END OF JULY 2010: Trip to Florida!
We took a super low-budget trip to Florida this summer to visit friends in three different cities!
First stop: Jacy & Jay's house in Fort Pierce, FL! We had a wonderful time visiting them and felt totally at home there! They treated Isabel to a Disney character breakfast at The Disney Vero Beach Resort with Donald Duck and Goofy! Isabel was just in awe that they had breakfast with us! It was so much fun. We went to fabulous restaurants, played on the beach, rode around looking for manatees on jet skis and just had tons of fun while we were there!
Second stop: Emily, Josh and baby Landon's house in St. Petersburg, FL! They have just moved into a big, beautiful home in St. Pete and Isabel loved exploring all the rooms, playing with their dog Grant, and catching lizards outside. She also had fun with little Landon! We visited the most gorgeous beach I've ever been to; the sand was white, water was crystal blue-green and so calm....Isabel was able to go out pretty far and we caught some amazing little sea creatures to investigate while we were there. It was really like paradise!
Third stop: Dana's house....well Dana, Fozzie and Nugget's house, I should say. Fozzie and Nugget were Dana's 2 dogs and Isabel just adored Nugget. She never got the hang of calling Fozzie "fozzie", instead she would call him "fozzit" which was completely adorable. We caught the best tree frog at Dana's house and had an awesome dinner out one night and got to go to GatorLand!!! Isabel loved seeing all the creatures at GatorLand and was especially pleased to go into the parakeet cage and hand feed them!
I was completely impressed by how well Iz did on the nearly 11 hour car ride there and back....she was just amazing until the last 2 hours when she would start to ask every five minutes, "are we there yet?" We just had the best time and did it all for an insanely low cost thanks to our great friends with whom we stayed! Isabel still (in September) asks when we are going to Florida again to visit everyone!
AUGUST 2010: August was filled with a week long visit with Grammy who came to stay! We visited with Uncles Mike & Matt, took Grammy to the Museum of Art and did some shopping. Isabel was sad to see her leave. We had several birthday parties to attend, and also Isabel spent her first weekend with Grandma Holmes watching her while Mommy & Daddy attended a marriage encounter weekend!! They had a wonderful time going to the movies, shopping and eating out, and Isabel talked about her time with Grandma Holmes over and over!
SEPTEMBER 2010: September has brought the beginning of homeschooling! I'll be updating about that soon.
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