Friday, February 27, 2009

Winter warm up

As you probably gathered from Gerry's birthday post, we took a trip to Florida! Gerry's parents flew us down for his birthday and it was wonderful to get some sun, and even better to get to spend some time with them!

Gerry and I both had some reservations about flying with Spring and Reed, but they did just fine. I had to laugh though at the end of our flight to Florida, a woman asked me how our kids had done on the flight. I said that they had done really well. She said, "Oh, then that wasn't your kid I heard crying?" I laughed and replied that it might have been one of my kids... Having a good flight is a matter of perspective and it would have been unreasonable to expect no tears on the trip!

We did lots on the trip! You already know that we went boating, and we also went to the beach, to Busch Gardens and to the Clearwater Marine Aquarium (where I interned in college). Here are the photo highlights.
Reed in the back yard.
Reed spent most of the boat trip sitting on Grandpa's lap! Gerry didn't fully explain what a great boat trip we had, we literally lost count of how many dolphins we saw, some of them jumping up right beside the boat! Spring loved it too, she snoozed almost the whole time, only getting upset when we got off the boat. Apparently she inherited her daddy's love of boating!
Spring hanging out with daddy in the front yard.
Reed really enjoyed getting to play with his cousin Marina.
It was pretty warm the day we went to the beach, but it was really windy too! Eventually the wind got to be too much and we headed home. It was blowing enough that we were getting pelted with sand as we walked back the the car.
Spring LOVED Grandma Lisa. She loved sitting in her lap and cooing at her and Spring treated Grandma to lots of laughs. Grandma had found this cute little dress before we came, then found the red crocs on an outting one day while we were there and decided Spring had to have them!
Just a cute picture!

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