Micro Mamma: Our Vacation

We have been lucky enough to "borrow" Aunt Jacques's pink house for a family vacation once a year for the past couple of years. It could be one of my favorite places ever! A couple weeks ago, we made our annual pilgrimage down there (although it wasn't quite as big of a pilgrimage for us this year!) with the whole fam - minus Dad and Sean who had to stay in Sebring to work =(. We all had a great time, plenty of sand, sun, sea and family time... Lots of golf cart rides for Mom and the kids early in the morning... There was lots of fishing going on too (but not so much to show for it)... A beautiful sunset every night... And lots of sleeping (for me anyways!). Here are some pics from our vacation! And just to warn you, when we got down there I realized I only had room for 300 pictures on my camera and I was worried that I wouldn't be able to take all the pictures I wanted! I mean I can take 300 pictures in a good day at the beach. So when I say here are "some" pictures from our week, there's gonna be a lot of them. Just so you know though, there's a lot I'm not showing you! Enjoy!

The kiddos watching TV - Blayne has his "special" glasses on. =)

Gramma having fun with her grandkids!

I don't know what this stuff was - some sort of stringy white seaweed. There were a number of theories as to it's origin (I think mine was the best!) but it was compared to spaghetti, parmesean cheese, whale snot and various other things. The crazy thing was that no one had ever seen it before! Not any of us, not Dad (who's been to the beach a million times) and not anyone else that we met down there. So it's still a mystery. But it was the cause of this next picture...

Ely crying because he's "stuck" behind a wall of the stuff and didn't want to touch it or get anywhere near it. He got over it but for the first couple of days, someone had to pick him up and move him back and forth from our chairs to the ocean.

Natalie looking adorable

All of our shoes... on the beach... at sunset... Pretty cool, huh??

Mom and Dad

Hannah Rose!

Me and my mens

Blayne and Ethan on the golf cart

Gramma and her boys

I don't know why, cause he's not smiling or anything, but I love this picture of Blayne! He just looks so grown up but so young and adorable all at the same time... =)

Awww, me and my little man (who is getting far too big for my taste!)

Seashells!!

That is Ely and me and that dark shape behind us is a MANATEE!! Michael and the kids were out in the water when the manatee just swam up to them! So I made a mad dash out there, grabbing Ely on the way, so we could see it. It was awesome! She (I don't know why we called it a she but we just did) hung out for like 10-15 min, just swimming around, letting us pet her, coming to the surface and snorting all over the place, hitting people with her tail and just generally being cool. It was, by far, one of my favorite memories of the beach.