Cross dressing nutcracker

Cross dressing nutcracker
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Seriously, just saw this at Target.

A few more Disney Pics

I might faint

I might faint
Originally uploaded by sscopela

A little tax deductible fun

Two posts in one night, I'm on a roll baby!

Several months ago Charles, me, and 8 of our friends won a wine tasting at a charity event for the Mississippi Children's Home. Well, we "won" it during the auction portion of the evening, so we really bought it. (Right Lyn?) It took about 6 months for everyone to agree on a date, but we finally had the big event last weekend.

Breck and Lyn graciously hosted everyone. Scott from Colony Wine Market brought some great wines and good knowledge to share with all of us.

I just loved these pictures. Well, I love the group shot, not really the one of me and Jessica. See what happened is ever-prepared Breck whipped out his handy tripod for the group shot, then I saw the group shot, became horrified at how big my arm looked, and then Jessica and I decided to do a little tricep workout to remedy the situation. Lyn was dying to post the pictures of our little workout on her blog and I told her absolutely not. The only internet ridiculing of me will take place on my own blog. :)

Obviously, this all took place after we had "tasted" all the wine Scott had. But hey, it was all for charity!

A few Disney pictures

I know this post is very belated - but I'm sure most of you know I live by the "better late than never" motto. And since Charles is working late (and by "working late" I mean eating and drinking it up at Ruth's Chris with clients while the girls and I ate at Picadilly), I decided that instead of doing housework I would blog. Unfortunately, I don't actually have most of the Disney pictures on my computer. I have some that were taken with my camera. The rest of the pictures are on Charles' camera, and I have no idea where it is, and even if I could find it I wouldn't know how to extract them. So until he has a free minute to help me, you'll have to do with the small assortment I have here.

We really had a great time. Although it did take Charles and me about a week to recover after we returned from "vacation." I'm pretty sure the ideal trip is 4 days in Disneyworld with the kids, then somehow they are magically teleported home to the grandparents while mom and dad hop the next plane straight to a secluded Caribbean island for a week to physically and mentally recuperate.

Our girls are a little skiddish. Well, mainly Carlisle - but when she pitches a big enough fit it starts to rub off on Rainey. Neither of the girls were terribly thrilled at first with the characters with big heads on their costumes. You have to keep in mind that to kids this age, these aren't people in costumes, that is really Winnie the Pooh - and he's huge, and he can't talk. So we went to all these character breakfasts (because I read everywhere how much kids love them), but of course my kids are hiding under the chairs. (I guess I should have seen this coming after the twinkie incident in Kroger a few months ago - the girls and I were at a new Kroger in Madison where they apparently decided to have some people dress up as a giant twinkie and the Cheetos Cheetah in celebration of the grand opening - anyway, Rainey caught one glimpse of the duo and absolutely went into hysterics - I was afraid she would never step foot in a grocery store again). Anyway, back to Disney.

Rainey got over it pretty quickly and started posing for pictures and hugging them. Carlisle finally managed to give poor old Winnie a hug on our last day there. They both really loved the "face characters" - meaning the ones that don't wear big costume heads - like all the princesses, Alice in Wonderland, Mary Poppins, etc...

The rides were also another learning experience. I just envisioned them loving all the rides, can't get enough kind of attitude. Wrong again. There were pretty much terrified of all the indoor rides except Small World. They didn't like anything where it got dark, at all, even for a second. To be quite honest it was pretty annoying - I mean the 5 year old across the street told us his favorite rides were Tower of Terror and Space Mountain - and our kids were afraid of the Peter Pan ride. To be fair to them though, by the end of the trip they were much better and more willing to try rides. It just took a few days for them to get used to it.

They loved the teacups and Dumbo from the start though. They also enjoyed the parades and shows - but again it took us a few days to realize that was the kind of stuff they really thought was "magical"(to use a little Disney lingo).

I'll post some more pictures whenever I can get them from Charles.