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 :)