It’s My Wonderful Life

As usual our vacation to Florida was nothing more than interesting. We left on Friday at noon. By the time we got to Jackson, Mississippi the sky fell through. Rain was coming from everywhere. You could not see in front of you. By the way, Mississippians don’t use lights when it is raining. It was very scary. We had to drive like 40 on the interstate. After all the rain delays, we finally made it to Pensacola by 10 pm.

We had a very cute cabin. It was a one room cabin with only beds. No TV (except my iPhone) but we did have wireless internet. It was kind of nice to get away for a while without having the busyness of your daily life. Ashton said, “It is soooo cute.”

The next morning we went to Navarre Beach. We were trying to beat the storm. We lasted about 3 hours before it hit. By the way if you go to Pensacola. Navarre Beach is way better than the commercialized Pensacola Beach. I like the natural atmosphere and no people partying. During the time at the beach, a Vacation Bible School was being held. The children were passing out sand buckets with water, cookies, and sunscreen to all the kids.

After the beach, we went to visit family. This didn’t turn out so well, because my brother is back to abusing alcohol and drugs. So basically he had no clue we were there. It is kind of frustrating. We only stayed about an hour. Then we went to see his ex-wife and kids. This was a much better visit. Her new husband grilled hamburgers and hot dogs for us.

Sunday was about the same. We wanted to go to church, but couldn’t find one on the internet. The churches were all too formal. After getting to the beach, we saw that there was a church that met under a tent on the beach. They were finishing up so we missed it. Next time, we know to just go to Navarre Beach Church. After about two hours on being on the beach, a thunderstorm erupted. So we went back to the cabin and played mini golf and Jenga.

On Monday, we went to the Pensacola Beach. I don’t like it has much, but it was closer for us since we were leaving to go home. We got to stay for a while and even got to watch real life surfers. It was exciting. At about 2 pm, we left and went home.

Here are a few pictures from the trip.

Just family picture.

The waves were crazy out there. The kids didn’t stay in the water much, but Michael loved them.

Kaylee playing in the mud puddle in front of our cabin.

Ashton playing with the sand.

Kaylee playing in the sand. She loved it. We are going to have to get her a sand box.

Michael being takien out by a wave. If you look in the upper left corner you can barely see him.

These are burnt socks. Yes! I did it.

I just got my new foot cream in and wanted to try it out. At the beauty party the lady gave us some cream for our foot. After rubbing the cream on our feet, we put our feet in baggies and put warm socks over them. I am almost sure the lady said she put her socks in the microwave for three minutes. Needless to say, I put my socks in the microwave for 3 minutes. The result was not nice warm socks. It was ugly, stinky, warm socks

Moral #1: Don’t microwave your socks, use the dryer.

Moral #2: Don’t be a pretty girl and give your feet a special treatment.

Living the good life! Time for relatxation.

The time has come and we are heading to Florida tomorrow at noon. I can’t wait. Kaylee has never been, so this will be interesting. Ashton has been twice and loved every minute of it.

This is Ashton’s first trip. He was about 9 months old. This was a crazy trip because it was right after a hurricane hit Pensacola knocking out the I-10 bridge. The very bridge that we were to take. So we had to go way out of the way to just get to Florida. Our motel that we were to stay in was badly damaged so we had to stay in Panama City. This wasn’t bad except I had to commute to Pensacola everyday to see my brother. Did I mention they were having a bikers convention in Panama City during this time? It was crazy. None the less Ashton loved it.

The second trip was in 2006 to my neice’s high school graduation. Ashton again had a blast. As you can see he was quite popular with the ladies. We were not there two minutes and he already found him a girl to hang out with on the beach. Ashton had a great time.

I hope this year will be a great one too. We are leaving Friday at noon to drive down and not coming back until late Monday.