Martin's & Goetz visit

Friends of ours from wayyyyy back got together at our house. The Goetz's live in the St Louis area and were in town visiting their family. The Martin's don't live that far away but we hardly ever get to see them. Kyle, Randy and Brian all worked together about 12 years ago in a lab on campus. Since then, we've all married and had kids and here are the results!

Last of the T-ball for '09

Well, t-ball is coming to an end. I got to watch my last game. They have one more next week but Acacia and I will miss it as we will be in NC. But, here are some photos from the last game. They've really come a long way .... OK - the games look pretty much the way they did in the beginning ... Lots of looking into the outfield, playing in the dirt, running the ball to the base in stead of throwing it and if they did throw it they would toss it under hand as if bowling with it. Whatever. It seems like they had fun.







Click the link to see the slide show of all the t-ball photos '09.

Slide show of more t-ball '09

Key Largo and Florida '09

For whatever reason the airlines gave us a break and we were able get flights to FL for way cheap! Acacia, Chris and I got to go visit Uncle Chris, Aunt Yoli and Newman for a week of fun! Dad had to stay home and work but he will be able to come with us on our next trip ... to NC!!

We did TONS of cool stuff!



We drove to Key Largo and went on a catamaran out to a reef and snorkeled!!


We stayed in an AMAZING hotel that had super cool pools with water falls in them. The water in the ocean was at least 95 degrees! We went fishing, played ping pong and corn hole and had umbrella drinks on the beach. We even got fancy cool towels and watermelon served to us as we lounged around the pool!


We took Newman on a canoe ride and we even got to paddle the canoe. Then we got to go for a walk on the berm.


We spent a lot of time in Uncle Chris' pool and learned how to do egg rolls and dives!


Uncle Chris took us to the Everglades and we went on an air boat out to see the American alligator! We saw quite a few of them! They were right next to our boat!! We also saw vultures and got to hold an alligator!











If you look at all the photos in the slide show you'll see everything we did ... almost! We got to go see a movie called Ice Age - something about a dinosaur that was super cool in 3D!. We went to a shark feeding frenzy, got our nails done, went to a butterfly exhibit, spent about $3,745 in this cool game land place and came out with a few cool toys, went to the beach, took an air boat ride in the Everglades to see alligators, played with Newmie!! Uncle Chris got this cool ball with a kite like tail that we learned how to throw and catch. We took a canoe ride with Newman over to the berm for a walk. We saw iguana's and heron right in their back yard! They have a banana tree and a mango tree too!

Click the link to see the slide show of Florida '09.

Slide show of Florida '09

WHCC Kid Fest - '09

The kids summer day care puts on a little concert at the local farmers market! This was the best one yet! They even had a little surprise for us at the end ... KAZOOOOOS!! ... that they get to keep! How cool is that for us??







Click the link to see the slide show of Kid Fest '09.

Slide show of Kid Fest '09

Got the coconut!

Acacia asked Auntie Valerie to send her a coconut in the mail from Hawaii .. and she did!! THANKS Auntie Valerie!!