carrots, pineapples and raisins. With a cream cheese frosting. The boys decorated it with sprinkles for me. On Sunday we took Christina to the airport so she could fly home to see everyone. The happy look on her face when we surprised her with air tickets was absolutely priceless! After that we went to Palm Beach. I had thought we were going to Miami, but Palm Beach was closer to Mikeys work. We got a nice hotel right on Indian River and the Ocean. One side the view was the river, the other was the ocean. But what sold us on the hotel was that it had a 3 hole putt putt course. Of course Caleb had his clubs with him. The view from our room Mike had to work on Wed so I took the boys to the mall. They played video games, then we saw the movie Enchanted. It is very cuteUnfortunately on our way home, Zachary got sick and threw up in his carseat and all over himself. Of course we were on the freeway in holiday traffic. Oh, the joy of having kids. :) He is completely better today, so maybe it was food poisoning or something. Here we are at Universal. I am sure you all are starting to get bored with those pictures! Zachary is making a face. I don't know why.... This was today.. Thanksgiving. We thought the park wouldn't be busy, but we were WRONG. It was packed! Well, not summer packed, but packed more than what we are used to. So we did a few rides, ate a turkey leg, and called it a day. With it so close, it doesn't seem a big deal to go for only 2 or 3 hours, then leave. Well I am going to go cook our dinner.... Pizza! Frozen Pizza. (mikes choice) We will do a bigger dinner on Sat. night. Once Christina is home. Hope everyone has a great turkey day, and that you all realize how many wonderful blessings that you have.

Date Night at IOA

Mike got done at work early, so he got home right when Zachary did. We left Christina in charge of the boys and we went on date night to Islands of Adventure at Universal Studios. Or IOA. We got there at 3:00. The park closes at 6. It was so empty that we got to ride 11 rides! 5 of which were the Hulk! http://www.universalorlando.com/parks_overview.html This is the web site to look at the rides in action. When we got there we bought our Thing 1 and Thing 2 shirts. I am going to get black fabric paint and paint Daddy and Mommy above Thing. We've tried to talk Christina into getting one, but of course she is too cool to wear that. Some one might see her!

Here are some of the rides we went on.

Dueling Dragons. Very Cool! But over too quickly.

This is the Hulk. It is a long coaster, and alot of fun! There is no bad seat on this one! Dr Doom was OK. It only went up once. I cant imagine waiting an hour in line for this ride. We walked right onto every ride. When we bought our new shirts I put our other ones into the bag and tied it around my fannypack. When we got to Dr Doom I discovered that it was missing. :( The worker at the entrance walked back to look for it while we went on the ride. After we got off the ride we walked back thru the walk way to the entrance. The worker hadn't found it, so we walked back over to the Hulk which we had rode before Dr Doom. On the way there I saw a bag next to a couple sitting on a bench that looked like mine. Since they had a stroller, and I know when I have the stroller ALL my stuff goes into the bottom of it. So I asked them if that was their bag. They said "No, theres 2 t-shirts in it" Yeah!! I found my bag with our clothes!! Both of which were favorite T-shirts! After that we put it in a locker. We had appetizers at a Latino restaurant. Man, its alot cheaper without 3 or 4 kids!! It was a great night, and really spoiled us by not having any waits. On Sunday Christina is flying home to Phx. She is sooo excited. Monday till Wed we are going to be in Miami. I need to start looking for Condos to stay at. Thanksgiving we are taking the boys to Universal Studios. I am not going to cook the turkey until Christina is home. So probably the next Saturday night I will make Thanksgiving Dinner. We'll put up our Christmas lights then too. Our neighbors have already put up their Christmas Lights. They put them up Nov. 9th. sheesh!

Zachary is sick :(

Sunday was nice outside so we spent most of the day playing in the backyard. The kids were hitting around a big balloon, and hit it over the fence. Christina being the agile one that she is, climbed up and over and got the balloon. Of course that was when I went inside and missed getting a pic of it. We watched the race outside, and had bbq hamburgers. Then after we went to bed, Zachary woke up sick. Poor guy. He threw up till 3 am. Yuck. My poor little guy. He is home from school today, and seems to be better. At least he is keeping his breakfast down. Which by the way, was a healthy (!) lemon and strawberry cupcake he snuck out of the fridge. Right now Zachary is on the other computer. I IM'd him and he is IMing me back! He is doing great in typing and spelling, and sounding things out on his own. Here is a copy of our IM. MsScorpi2: HI Zachary MsScorpi2: ZACHARY!!!!!!! MsScorpi2: HOW ARE YOU? MsScorpi2: WHAT ARE YOU DOING? Piekels2: Hi mommy!!!!!!! MsScorpi2: VERY GOOD!! Piekels2: I LOVU mommy MsScorpi2: I LOVE YOU TOO ZACHARY Piekels2: mommy MsScorpi2: ZACHARY!! HOW ARE YOU? Piekels2: How or you mommy MsScorpi2: I AM GOOD. Isnt that great?! Way to go Zachary! Well he must be feeling better because now he is chasing Caleb with that balloon!