Florida trip

What a fabulous week in FLorida! It was great weather with a bit of rain most days. We spent a morning at the beach and many hours in the pool at our friends' house. The twins loved all the dogs and were very well behaved. Ruthie cut all four molars during the trip and is also working on her eye teeth on the bottom. Eli cut one more tooth on the bottom - way to go slow teether! That makes 5 for Eli and a mouthful for Ruthie. Here are some pics with narration of our trip. Enjoy!

Our hosts for this fun excursion were Mark and Alana. They housed and fed us for the week. Thanks for the great hospitality guys! Food was of course awesome and we even got famous Alana cake (Bakin' for God!) Did I mention the dogs? 3 Chihuahuas - Tito, Paco and Lupe. Face lickers extraordinaire. Then, amazingly, a dog just followed Adam and Mark home from Petco over the weekend and now they have Bella - the sweetest most hospitable dog I have met. Eli liked to lead with his lips when approaching the dogs.

This is Paco and Lupe. Tito was in his kennel slepping.

Bella

All the kids had a great time playing at their house both inside and out. Here are some candids of the fam.

DId I mention that Eli is a camera hog these days? This is his typical ham smile whenever he sees the camera :)


The pool water was a bit colder than usual because of all the rain they had gotten the week before we came down and the first couple days that we were there. Very brave daddy, very brave.


Noelle and Sarah had a craft time quite a few days. They made visors with foamy stickers this day. They had a fabulous time playing with each other and swimming in the pool!

We went to the beach since the twins hadn't been there before (no time on our last trip). ELi is a water boy for sure! He loved wave jumping with daddy. Ruthie wanted no part of the big blue ocean and was very content to destroy all sandcastles that Adam and Noelle built! Did I mention that sand got every where? We are still getting it out of Ru's ears!

The guys decided to do a rockband for us after dinner at Mo and Jeff's one night. It was very entertaining! (Jeff O, Mark, Jeff D, and Adam). They just moved into the house after getting married in early April. It's a very cute place with a nice back yard. I am thinking a pool would be great back there!

If we get the pics from child dedication I will post those too. If not, then I will not be posting until after our ultrasound next week on Tuesday. After the ultrasound, we are hoping to announce teh sex of the baby so that we can start working on names. Might do a poll for that one. Names are really hard for us! Have a great week everybody!

Jeanne