Moving on...

After almost a year of waiting, we put our Mabel Bridge home back on the market on Thanksgiving weekend:). The very first people to view fell in love with it and before Christmas we had a sale! We didn’t have a lot of time to move out (and cannot move into our future home at Willow Bay until March) so we found a little apartment close to Willow Bay for now. We went nuts throwing away and donating the massive amount of stuff we’ve amassed over the past 20 years...
We donated almost 50 boxes of stuff in the end - here are the coat hangers that we had left over from getting rid of just the clothes!

Maddy was a trooper and came home on the weekend to help. She didn’t even mind having to sleep on a mattress since we’d already packed up her room. Juneau took full advantage of having her snuggle buddy back in town:)

I got a bunch of moving hacks from Pinterest and we were able to do almost all of it on our own! This was my favorite trick to move the clothes more easily...:)

Two Men and A Truck helped us finish up and we are already enjoying the simplicity of apartment living:)...

Two months to go and we can start the refurb on Willow Bay - I can’t wait!!!

The Living Seas Aqua Tour

For Christmas I booked  the Living Seas snorkeling experience at Epcot. She really wanted to try the scuba assisted snorkel unit to get a feel for if she wanted to pursue a proper scuba experience. She took to it right away! We spent a couple of hours on the tour and almost an hour in the aquarium with sharks, sea turtles and a whole host of beautiful and exotic marine life. We totally loved our girls day together!

Happy 20 Year Anniversary to Us!

For our 20 year anniversary this year we decided to take a trip to Niagara Falls. I have never seen it before so I was blown away when I saw the view from our hotel!

You could even see it from the hot tub in our room!

It was so cold - we all got bundled up so that we could see the sights...

We started out with lunch at the Skylon Tower...

They light up the Falls at night and do fireworks too!

Maddy and Mya has a blast doing poses in the snow...

Seems like a lifetime ago...

The day after our anniversary was Mya's 16th birthday. We walked the Rainbow bridge to the US to celebrate:)

The temps dropped to -16 degrees and the 'feels like' was -23 below!

We took the tour under the tunnels to see what it looks (and sounds) like behind the Horseshoe Falls...

Maddy got a kick out of watching people slipping on the snow...

We all enjoyed the butterfly exhibit...

And I loooooved feeding the chickadees and squirrels :)

And the dare devil exhibit...

So excited for 2018 - Happy New Year to you all!

Happy Christmas!

We had a perfect Christmas this year! Maddy was happy to be home and back in the Disney Parks again:)

We all loved the new Star Wars movie (especially those cute Porgs:))

Juneau had so many gifts we had to start letting her open hers a week before!

Nana hosted since we put the house on market again...

And this year at 7:45 am I won "best Christmas cheer" by sleeping in my hat:):):)

On Christmas Eve we got confirmation that we had sold the house. We were so excited!!! Mike surprised me with tickets for the Nutcracker too! It was a big day:)

We had a ridiculous amount of wonderful gifts...

We snuggled on the couch and watched classic movies for most of the day itself...

And enjoyed some family time:)

Happy Christmas to you all!