Our first Thanksgiving alone!

This year Thanksgiving was just a little different for us. Since we're in Florida we were to far away from family to visit. So we had our own Thanksgiving. Just our little family. The day before Thanksgiving I started making dinner so I wouldn't have to do everything the day of. I made the pumpkin pie and the deviled eggs.

Then bright and early in the morning I stuffed the turkey and put it in the oven, made a banana cream pie, took a break while Nick made the sweet potatoes, made the green bean casserole, mashed potatoes, and gravy. And while we were doing all that Cicily was watching the Macy's Thanksgiving day parade and she was waving at all the floats and people on the TV it was really cute. Then right about the time the Turkey was finishing cooking the Carbon Monoxide alarm goes off. At first I was kinda confused because I was thinking it was the fire alarm, but we didn't have any smoke in the house. So I went out side to check if it was the building alarm, because we live in an apartment so it could have been someone else, But it wasn't the building alarm. So I went back inside and looked at the alarm and I realized it was the Carbon Monoxide detector so then I'm panicking wondering what we should do, because dinner had just finished and we had a large thanksgiving dinner just sitting there. It was very frustrating. So we opened all the windows in our apartment, the door too, and Cicily and I sat outside while Nick went to the front office to see if there was anyone there to talk to. Of course no one was there on Thanksgiving though. So Nick called his dad to see what he thought. We all felt fine and we figured it was from all the cooking since our stove and oven is gas and since the heat hasn't been on at all. So Nick reset the detector and it didn't go off again after an hour of airing out.

Luckily most of the food was still hot or warm at least to have our Thanksgiving dinner after that little episode. I think we did pretty good on dinner for cooking my first turkey, banana pie, pumpkin pie, and gravy. It all turned out great even with being sick.  Cicily loved Thanksgiving dinner too she had a little bit of everything and even pointed out a couple things she wanted more of.  

Disney World!

Here are some more pictures from Mary and Rachels stay I just thought they were really cute and needed a shout out.

Mary and Rachel Visit!

Mary and Rachel came to visit down here in Orlando and we went to Disney World several times here are some of our advenures.  Cicily reading a book to Rachel.  




   Cicily and Rachel hanging out with Pluto.  

Cicily and Stitch!    
 












And Cicily and Rachel fighting over space next to the fence.

Halloween!

Nick got to go to the Halloween parade at Disney this year and it was pretty cool from what I hear.  He took a few pictures from the party. 

Since Cicily and I couldn't go to the Halloween party we went over to the polonesian resort and watched the fireworks from the beach while we waited for the fireworks we built Cicily's first sandcastle.  It was funny, because Cicily mostly just wanted to destroy it.  

This year we also took Cicily Trick-or-Treating she loved her princess costume and was continualy trying to take it out of the closet.  We went to the mall for the Trick-or-Treating because we felt it would be easier with Cicily.  We had to watch her fairly close, because she kept trying to take off and hide.  

Hollywood Studios!

Cicily and I went to Hollywood Studio's yesterday, and we hung out with a few of daddy's friends.  Cicily loves the characters she would spend all day with them if she could.  We went to a few of the shows and she loved the playhouse puppet show it was a lot of fun.