Hanna (not Montanna) might be stopping by for a visit

We Floridians just love this time of year. Hurricane season is in full force and we are watching 3 storms right now that could be a potential threat to Florida. Hanna is our closest storm looking for a place to make landfall. We are still in that uncertain cone of error that we could see some potential threatening weather. Looks like we will see some wind gusts of 30-40mph sustained on Thursday afternoon. Of course these storms are so unpredictable you never know what can happen. We'll be watching the forecast to find out Hanna's destination. Not far behind Hanna we have Ike & Josephine. I guess we are a landing strip for these storms. They just keep poppinn up one after another.
Stay tuned for more info on tropical storm/Hurricane Hanna!

Baseball Fun

Friday night we attended a baseball game at Roger Dean Stadium in Jupiter. These are minor league teams so they are fun to watch. Gay and Becky got free tickets from their school so the evening was relatively cheap for our clan. We all met their and Kevin & Becky got us seats behind home plate. Zach always wants to try and get a ball. So with much determination and a little help from Kevin he finally got one. We didn't know this game was a double header, so we really got our monies worth from our free tickets. Yeah! Unfortunately I misplaced my larger camer card , so I was on a much smaller one, so I didn't get many pictures.





A picture of the whole crew minus Gay


our family minus Zach- who knows what he was doing. (trying to get that ball)


Daddy with 2 of his girls


The game


The shark mascot


Britt & Meagan


The players going thru the congratulations line




After the second game they had a local school who had a drumline corp play. They did an awesome job. These were 6th,7th & 8th graders. This video doesn't do them justice and it was only half of their band but they were really good and could really do some moves while playing these instruments. My camera card got full so I couldn't get the best parts.




And also after the second game was fireworks. This was taken with my phone because my camera card was full

A visitor

We are back in the swing of school after tropical storm Fay. The kids are back in full force. I sure can't get use to it! Our regular sitter isn't babysitting on
Fridays for a few weeks yet so Becky kindly offered to watch Meagan today since she was off. I think they had fun. You can check out Becky's blog on my list of friends for all the details. Anyhow they went for a walk to get a hotdog and stopped by the office. We invited Becky to stay and eat subs with us so she kept Meagan and Kaelyn busy coloring and drawing while we waited for the food. Below is a picture of Meagan engrossed in her drawing. She's such a cutie! I miss her when I'm working. She's at that fun stage where she copies everything!

More fun!

While we were away and doing alot of swimming Meagan fell in love with the water. Every morning she would go out on the balcony and look down and see the pool or the ocean and say "My Water". She loved swimming so much that by about the second day she was tearing off her floaties and just wanting to jump in wether anyone was around or not. So we were a little scared of what she might do and if she would jump in when noone was there to catch her. So we found this nifty little bathing suit with the floating device built in(almost like a life jacket inside). That was all she needed and she was ready to go. She loves the water now, so probably if she could get access to the canal she would just jump right in. Thank goodness we have it fenced off and she hasn't figured out how to unlock the fence yet. Below is a short video of her just jumping right in. I love how she plugs her nose and she would count with the kids 1-2-3 and let go of her nose and jump in. We laugh and laugh at her actions. She keeps us entertained!

Tropical Storm Fay

Tropical storm Fay made landfall across Florida in the middle of the night. We had heavy rains along with alot of tornado watches and warnings throughout the night and first part of this morning. The kids didn't have school because of the potential danger with high winds and flooding. So we spent the day at home listening to the news and wondering what else we could expect. We weathered through the storm but this poor guy in this video was crazy enough to be kite surfing down around Miami in the strong winds. Now I know the whole point of Kite surfing is to have some wind but this is a little ridiculous. He was crazy enough to not let go of the kite and went flying into a building. He ended up with critical injuries. Below is a video from a newscast . Watch as he goes flying by.

On a side note, the kids are back to school tomorrow while Fay travels up the coast to leave more rain and winds for someone else.

Off & Running

Another school year has arrived and we are off and running. Today they all started back to school and Meagan started back to the babysitters. Talk about fun getting back into the swing of things. So anyhow, we are off to a running start. I think we are going to have a fun year. Ha!Brittany is taking Geometry, Algebra II, Accounting, Home Ec , Bible, English & yearbook. I think we are going to be mathed to death!





Jessica is the first one out the door by 7:20 am because she is a safety patrol.



Run # 2 is Andrea and Zach who has to be there by 7:45 am



Today Run # 3 was Brittany because she didn't have to be there till 8:00 am only for a short time to get her schedule together. Hopefully we could knock it down to 2 runs up and down the street when Brittany has to be there by 7:40. Our neighbors probably think we are crazy driving up and down the street 3 different times in a half hour span.


On another note we are watching a hurricane thats out there around Cuba heading toward Florida. Could be a Category 1 hurricane, but we aren't sure which way this thing is heading yet. It could turn. We will definately see the rain and wind effects from this. Thus Britt's picture with her umbrella! Of course in the Insurance business storms of this nature are not what we want to hear about. We don't need claims. And we are basically shut down from writing any policies until after this storm is over. We can quote all we want but have no binding authority.
The kids are already hoping for no school tomorrow.

More vacation pictures

Our last full day was Wednesday. So we decided we would drive on the beach and go down a couple miles from our condo where someone had told us there was rocks and the inlet. So we drove on the beach,(a new adventure) and each one of the kids had a turn driving (with dad's help of course) They were all just thrilled and a little vacationed out too. Actually I think too much swimming had been done. Anyhow here is the last day of our vacation in a nutshell.





Now this is the life, sipping coffee and watching the waves come in. I would love to start each day this way.



This house was across the street from the condo and for sale. A 2 bedroom wood frame 1942 house all redone in 2005 for a mere 625k. What a bargain!Can you even get good insurance on this?




Ponce De Leon Inlet Lighthouse. We saw this across the water





We saw these 2 houses on the beach while driving. These caught our eye as our favorites.

And finally a slide of the beach driving adventures.