Happy (Belated) Grandparents Day

Happy belated Grandparents Day to all the wonderful Grandparents and Great grandparents in our lives!!!! We took Nana out to dinner and Joey took her a dozen roses to celebrate.

GOING AWAY PARTY

We threw ourselves a Going Away Party so we could say a big Good-bye to all our wonderful friends. We all had BBQ and lots of fun. Once again we rented a huge blow-up for the backyard and all the kids went loony!!! You have never seen so many happy, red-faced, sweaty kids : )

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Here is Joey, Michelle and Gabe Playing on the slide

Joey, Rayna and Michelle fixin' to slide down....you can see the slide was a hit!!! Both Bill and I woke up sore from head to toe from us playing in there too!!

My old time pal Donnie pushing her son and Joey's pal Jacob, and Nicholas swinging in the baby swing....ahahahah lullaby and goodnight : ) Gotcha Nicholas!!!!

Joey discussing the game with Uncle Rick and Aunt Martha

Beautiful Laura and her handsome wonderful son Benjamin

Joey giving some good loving to his God-parents Robin and Bob

Bill's family talking and laughing at me trying to get a good picture! Doesn't Whitney look like quite the woman!!! Woooo-weeeee!!!!! What a dress!! Watch out boys, she isn't of-age YET!!

Everybody watching and cheering on the game!!!


We had a great time and are going to miss everyone so much!!! Anyone and everyone is welcome to visit us ANYTIME!!!! We love all of you!!!!

Longboat Key

Sorry for no updates for a while but we have been VERY BUSY!!! So with only 1 1/2 weeks until we move I thought I better upload some pics.

Here is our trip to Longboat Key, Florida. I would recommend the island to anyone looking for a nice, quite vacation. since Longboat is a "winter" community it is cheap to stay there in the summer and empty...there were times we were the only people on the beach.

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Plus, the shells are AMAZING. Here is one of Joey's favorites

And here he is searching for more, we could hardly get him to leave his shell bucket behind

Getting a back ride from Mama

Heading back to our house, isn't the walk nice!

Riding the waves with Da

On our front porch with Mama, we had our own little cottage :)

Joey discovered floaties on this trip and loved being independent in the water. Even though we were never far behind! He hated having us hold him and would go and go.

Our little beach babe : ) with a kool-aid cocktail

We were there when Hurricane Dean hit Mexico and the waved were awesome, Bill TRIED to boogie board but they were so tall!!! Makes him look like a speck in the water

Bill and Joey caught some hermit crabs and Joey is telling a little girl he met all about them

Joey and Da torturing more crabs...this one was ready to FIGHT!