Snow Day...No School...Games...& Hot Chocolate

Since our week vacation in FL, the kids have had four days off of school. Two last week due to icy conditions (one day which was totally unnecessary to have cancelled for), and two days this week. Monday was a holiday and this morning we woke up to a couple of inches of snow...our first decent snowfall of the year. We've played a few games of "Go Fish", and Maggie and Jake bundled up and headed out for some fun in the snow. After coming in and taking off all their cold, wet boots & gloves, they enjoyed some warm cocoa. We are in for some possible icy weather tomorrow night, so who knows if the kids will be home again on Friday.

Fun times in Florida

We have just returned from a week's stay down in sunny, warm Florida. I must stress the "warm" part as we are having extremely bitter cold temperatures here in Kentucky. I think the high today is going to be 10 degrees with a wind chill of zero? Our trip went well and it was good to see family and friends while we were there. The first part of our trip was spent in Tampa. We spent some time with Nana Benson and family and got to eat our favorite Cuban food with her. The Florida College lectureship was going on the week we were there and Jeff's 20 year reunion was Monday night. Krysta and Natalie stayed on campus a couple of nights and enjoyed that. We headed over to Orlando on Wednesday for the remainder of the trip. We spent an evening at Downtown Disney, did some shopping, saw the Atlantis Shuttle take off, went to Cocoa Beach, and finally made it to the Magic Kingdom on Friday. We all enjoyed Disney but Jake especially liked all the characters and even rode his first roller coaster right off the bat. Mommy was more scared for him than he was. More pictures in the Disney '08 link.