Vacay!

We just got back from Watercolor, Florida where we got to spend almost a whole week with Jmk's family! It was just as beautiful as I remembered it from October 2008.  That place is just THE place to go if you are looking for a relaxing, beautiful atmosphere.

Thanks to the generosity and uber-awesome planning skills of his Aunt Jennifer and Uncle David, we all got to stay in a perfectly beautiful resort home for a week.  Fancy digs for us, for sure!  We were only missing Brecken (who had just started a new management position with her company and couldn't leave) and Grandmother (who isn't in a position to do that kind of traveling).

Biggest fun of the week for Jmk was the deep sea fishing day!  Awesome amberjack for him along with a few king mackerels and red snappers for the whole group of guys that went.

 

NOW - how did the kids do?  Well, to be 6 and 4 and 9 months and to have no other kids to play with in the house and to be somewhat out of their routine, but still at the mercy of a baby's schedule...  they did awesome!  Granted, Jmk and I realize that we need to alter our idea of vacations now, moreso than we had already altered them.  But, regardless, being able to spend time with the family in such a picturesque setting (and before the oil got there) was such a blessing!

Brennan gets MAJOR kudos for his maturity and compassion and his truly accommodating nature.  Being a young, single guy staying in the part of the house with the family with the young kids takes a special person, and he was GREAT!  And it was such fun watching Tooter with his newest love, Megan.  (Megan 2, that is.  Poodle has already claimed Megan 1 as her own).  You see, Jmk has a couple of cousins who are brothers who are both married to/will be married to a Megan.  It's so cute!

What I don't have this time?  Pictures from the actual beach or the pools that are on the resort.  Not a one.  GrandCandy has some that she will send me, but I didn't take a single one.  sigh....  Well, what can you do?  It's durn near impossible to keep the camera protected at the pool or the beach when you are handling a baby and attempting to help your sweet husband keep an eye on the older two kids.  (And, I couldn't find our point and shoot camera before we left.  Whoops!)  BUT, see, it's okay.  I can assure you we made plenty of sandcastles and spent a lot of time getting thoroughly waterlogged in the Frog Pool.  You'll just have to believe me, even though I have no photographic proof of those activities.

Now it's back to reality and time to get ready for an upcoming church meeting, Singing School, out-of-town family visits and I'm sure a few other things that I've forgotten about.  And that's just June.  :-)