Slides, Shamu and Springs

Last Sunday after church we headed to orlando with my parents for a 3 day get a way! My dad works at the Florida Baptist Convention and he was able to get us pretty cheap "room and board" at beautiful......Lake Yale! No, we didn't stay in cabins; we got to stay in Dr. Sullivan's Suite. :) He was gracious to let us stay there. Sunday afternoon the children had fun exploring Lake Yale

AQUATICA
Monday morning my dad, daniel, nathan and myself headed to Aquatica, Sea World's new Waterpark. We got there at 10 am and didn't leave the park until after 8! Nathan had a blast. He rode most of the slides with Buddy *2 person floats* I wasn't confident enough to take him down by myself. Nathan was right at 42 inches tall which allowed him to do all the slides. He didn't mind waiting in lines and was ready to go up again after ever slide. We even enjoyed playing with nathan on the kid's island!

SEA WORLD

Tuesday we headed to Sea World with Kaylee and my mom in tow. I always enjoy Sea World, even the shows. It now has one rollercoaster which is actually pretty good. We got there when it opened and didn't leave until the fireworks show at 10:00. The kids were so good and really made the trip for all of us!

Kaylee's Polar Bear expression - She loved the play polar bear den







SILVER SPRINGS

Finally, on wednesday we met up with some other family members at silver springs. Daniel was not able to take wednesday off so he missed out on this fun adventure. I enjoyed silver springs. It was just good old fun! The kids actually got to hold an alligator. Kaylee looks kinda scared in her pic but she really wanted to and wasn't scared at all. My favorite thing about silver springs is the good ole glass bottom boats. I loved being on the boat with everyone while we coasted down the beautiful silver river. It truly was nature's theme park.




ALL OF US ON THE BuMpY JEEP Ride

Coming Soon

Whew, what a week. We just got back today from a little vacation. We had a great time visiting aquatica, seaworld and silver springs with my mom and dad. I don't know if I am ever going to recover. I can't wait to do a blog all about it. For now, I have to unpack/clean the house then go run the bridges and make it to orchestra at 7:00!

Dancing Dress

Sunday before church Nathan told us that Kaylee had on her pretty dancin dress and that she needed to dance. Here is a cute picture I snapped just before we left for church.

my dad and one of nascar's biggest wrecks (1979)

Here is a video of my dad in a big NASCAR wreck. It happens fast but my dad is 19 seconds into the video going up on two wheels in a yellow race car. This is the second time I have seen this clip; the first time was on an ABC nascar special. We tried to get copies but they said the clip was copyrights of ABC. Don't know how it got on youtube but I am glad to have it...

Nathan and Buddy

As many of you know my children call my dad Buddy. My dad is called Buddy by all and it is what he wanted to be called by his grandkids. Nathan and 'Buddy' have one of the sweetest relationships and they have so much fun together.

Recently, my dad purchased an old race car and fixed it up. Since he has finished fixin it up he has been racing it here and there on dirt tracks. My dad used to race nascar and has some pretty interesting stories from his days on the track. He stopped racing when I was born *he had found something worth living for* J/K. But, how else do you explain it :P

My dad let Nathan know that the new race car was Nathan's Car and if you go out to my dad's house Nathan will take you out to the garage and show you his racecar! Here are some cute pictures of Nathan and his racecar! The first couple of pictures are before the paint job.

RECOUNT

Last night I was able attend the Premiere of the HBO movie RECOUNT. My mom, her twin sister and my cousin sommer all work at the Duval Supervisor of Elections so they were able to get tickets. I was glad to go out with the girls and be apart of the event. The movie was filmed in Jacksonville and was about the 2000 U.S. presidential election and the subsequent recounts in Florida. The only part I didn't appreciate was the 'SNL like' interpretation they gave of Secretary of State, Katherine Harris. I guess the movie was looking for some comic relief and Katherine Harris was an easy target. I just didn't feel it had its place in this movie to the extreme that they took it. Here are some pictures from the evening.







all the supervisor of election ladies and their guest at the election office (some of the movie was filmed here)


Waiting in line *YES, it was my corny idea to hold up the tickets :P*

beach days

I haven't blogged this week because we made it out to the beach three times. Yes, being a stay at home mom does have its perks!! lol. Also, I had company staying in my home from last Friday until this morning. Whew, WHAT a week. I am very exhausted but still wanting...MORE BEACH! I think I am going to drag daniel out there tomorrow. ha. Here are a couple pictures from this week along with some of my favorite pictures from the beach last summer. We try to go at least every other week so if anybody wants to join us, let me know.

just kaylee


Emma and Kaylee




kaylee last year


home from the beach





bella


sommer and kaylee