ELEVEN


Scott and I went to Panama City for our 11th. We left for Florida Wednesday evening with the kids and headed to Tallahassee. We spent the night there with Laura and Johnny and then the two of us took off (yup, left the kids with Mamaw and Papaw) on Thursday around noon.

A friend of Scott's generously let us use their condo at the beach. Thank you, thank you Jerry! Scott and I had such a great time!


With traffic and checking in, we ended finally getting in our room about 5 that day. We decided to relax in the room, (still full from a late lunch), headed down to the pool, sat and enjoyed the late evening sun. And Scott heard about a movie being played on the beach that night. So once we got cleaned up, we grabbed our beach chairs and walked down to the boardwalk. The Wonderous Emporium of Mr. Magorium was playing. We had already seen it with the kids. But it was fun seeing any movie outside on the beach.

Pretty much, the days were filled with lazy mornings with breakfast burritos and coffee. And yes, Scott drank it too. I think I've finally converted him. Then reading by the pool, me under the umbrella or in the shade of course with late lunches. And if we were on the beach, Scott set up the big umbrella for me. And only he got in the ocean. You never know what's going to jump up and grab you or in Mom's case, your toe. Remember the crab? The only bummer was that I was hoping to see a yellow umbrella cart on the beach with frozen lemonade. None to be seen. Well, I made up for it with all the other junk we ate.



We also got to eat some really yummy food. And being the fact that we were a small party of 2, we got seated almost immediately at dinner time. The first night we went to a small seafood restaurant called Scampi's. We will definitly be back. The food was really good and had a fun atmosphere.


The second night we went to Angelo's Steakhouse. Scott and I are both meatatarians so we were both in the mood for red meat. We got seated right away and had a fantastic server. Scott ordered crab fingers for our appetizer. Can't go to the gulf and not get crab right? And then we pigged out.


We had a really nice time. And I can hardly wait until we're able to take another short trip together. Happy Anniversary to us!

Girl Time

When Scott and Sean were away at the Citadel, Asia and I went and got our nails done and did some fun things together. So of course we got some pictures of it all. But I'm just now posting them.

We went to Walmart and tried out the nail salon there in the store. The ladies were really nice and did a great job. We'll most likely go back there since they were so good. I just did my toes while Asia only wanted to get a manicure. Maybe we'll do the whole 9 yards next time.



And then once we were done and leaving the store, we heard music. Walmart was hosting a car show at one end. And my little music fan wanted to go see what was going on. So we stopped by and listened for a bit. A local band was playing. And the lead singer was amazing. She was a tiny, little thing but had a huge voice.


So we looked a few cars, Asia had her favorites. And when we got tired of that, we went shopping for shoes. We didn't end up buying any though. All the really cute shoes were either too big or too small for both of us. So we ended up window shopping instead.

The Citadel
Scott and Sean are gone at football camp in Charleston at The Citadel. They left Thursday afternoon and will be back some time Sunday late afternoon, early evening.

Scott says that it's been fun watching Sean out on the field running drills and plays along with all the Varsity players. He's the only young one there but having a ball I guess. Scott took some pictures on his Blackberry and emailed them to me. The ones of Sean at practice were really cute but too blurry to post.

The team on off times have been able to go to the beach and do some fun activities. Sean even got to drive a houseboat.



They we were able to see Fort Sumpter.


And I know that at some point tonight they're all going back to the beach again. One last splash before the trip home. The team has a morning devotional planned, eating and then are heading back home.

Work Day!
Asia's in the walk in freezer here.

Scott has football camp with the varsity boys at The Citadel the next few days. So having Asia and also having to be at work, I was fortunate that I was able to bring her with me for the day! We had such a good time.

I got permission to bring Asia in to work with me today. And we got up early to get ready. She was sooo tired. But we made it.

The first thing we had to do of course was get breakfast. So we headed downstairs at work and Asia got some coffee and some pop tarts. I had coffee. Her coffee of course was mostly decaf with a splash of regular. That pepped her up a bit.

Then we had to get packages ready to ship for some operators in Texas. So she helped me organize them, get the bubble wrap and get all the necessary items from the warehouse and into the boxes.


We ate a quick lunch, she ate, I nibbled trying to get everything done in time to ship. So shortly after lunch, we got all the packages put together and sent to shipping.



Then it was biscuit time! She put on her apron and started rolling. She had flour everywhere. But hey, we're in a kitchen. That's what it's for. She helped me roll out, cut and take temperature readings. Once we were done with that and I had input that data into the spreadsheet, we started the clean up process. She helped me wash dishes and even swept the flour off the floor.

We did treat ourselves at the end of the day to a little Ice Dream before we left though.

So on our way home, all she had talked about was going to Wendy's to get a cheeseburger, (her new favorite). But as I looked in the rear view, I saw her fast asleep. You'd think she worked or something.

Well, we're going to go tomorrow after we get our nails painted. Hey, the boys are gone. We're going to do all girl stuff this weekend!

Visit to Uncle JJ's House
Almost a month ago, brother, I need to get on the stick. But almost a month ago, Kim and I took a short visit down to see JJ and brought the kids with us. They had never seen his house and was missing him. And so we all took a short road trip down to Hinesville.


Well, almost the entire time the kids wanted to play this old WWII game on the wii with J. And Asia took a bunch of pictures. Thank goodness for digital cameras. We did a lot of erasing. I think one day she may be a photog. But she really wants to be a doctor. Who knows, maybe she'll be a medical photographer? And this is one of the "self portaits" she took while there. So cute I thought.

And then on the way home Kim and I stopped on post and took some shots. We stopped by the main sign and got some fun pictures with the kids.

Sean's Birthday!
He's officially 10 as of weeks ago. But I'm just now putting the last of the photos up. And I'm behind in taking the kids portraits this year too. But that'll happen in the next few days I think.

But Sean had a really nice birthday. We spread it out over a few days since everybody couldn't make it up on his actual day.

He asked for a checker cake with marble icing. And then he wanted a couple of different flavors of cupcakes to take to school to share with his classmates. So needless to say, Scott and I were up until around midnight the night before his birthday getting everything ready. But our boy's worth being tired the next day.

So when he got home from school, we all got dressed, headed off to the Mexican restaurant for dinner. And then we came home, had cake and ice cream and opened presents.

And Mom and Dad got him the outfit. It also came with an orange top. So cute. He loves it. Sean's all about the threads.

And I also had a couple of pics from when we all went golfing with J too.