Focht Family Blog

On November 27 Dory turned 1!! Here is a picture of Dory. She has definitely grown since May…

I also wanted to show a picture that my mom took while I was driving down to Tampa. Here is Timmy laying on Dory with Tinkerbell laying on Timmy…

For the last 10 days or so we have been in Tampa. It is one of my favorite stops other than the fact that there aren’t a lot of kids here. They have free breakfast and lunch although we usually only get breakfast. They have nice paved roads for bike riding and a heated pool and jacuzzi so we have been relaxing and getting school done and then going out in the afternoons for pool time and bike rides. Nathan and I go back to the jacuzzi most nights to relax. Tomorrow we leave for Disney to start our 4 days of the Focht Family Christmas. Since we don’t usually have the whole family with us I will try to take a lot of pictures and keep updated. We are showing up a day early so that I can go around and look at all the Christmas displays at the different hotels.

After Disney we went on another camping trip with CommerceV3. This time we stayed in St.Mary’s, GA and the activity was going out on a high ropes course. That is where I got behind. So… I think I am just giving up on the pictures for the ropes course. :) After the camping trip we went back to Statesboro for awhile. While we were there Nathan found out that there was a 5 &10K run across the Savannah Bridge so we signed up. My mom and I walked the 5K in the cold drizzly rain. Here is a picture of my mom before the race…

We took our time. When we were on the top of the bridge we stopped for some pictures. Here is a view from the bridge…

Here is a picture of me at the top of the bridge (thank you for the warm Shenango Valley jacket Debbie)…

Once we were almost done the 10Kers started running by so my mom and I stopped to try to get a picture of Nathan but all we did was waste 5 minutes of our time… I think he had already gone past. We then decided to walk another mile and go to Starbucks for hot cider! :) After the cider we waited by the finishing line for Nathan so we could get some pictures of him. Here he is as he rounded his last corner…

Nathan was able to run fast enough that he can now go up in the starting groups for the Disney half-marathon. I will still be with the slow pokes. :)

Today Josh got his first Big Boy haircut. He decided that he wanted spiky hair like Timmy and since he needed a haircut anyway I decided to give it a try. It still needs to be cleaned up a bit but I am going to let the barber at Disney do that. Here is my little boy looking too grown up….

For the evening of my birthday we went back to Epcot for one last lap around the Food and Wine Festival. While there I decided to get some henna on my arm. Samantha also wanted some. Here is the design that I got…

And here is Samantha’s design…

For Nathan’s Christmas present I bought him the Around the World Segway Tour at Epcot. Here is Nathan and me on our Segways…

That pretty much ended this trip to Disney. We spent the last of our time relaxing and enjoying the pool and jacuzzi! :)

November 8 was my birthday… Now you know how far behind I am! :) I planned lunch at Cinderella’s Castle because I like the food there. Of course doing that gives you pictures with Cinderella. Here is a picture of the kids with Cinderella…

While you are eating all of the princesses visit you. Here are the kids with Snow White…

With Sleeping Beauty, Aurora, Briar Rose, whichever you like….

With Jasmine…

And with Belle…

The kids wanted to go back on the teacups. This time Nathan came and he was doing the spinning so I snapped some pictures of Samantha and Josh enjoying the ride. Timmy was sitting out with my mom…

Next we walked through Mickey’s house. Here are the kids posing in the garden…