After a day hanging out at the pool and then getting an extreme workout with my personal trainer (who I may have to ditch tomorrow because I can hardly move after today!), we went to Blues Brothers for dinner (I think the draw is the sweet potato fries!), and then to see Madagascar 2.  Madagascar 2 is definitely a movie that was NOT up mine and my husband’s alley, but Bethany and Angie loved it, so OK.  When we got…

We had a great day starting off at the pool.  We then had a great workout session:  Tae Bo, and then a lot of weights at the gym…  Then off to Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party at Magic Kingdom.  It was so fun there — it was “snowing” on Main Street.  We did everything from Buzz Lightyear’s ride to Mine Ride (3x).   It was a very Happy Birthday party for Bethany.   We were sad Gary was too busy…

We had a fun day today.  Although it was difficult pulling the girls out of bed (we didn’t really get settled until after 2 a.m. from flying in), we made up for lost time.  Did an awesome Bible study, lounged around the pool, reading and doing puzzles, walked and ran and worked out (Bethany is my own personal trainer this week — ouch!), then went to Downtown Disney.  It was hilarious because we had Bethany’s iPhone GPS system and another…

Yep, 27 years ago I married my best friend, and guess what?!  He is STILL my best friend!!! I mean, this guy is AMAZING.  He is still SO MUCH FUN to be with (as long as I can distract him from his HP palm, which requires MUCH animation on my part!).  He comes in from an overseas trip, and when I backed into the garage, sure enough — he had CLEANED and organized all the stuff I had been throwing…

I had so much fun at our Church auction.  I went with my parents, Mrs. Carollo, Mary and Russell Leone, Donna Alloy, and Rosie Nash.  It was a wonderful evening at Penna’s.  I was SO HAPPY to bump into Jason and Kristen and catch up with them, as well as several other friends I hadn’t seen in awhile.  I will make sure I don’t miss it next year!

I LOVE going to Gilda’s and being inspired and inspiring my precious friends there.  Patti (top pic) has been coming with me for awhile now, and she is a breath of fresh air.  All our Gilda’s friends look forward to her coming!  Cherri (bottom) had her BRAND NEW 9-day old granddaughter there, and she even let us all hold her!   Although many people were able to come, we missed Judi and Gloria, who both couldn’t make it because of…

Today Julie and I went bike riding down the Clinton Huron trail all the way to Romeo, where we shopped a little on Main Street, went to lunch at a Chinese Restaurant and then biked all the way back.  It was SO MUCH FUN.  Can’t wait to take the trail that way again!

We had a great day making apple pies together.  Amber came over, Hannah was home, Bethany and then Emily, and we made FOUR apple pies!  Hannah made caramel apples too!  Then we had Gabe, Jesse, Matt, Zach, Daniel, and Justin joined us for an incredible spaghetti and meatballs and fish dinner, an (obviously) great dessert, the grueling job of getting the boat out of the water (ending up with a VERY injured ankle on Jesse!), and the Truth Project Lesson…

Jesse, Amber, Gabe, Hannah, Bethany, Christa, Brandon, Emily, Grant, & I had a great night meeting up at Changs to be waited on by the most handsome men in black you ever saw:  Mike, Daniel, and Russell!  With Daniel’s help we had a wide variety of food!  Mike’s service with a smile is always great.  Afterwards, we all went and got a frozen yogurt (with our many cars we had one car go to the wrong yogurt place!!! ha!), then…

Started out with a fantastic day with my Daddy.  We went and looked at Bethany and Mike’s house and my brother Tony met me there just to look it over.  (Tony was AMAZING to come all the way across town to do that for me!)  Then we went to breakfast, then to get a haircut with Bethany and do some errands.  We had SO MUCH FUN together!  It was the BEST day ever! Then home and met up with Grant,…