Happy Anniversary

Rachel and Gabriel Dropping us off. Thanks Popa:)

Checking out the room.

Amy and sunshine bridge

More Sunshine bridge:)

On the deck. So cold!


Look at those cuties!!

Marcus is sooo formal:)

Amy formal funny towel


Official Formal Night.


Our breakfast spot

Welcome aboard
(Our official anniversary)

Fresh off the ship! Oooooh Aaaaah:)

All I wanted was fresh Guac!! Yumm. So worth the rocking:)

This is all Marcus wanted:) DosXX

At the beach

2nd Guac in one day. Oh glory be!!


Marcus snorkeling off this peir.


The snorkeling fool. He did this while
I ate my guac and nachos and shivered.

Happy Anniversary! 10 years!

Cute toes.

Some where over the Rainbow. No pot of gold here. It was so amazingly beautiful.



Sunset from our room.
Back at port

Naomi sees the ship when they come to pick us up!


Since a picture says a thousand words I thought I would just give you a great overview. More than going on a "cruise" was just getting some much needed time together. How different our lives will look at our 20 year anniversary:)

Good Morning

What a perfect morning. The last few weeks have been really difficult for me. Yesterday I started to "feel" like myself again. We had my favorite breakfast, sausage, homemade pancakes and lots of maple syrup! Yum. Then set out for our morning walk to Naomi's school. The Lord has finally blessed us and it was cool out. 71 degrees is cool to me these days. It was close to 90 yesterday:) So as Rachel, Gabriel and I are walking back home we make a pit stop for sneakers and a hoodie for Rachel. We head down to the Manatee River at the end of our street. We meet a few dog walkers and just enjoy the cool breeze. Rachel and I loooove to just sit at the water and watch. She sees something sticking out of the water.

Hmmm.

Was that a fish?

NOOOOO it was MUCH bigger.

We must have come across a family of Manatee. 4 to be exact. It was so much fun. They breathe air and so they must come up every little while to breathe. I bet we stayed for 45 minutes just watching and laughing and of course praying:) We ask for them to come closer and we thanked the Lord for sending such and amazing creature.

I only had my phone and the camera is poor quality and they are really fast!

Side note: Today is Popa Boats birthday. "Happy Birthday, Popa!" We called him and he came over on the way to a Dr.'s appt. He has only seen one Manatee at a time and they are very few and far between. We really feel like we were blessed by the Creator today.

First Day of School

My sweet Naomi started pre-k today. 9-12 at the little church down the street from our house. It was a day of mixed emotions. Naomi woke up crying that she did not want to go !! After some oatmeal and hugging we were back on for school.

The whole gang(minus marcus) walked to school. It took 5 minutes.




Naomi's teachers, Miss Jeannie and Miss Emily are great.
After just a few minutes Naomi was off playing.


Naomi, Miss Jeannie and that is Paige in the background!




Rachel and I didn't really know what to do with ourselves. We studied our school work, played with bubba, played monopoly. I did a load of laudry and then it was time to retrieve my Naomi. She had a great time complete with a new best friend, Paige!!

"Mommy, they even have dress up." Naomi is posing in the dress up area of her new class.


This is the super cool playground. The school rooms surround this playground.

Rachel on a cool whirly thing.



Sister.

We had a little lunch and then had to go to the Health Dept. for a physical. It was a busy day! Naomi had to get a finger prick. IT REALLY HURT! Poor thing, We had to get frosty's since she was such a good girl. What a wonderful family I have!!!!!

Hope everyone else has a good back to school experience. I didn't even shed tears. Hmmm, maybe tomorrow:)