Day 162

Jackson graduated from 5th grade on Friday!  He is now officially a middle schooler!  Where has the time gone?

Day 155

Tonight B's Little League team played for the regular season championship!  I got to wear the skirt that my MIL made for me using all of the All stars shirts from the past 5 years! I love it! 

After a delayed game start, B's team managed to win the game!  It was fun to watch! 

Day 148

Friday Emma and I went to Oak Island for the annual Mother Daughter Weekend.

The weather was not the best, but the girls had fun!

Day 142

Today Emma had PJ Day AND No Fry Day which promotes skin cancer prevention. This is what she wore to school...

Tonight we headed to OKI for the Memorial Day Weekend!   We went straight to Southport to eat dinner. It felt so great to be back! 

Day 135

Such an adorable baby!

Day 128

Happy 42!

Today is JC's 42nd birthday!  These photos were actually taken 2 years ago when we celebrated J's 40th birthday, but I wanted to repost them since they are a couple of my favorites!

Day 122

Today is our 16th wedding anniversary.  I thought I would post a photo of my Bridesmaids' Luncheon.

We all look so young!  It was a great day!

Day 115

Sassy in her My Little Pony jeans...

Day 108

Posting for Friday, April 18th...

Today we had another pool day although it was mostly cloudy.

Tonight we took a cab to MGM and had dinner.  Then we walked across the way to New York New York and went to a dueling piano bar. It was so much fun!

Day 101

Friday finally…mostly sunny and highs in the upper 70s.  I will take this weather any day!!!

This morning started with JC taking Jackson to All Pro Dads at school!  This occurs once a month, and Jackson only has one or two more EVER!

AT 9:45, Dr. JC and I went to Emma's school for career day.  JC dressed up as himself while I got to dress up as Tuffy the Tooth!

After entertaining the kids, JC and I went to shop for the Easter Bunny and had lunch.  We ended the afternoon with a trip to Lowes to by annuals for my pots.

When Emma got home, I took her to get a pedicure.  She is now hooked and pouted the whole way home that we didn't also get manicures!

Tonight Jackson had a game in Greensboro.  On the way, Emma was finishing up her very FIRST CHAPTER BOOK, but apparently she was fearful that we were all contagious in the car.

And here is a DSLR photo…

Day 94

We drove home today. Literally that's all we did. 775 miles. 11.5 hours 

Morning sunshine

 We had originally planned to stay the night in Savannah, but about 2 hours in decided just to keep going! 

JC and I took turns driving. He definitely drove the most though. 

Here is the Jacksonville skyline...

We passed this old truck. I love it. 

We got home about 9:45 last night and collapsed. What a great trip!  I wish I was still in Florida! 

Day 87

This post is for Friday!

We got up and had breakfast at our hotel before heading further south.

I drove the first shift from Savannah to Daytona Beach where we stopped for lunch.  JC took over the driving after that.

We arrived at the condo right at 4pm. It took us about seven hours from Savannah.  Here is the view from our room.

After traveling all day, we decided not to make a big grocery store run.  JC went across the street to a little convenient store for some milk, and we made do with the snacks we brought and delivery for dinner.

We quickly changed and took in a little pool time before the sun went down.




As usual Emma found the most joy and didn't complain one bit!

Here are some more views from our room.  The sun sets behind our condo over the intracoastal waterway.



And beside of us are the cutest Florida cottages.  I would love to see inside some of these.  They have primetime oceanfront!

Day 80

B had a middle school game this afternoon!

I like this photo a lot!

I like that you can see the ump and the catcher.  I like that you can see the 1st baseman, and I like that you can see the man on 1st stealing second.  I like that B is loaded up ready to swing.  I like that you can see the ball quickly approaching the plate!

This was B's second at bat…he ended up hitting a fly ball that was caught.  He did, however, get his first hit of his middle school career in this game!

Day 73

More signs of spring…

Spring is coming…6 days away!!!  Why oh why is there a wintry mix in the forecast for Monday?

Day 66

Ice Storm 2014

It is March in North Carolina…when will this end?

Day 59

Emma had a doctor's appointment on Friday for a yearly check-up.  Unfortunately she also has an ear infection.  She came home and put her pjs on and watched some videos on the iPad.  This morning she felt a lot better.

Day 52

Tonight our church hosted its Third Annual Dodgeball Tournament!  All of the money goes to benefit the local food pantry (also started by our church years ago).  Brendan was asked to play on a middle school team so we all went to support him.  I have mailed my best long range lens back to be cleaned and calibrated so I only had an old kit lens.  It took horrible photos, but it is what it is.  Here is a shot of the boys waiting to play.  They ended up coming in 3rd place!

Another unique thing that happened today is that a turtle was in our driveway when JC and I headed out for our Friday lunch date.  Thankfully JC suggested that I go and grab my Nikon to snap a couple of photos.  This little guy tucked into his shell so quickly when I picked him up to move him! Ha!

Day 45

Will you be my Valentine?

Happy Valentine's Day

Day 38

Tonight, JC accompanied Emma to her first Daddy ~ Daughter Dance.  They both dressed up and looked BEAUTIFUL!  Emma had a wonderful time!

Day 31

50mm  ISO 100  f/1.8  SS 1/2500