Sue over at Happy Meals and Happy Hours is at again...and she so feels my pain!

Oh my GOSH is it awesome having the kids home for summer vacation!

Here's a fun game to play if you've already pressed wildflowers but haven't made home made lemonade yet!

Cloud Shapes!

Look! A poodle!

A duck!

A bunny!
Look!
See???? It's a mom!!! It's a mom considering jumping in her SUV with only a change of clothes and a vodka bottle and heading for Canada!! See..right there! There's her crazy eyes...and there's her bald spot from pulling her hair out....and right there's the kids hanging off her yelling 'MOM! MOM! MOM! MOM!' cuz that's all they ever say is 'MOM!' til you'd rather have a swarm of killer bees drill your EYEBALLS out than hear the word 'MOM!' one more time for the love of ALL THAT IS HOLY CAN'T YOU SEE IT??!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's RIGHT THERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A Visit from Denice!

My oldest sister, Denice and her husband were in Florida for a reunion of Canal Zone families (she lived in Panama for MANY years) and called me yesterday morning to tell me that they were in Clearwater for a few days. So they came over last night for dinner and it was great to catch up with them! Denice and her husband, Arcadio are Jonah's godparents

4th of July Weekend...

We went for a cookout with our friends the Almy's on the 4th of July! Of course the triplets, Katrina, Abby and Zoey were passed around to everyone! After dinner we came home and did fireworks with the Strobles!

Me and Ali

Today we spent the day in the pool...being entertained by Evan and his pool hair!

Collin's Visit

Collin and his friend, Kevin drove through the night to Florida a week ago and spent 7 days with us! We kept them busy going to Universal Studios, tubing on the boat, going to the beach, celebrating Jonah's 12th birthday, LOTS of swimming in our pool and generally just catching up! The boys were awesome house guests and we really hated to see them go!

Isabella at Dance Camp

Isabella joined the Dance Team at her elementary school last January and really loved it! Unfortunately, because of her surgery, she was never able to perform with the team at any of their 3 shows in the spring. Last week, she went to Dance Camp and had a ball and was so excited to be in the performance for the parents at the end of the week! She had so much fun that she's going to do another week at the end of July!
They learned a belly dancing routine!
Isabella had a solo for the routine to The Climb, where they did Ribbon Dancing
They even did some Cup Stacking!
Miss Michele was her amazing Dance Team/Dance Camp teacher! At the end of the week, Isabella got a trophy for being voted Favorite Dancer by the other girls!
Isabella with her other teacher, Marina, who is Miss Michele's awesome daughter and a special friend to isabella!

Jonah is 12!

Caitlin, Ben, Matthew, Evan and Jonah
Jonah turned 12 yesterday! Bruce took Evan, Jonah and two friends along with Collin, who's visitng this week from MD and his friend, Kevin out on the boat all day swimming and tubing! They had a great time and of course all came back sunburned! Jonah's choice for dinner was Carrabas and a Carvel cake!

He's becoming such a handsome young man and one of my favorite traits about him is his hilarious sense of humor! He cracks us up everyday usually at the most unexpected moments! Lately he's into skateboarding, playing basketball, swimming, skimboarding, music, his beloved iTouch and gaming! We love you Jonah!

A Night at the Rays Game...

After a fun day at the beach, we went to St. Pete with the Wilsons and the Hawleys to watch the Rays beat the Nationals! We did a little tailgating ahead of time and the kids had a ball playing football in the parking lot, diving into the back of our car and singing loudly along with the radio!
This was Isabella's first major league game so of course she had to ring the cowbell!

The big kids are obviously too cool to sit with their parents!

Isabella and Evan loved petting the stingrays in the tank behind the outfield!