A City Life For Me

On Monday we checked the first item off our bucket list...Orchard Beach!  We hit 91 degrees that day, and we were tired after having a mission team here for a week.  The kids were thrilled to go to the beach.  The water was pretty chilly, but we arrived at low tide so the tide pools were full of "treasures" to explore.  The tide was coming in as we left, and that's when the trash washes in! Nolan found a shell while we were wading.  He stepped on it under the water, then dove to retrieve it.  It was a small shell with a hermit crab inside!  We added another shell to his bucket that I found, and by the end of our visit we had seen the crab attempt to change shells.  In the end he chose neither shell, and our prodding and watching may have been his demise.  :-( We also rememebered our sunscreen this time (how did I forget last time?!?!) and managed to return home unburned. I'm not a beach person at all - I much prefer mountains!  Re...

I never got a chance to finish blogging about our trip to Florida, because life just got away with me!  Traveling every weekend means catch-up each week.  It’s lots of late nights and early mornings, and I haven’t been able to think clearly enough to get this caught up!  So, here is the rest of Florida in one shot… :: Friends I was so excited to get to spend an evening with my best friend Danielle and her family.  And though it doesn’t show much in this picture, Danielle is expecting their first baby – a boy! Libs, Me, Elaine, Nehemiah, Ben, Nolan, Darren, Danielle, and Baby Wells! :: Family My Grams was along on this trip.  She let Elaine and Nolan sleep in her hotel room.  They obviously loved it! Grams made a special presentation to my Dad while we were all together.  She gave him a picture album with his childhood pictures in it.  It was a project she had wanted to start with my Gramps, but he passed away in 2010 before th...

Touching their toes into the “lagoon” at the Hawk’s Cay Resort in Duck Key, Florida…     Liberty LOVED the water! Nehemiah didn’t mind at first, but later decided he was more of a lounge chair baby than a water baby! But isn’t he adorable in his sunglasses?

Well…over two weeks later…let me write about our vacation!  We didn’t have anything on the agenda.  We were just getting out of the city.  Ben’s parents and sister still had to work, so we just relaxed and did our own thing during the day.  We spent a day at the lake.  The girls attended the Garden Tour.  We had lunch with friends.  We went to a baseball game.  We ate dinner on the porch.  It was wonderful.  The only regret I have is getting a really bad sunburn on the first day. :: Lake Onota All ready for water play! First time to the lake/beach.  Beautiful, calm, serene, not-in-the-city-anymore view! Nolan really enjoyed that he could touch bottom, sit, float, and not be washed away!  He also enjoyed dredging up leaves and rocks from the lake floor. Elaine wanted to play in the sand, but it was more like gravel.  Guess we need to hit a real beach sometime!  {But I like the lake mu...