Dolphin... Porpoise....Whatever

We spent a few days in New Smyrna Beach to finish out our Spring Break.  We had some friends join us.  The beach is always fun with friends whether you're an adult or kids.  Went out to dinner at JB's fish camp.  There's always a wait, but often times some entertainment.  We've seen dolphin swimming off the boat many times and there was one when we arrived.  The kids loved waiting to see it surface again and again.

Aren't they cuuuuute?!  Such good kids humoring me and my camera.  They'll thank me later in life when they need to put together slide shows for their weddings :)

Uncle Ronnie Time

Hunter got some one on one time with his favorite uncle while we were visiting.  Then Peyton and I joined them for an evening when I picked him up.  Peyton has pretty much claimed Hunter's truck.  Hunter would much rather ride the super fast riding lawn mower anyway.

No one was injured although it could have easily happened :)

I was informed when I picked Hunter up that he got his first gun shooting lesson from Uncle Ronnie.  He shot a pellet gun.  This is the target he shot at from about 25 feet away.  All but about 3 shots are Hunters.  Pretty impressive for his first time. (Lisa Rossi, are you still breathing?)

Peyton Favs

Here are some recent favorite of my girl.  She's growing up so fast.  Preschool will be here before you know it.  We've tested the waters with potty training and I'm confident she'll be trained before school starts in September.  We just passed the one year mark of when she had tubes put her ears..... and she promptly got an ear infection.  The tubes are out so we'll just cross our fingers that we don't have a repeat and have to put them in again.  She can sing her ABC's and count to 11.  Colors are a different story....gotta work on that :).  She still doesn't play with dolls.  I think she just likes doing whatever Hunter is doing.  Swim lessons start in a couple weeks....she's gonna hate me!  I got in a pool with her over Spring Break and she was like a leach so I'm glad lessons are soon.  It will give her a lot of confidence.

I'm sure you can guess what she's doing...... peeing like Hunter.  "I go pee pee."  Sure honey, go right ahead.  That'll be a fun picture to pull out in the future :)

Swimming in March?

A water balloon ended up in the pool and this is what happens...

which turned into this...

She had no problems getting in either!

I remember as a kid we would swim on my birthday, April 8th and it was always freezing.  This year it's extremely warm even for Florida this early in the year.  The pools are going to be warm in no time!

Happy Easter! Happy Birthday!

This year I share my birthday with Easter.  We'll spend the day doing Easter things and celebrate my birthday next weekend :).  My one birthday request was pictures with my babies.  Here's a sneak peek.  It was windy as you can tell.

Easter Egg Hunt....Grandma Style

The kids were given Cool Whip bowls and set off into the backyard for an Easter Egg Hunt.  The eggs were filled with money and a little chocolate....can't go wrong there!

Balloon Fight!

We spent a good part of Spring Break at Grandma and Grandpa's.  Grandma bought this fancy water ballon filler and it supplied a couple hours of fun for the kids.

Fill it up...

attach a balloon and squeeze.

Can you tell he likes to throw them at people?

Peyton was all about it, too.

This series is funny.  Peyton looks very unsuspecting.

And then BAM!  Check out Hunter's form..haha.

And it didn't pop!

They could have done this all day, but Grandma's fingers eventually became numb :)

Oh, Hi :)

Sorry for that two week blogging break.  Last week was Spring Break so I'm armed with lots of pictures which means lots of blogging!

I'll start with a few pictures of flowers I saw around my parents' house last week.  My mom has a green thumb and she most certainly did not pass that on to me.

(For any camera geeks these were taken with my 50mm 1.4.  I do not own a macro....yet!)