Florida, Part 4: Visiting

We did lots of visiting with family while in Florida. We got to see my Great Aunt Martha & Great Uncle Gordon....however, I didn't think to get my camera out at the restaurant! :( BUMMER!

My Great Grandma Strom came over one day to see the girls. It was so great to see her...she is wonderful! Here are some pictures of our visit with her...




















Haylee got a Minnie Mouse play make-up set at Disney World and tested it out on Grandma Strom -- so cute!

And of course we did more swimming at Mimi & Papa-Ken's house!

Florida, Part 3: DISNEY WORLD!

Our day at Disney World (Magic Kingdom) was awesome! It was all we could have hoped for. Haylee had a GREAT time and is still talking about it! I have 109 pictures from the day!! It was really hard to choose which ones to post....here they are! :)

Florida, Part 2: Swimming @ Mimi's

We did lots and lots of swimming in Mimi & Pawpaw's awesome pool. My sister and I spent hours and hours in this same pool growing up. GREAT memories here...

We decided to bathe the girls outside this night...ha!

Florida, Part 1: The beach!

Well, we did it. We loaded up 17 pieces of luggage (including all carry-ons) and went to Florida last week. Haylee was great on the airplane....Rylee was as good as she could be...let's just say 11.5 months is a HARD age for flying. But my mom was super Nana and took care of her over half the flight. Thank God for Nana.

Anyway...we got to Mimi & Pawpaw's house Friday and just hung out and visited. Saturday was our big beach day. My Aunt Jenny's boyfriend (and good friends of my parent's from high school!) lives in a condo on Cocoa Beach. So we invaded his condo for the day to enjoy some sun. He was so generous and even let our girls take naps in his bedroom and guest room...very nice!

This first picture is the view from his balcony!! Pretty amazing, huh?

The girls LOVED the beach! I taught Haylee how to build a sand castle (side note: Mommy's sand castle is much better than Daddy's....haha), we attempted to teach Haylee to boogie board (maybe next time!), got lots of sun (especially Tommy), drank some beer, collected sea shells and Rylee ate her fair share of sand. At one point Rylee was on her belly in the sand LICKING the sand! What is wrong with this child??

We ended our day with some yummy sea food on Cocoa Beach with Aunt Jenny, Scott, Pappy, Nana, Aunt Steph, Paul, Mimi & Pawpaw. All in all....a great beach day!

Stay tuned for more on our Florida trip...

Summer is here!

We have been sooo busy (but GOOD busy). We've had lots of summer fun already...here's what's been going on at our house this first week of summer:

-I painted the kitchen
-Rylee cut her first tooth
-Haylee will complete two weeks of private swim lessons tomorrow (she is floating on her back by herself and swimming about 5 or 6 feet!)
-Haylee started gymnastics this week (& her buddy Harrison is in her class...they are actually the ONLY two in the class so far!)
-We have done a TON of swimming
-I reorganized our guest bedroom so it looks like a guest room again instead of a storage unit
-Mommy got an iphone and is a changed woman (& a lot of these pictures below are from my phone, so the quality isn't exactly up to par)
-We've gone to the park
-Rylee is a WILD CHILD and is into everything! She is into stuff Haylee still hasn't gotten into!
-Haylee got a new "big kid" puzzle and completed it on her own!
-Harrison came over to play TWO DAYS in a row!!
-We've consumed about 8 or 9 Popsicles between the three of us (no sweets for Rylee yet)

Here are many of the things listed above via pictures...