I hope that this works. This is my son's first bible reading. He did an amazing job, and we are very proud of him.

Thanks to Eric to get this in decent shape to transmit this over the Web. I only hope that my blogger will upload it properly since I've never had any success with it before. OOO, it looks as if it is going to work...YIPPEEE!

Our trip to the beach!

So in spite of a forecast calling for numerous T-storms and the like, the girls and I headed off to Cocoa Beach on the Friday of our trip. We were leaving to come home Sunday morning, so this was our one and only time to go. As it turned out, it was a perfect day to go. By the time we got there, the sun was peeking out from the clouds and by lunchtime it was downright blistering hot! The water was amazingly mild and we had a grand time splashing around.

Of course, we had to make a pit stop into Ron Jon's Surf shop even though none of us surf. Still a cool store to wander around in and pretend that Matthew McConahay (oh please forgive me Matthew for slaughtering the spelling of your last name, it's very late at night) may be strolling by any minute now. SIGH!!!...A girl has to have some unattainable dreams, huh?

We got back to Kissimmee and saw that it had rained a good 2 inches or so throughout the day. So good for us for getting the heck outta Dodge that day. It was a memorable day...

Saturday was spent lounging around the pool, eating up the leftover food and packing our stuff..or should I say CRAMMING our stuff back into our 1 bag we were allowed to bring. Thank goodness one of my carry-ons was a nice expandable bag to shove more stuff into.

Oh, did I mention that I remembered how much I HATE flying? Yep, it's a means to an end, but I won't be holding my breath with anticipation for the next time I get to fly the friendly skies.

Flordia trip part 2

Yes, I did survive 8 nights and 9 days without my family in Florida. Thank goodness we kept busy otherwise I wouldn't have been able to keep sane. I missed my family greatly, but at least when I talked to the boys on the phone they never broke down on me. Jerod told me later that Kieran would hang up the phone and proceed to cry for me for an hour afterwards. YIKES! Sorry honey..

We ate well, one night we traveled to Sea World to see a Luau. Our table was stage side and we got a worm's eye view for all the acts. Very awesome! I figured that I would never get to Hawaii to see the real deal on a beach, so this one was a very good substitute. Even got a pix of me and the Luau boy doing the "hang ten" sign.

So I went to Florida the end of May - SANS KIDS AND HUBBY!

OK so my bad in not putting any of my pix from Florida on here. It's been insanely busy and I haven't made the time to do it since I have been back. So tonight I am taking some time away from my sleep to get some on here. So there, Jessica! (ha, ha, just kidding about the sleep thing-thanks for getting me motivated to update this blog)

So the first is the group shot. The black sisters and I are from Wisconsin. Patti and her daughter Breanne, and my new friend Melissa. The other sisters are from Minnesota. I made some nice new friends on my trip.

The second is a shot of the front of the condo we stayed in.

The third is Breanne and Melissa sunning themselves by the pool. Breanne looks awesome in this shot!