The Calm After The Storm

The Holiday Season was crazy busy but now that Santa has come and gone things have calmed down a little in the Cabrelli household. As a surprise for Emily and Sundie we presented them with a gift of a quick 3 day cruise to Florida starting the day after Christmas! They were thrilled and we were all excited as Emily was the only one who had experienced a cruise before. We were also excited to find out a couple of days previously that Emily's BFF Serena was going to be on the return leg of cruise (quite by coincidence).

Here are some photos of our visits and the cruise to catch up from the last 2 months!

The girls on our patio...



Our first Christmas dinner (on Thanksgiving)...



The Fam at The One and Only...



Mum and Tina gettin' down to that crazy Junkanoo beat!



Sundie arrives! Having dinner in the front garden (too windy for the patio that day)...



On the cruise in port in Nassau...



Two "step-up" pals walking the Riverwalk in Fort Lauderdale (I snuck up on them for this one - they were swinging their arms and everything)



BFFs...



BFFs...

Tis the Season

I have approximately 36 minutes before people get to work and the Emily Rose phones start to ring off the hook. Not that I'm complaining!

We have a had a lovely past few weeks with visits from both Lisa's Mum and Dad and Cousin Tina. Busy... but very fun. We will post photos of the shenanigans when we have some more time. Mark's Mum arrives on Tuesday for an extended Christmas stay so we are very much looking forward to her arrival. Amongst all of the visitors Lisa is dealing with a crazy and successful Holiday Season but enjoying the hard work this time because at the end of her long days she gets to be with family. The first Holiday Season with Mark and Emily in 3 years!

Lisa had a tough week last week with a major blog mishap. Her technical guy didn't back up a database and the blog (over two years worth of posts and rankings) was lost. Mark knows how to cheer her up though and snuck off with Tina and Emily to bring home the very first Cabrelli Family Bahamian Christmas Tree. We had a lovely evening of trimming the tree - here are Mark and Emily adding the angel (Mark half dressed for his football game :-)).



It is wacky time here at our house and Emily's school had a very appropriate uniform release day today... Wacky Day! Here is Emily completely wackified... yes she went to school like this!