Vacation

A quick recap of our family vacation.  We spent last week at the beach visiting my family in Florida.  We had a great time and ate lots of good food!

Building a sand castle with Cousin J

Sneaking a kiss with Mom

Refusing to smile - AGAIN!

Uncle G teaching Chatty to fish

Proudly displaying the fish she caught all by herself

Visiting with Mam-ma

We visited the Ponce Inlet Lighthouse

Chatty climbed all the way to the top

while Bia let D carry her!

At the top!

We really had a great time in FL - we appreciate everything our family did to make our stay so much fun!!  We can't wait to go back again!

A Little Change

I decided to change up the look of the blog with some new pictures and some new nicknames for the girls. As most of you know LAD is quite the talker, hence her nickname Chatty Cathy. SLD has been called Bia (Sophia Bia) since she was a baby so that's how we (I) came up with Sweet Bia. Don't let the name fool you, she is anything but sweet if she wants something and you won't give it to her!

Hope you are all having a good week. I think we are finally back into our routine after the holidays and the trip to Tampa. Next big event is a trip to Vegas (girls only - no kids!) for my Aunt Susan's big birthday bash next month! My friend Amy is going with me (it is her birthday too)! It should be lots of fun.

Chatty (aka LAD) starts the new season of soccer this Saturday. I am not looking forward to it as much as past seasons as most of our core team has left. She and a few other girls are the oldest on the team and will most likely dominate (as they did last season). We plan on switching to a different league next fall. We are even thinking we may switch sports .. not sure. I will try to post some pics this weekend or early next week! TGIF tomorrow! Gotta run - college football BCS title game on tv right now!

Another Trip To Florida ...

But this time it was to the west coast for a wedding. It felt so weird to be in Florida and not be in Daytona and visiting family! We're sorry we didn't have time to trek over there, we thought of you a lot while we were in Tampa though! L kept asking why we couldn't see Granny, Mama, Edie, Aunt Susan, Jack, etc.

L was a great flower girl (I was very nervous but she did great)! She had a great time and loved hanging out with the ring bearer (who is 3 years older than her but about the same height!)! We missed having S with us but she was spoiled a ton by Nana and Poppa! Here are some pics from the wedding festivities.

At the rehearsal dinner with her Godfather Uncle Greg

Visiting the merchant ship USS Victory

Not sure she would make the best captain

L and the Groom to be - he may throw her overboard!

Ready for the wedding

L and Angie

L and the ring bearer - isn't he cute?

So sweet!

Not sure what was up with my camera and the haze ...

The Bride's Sister (a Kindergarten teacher) and L

The two ring bearers and the flower girl

She absolutely loved him! He was so sweet!

The couple dancing the night away

Dancing with her Godfather

Dancing with the bride and groom