Ft. Walton Beach, FL Vacay

Glorious vacation. The beach. The sand. The waves. The crystal clear water. I just love it. We decided to switch it up and not go to Hilton Head Island on this trip. We were there in June so I found us a new spot. My friends always go down to the Destin area and a few recommended an awesome condo resort place in Ft. Walton. I decided to book us 8 days of beach bliss at Waterscape.

Holy smokes this place was awesome. I'm so thankful that my friends knew where to go. There's an awesome lazy river, 2 massive pools, a separate kids area with a water slide, etc. I searched and searched for condos in the area and I couldn't find one that had all of these amenities other than Waterscape. 

The lovely lazy river. I could live on this thing.

 So our first few days were spent on the lazy river. That is Lauren's favorite thing to do. She prefers that over the ocean. We ended up migrating down to the water after going down the lazy river oh about 100 times.

I just couldn't get over the clear water. I fell in love with the water in the Bahamas when we were there in April. It was just so beautiful. Even though this water wasn't super blue, it was so clear. It was so neat! 

 

This picture just makes me laugh. Trying to take a picture with Connor is a challenge. Sweet boy and I crashed.

 

View from our balcony, room A520 if you need a good room.

 

We had some playtime on the balcony. Connor made me so nervous. Sweet boy was a monkey. He would scoot a little table over, climb on it, and would give me a heart attack. We had to ban Connor from the balcony a few times!

 

I just love this sweet face.

 

My 2 little monkeys!

I had to break this into a couple of posts!

Baptism Day

What a beautiful day it was today. Our sweet little family was baptized and we joined our church. Well, I wasn't baptized but the other 3 were :) I was baptized about 10 years ago. This was a big big day for our family as we've been trying really hard to teach our kids about Jesus. 

 

My sweet little Lauren. I just fell in love with her dress with the beautiful cross at the top.

 

Wild Connor. If you could have seen me sweating trying to take this picture. This is the best I got.

Todd being baptized. This was a big day for us and huge for Todd. Both of us weren't necessarily super active in church growing up and into early adulthood.  It's so hard to get that started for some reason but just keeping it real. I'm so proud of my amazing husband. It's so hard and sometimes uncomfortable to step out in faith and do something that isn't your norm.

My little L being baptized...

Our amazing senior Pastor takes the kids on a little walk around the congregation...

What a great day September 29, 2013 has been!!

Hi, It's Sunday But Really Monday

I spent sweet forever being all fancy and posting from my phone. We just spent 8 glorious days (not counting the insane tantrums) at the beach. My phone had an annoying malfunction and my post didn't save or post. I was too irritated to try again. Coming this week...

Fort Walton Beach, FL was glorious. I loved that beautiful white sand.

We stayed at Waterscape Condo resort. 2 friends recommended that place and it didn't disappoint. Hello lazy river. I sure do miss you.

We met great friends there. Lauren misses her little buddy Maddie. We plan on reconnecting with them in November.

Time to gear up for our next fun family adventure....back to Disney we go next month. We're going low key this trip. No character meals or anything fancy. I saw that they were having free dining. Give me free food and I'm there :)

You would think Lauren would be a great car/plane traveler by now. She does better on airplanes than the car. 1 hour in to a car trip and she's mad as a hornet and says it "takes too long, ahhhhh" about wherever our destination is. Connor = thumb in mouth and good to go.

Lauren will be wearing some thick flip flops or tennis shoes next month so she can be 40 inches tall to ride bigger rides. Sweet thing is just tiny for her age. We'll try to get her tall for a few days!

I miss the show Army Wives. We got rid of cable to save some money monthly because Lauren's school tuition went way up. I have discovered all of these fabulous shows on Amazon Prime and Netflix. I broke down and bought a couple of episodes. That show hooked me at first episode. Love me some Claudia Joy, Roxy, Denise, and group.

I fell in love with Nantucket Briar scent from Crabtree and Evelyn. I love that store. We don't have one close by but there was an outlet in Destin. I can't stop smelling my hands from the hand cream. If you host a Thirty-One party for me, you just might get some. I stocked up on gifts.

Speaking of Thirty-One, want to host a facebook PJ party? It's incredibly fun, you don't have to clean your house, you get FREE items, it's fun and interactive, and most people are online at night. It's easy peasy.

I have 7 parties in October. I love to socialize, obviously.

I'll be back this week!

Lauren Goes to Pre-K

Our fun little girl headed off to Preschool last week. We moved her to a larger school and she is attending 3 days a week to get ready for kindergarten next year. I can't believe she's big enough to be going to a "big girl school" as we call it. She was super excited her first day. 

Little L, at 4 years old, you like to:

help me pack your school lunches

you always want apples but with no skin

you love to have grapes

string cheese is one of your favorites

write lots of words from memory like Lauren, Connor, Mom, and Dad

you still get some letters confused with others

you miss Connor so much when at school

you prefer Daddy to be home to take you and pick you up from school

you like to pick your clothes out the night before school

you still don't like anything with ruffles

you are wearing a size 8.5 shoe

you wear a size 3 or 4 in clothes

you want to model so so bad in pictures and always want me to take your picture

you beg to be in magazines

you are sassy, beyond sassy

We know you'll have such a great year! Your teachers are lucky to have you.