Our Trip to Florida

This past weekend I decided to take the kids down to Florida to see my Dad.  We hadn't seen him since the middle of August, which is a very long time for us.  I was so excited to go down and see him.  The night before I was up pretty late doing last minute things and didn't get much sleep.  Our flight was at 8:30 in the morning, so we got to see Nate at the airport.  The kids were pretty excited to see him when we were walking through security.  So was said our good-bye's to him and we were in the sky.  The kids did great on both flights like usual.  This was the first time Chace couldn't be a lap child anymore and I wasn't sure how he would do.  He actually did better then normal.  When we landed in Tampa, we went on a little adventure, surprise surprise Mom made a wrong turn.  We ended up back at their place just a short while before Dad got home.  He had Mom pick up some floaters at the local seafood shop.  They were so good.  The only problem was I was getting a migrane and ended up being sick all night, which wasn't much fun.  The next day we took the kids shopping and out for lunch.  I met my Dad's biological uncle at Sam's club where he was working as a food sampler.  It was so nice to finally meet him.  He seems like a great guy. 

The following day we planned on going to an all you can eat crab legs place.  Dad had promised me with all the work I did moving them he was going to take me out to a nice meal.  We went to Dan's Clams, it is a local place.  Dad and I both got the all you can eat, and it was some of the best crab legs I have ever had. 

This is Chace and Parker helping Dad crack his crab legs.  The kids were so cute doing this.

Eli thought Dad needed help feeding himself.

Parker, me, an Erika cracking crab legs.

Mom finished eating and was bored out of her mind waiting on me and Dad.  So we decided to take pictures of Mom trying to look bored.



When we went home I had promised Erika I would show her how to shave her legs.  I didn't think she really would want to when we got home, but she did.  So we went up to the bathroom and got to work.  Don't worry, she wanted to blog this herself but my camera died.

 

We had so much fun doing this.  I think it will be a memory we will always have.  She was so proud of her smooth legs.  After we got done with shaving she ran down to show Dad.  It was so funny, he thought we did it without telling Mom.  Funny thing was she was the one taking pictures.  Hard to believe Erika is as old as she is already. 

On Sunday Dad had the day off, so we went to Walmart to get his groceries for the week.  After that we went to Homossassa springs.  It is a zoo kind of for animals that get hurt and they raise them back to health.  Dad was so excited to take the kids here.  They had been there before, but it was the first time for the kids and me.

This last picutre is of what Dad is running for work.  It was neat to see what he was doing down there.

Hope everyone has a good night.  Good luck Erika finding all my grammer mistakes :)

Trick-or-Treat!

Happy Halloween, a little late :)  This year we were in Indianapolis for Halloween.  The kids were very excited for Halloween and couldn't wait to dress up.  On Thursday before Halloween Aunt Carol invited us over for a Halloween party with all the little cousins.  They had some bugs, pigs in the blankets with little legs sticking out, spooky mac and cheese and jello in shapes.  I forgot my camera that day, but hope to get some pictues from the other cousins that were there.  Friday I took the kids to the Zoo Boo.  The kids had a blast seeing all the animals with the decorations out.

Not very sure what Parker is doing in this picture. 

We were lucky enough to be walking by the elephant area when they said they were having a show with one of the elephants.  We decided it would be a good place to take a break and have a snack while we watched the show.  The boys thought some of their candy they got at the zoo was a good idea for a snack instead of my grapes.  Who would have guessed.  During the show we got to see the elephant do some tricks, paint a painting and eat a pumpkin in one bite.  The kids loved it.  That night the kids slept so good. 

On Sunday, Nate decided to stay back at the house and wait for trick-or-treaters.  We had never handed out candy in our neighborhood so wasn't sure how much to buy.  Luckly I had bought a secret stash just incase we needed more, which we did.  So at 6:01 we headed out the door, Chace in his stroller.

Eli was so excited to be a pirate, Parker was the same way.....Chace not so excited.  We had bought him a costume and took it back.  Then we got out the other two boys old costumes.  He was still scared of those.  Our last option a colts football player. 

The boys did a great job the first 45 minutes and then Parker got tired.  He didn't know why he couldn't ride in the stroller too.  Usually I would take my double stroller, but figured it would be easier this way than getting him in and out.  Parker ended up making it for an hour and then we went home.  After I took my shoes off Eli asked if we could go back out.  He said we still had half the neighborhood left and the people would be sad if they didn't get to see him dressed up.  So out we went again just me and Eli this time.  He had so much fun, and so did I.  He talked about how this was "super duper!"  We kept saying only one more house, and ended up walking the whole neighboorhood.  He even shared his candy that he got the second time we went out with his brothers.  By the end of the night we were all pooped.  We had such a nice night and made many memories.   Hope everyone else had a good Halloween too....