More pictures

Look at us one big happy family on vacation!

What a cute picture of Jennifer and Bill. We went to see the manatees one afternoon and Jennifer spent a lot of time on Bill's shoulders. I love this picture of them!

Jennifer would love to drive a car. If she is put in a vehicle, not in her carseat, she always goes for the drivers seat. She thought grandma's convertible was very cool. (So did Bill and I as we drove around with the top down, windows up and heat on high!)

Jennifer likes to dress up so grandma got some dress up clothes for Jennifer to play with while we were at her house. I had to put this picture on for Jennifer's friend Ellie who loves to pretend and play princess (Ellen, Ellie would love this dress!)

At the beach

Here are some pictures of us at the beach. As you can see it was slightly chilly, but that didn't stop Jennifer from getting the water. The third picture down is my favorite. As the wave came up Jennifer was walking in, the wave didn't stop her, she would have kept on walking had grandma not stopped her. The fourth picture down is after all the playing, a soaking wet Jennifer. The last picture is our attempt to get her warm again. We of course did not have extra clothes because we were not expecting to get wet. So Jennifer has on grandma's socks, which act as pants and grandma's hooded sweatshirt for a shirt. She is really looking good! At least she was warm.

Florida photos

Slowly but surely I will get some pictures posted of our trip to Florida. Right now all the pictures are on Bill's laptop so I need to get them onto our home computer but here are a few for now.


Finally packed and ready to go! We only checked one suitcase for ten days so there was a lot weighing and reweighing the suitcase before we left to make sure we weren't over the weight limit. After rearranging a few things we finally made it.Who knew you play outside your pj's in February? Our flight didn't get into until about ten o'clock at night so by the time we got our bags and got back to grandma's it was almost midnight, Jennifer had the bike then and was riding around, it was just nice to be outside without snow!We are not huge race fans but we of course went to see the Daytona Speedway. It is kind of fun to see. This picture makes me laugh! It took several tries but finally Jennifer held her arm up for the picture. As you can see it was a little chilly by the ocean. We all have jeans and coats on but Bill was determined to be at the ocean as much as possible, even if it was cold. As you can tell from the picture above Jennifer still has her shoes on, she wasn't really thrilled with the water at first but that changed before the end of this trip to see the water!
Jennifer finally decided to take her shoes off and feel the water. This picture was her just getting warmed up. Eventually she was running along the beach, going in and out of the water and by the time we decided to leave we had to take Jennifer's clothes off because she was soaking wet. We have of the whole sequence of events in picures, it is kind of funny, I will share them later.

Back from Florida

We are home, back to cold Iowa. Although I have to admit I think it may have been warmer in Iowa a few days than it was in Florida. Kind of sad to say. I tried to post a few pictures while were gone but I was having a little trouble with Bill's computer, I hate to admit. We got home late Tuesday night, it was great to see most of the snow gone! The rest of our week has been a little interesting. Bill and Jennifer have a cold and cough, we attribute that to pretending it was warmer than it really was a few days, playing on the beach when maybe we should not have. Jennifer seems to be getting better while Bill seems to be getting worse. Bill has just a little bit of school work to do (by a little bit I mean he is drowning in it) so the sickness doesn't really help at all. Jennifer has been slightly crabby, after being spoiled by grandma for ten days she doesn't really know what to do with herself again, mom and dad are not as compassionate as grammie is. As we went to leave our house this morning our garage door was not working quite right, so that kind of topped off our crazy past three days. What a comfort to know in these crazy days, and the crazy ones yet to come, that God has it under control and figured out! Although vacation was fun and relaxing it is always good to come home too. Back to a routine of life, back to normal, even if the normal ends up being just a little crazy and unexpected. It wouldn't be our life without the crazy and unexpected...
I will put some pictures of our vaction on in the next few days, hopefully.