Polar Express

We got to go on the Polar Express. We went with our friends and had such a good time. We sang Christmas carol's, had hot chocolate made by our chef, and Santa gave us the first "gift" of the season, a silver bell.

Bowling

I haven't been bowling in about 10 years. Taylor suggested we go Saturday night. Morgan had never bowled before either. We had SO much fun! We bowled 4 games, Daddy was defintaly the winner! He was the only one to break a 100 - My mom joined us for fun, afterwards we played in the arcade and I won the "jackpot" on one of the games, so both girls got to go home with a new doll too!

Letters from Santa

Santa wrote a letter to each of my girls asking them to travel with him on the Polar Express to visit the North Pole! The Polar Express leaves from Bryson, NC nightly in December and we happen to get a set of 4 tickets for our train ride! Hot cocoa and story time with Santa himself! I can't wait to go, OH, I meant the girls are excited to go! We go Thursday December 20th - pictures to be posted soon! HO HO HO

Sunsets in NC

Our family loves to watch the sunset, I don't know how it started, or why it holds such fascination for us, but we always try to take the time to see the beautiful colors. We went to Key West last year for 10 days and didn't miss a single sunset, this year for Spring Break we watched the sun set into the golf, it was the first time our girls had seen the sun set "into" water, they enjoy the "show" also. These two pictures were taken from our sunroom in our house, the weather this week has been in the 70's, we haven't seen rain for months and the colors have been so bold - so I thought I'd share it with all of you. May you watch a sunset and think about all those watching it too and be thankful for another day.

Christmas Preparation.....

With the great help of my girls Great-Grandma MacDonald (visiting from Pittsburgh), Aunt Shelley (visiting from WV), my mom, and one of our single friends (Jeff) we have successfully drank lots and decorated our house! Each girl got their own pink Christmas tree in their bedroom. The sunroom got a Christmas Palm Tree and our living room holds our first ever "fake tree". This is the first year in 10 years we have not purchased a live tree. It seemed a little odd at first, but once it was up, the girls were busy decorating, and the pine scented candles burning all is well! We a great dinner, good wine, and family. Seems Christmas is comming to the Todd house!