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.

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. 

Five Year Anniversary!

Nick and I celebrated our 5 year Anniversary at Disney World.  We had a friend watch Cicily for us and I'll show her adventure in another post.  We started out in Animal Kingdom where we went on the Kali River Rapids, Dinosaur, and Expedition Everest.  They were all a lot of fun. These are the pictures from Animal kingdom .  Mount Everest and The Tree of Life. 

Next we went over to Hollywood Studios.  We got a fast pass for the Toy Story ride, met up with Micky Mouse, and rode the Rock 'n' Roller Coaster.  I just have to say the Coaster was AWESOME! 
It had a ton of twists, turns, and speed to go with Arosmith's music.








 



 






After that we went to lunch in Mexico at Epcot.  It was really good!  We had a Duck Taco appetizer, lemonade, Nick had the Mai Mai, and I had a steak that melted in my mouth it was amazing!  The duck taco's were awesome as well.  I told Nick he has to go duck hunting every year now, so I can try and replicate it.   The atmosphere was really cool too.  As you can kinda see in the picture it really felt like we were in Mexico with the Aztec ruins.  Oh and the volcano really erupted it was awesome.

We also went on the Test Track ride at Epcot.  It was a lot of fun not as exciting as the Animal Kingdom rides or the Rock 'n' Roller Coaster, but still fun.   Then we went back to Hollywood to ride the Toy Story ride which was a lot of fun if we didn't have our fast passes it would have been a 90 min. wait to get on if that helps you gauge how fun.  Rock 'n' Roller Coaster only had a 20 min. wait.  Then we went and watched the SpectroMagic Parade at Magic Kingdom and the Fireworks.





In addition to what I've written about the fun we had I just wanted to say a few things like I can't believe it's been 5 years already, but at the same time it feels like we were never apart, and I couldn't imagine life without him. It's amazing how much has changed in the last 5 years and thinking ahead the next 5 years will only have more change, and more adventures that I wouldn't want with anyone else.  

I love you Nick!  May we always have great adventures!

Florida Fishing!

Nick went fishing before I moved down to Florida with a friend of his, this is one of the fish he caught. It's a Snook.  He had a ton of fun.  He also went snorkeling and was able to collect a few very pretty conch shells.  

Blizzard Beach

Yesterday we went to Blizzard Beach at Disney World. It was a ton of fun! Cicily loved the little kiddy area. She did not however like the inner tubes. So the lazy river was out after one try.

Cicily loves the slides!

The shooting water was a lot of fun too.

Daddy wasn't going fast enough so I was trying to get him to go faster down the slide.

Disney World 2!

Pluto is our lovable family pet!

Cicily asked if we could take him home with us so I said ok!

This is the second of many Disney World posts so for me I thought I would number them just for fun. Just to let everyone know Cicily is not afraid of anything and loves the characters at Disney World expecialy the soft cuddley ones. Well Nick had to work today so me and Cicily went to Disney World for the afternoon. We were looking for Pluto when we ran into Chip and Dale. Cicily didn't waste any time getting to know them. She ran up and gave them each a hug. Cicily Running up to Stitch! Even the attendant was surprised. Most children Cicily's age don't go right up to the characters.
Stitches hug!
After this picture Stitch tried to adopt Cicily and told me to go away and leave Cicily it was really funny and cute, because Cicily didn't want to let go of stitch either.
Cicily playing with the shooting water in Ariel's Grotto!
Hi mom! You want to get wet too?
Us saying Hi to Ariel!