Christmas 2007

Floyd and I were very fortunate to have Sullivan visiting for the holidays. After he was here for 24 hours last August he knew that he needed to come back for a longer visit and we are so glad he did. Even though we do e mail and text each other and talk on the phone, we still miss his wonderful personality and his good sense of humor. We are so glad that he decided to spend this time with us.
Floyd's family was over on December 23. Everyone was here except for Ric and Tracy as they were at Jeremy's in Tennessee. Nancy's children, Jayden 6 and Jolee, 4 were are so cute and so much fun.
For Christmas Eve, we spent the day driving to my Mom and Dad's. The weather was great while we were there and on Christmas day, the golf course was closed so Simon, Sully, Dad and I went out and played the 8th hole behind their house. We played that hole 3 times and Dad was giving the boys pointers. The day after Christmas, Mom and Dad rented a condo on the water for us to stay in for 3 days. It was a great place with heated out door pools and Jacuzzis but I couldn't talk the guys into going in with me. Dad had found a place that had opened up that had batting cages so we went there and even I got in there to try and hit some balls. They also had an air hockey table and I challenged Simon and Sully to a game. I'm very competitive when it comes to this game and I needed to take Simon on again. We did find another table the next day and I did get one game against Simon. What I don't know is if he let me win so I wouldn't be pestering him to play. :-) Just kidding, I know I beat him fair and square. And as usual, we did play miniature golf. After playing the course once, we decided to play again but Sully came up with some new rules and we also played as teams. We were paired up from the scores of the first game and I was lucky enough to get Dad. With a team like us, who else could win? We killed the others. We also did some shopping with Sully since the Euro is so good against the dollar. He said it was like getting everything 50% off. I think Simon and Sullivan enjoyed going to the driving range the best. They sure were getting a lot better. There is always a lot of driving involved in this trip with it taking 14-15 hours one way, but it is worth it to spend the holidays with Mom and Dad.
Sully was with us for 13 days and it seemd much too short but he did have to get back to work. But we were glad that he came and we are awaiting his next visit. When we dropped him off at the airport he did told me that he would come back and visit and I'm going to hold him to that.