Santa came to visit

Saturday was the community bag lighting in our neighborhood. As usual it had rained so there was not alot of participation this year. We had goodies and coffee and Santa paid a visit. Below are some pics from Santa's visit to our house.





Meg was scared of Santa, but we finally got a picture with Brittany



Santa and Izzie



Santa, Izzie, TJ and kevin's dog Buster



Buster & Tj



Buster & Santa



Meg, me and Santa

Our newest agent

After getting Britts senior pictures done we stopped by the office with the dog. Rod had to have pics of her. So she is now our newest agent in the office.

Welcome Isabelle Cleopatra Brown- IZZIE




Sporting some reading glasses



Checking out the computer



Trying to look important



What do I do next?

2009 Christmas parade

Lets just say the Christmas parade this year will be one to be remembered. It started off raining in the morning and continued off and on. I t cleared up just before the parade was to begin.. so they went ahead with it. They started about a half hour late. Probably if they would have started on time they could have made it through before the torrential downpour. Unfortunately it started pouring big time right before our group got to our office. I felt so bad for everyone in the parade. Below are a few highlights. You can see the cloudy skies and then see the downpour of rain. Everyone was a good sport about it. The poor cows had quite a bit of extra weight with all that water in the suits.

Halloween 2009

Better late than never... I created this photo slide show late one night and saved it and forgot about it. Life has been so busy. We had a Homeowners insurance company go out of business...So we had to rewrite over 200 policies if we wanted to keep the business. All of this in a short period of time. My head was spinning.. but we made it through and even had a liitle time in the schedule to attend a halloween party of some friends. Didn't have time to shop for costumes.. so we searched our closet and came up with something. Not too creative, but it did the trick. Anyhow it is almost time for thanksgiving and I'm still back at halloween. Enjoy our goofy pictures.

We also attended The Judgement house at the kids school over Halloween weekend. They caught our family as we were coming out of it and wanted to interview us for TV. Wouldn't ya know that they only put on something I said . So below is a link to my 5 seconds of fame.



http://video.cbs12.com/m/27205635/halloween-judgement-house.htm

School projects!

The high school years bring on many projects in English class. You never know what kind of project may come along. You really need to show your creativity when it comes to these projects. Sometimes an option is to write a long paper or color detailed pictures. Britt doesn't care to do either so we usually get stuck building some sort of item. This past project was a castle. This one was made out of ceiling tiles, corners from a cardboard box , a juicie box on top and some sample roofing tiles, toilet paper rolls and some textured spray paint and some little plastic people. Below are some pictures of the product. Glad to say She got an A on the project. YEAH!!





Britt Painting windows in her castle


Painting on doors



gluing on some people



The finished castle



Another angle of the finished product

Jessica's Surprise 14th Birthday party

On October 23rd Jessica celebrated her 14th birthday. She wanted to have a party with her new friends she has met at her new school this year. We decided we would surprise her this year. So we put together a little party at Chuckee Cheese and had some of her new friends show up and give her a surprise. She was definately surprised. We actually got it pulled off. It turned out really nice to have new friends from her new school. Even one of her Teachers Ms. Foster came and brought her 3 kids that Jess is also friends with. We had fun playing games and visiting and the best was pulling off the surprise.

Office Mural Painting

The area we live in in Hobe Sound is kind of a quaint little area. Recently they have started painting murals on the sides of some of the buildings. The painters who work along with the Chamber of Commerce approached us a few months back and asked us if we would be interested in having one on our building. They gave us some of their ideas. Some of my friends received emails from me asking your opinions on which one we should go with. We narrowed it down to two. The one we did and the other was flower boxes and flowers painted on the building . Many chose the flowerboxes because it was safe. But we all kinda like the Hurricane although it made a BOLD statement. Afterall, the hurricane kinda tells who we are. Insurance for such things, or the Calm in the Eye of the storm. As you can see we chose the hurricane, had them perfect some things and they went to work. They did an excellant job, and were more than happy to let each of us have our own little special thing on the painting. The kids thoroughly enjoyed doing it. They have started on the building next door. They are doing the flowers. It looks nice, but we all think ours looks the best!!