Fondue Night

Fondue seems to be French for "Way too much food that you have to work for".  Kinda fun but we all agree next time lets just go for dessert. 

Let the Braces Begin

Before

After

Christmas Tree 2015

Sophia's Awesomely Engineered Race Car

Sophia is in a special elective at SMS called Tech Ed. They use all kinds of technology to design and develop cool things. This is the first project for the year.  A very cool car developed with a 3D design software package, cut out with special fabrication tools and engineered by Sophia to go fast.  This video is a race that landed Sophia third place out of 38 cars https://youtu.be/ziZrUSwqWE8

Thanksgiving in The Villages

Gobble Gobble

Bobby the Turkey who escaped from the Chic-Fil-a via the drive through window

Gracie Makes the Ashton Honor Roll

Gracie on stage again! First marking period in the new school and BOOM! Honor Roll!
Way to go Gracie!

Venice Arts Festival

Venice Arts festival

Had a nice day walking around checking out lots of options and ideas for filling the walls of the new house.  We got an anchor that matches the whale.  We also got to see some very cool photography prints that got us thinking about what to do with some of the larger walls in the house.  

Venice, FLA

Ashton Elementary Field Trip to Sea World

Gracie and Sara

Up early for Ashton field trip to Sea World! Yep, what a great benefit of living in FLA!

Dia De Los Muertos

Pool and Sunshine in Florida

Citizen Gracie

Gracie received notification that she had won a good citizenship award. We are invited to a ceremony later this month where she will be honored on stage. Will post some pictures. 

Congrats Gracie!  Well done!

First Splash

Well we certainly had a great taste of life in Florida this weekend.  After a late night pool party to welcome Mom home from her trip to California and celebrate the opening of the pool the girls got up early for a morning dip before gymnastics.  We got to try out the cool lights and water features last night while hanging out by the pool with NO BUGS!  What a treat.  The cage keeps the bugs out and let's us enjoy the beautiful Florida nights.  As the temperatures start to dip up north I think we can get used to this #endlesssummer