Christmas in Iowa

Thank you Grandma and Grandpa for watching us for a week!!! We had such a great time!!!!

Whadyaget Allie???

More presents to open!!! Thank you everyone!!!

Hayley and Isabelle

Cousins

Even though we were missing the Bourgeois' due to the weather, we had a great time celebrating another Christmas with some of the family. The girls are always so spoiled and loved their gifts! They also spent a week in Iowa (without us!!!! GASP!!!! and they did great!!!!!! DOUBLE GASP!!!!!!). I think Erwin might have trumped us on what the girls missed most. *sigh*

Orange bowl champions!!!!

Orange bowl and laying out on the beach

IIIIIIIII.......OOOOOOOOOO.......WWWWWWWWWWW.........AAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Finding our seats before the big game.

Sunset.

Land Shark Stadium.

The beach outside our resort at Ft. Lauderdale. Even though I didn't envision my model body laying out in a bikini (ha! Just joking!!!!!), I didn't think that I would need my winter jacket and 2 layers underneath to endure a windy morning. The water temperature was almost 70 degrees however but not warm enough to take a splash in the ocean although many people were!

The Everglade National Park

The temperatures were very cold for Southern Florida with ranges from the low 50s to 61 degrees during the day. It was the coldest Orange Bowl kick-off ever much to our dismay. Our beach vacation certainly involved sand but not those warm temps that we envisioned. But, we may not have ventured off to this very unique national park to see the many alligators sunning themselves or the unusual birds that make the Everglades their home.

Miami and the Florida Keys

Pictures on Anne's Beach near Key Largo. The Florida Keys were certainly advertised everywhere, but were a bit disappointing to say the least. Key Largo is nothing else then shanty tourist shops along a highway and for miles you can't see anything else...not even a glimpse of the ocean or a beach to stop along. We made it halfway down the highway to Key West and then deciding that the Everlades would certainly be more picturesque turned around.

A view outside our hotel room in Ft. Lauderdale