Lots of pictures.

I decided to post some of the random pics that I have had on my phone and keep forgetting to post. The top pictures are from one of our trips to the creek to hunt for shark's teeth. Growing up here in Gainesville and living so close to the creek for most of my life, my sister Ryan and I would go down there all the time and hang out. Adam, also growing up (mostly) in Gainesville, went down there with his brothers. So, a couple of weeks ago we got the bright idea to take Sasa down there. We had such a great time. She loved digging in the dirt, looking at the plants and "hunting for treasure". Adam and I found quite a few shark's teeth and are trying to figure out what we will do with them. It started to rain (a lot) while we were there so we got to run through A. Ring park in the rain (it was so fun). Sadie had fun jumping in puddles and dancing in the rain. Last week, Adam took Sadie down there with Henry and Sadie enjoyed that too. The next pictures are from observation day in Sadie's ballet class (did I mention she started ballet?). She is so sweet and petite, I loved watching her have fun in ballet. We have also signed her up gymnastics, which start this Saturday. She kept watching the kids do gymnastics while we were waiting and was asking to try it so we decided that we would let her try that too. I think she will like gymnastics better, but we'll see. The one of her on the swings is from last week (I just thought she looked cute) and the last is from this past Monday, her first day of VPK (pre k). That's right folks, she is finally a big fish in a little pond at school! She is so excited about being in the "big kid" class now. She picked out her outfit and how she wanted me to do her hair. It was so sweet, I wanted to cry (Lord help me when kindergarten starts!). Other than that things are normal. Work for Adam and I is good, we both are enjoying out jobs (as much as you can anyway!). Just living and loving life!

Sadie's Birthday (and only days shy of a month later!)

 Well, I guess I did not keep up with my end of the bargain, dear blog readers. I vowed to be better about posting and...well...we all know how that turned out. Here are some of the pictures from our weekend in Orlando. We all had such a great time at Sea World, especially Sadie. We also had a great dinner with Ross and Carolina, after Sea World at the Mall at Millenia (after a quick trip to Ikea, of course). Sadie had a big birthday dinner of mac and cheese followed by bubble gum flavored ice cream. When we were going back to the hotel from dinner, we saw fireworks near the hotel, we found out they were at Sea World, right across the street from the hotel!
So, we sat in the car and snuggled and watched fireworks.We didn't do any rides at Sea World, mostly because Sadie doesn't really seem to like fireworks. We did, go to several shows and she (and we) really enjoyed those. After dinner Ross and Carolina gave Sadie her birthday present- a new, big girl bike!! She also got a doll house (from my Dad and Carrie) and ballet lessons from my Mom and Tommy. I will be posting more pics of those soon.

 Work and school have been going well. Other than being tired, Adam is doing well. Sadie is having a great time in school, as usual. She will be starting the Pre-K class on August 20th. I am excited and sad, all at the same time. Work for me is great, we switched to 12 hour shifts so I am only working 3 days a week now, it's a mix of good and bad. Lots more pics to follow. I have bike, ballet & creek pics to post! Lots of love out there in blogger land!