A Few Boat Pictures

Here are a few pictures from our last boat ride with Andrea, Jeff & Conner. We rode past the Naval Air Station and saw a large Navy plane practicing taking off and landing. It was pretty windy and there were a lot of sail boats out.

When he gets older he'll love seeing all the sail boats, trains and planes that we saw!

Weather Forecast for Las Vegas

I hope it gets warmer for our trip this weekend to Las Vegas!! Either way I'm sure we'll keep the blackjack and 3-card-poker tables HOT HOT HOT! :)

New Post New Trip Planned!

Grant and I have had a fun past few weeks. We've enjoyed spending time together and with Penelope. Since the last post we've started our guest bathroom remodel. Grant had been ripping up the floor for a few weekends and then the professionals came in last week to tile the floor and rip out the old shower wall tile and replace it. They did a great job, but came up a few tiles short on the floor...so they've ordered more tile and we're just waiting for it to come in. Once the floor is done I'll post some photos. It's looking great already! We still need to install new baseboards, a new vanity countertop and the toilet.

The next house project is the kitchen floor. I've been trying to find the right tile for the kitchen. It is hard because I want it to match and not compete with the granite counters. I'm sure I'll find the right tile soon! I'd like to have it all done by Thanksgiving, so I better find that tile fast!

Speaking of Thanksgiving, on Wednesday night I booked a hotel and plane tickets for a 4-day trip to NYC the weekend before Thanksgiving! I've wanted to go to the Big Apple with Grant around the holidays for quite some time, but have never booked it. We're going to be staying at the Wyndham in South Times Square and flying on direct flights on Jet Blue to JFK. I am so excited! If any of you have any restaurant/attraction recommendations please let us know!!

Before we head to NYC in November, we're off to Vegas a week from today! We're so excited to be going there with two of our best friends, Jordan & Ryan. I will definitely post some great pictures from our Halloween weekend in Vegas!

Happy Friday everyone!!

Lost at Sea

Yesterday Jeff and Andrea invited us to go out on their boat. We met up at their house and drove down to St. Augustine to launch the boat and grab lunch at the Conch House. The weather was BEAUTIFUL!!!

Right when we got on the boat Jeff went to look for the life vests...and quickly realized that they must have flown out of the boat on our drive down to to St. Augustine...we figured we'd look for them on the side of the road on our way back.

Here are a couple photos of the Vilano Beach Pier.

We stopped and ate lunch. The bruschetta at the Conch House was really really good! We were able to sit in a hut over the water. I should have taken a photo because it was really cute!

After lunch we headed up to Ponte Vedra, passing through Guana State park and under the Palm Valley bridge. On the way up there we saw this cool Pirates of the Carribbean inspired boat.

We saw some amazing houses. One that was pretty cute is this pink one.

Once we reached Marsh Landing we turned around and headed back to St. Augustine. After a few miles the boat was making a weird noise and not shifting into higher gears...and so began our 2 hour ride home at 8 MPH! It was very scenic, but we hoped to get off the water before sunset so we could look for the life vests and I know Andrea was missing little Conner! We made it back to the boat ramp just before sunset.

On the ride back to Jeff & Andrea's all 4 of us focused our attention on trying to spot the life vests on the side of the road with no luck. Hopefully next time we go on the boat we 1. won't lose any life vests and 2. won't have any mechanical malfunctions! Other than those two setbacks, we had a great time! Thanks Jeff & Andrea!

Trimming the Tree

In our backyard we have a large crape myrtle tree. It flowers in the early summer and is really pretty, but was growing into our house and needed to be trimmed. Grant borrowed a saw on a long pole from our fabulous neighbor Chuck. Below is an artistic photo of the tree and the saw. Grant was getting a bit creative with the camera!

Me cutting the tree...it was hard work!

Grant at work.

Penelope and Friends

This past weekend we had some friends over to watch the UF v. UT football game. We enjoyed sharing the afternoon with our friends and some of Penelope's friends too!

Lina hanging out

Ebi sitting like a lady

Daddy and daughter watching the game together.

Hey Brenden...what are you doing in my cage?!

For some reason Penelope's cage is quite the place to hang out. Ebi likes to go in there and so does Brenden!

Bowling

Last night we went bowling with our friends. Little did we know that we'd be bowling with almost every middle-schooler in Mandarin! We still had a fun time. The little kids next to us even let me borrow this contraption that helped you bowl straight...I tried it and it helped me get two more gutter balls!

We bowled 2 games. The first game me, Grant, Claudia and Jay were on a team vs. Steph, Sean, Andrea and Jeff. We dominated that game...when I say we I mean everyone on my team...minus me...I am a horrible bowler. Grant scored a 156 (highest score among all 8 of us) and I scored a 56 (lowest score among all 8 of us) during the first game.

I did even worse the second game, not even breaking 50...Grant got a 175, once again we scored the highest and lowest of the group. Claudia was definitely the best girl of our group. I asked Grant if he could be on a bowling team with anyone who would it be...he said Claudia. Guess I'm just not good enough to bowl with my husband!

It was cosmic bowling and every so often there would be a pink pin mixed with all the white ones. If the pink pin was in the middle and you bowled a strike you won a free game. Grant started off bowling 4 strikes in a row! On one of those strikes the pink pin was in the middle, so he also won a free game! Guess we might go back and bowl again before it expire on 10/10.

After we went bowling we headed over to the Ale House to watch the OSU/USC game. All in all, it was a fun night! Thanks for organizing it all Andrea!