Last Day of April

Avery and I had a nice evening together while Daddy is off on a business trip.
It's late on a Thursday night, but I wanted to put some pictures up from the evening.

Happy early May!

Anniversary Trip

Scott and I decided we wanted to go to St. Augustine to celebrate our 10 year anniversary. We went out to dinner Friday night in town and had a fun time (a little too fun for Spring). That fun time delayed our St. Augustine trip by a few hours. We finally got over to our hotel Saturday afternoon. The Casa Monica hotel is beautiful! We had asked our friend Lauren if she would come over to help with Avery so we could have a few childfree moments, but for the most part we really wanted Avery to enjoy the trip with us. Sunday we rented a boat and went boating with some friends up the intercoastal. It was such a relaxing day! I didn't want it to end. I am now suffering from the post-vacation blues. I had forgotten to bring my camera, so thankfully my friend Jay let me borrow his!

Posing perfectly for me on the island we stopped at off the intercoastal.


Resting on the boat.


This was the boat we rented. It was really nice and big. We keep dreaming of getting a boat now.


At the end of the day we headed back to the Conch House for Regae Sunday and found a family that had been beached (like we were earlier in the day), so we helped them get their boat unstuck. By the look of the wifes' face, I think they were very grateful.

This was the view out our 2nd floor master bedroom window. This is the Lightener Museum.

Lauren entertaining Avery with stickers on the way to go boating.

There was a wedding reception at the pool area when we first checked in, so Avery and I stopped by the pool area when we were checking out. She loved it.

Pool Side

She found this punch ball by the pool and absolutely loved it. I let her take it home and it was a HUGE hit, until she rolled down the car window and it flew out. She was mortified about losing her ball, but I thought it was a good lesson on opening car windows. Mommy has been telling her for sometime about how objects can fly out the windows when we are going down the road. I don't think she will mess with the windows for a long time.

Outside the hotel, getting ready to leave.

Happy 10th Anniversary!

It's hard to believe it has already been ten years since we were married. We have had many wonderful memories over the past several years and I hope to have many, many more to come.

Just Married


Rehearsal


"Dancing"


10 years ago

Fishing Trip to the East Coast

Scott wanted to take us back to the fishing beach they found the weekend before. We packed the truck the night before and headed out very early. The beach was beautiful and very secluded. We didn't catch anything but a shell and two small whiting. Around 12:30 a man walked by and informed us it was it was illegal to park where we were (right off AIA), so since we had been there 5 hours and not much was biting, we decided to head north and see if we could find another fishing spot. We checked out a few spots, but they were all so crowded, so we headed home. The weather was so nice when we got home. We decided to head downtown for an outdoor dinner. We found a place that had live music and that made us all happy.

Scott setting up the fishing poles.

Looking North

Looking South

Eating her peanut butter sandwich.

Everytime she gets to the beach she jumps like crazy. It really is rather cute.

Running from the waves.

My first catch; a shell with an animal in it.

Preparing to leave - she looks happy here, but she was not happy to leave.

Hanging out with Daddy when we got home.

Happy Easter 2009

We crashed hard after Dragonfly Sushi Saturday night. We never even heard Easter Bunny! We had a few egg hunts Saturday and Sunday, but after a long weekend of Disney fun, the girls were out of patience for the egg hunt challenge.

Our company headed home mid morning and we did our best to be productive around the house, but we were wiped out. It's Thursday evening and we are still tired from last weekend.
And Scott informed me today that we are all leaving at 5:30AM Saturday to head to the beach. *yawn*

Ok, here are the last of the weekend pictures....




Davis, Reid and Avery (please know Avery dressed herself)

Davis, Easter Morning

Avery peeking around a column while the eggs are being hidden. Sneaker!

She called these her "Easter Ears"

There's that brick wall again! I know you all must be tired of seeing all the pictures in front of the bricks, but honestly there really isn't much else in the yard.

Avery finding eggs.

48 hour Disney experience

When we got to our hotel, the tickets Sherri had ordered to be delivered to the hotel were lost. What a mess - it ended up being the hotel's fault, but nothing could make up for Sherri's stress and the fact that it took them an hour to finally find the tickets.

We leave the hotel (on the hotel bus) and are headed towards Magic Kingdom - the girls are SO excited. The bus was packed. Sherri and Davis were up front and Reid, Avery and I were in the back of the bus. When we sat down I noticed a little girl that was directly across from us sitting on her mom's lap. I immediately knew she wasn't feeling well. About 10 seconds later I knew that we should not be sitting there, but the bus was so jammed, we couldn't move!

Sure enough, the little girl throws up and thus starts the next round of our crazy Disney experience! Poor Davis is VERY fearful of vomit and of course when Davis gets upset, so does Reid. We got off the bus, got cleaned up (it really wasn't THAT bad, but anything with vomit is BAD!). We tried to get the girls back on the bus and they did, but were crying the entire way. Sherri and I could only look at each other in disbelief. What are the chances of all of this happening before 10AM!?

We get to Magic Kingdom and it is packed. I mean REALLY packed. So, we managed to wait in a few long lines and make the most of it. The girls were really being troopers about the lines and it had seemed that our morning was almost forgotten.

The day went quickly and we made it back to the hotel at 6PM. Sherri and I enjoyed the snacks and drinks in the lounge with the kids and decided we would go back to the park (no bus this time, nor for the rest of the trip) so we could try to catch a few more rides with shorter lines.

It was great when we got to the park - not many people at all. We had a great time! So much fun that it was 2AM before we got out of the park. Do you know how heavy 4 and 5 year olds are at 2AM?!?! All in all, it was a great ending to a day that started out not so great.


Meeting the Princesses

3AM Sleeping Beauty

Davis, Sherri and Reid...it was tough to get a decent shot with all the people. Unfortunately I cut the top of the castle off!

Cousins come to visit!

A week ago we got our first visit from my cousin and his family. We had a fabulous time. Scott and Bobby headed to the east coast to do some fishing, while Sherri and I braved Disney for 2 FULL days. Below are some pictures from the day they got into town. We took them to where else???? SATCHEL'S!!!!

Bobby in the van at Satchel's


Avery enjoying her pizza

Avery and Reid in the van. Note Avery eating parmesan straight out of the container!

Davis out back by Lightnin Salvage

Reid playing on the playground

Egg Dying

Ok, so my master plan of an easy evening didn't go quite as planned. Avery didn't like dinner and complained the entire evening about it. Oh well! After her shower, we colored some eggs. We just did solid bright colors and tomorrow night she will put her stickers all over them.

Kids and their stickers....






Excited about Easter Eggs