Gallant Lady Trip

Our Gallant Lady trip was wonderful as always, although it started out a little shaky as we met the dealers at the Hilton so we can all go down to Bahia Mar together on a shuttle bus but the bus had a little problem, the door would not stay shut and it was apparently a hydraulic air lock (or something) and the air lock wasn’t working. So Rob, and some others ended up holding the door shut as we were driving down I-95, then finally the air pressure built up again and the door stayed shut, and we got to the boat just in time.
Below are a few pictures, I didn’t really take any of the inside of the boat because they give everyone a really nice book when you get off that has pictures of the entire ship. The other photos I took were of the dealers receiving their plaques; that we’ll send to them directly. It was a perfect way to spend the afternoon.

Gallant Lady Trip Pictures

This the Back of the ship. It was too big to take from the side

This is Rob and Hameed from Kendall Toyota holding the door shut on the bus

This is Rob driving the boat... (NOT) he wishes
This was a sailing shool, there must have been over 100 little boats out there

This is the front of the boat

Here's a group photo, although there were more of us but some of the wives were taking photos, so this is not the entire group. This was as we were leaving the ship.

The shortest, widest person there on the left in red & black...that's me..ugh

TGIF and Weekend Plans

This was the first full work week we have had since the Holidays and it was a long one and so busy. This time of year is crazy at work, I wonder if it’s everywhere or just the auto industry? Finally it’s Friday and I am so happy and so tired.
Tomorrow Rob & I will be cruising the intercostal on The Gallant Lady, if your not sure what the Gallant Lady is, you should Google it. Here’s a picture of it…try not to be jealous.

What do you think about that? My department will be hosting some dealers from our 5 State Region and it’s always so much fun to see everyone’s reaction when they get on the boat. It’s a Super Yacht, owned by the Founder of our company (Southeast Toyota Distributors, LLC) the late Mr. Jim Moran & his Wife Jan Moran. There are several in the fleet, this is the biggest at 172 feet!!! Do I work for a GREAT company or what!!!!
Yes, we’ll be cruising the intercoastal for a few hours having some tasty cocktails and enjoying the PERFECT weather we have been blessed with here in South Florida lately. Stay tuned for pictures from tomorrow's trip.

We hope everyone has a Super Fun Weekend!!!

Happy Birthday Uncle Lenny

Today Uncle Lenny turns 70 years young!!! Can you remember when 70 used to be old, not anymore, it's the new 60!! Happy Birthday Uncle Lenny!! Attached are a few pictures from a birthday celebration we had last night at Jen & Franks house.....

Here's one of the cakes.....

He had two cakes.....and some home made cannolies

All the grandkids were close by

More Birthday pictures

I think his favorite present was his shirt that says:

Most Handsome Grandpa with all the kids handprints

He got a GPS Navigation System - You'd think after 70 years, he know where everything is!!
Nick was having fun watching is Grandpa open presents

He also got a few Bass Pro Gift Cards

New Years Pictures

We spent New Years at my Sister’s house in Edgewater, which is just South of Daytona. Here are a few pictures, of her tree, Billy trying to stay awake until Midnight but just couldn’t make it and some of the boys fishing at the pier.

Dad (Buck) on the Pier

Billy found a friend on the Pier
Gina & Billy & (Karen on the phone)
The boys on their way back...with no fish
Gina & Chad's tree
Tree without the flash
Billy didn't make it untilMidnight
Billy riding his new bike he got from Santa

Happy New Year!!!

We hope the New Year finds all of our Family, Friends and fellow Bloggers Happy and Healthy and we hope all your dreams come true in 2008!!
2007 was a very busy year for us and loads of fun, when I reflect back on the year, the best part of the year had to be our Wedding, we think it was perfect and we had so much fun with our family and friends. Our Honeymoon was even better, cruising the Caribbean with my husband was the best time I ever had. We hope to cruise again in 2008. Another highlight for me was our family vacatoin to Lake Seminole with most of our family, it was so special.
The year did go by pretty fast even though at times I thought it would never end but here it is 2008 and we survived it.

Here’s a quick recap of our 2007:
- 3 Weddings (Me & Rob) (Rich & Rhonda) (Tiffany & Stevo)
- 1 Birth (Joey Roberts)
- 1 Adoption (Caylie Cox)
- 2 Cruises (Me & Rob) (The Kids and their Mom, Step-Dad & Granny)
- 1 Graduation (Matthew Boynton from High School)
- 1 New Dream Home (Sharon & Wayne)
- 1 Relocation (Matthew from Michigan to Florida)
- 1 Family Fun Vacation (Lake Seminole Georgia)

Those are the highlights with lots of fun stuff in between…

The few days after Christmas were pretty hectic with working and having to shuffle the kids around while we worked, but my cousin Jen said she’d take the kids while we worked because she’d be home with her 4 kids. I felt so bad waking Jen up every morning at 7:30 am to drop them, but it was a lot of fun for all the kids to get to hang out with each other. Thank so much JEN!!! You ROCK!!! And thanks for taking the kids to the Tree Farm!! They had a blast and so did we, once we finally got there, after crossing several dirt roads in the pitch dark and waiting for an Alligator to cross our path!! Wonder if its good luck when an alligator crosses your path???

We took the kids home on Sunday and we already miss them like crazy. We only had to drive to Gainesville this time, as Kristin drove down and met us. Thank you Kristin!!!!
We stopped at my Sister’s house in Edgewater (just South of Daytona) on the way back and spent the New Year with Gina, Chad, Beau, Billy and My Dad drove up and met us also, it was fun and relaxing, thanks for having us Gina & Chad.
We are now looking forward to some quite time for the next few weeks. This is always that time of year when the home life starts to settle down and things pick up at work, it’s a nice balance.

Today is a RECORD Cold day for us Floridian’s. It rarely get’s cold here in South Florida, today the high is 57 and the low is 38. I know all you people from the North are laughing but for us Floridians that’s cold, but it’ll be back up to the 80’s in a day or so, I’m sure.