Friday, June 29, 2012

Our 1st Rays Game of the Season!

A huge thank you to the Muellers for inviting us to share their suite that they won at Mackenzie's school auction for the Rays game Thursday night!!  It was a great night out with our friends!!  The suite was awesome, the food was delicious and the company was even better!!!  We reminisced about our nightmare of a trip to Boca Grande and I was so glad that our friends are still speaking to us after we gave them all the plague!!! It was such a fun night although the Rays lost but I think honestly the guys were the only ones watching the game!!  Here are just a few pictures because I was to busy having fun chit chatting with friends!!
Go Rays!!!!


Ryan and I!
Pete and Erin!! Such a cute couple!!

Erin and I!

Thursday, June 21, 2012

Jackson the fish!!!

Our little Jackson is a great swimmer and he tells everyone he swims like a fish which he does!!  However, he definitely needed a refresher course going into a summer full of beach trips and pool time!!  So he started private lessons at the Westchase Swimming pool and is doing fantastic!!  Jackson's instructor is Miss Amanda and she is awesome!!  And if any of my Westchase friends want her number let me know I highly recommend her!!!!!  She is great with Jackson and teaches the ISR way that Jackson learned and I loved, but also is incorporating the styles of swimming!!  Jackson is loving swimming lessons and is getting much better at keeping his eyes in the water thank goodness!!!  Although Miss Amanda is catching on to Jackson's tricks very quickly such as when he tells her he's tired 5 minutes into a 30 minute lesson!!!  That is Jackson language for I want to run away from you and jump in another area of the pool and play!!!  By the end of the first lesson she had his number!!  Anyway enjoy the pictures of our little fish at a few swimming lessons!!

Swimming to the steps!
Swimming so well!

Good floating!

Still floating!!



Miss Amanda teaching Jackson to kick better!


Good  eyes in Jackson!

Learning to different styles of swimming!

Sunday, June 17, 2012

Happy Birthday Pop!!!

Since my surgery was postponed we decided to go back to the original plan and go to Jupiter to celebrate Pop's birthday and Fathers day a little early since he will be in the Keys for the real thing!!! We had a wonderful weekend with lots of fun in the sun for little Jackson!!!  There were boat rides, beach time, paddle boarding,  kayaking and lots of pool play for Jackson!!  And on Saturday morning we even saw 2 manatees at Pop and Mimi's dock and Jackson thought that was awesome as did we!!  We fed them lettuce and gave them water it was such a cool experience we had our own aquarium at Mimi and Pop's!!!  Then Saturday night we surprised Pop with reservations to his favorite steakhouse Ruth's Chris which we all enjoyed even Jackson!!  It was such a great weekend and we want to wish Pop a Very Happy Birthday and Fathers Day!!!!!!  Here are a few pictures from the weekend!!!

Our manatee eating leaves!

The manatee cruising the river!

The manatee drinking from our hose!

Daddys new boat!  Ryan found the kayak floating in the river so him and Pop picked it up and cleaned it up and waited for someone to claim it and nobody did so I guess Ryan has a new boat!!!

Ryan taking his boat out for a spin!

Jackson waiting for daddy to come back!

Jackson and mimi!!

Sweet picture!

Jackson waiting to go for a ride with Pop!!

A wet Haley from swimming in the pool with Jackson her favorite thing to do!!!!  We are so happy to have her back home after she had a months stay with Mimi and Pop!!

Jackson heading out on the paddle board with Pop!!

Jackson and Pop going for a ride!!


So Cute!!


I've never seen Jackson sit so still for so long!!  I think he was terrified to fall off!!


Going around the river!!


Jackson and Ryan before dinner!!


Such a sweet photo!! 
So handsome!

Jackson holding Mimi's shell!
Jackson's new hat to keep the sun off!!

Jackson was getting too much sun with our normal sunscreen so we went to red zinc oxide to protect him!!


Walking the plank!

Jumping in with Uncle Rob!

Thanks for the ride Uncle Rob!

Lauren reading by the water!

Playing in the pool with Uncle Rob!



Saturday, June 2, 2012

Memorial Day Weekend in Boca Grande!

We have been planning this Memorial Day Weekend trip to Boca Grande since January!!  We were all so excited on Friday to head to the beach with the Mueller, Hodges, O'Connor, Harrell and Politis families and had been talking it about it for weeks!!!! Friday evening was so much fun hanging out on the beach until sunset and then ordering dinner in with friends and enjoying a nice relaxing evening!!!  Then Saturday we enjoyed a beautiful beach and pool day with all our friends!!!  The kids had a blast playing in the waves and sand and swimming in the pool and it was so fun catching up with our good friends from college!!!  The perfect Boca Grande day!!!!! Then the beginning of the worst case of the stomach flu I have ever witnessed started to set in! Jackson started first and was sick Saturday night then slept all day Sunday (so un Jackson Like and so sad)!!  Then he rallied a little to play in the pool Sunday evening with the kids!!! Then the inevitable happened......Ryan and I were unlucky enough to get the stomach flu as well!! What started out to be a fantastic weekend quickly turned into a nightmare. But at least we were able to enjoy a day of fun in the sun right!?!?! Still questionable and too soon to laugh about!  Ryan being the saint that he is somehow managed to get us home safely Monday morning in the extremely sick state we all were in and the 3 of us proceeded to spend the rest of memorial day on the couch :-(  Oh well! Maybe next year we will have better luck, well that is if we are invited back since we gave the virus to a few of our friends and their kids :-(  Now that we are all feeling better I am able to post the few pictures I took while we were all well and happy!! Enjoy!!

We are off on our way to Boca Grande!

Jackson, Uncle Pete and Irini hanging out in the gulf!

Uncle Pete and the kids!!!



Jackson and Irini playing on the beach at Sunset!

So cute they were!


Sunset the 1st night!
Sweet Jackson loving the water!!

Jackson and Irini haning out!!


Having  a blast!!

Jackson and I hanging out in the water!!

Sweet Irini having a blast with her noodle!

Uncle Pete!!

The Politis Family!


Trey with Mackenzie, Ellie and Jackson!!


Jackson trying to rally with Mackenzie and Ellie!!

Ryan Coming back from the beach with his cool beach chair back pack!

Jackson and Ryan!

The boys and some of the children!

Another picture of the Boys from old florida and their children!

Good bye Boca Grande!! Hope to see you again when we do not have the plague!!

Happy Memorial Day!!