Swim Lessons

Avery started swim lessons today. We have been wanting to do lessons for some time now and since both her tubes have fallen out, we feel more comfortable about it. She really does need to learn to swim and she seems ready. We have lots of water plans this summer, so hopefully she will learn quickly. The pool was very chilly and Avery was really cold after about 20 minutes, but I think it was a nice start to learning to swim. We'll be going twice a week until she learns.

Mother's Day

On Sunday we headed over to Cedar Key to visit with the family and consume a lethal amount of calories.

The pictures below were the better ones I took that day. They're totally random.


Little Leif Pants


Aiden - the Stephenson's new puppy (and Avery was terrified of him)


Mmmmm, blue crabs!


Alyson & Sean did an amazing job cooking the chicken in the extreme heat. Thanks guys!

Happy Mother's Day!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Mother's Day weekend.

Below is my gift made by Avery. They made these in her class at school and the picture was taken last week at the Piggy Opera. Too cute.

Biking

We started biking this week. Yes, we wait until the weather is nice and HOT before we start our outside exercise. It's been great though. I really hope we can stick with it and bike at least 3 times a week. I'm not sure how many miles we go, but we bike for about an hour.

Tonight we planned to get subs and bike up the trail and have a picnic. Scott got home later than we all had hoped, so our evening was cut shorter than we wanted, but we still had a nice time and I was able to get some pictures.

Happy weekend everyone! Tomorrow morning we have a birthday party and then Sunday we will head to Cedar Key to visit the fam.

Three Piggy Opera

This past Tuesday Avery was in her first preschool musical - "The Three Piggy Opera".
She played the part of a little pig that lived at the brick house. She had a singing part in the musical and we are so proud of her. She is normally very shy and even though she didn't sing real loud, she did such a great job performing.
We are still trying to figure out our video, once we do I will add some clips to the blog.

None of these pictures are all that great. The lighting was bad and my external flash was no help this time.

Here she is before the show with the assistant teacher of her class, Ms. Beth


In the classroom before the show.


This was moments before her singing part. Unfortunately I couldn't get her singing because someone in the audience was right in front of her.


Part of the class toward the end of the show.

Singing with the group. Looks like she is singing "Oink, Oink, Oink" here.

After the show she went straight to the refreshments. Chocolate and sweet tea?!

Wordle

I came across a Wordle today and did one with my blog.

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.