Christmas

A few pictures from our Christmas morning. Jailee was a bit overwhelmed and wanted to play with the present she opened instead of moving on to the next package. It's a week later and she's now playing with everything, but still Legos are her favorite!

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Her dolly from PoPo and MoMo

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Opening presents

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New dishes from Grama Mickie

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Daddy and Jailee are tapped out!

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Hope you all had a great holiday!!

Tomorrow we're planning to stay up late for the London New Year's bash, then we'll wake up early to catch the New York and West Coast shows as well. Wish us luck!

jx4

Thanksgiving

Just a few pics from our trip to the states over Thanksgiving.

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We went to Denver first to visit Jim's Grandma, Uncle, and Aunt.

Pictured above: Jim, Jackie, Jailee, Emily, Gary (PoPo)

Marti (MoMo), Grandma Aubrey (Nonnie), Great Aunt Barbara

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Standing on the deck of our apartment in Denver.

Jailee's first pig-tails!

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Jailee and Auntie Em' (MeeMee)

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Jailee and Nana are making.....a mess! :o)

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At Grandma Mickie's house in Edmonds, WA
Pictured: Linda (Nana), Jailee, Jim, Grandma Mickie

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We had a great time visiting everyone. The first week was spent in Denver with Jim's grandma. We had Thanksgiving at his Uncle Rick and Aunt Judy's house, as well as a 90th birthday bash for Grandma Aubrey the Saturday after. Jim and I were at the mall at 5am the day after Thanksgiving and I have to say it was the best shopping trip I've ever been on! There wasn't a ton of people like I expected, we were done by about 10am and driving out of the parking lot by 11, ready for a nap!

After leaving Denver we took a trip to Seattle to spend time with Jim's mom's family. We were able to see some of our friends as well which made us miss things even more. Jailee had a blast during our visits and of course was the center of attention, which she loved!

Have a great holiday - we'll post Christmas pics in a few days!!

jx4

HALLOWEEN!!

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Some pics of our Halloween Trick or Treat Adventure!

Jailee did really well, but towards the end she was more

interested in eating the candy from the bowl

instead of filling it up!

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Ahwwww, Litte Minnie!

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Jailee and her best friend Jaycie

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This is one huge pumpkin!

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Jailee in front of 'pooh'

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Daddy hid the bucket so that he has full

access. Jailee ate most of the chocolates, but soon

forgot about it. Out of sight, out of mind.

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jx4

Pumpkin Pickin' Time

Well, we made it through the not so fair weather summer and have arrived at a beautiful Fall. The temperature has been perfectly cool in the mornings, warm in the afternoon, and nippy again at night. We're loving the fact that things are pretty much where they should be for this time of year.

This weekend was spent with Saturday at the Apple Festival in Ely. We bought some local cider, tasted an ostrich burger, and learned about how bees make honey. Afterwards we of course had to hit the market square, where Jailee got to ride the teacups with her best friend Jaycie and her daddy. We were also impressed with the 'beanie's' coffee truck.

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Jailee, unca' Blake, Jaycie

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Cool coffee truck

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On our way to pick pumpkins I snapped this shot.

You can't get any more 'country' than this!!!
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Jailee in the pumpkin patch

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Just can't decide

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Jaycie and Jailee

Neither of the girls wanted to pose, so we just kept taking pictures!!

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'baby' pumkins were the hit this year.

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This is the one I want!

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Finally, we get a picture together!!

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Hope all your pumpkin pikin' is as fun as ours.

jx4

Great Yarmouth

Although our summer hasn't been wonderful we did get a week or so of sunshine so we headed to the coast. Great Yarmouth is about an hour east of us, so the drive wasn't too long which made for an even more enjoyable day.

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Jailee and I in the sand

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A little local color (Jim's handy work)

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Jim and Jailee after our picnic lunch.

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Some more locals

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The board walk

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Big daddy

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Jailee and daddy

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The strip - They have their own little Las Vegas

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More time in the sand

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Bulls-eye

(NO! that is not Me!!)

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It was a very windy day and although the sun was shining there was no need for swimming to cool off. Jailee had Candy Floss for the first time (the British version of cotton candy - looks and tastes the same). She loved it of course and so did Jim who ended up with a bellyache.

~peace out, jx4~

Changes

Trying to change things up a bit with our format. After looking in on a couple of other blogs I'd have to say ours is a little bland. Maybe I'll learn something and make this more entertaining for us all?! Trying to learn to load a video from our archive, not sure if it's going to work or not, but stay tuned!

Tour De France

Sunday, July 1, 2007

Tour de France

First leg of the race started in London and ended in Canterbury. We were fortunate enough to be able to drive over and take in the festivities.

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Setting up the street the morning of the big race.

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Jailee (sleeping) and mommy under the "Tour de FUN" sign. The rights to the actual tour logo is so locked down that the only signs toting it arrived with the promotional crowd later in the day. We couldn't even buy a T-shirt until we went to the finish line area where all the promoters set up camp!

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The Tower Bridge is on the big screen which is set up in the town center. The same location as the street ball the Friday night before. We watched the start of the race from here.

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After watching the start of the race we roamed around the open markets and other festivities of the day. Above: Jailee meets "Bumble", a British childrens program star. He is FiFi's best friend in FiFi and the Flowertots, one of Jailee's favorites! She was very excited to see him and even said his name before we told her whom it was, but as far as actually touching him - all he got was a fearful Hi-5 as she held mommy with a death grip!

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This is a miniature bike trail set up for the kids. They could ride through the world in just a minute or so. Places represented were USA (Hollywood sign), Egypt with pyramids, Italy with Romanesque columns, The antarctic with ice-like tents,.....etc

Although it was meant for the kids we did see a few adults racing their bike through the course as well.

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Below is the promotional procession. Basically its a commercial on wheels brought to you by most of the Tour de France sponsors.

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Finally!!!,...they arrive

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As quickly as you can scroll to the next picture, they had whizzed by us~

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Yep, hours of waiting for seconds of fun.

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These are the last of the stragglers, arrived maybe 15 seconds after the first.


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Now the race is over, we've sat on the grass to enjoy our wine, cheese and salami bought earlier at the market. We make our way toward the finish line to find that as quickly as they've come into our lives, they are leaving.

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The grand stand, after the race

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Packing it up, and it's only been over for about 45min! You can see Canterbury Cathedral in the background.

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Things are slowly returning to normal.

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All in all it was a great day. The weather was wonderful, even got a little tan while we watched the race. Afterwards we enjoyed a cold one on a grassy area across the street from a pub where we made our purchase and watched as things were dismantled.

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Below,....on our way back to the town center a couple of potty's caught our attention.

This one says "Loohire" - you all know the Brits call the bathroom the Loo. A far stretch from Honeybucket!

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This one really called our name!

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Hope you enjoy the pics!!!!

jx4