Last night in Florida Tradition

  It is our family tradition to take family pictures on the beach the last sunset we are there… It was a cloudy evening and the sunset was not beautiful but very cooperative for photos!  These are some of the ones that I took that night.  Most are above in the collage I created, I know it is too small to really see well, I’ll share them with you again here, but I wanted you to see the collage!  I just started using a free program called Picasa.  I like how quick and easy it is.  AND THAT IT IS FREE!  I like that it keeps my picture quality & I don’t lose pixel’s like I do with some free programs.

My parents…Alan & Sheryl

My Sister Lana & her family… Colton, Sammy, Ben, Koty, Lana, & Hallie…

Lana & Ben…

The whole crew…

James…

Zach…

Leah…

Lucas…

Out-takes of goofy boy… I mean Jadon…

Kiahna…

James friend, Aaron…

More random shots from that last evening…

 

Lana & Hallie…

 

Can you hear them telling him to stop it!?

There are still so many more great pictures so share!  maybe they will show up over time here on my blog, but for now it is time to move on i suppose!!  Just a few more as we say goodbye to our trip…

 Pam

“Make Me a Toaster!”

I promise, I am almost through the Florida pictures!  Quite honestly I am pretty glad to have a distraction as I process some other things going on around here… I’ll get to those things in time, but for now I have a funny thing to write about that Kiahna said during our trip! 

I went out to the beach one day to find my mom burying Kiahna, Jadon & Hallie in the sand!  THEY LOVED IT! 

Especially this one… she said, “look mom, I’m a toaster!”

A toaster?

Yup, a toaster… the next day… “Grandma!  Will you make me a toaster again?!”

What’s a Grandma to do…

Get up and make her granddaughter into a toaster!

…silly, sandy, toaster…

Pam

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Faceplants – Football – Fones

I have some very fun shots to share with you today!!  We will start with the Faceplants!  I’ve been wondering what the best way to show you some of these!  Too bad I don’t have them in video, but i didn’t take video, i just held the shutter down on my camera and got what looks like a flip book out of them!  Enjoy this!  Zach trying to skim board…

 

This one is James, his friend Aaron is under the water and James is pushing off his shoulders to flip in the air!

Ben threw Jadon…

Then there were the sand plants…

My nephew, Colton…

Most of the time there were brothers involved…Like this one with Lucas… threw him in the pool…

And then in the sand…

I don’t remember how this happened to Jadon, but I am pretty sure it was his brother’s doing (survival of the biggest you know…) (yes, those are tears. He was NOT happy!)

These face plants made Jadon happy!  Jadon, Kiahna, & Hallie piling on Aaron!

FOOTBALL… Zach & Koty (no not the ones from Nickelodeon)…

James & Aaron didn’t play much football… they were too busy playing with their…

FONES…

There you have it… Faceplants, Football, & Fones…FUN!

Pam

I Heart Faces: My Friend & I

The theme for this week’s contest is My friend & I.  You need to have a shot of 2 children being friends… Hallie and Jadon… best of friends & cousins!  They played together all week in Florida like a dream! 

Visit I Heart Faces to enter this contest & view more beautiful friend pictures!

Pam

More Random Florida Shots…

A week has past… i still haven’t made it through editing, discarding, posting, playing with all the pictures!  Of course life is going on and wont allow me to just sit and spend countless hours playing! :) 

I about lost my mind of Friday doing my taxes!!  So how about a little more Florida sunshine for all the tax preparers out there!!  (this ones for you Mark!!) 

Pam

YOUR Gonna Miss This… Moment… Week 28

You may have read my twitter about my moment 2 weeks ago, while we were driving and this one hit me…

Sitting in the back of the van with Kiahna…

 

I was sick… bored… listening to James & his friend Aaron…

…singing… I couldn’t hear Aaron… only James. 

And I thought… I’m gonna miss this.

I don’t know if James will ever go to Florida with us again (at least anytime in the next few years). As a senior, I know he will have lots of choices next year for spring break… mission trip? friends? or family?  I don’t know.  That may have been the last trip to Florida he takes with us.

And… I’ll miss it.  (mostly, some of his music about made me feel like I was losing my mind, and my ears were bleeding by the end of the trip home!)

Pam

I was so blessed to find that many of you played along with this carnival even when I wasn’t here and even when there was no Mr. Linky!  You guys are awesome!!  And I really want to read what you wrote… so here is what I am proposing.  If you wrote a “YOUR Gonna Miss This… Moment” over the past two weeks link that url here too.  If you write a new one, enter that too!  If you wrote 3 and need to link up 3 times so we can come and see them all please do!

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