Making A Difference

Many of you have seen my blog about how we did Christmas differently this year. So far, we have raised almost $1900 which is 63% of our goal! That's almost 8 water wells that we have provided for families to have clean, safe water. I'd love to reach our goal, and even raise our goal. Remember, it's tax deductible so there's still time to give a year end gift.

Thanks so much to those of you who have already donated. We couldn't do it without you.

Click here to see our website and to give.

Those Days Are Gone

It's official. January 31 is my last day of selling Pampered Chef. I've replaced my kitchen and have gotten everything I want, so I've paid my dues. If you want to place an order, let me know by mid January and I'll place one final order.
Email: shannontpc@gmail.com
Website: www.pamperedchef.biz/shannonanderson

Florida - Day 5

We ended our time in Florida, by visiting Downtown Disney. This is a Lego Dragon.

Case got a new pirate telescope.

Siahna was not sure about the Minnie ears.

We ate at the T.Rex Cafe.
This was our first table. Needless to say, the dino scared Siahna and she burst into tears as soon as she saw him so we had to move tables and sit by the fish.

Florida - Day 4

Opening presents
There's like 20 pages to this story and you are supposed to color each page. Attention spans don't last that long!
Siahna is very good at taking things out - as I can attest since I spend half of my days putting dishes back in the cupboards that she has emptied. :)

Trying out the cherry covered pretzels. I think she liked them.
Cape Canaveral - saying goodbye to the Disney cruise. Yep, we want to go now.

Fresh seafood for dinner. Jeff ordered a shark kabob. Yes, he's eating it in the car as he forgot to order it with his meal and had to get it to go. I did try a bite - tasted like chicken!

Florida - Day 3

We visited Jungle Adventures and got to feed the baby gators, "pet" a snake, hold a tarantula, go on a boat ride through the gator swamp and watch a fox catch a vulture and try to kill it. Very exciting!

This was our entrance to Jungle Adventures - Swampy, World's Largest Gator
Got to hold a baby gator
Case wouldn't hold the gator but he did hold the scorpion and....
the tarantula.
We also got to "pet" a Boa. Quite soft and smooth!
I think he wanted to eat us.

Florida - Day 2

Siahna wasn't so sure of the water washing up on her and it was a bit chilly, but she did great for her first time in the ocean.

Florida - Day 1

Jeff's mom recently moved to Florida so the four of us flew down there last week for an early Christmas with her. When she picked us up from the airport we headed to Celebration, FL (a suburb of Orlando) a cute little town built by Disney (so you can imagine that it looks picture perfect). Here are some pictures from our afternoon/evening in Celebration.

Case & Grandma Jan
Siahna took no nap on the four hour flight, can you tell?
Climbing an umbrella pole
Who knew Santa was a bear?
Then, there was Florida "snow." They sprayed one of the streets with a shaving cream like substance and the kids ran through this and snow also shot out from up above. It was funny for us coming from 6 inches in Denver to this!

We ended the night with a train ride around Celebration.