The Chace's

Saturday, January 9, 2010

Christmas Eve in Ocean Reef

Len and Jaye's neighbor and friend Roseanne came over to help us celebrate Christmas Eve. Just like in Greenville, I made "grazing" food and we spend the evening drinking wine, eating and enjoying each others company. Roseanne out did herself. She came over loaded down with gifts. The boys were given a lego, yo yo, slinky, and various other gifts and she gave us a beautiful floral arrangement and wine. Thank You Roseanne for making our Xmas Eve so special!

O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree

Our Florida Xmas tree. Decorated with fishing lures and starfish.

Gingerbread Tea

We went to the Gingerbread Tea on the 23rd of Dec. There were huge tables set up with any decoration you might ever want to decorate a house with. The houses were larger than I expected! The boys had a lot of fun decorating their house had visiting with their new friend Stephan.

Le doesn't look too excited to have his picture taken with the elves......

Stephan, Daniel and Le hard at work.

House is done, belly is full, let's go home.

Check out the melting tree on Stephans house. Stephans dad, Dan, worked VERY hard on making this tree stand up. We were calling it the "wicked Christmas tree of the west" because it kept melting on him.

Could You Sleep Like This?

After a full day at the lagoon, we came home after 5pm and got showers. This is how I found Le when I called him to supper.

Greg and Jennifer come for a visit

We were excited to have Jen, Greg, and the gang visit for a couple of nights. The boys got on like "peas and carrots". As did the adults. We had a relaxing time hanging out at the lagoon, fishing, and working the puzzle. Thanks guys for making the trip down to visit.

Fife making a salad.

Fife and Patrick

Dan and Zack.

Brennen and Le

Patrick and Greg

PIG PILE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is ONE tough kid. He was up from 8am until 10pm. Happy the WHOLE time. He ran with the big kids and proved he could keep up!

Can you tell they are related???

Deep Sea Fishing In Ocean Reef

We met some GREAT new friends in OR this year. They were kind enough to invite us on their boat and share a Captain for the day. This was one of the highlights of the vacation. The fish were really striking and everybody got to catch something awesome. That evening we took the fish to the Galley. They cooked it for us and we ate one of the best meals ever.

This was a great size schnook (spelling???) but it had to be thrown back because it wasn't in season.

Dan caught this Yellow jack.

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Thanksgiving at the farm

It's been three years since we've had Thanksgiving at the farm. The weather was chilly but not too bad. I know this posting is late but better late than never. We had a great relaxing time. We did it all while we were there: cookout at Vivi's, spent the night at Vivi's, saw a movie, skeet shooting, fishing, hiking, 4 wheeling, fun, fun, fun.