Long Hiatus

I've been m.i.a. for a minute lol!!! Ok, ok it's been a year!! Wow time flies when your having fun!!! I figure the quickest way to catch up is with my "year in review" so here is my hiatusing (not a word but it could/should be lol!!) and I'll be staying in touch on a more regular basis.... I promise! TTYL!!❤️

Since we left off in May here goes June, Connor ran a color marathon, and celebrated his 11th B-day in Jurrasic World style with some besties!!

July finds us celebrating Independence Day and Brittany's 21st. B-day Key West Girls Wkend style!!! Woot woot!!

August has us up the Eastern seaboard with visits at Bronycon in Baltimore, Falconry and fun in Hershey Pa. (Oh you know we indulged in decadent chocolate spa time!!) Cheesesteak challenge in Philly.. Pats/Genos we never can choose a winner!! Lol!! And a lovely visit to the Jersey Shore❤️

September is back to school time so we visited a living history school museum and spent the day in the 1800's with our incredibly AWESOME homeschool group!! We traveled to N. Carolina to celebrate our dear friends Jeff & Nicole's beautiful beach wedding.. Bagpipes and everything!! It was beautiful!! We took a nice weekend in Myrtle Beach while up that way and of course stopped in Savannah on our way home!!

October brought us loads of fun aboard the Disney Dream!! Halloween on the Highseas!! We even had a private cabana on our private island #BeyonceStatus lol!!! My phone loved the cruise so much it decided to stay aboard while the ship was in dry dock for a month!! Yes, yes I left my phone onboard and had to endure with an old phone for a month!! Alas I survived lol!!!

November brings us another beautiful wedding this time Brittany's dear friend and Brit was in the Wedding!! I cried like a baby!!! They will always be little girls in my heart❤️ And what is November without Thanksgiving?!?!

December means Santa, Nutcracker, Disney VACA, and all the family festivities including Christmas Eve at Nana's!!

More holiday fun with a trip to Universal Studios for Grinchmas and a New Years Eve party with family and friends!! Finished the month off at the South Florida Fair with the besties!!

February means Valentine celebrations and a quick cruise to the Bahamas ... Well we HAD to check out all the Star Wars upgrades (that took place while my phone was vacationing aboard!!lol)  and besides waking up to Atlantis never gets old!!

March is the Flower and Garden Festival, St. Pattys day at Raglans Road, Easter and my bro's bday!! Ohhh and voting for our next president in the preliminaries 🇺🇸

R.i.p. Prince💜💜💜💔.............. Connor got an award at the Science fair for his work building and programming his robot, and a fun trip to Hash House a Go Go..... If you get the chance...Go Go trust me!!!

Here we are (finally!!!) it's May 2016 and we just got home from an incredible cruise aboard the Disney Fantasy we went to Mexico, Jamaica, The Cayman Islands, and my fav Disney's private island Castaway Cay❤️

May always means Mothers Day and I am incredibly blessed to be able to spend the day with my Mother, my best friend ❤️❤️❤️ Also we week ended  at Disney's Yacht Club when we got off the cruise... fun in Disney World!! And last but certainly not least Connor earned his Yellow Belt!!! Phew!!!! I did it all caugh up!!! See ya Real Soon!!!

Happy and Busy!!!

I always say I'd rather be busy than bored!! Well the old saying be careful what you wish for you just might get it?? I can honestly say it's true!!! lol!!! So without further adieu my lovely Rosebuds here's a quick pictorial of why I've been MIA as of late.

Severe asthma attack landed me in ICU ( Ain't nobody got time for that!! Lol!!)

Universal Studios Orlando Vacay!!

Disney Vacay!!!

Celebrating Valentines Day with my loveys!!

New additions to the family!! Lucky and Casper our baby cockatiels (to add to our zoo!! Lol!!)

Dennis DeYoung of Styx concert (where my hubby and son met him and got band souvenirs!!)

Connors Arrow of Light award ceremony where he achieved the highest honor in Cub Scouts❤️

My lovely Moms Birthday Cruise to the Bahamas!!

Girls only Roadtrip to Texas!! - Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana,Texas.... And back again!!!

Celebrating St. Patrick's Day!!

Whew!!!! Now bring on Spring Break!!!!! Hope you've been having fun being busy too!!! TTYL❤️

Summer Time and Livin's Easy!

We had the best summer Vaca!!!! We road tripped up and down the Eastern Seaboard, and boy did we have a BLAST!!!

Days spent on the beach❤️

Sand castles natch :0)

Fourth of July fireworks over the boardwalk.

Feeding the gulls from our Ocean front dwelling.

Boardwalk in the evening... My fav!!

Rides at the boardwalk.... Connors fav!!!

Quick trip to the Cape May Zoo.

We had to stop in Philly for a world famous cheesesteak challenge!!! Our pick was..... Pats!!! But oh my they were both DELICIOUS!!!! 

Visiting family and having quality cousin time❤️

Visiting more family with more cousin fun at a quintessential family amusement park in beautiful PA.

We just couldn't pass up donning these hats for our coal mine tour!!!

 

And after fun, family, pizza, ice cream, shopping, and soooo much more, we capped off our trip with a stay in Savannah for my Bday❤️ 

What would a Savannah trip be without a lovely birthday luncheon at Paula Deens The Lady and Sons, the perfect place to nourish, and refresh with a sweet tea, your weary bones after shopping, sightseeing, shopping, soaking up the historic southern splendor, and of course more SHOPPING!!! Lol!!! TTYL❤️

Christmas Vaca 2013 Part 1

Not only one of my fav Christmas movies but also a mirror image of my family!!! Lol!

This year on our annual Orlando Christmas trek we had the opportunity to bring our lovebug nephew Noah❤️

Rock stars checking into The HardRock Hotel

Jam session in Le suite!

Islands of Adventure

Rock stars down, I repeat rock stars down!! ;-)

Jinx our Elf mysteriously showed up at our hotel :-)

Fantastic Gingerbread carousel at Disney's Yacht Club

My "little"❤️

Noah❤️ with Brittany in Bruce's mouth at Finding Nemo in Epcot

All three darling cousins on the Mexico Boat ride with The Three Caballaros

Boys meeting Donald Duck

Candlelight processional (magnificent)

The big guy himself!!!!!

Having Breakfast with Cat in the Hat,

A "Who" took my seat!,

And last but certainly not least THE GRINCH!!!

The boys found Wolverine

Then decided on Grinch face paint 

For both boys❤️

In front of the Hulk coaster with Cyclops

Totes gorg gingerbread house in The 

Grand Floridian

Mickey!!!! In the Magic Kingdom

Osborne Family Lights in Disney's Hollywood Studios!!

We had such a blast!! We toured Epcot, dined in Canada at Le Cellier, snacked at the bakery in Norway, rode Test Track, etc., Connor rode Mission Space for the 1st time & Noah rode the Great Goofini Coaster for the 1st time & they loved them!!! After taking on 5 parks ( Islands of Adventure {Grinch show was AMAZING!}, Universal Studios {awesome

Macy's Christmas Parade}, Epcot{Christmas around the world!}, Magic Kingdom, & Hollywood Studios) and 3 Resorts (HardRock Hotel, Yacht Club, & Grand Floridian) we wrapped up our trip with a stroll through The Osbourne Spectacle of Lights & a delish dinner at The Hollywood Brown Derby (Cobb salad & Grapefruit cake!! Whoo hoo!!) A wonderful time was had by all!! TTYL❤️