Christmas

My brother Andy, Drew, Khloe, Kaitlyn, Me

back row: my brother Tim and half of Rich's head
Rich, Tim, Me, my cousin Roxanne and her husband Tim and Andy looking ever so cool!

All of the great-grandchildren at my Grandma McCoy's

Khloe, Kayden, Drew, Kaitlyn and Kailey up front.

Jordan and Taylor were not there.

We had a great Christmas shared with family. It is always good to see all of the family that we only get to see at the holidays. I hope you all had a blessed Christmas!

We're home!

At the formal dining room.
My freckle face kiddos!

Kait loved the water.

Khloe got her hair braided.

The view...

We are back! Back to life in the real world! Waaahhhhhh! I want to go back to the life where all I had to worry about was applying sunscreen! We really had a great time! So sorry for not updating sooner, but we came home to Christmas in full swing! I am working on downloading all of the pictures to our PC at home and then creating an online album to share with all of you.

Everyone have a great, safe New Year's Eve!

We are having a great time! However, this internet connection is terrible. It is on for a few minutes and then it kicks you get kicked off-line, losing everything you were typing. It is very frustrating. I am going to try to download a few pics... we'll see if it works. I had typed a whole post a few nights ago and then lost it due to disconnection.

Nope, it is not letting me download. Shoot! Well I guess everyone will have to wait to see pics once we get home.

We went on the catamaran trip yesterday. We had a very good time. I told the kids it was one of the best days I have ever had. The weather was good, the boat was beautiful, not to many people. We all got to snorkel, not to much reef to see, but the fish were pretty. What an experience for the kids!! We took a sail to Isla Muheres(sp?) and had lunch there. Wonderful food!!! Good shopping.

Today we are lounging in the sun again. We have had no rain at all!! YAY! I'll try to come on again later and see if I can catch a few of you on yahoo messenger! Miss you!!

Hi All!

Hola from Cancun! I don't have pics uploaded yet, but I just wanted to take a minute to say that we made it. I hate not having cell phones! Our flight went well, Drew loved his first time flying. I am so glad that I bought the "backpack" harnes for him. Going through the airport with three kids and seven bags is a bit overwhelming!

Today it was 88 and sunny, we all got a bit of sunburn. Khloe and Daddy did a bit of boogie boarding, Khloe did a great job! Drew said the ocean was "mean" and he stuck to the beach making sandcastles. He has made a friend, Christopher is from Canada. They have had a great time playing together. Kait was going to try boogie boarding, but Khloe caught a wave and accidentally ran her over and that was the end of that.

The food is good, no one has gotten sick yet. Taking the acedopholis (sp?) to try and keep our tummys happy. Breakfast was delicious! The resort is beautiful. I will download pics tomorrow. Our room is great! Ocean view! The water is just beautiful!

Tuesday we are going on a Catamaran trip to an island. I am looking forward to that. The kids are picking up a bit of spanish!! It is so cute! Drew calls it Spanglish. I'm so thankful that we have this opportunity to expose our children to a different culture.

Well we are off to bed. We are hoping to get up early tomorrow and get some shells and sand dollars. Miss you all!

The Stockings were hung

I hope Santa comes!!

I just wanted to share a few pics of our home all decked out for Christmas. It's one of the few times a year that it is clean!! We will be leaving for our Christmas trip to Cancun Mexico soon. We took a family vote and we have decided to go on a nice trip instead of purchasing all kinds of gifts that will be played with for a few short weeks and then end up on the floor with the rest of their things. I am excited and nervous all at the same time! I am going to try to do some entries from Cancun, so I hope to be in touch!! If not, then I wish each and every one of you a blessed Christmas!

8th Annual Dixon Christmas Party

Santa stops by to have his picture taken with all of the kids. He also had a small gift for them!

This is my little sister Rebecca.

Boy oh boy did we have a lot of kids!!

The "Balloon Guy" entertaining the adult room! Poor Amanda!

Delicious desserts that we had catered. I wish I could take the credit!

We had out 8th (or was it the 9th?) Annual Dixon Christmas Party last night. Boy was it a record breaker! We had around 100 people with 30 kids!! We had such a great time!!

Wanted to share pics!

The first and the last

Tonight was the school Christmas program. Tonight was Drew's first program and Kaitlyn's last. Bittersweet. The kids did a great job and looked so cute! Had to share pics!

O the weather outside is frightful!

Our house.

Our street.

*singing* If all of the snowflaks were lemondrops and cupcakes oh what a snow that would be!

Standing outside with my mouth open wide...ahh,ahh, ahh!

Drew was ready to go inside after about three minutes!

Poor Floyd!

We had our first winter storm last night. So far there has been about two inces of ice and about 6-9 inches of snow. It's hard to say how much, it is blowing so bad! In some places it came over Rich's cowboy boots!! No school today, no work!!

Stay warm!!