Last week, I headed down to Florida to visit my friend Heather (y'all probably know her as "Tee").  I had such a good time.  Tim graciously stayed home and watched the kids while I headed out of town for a few days. 

Heather was coming in from Seattle at the same time I arrived in Tampa.  We met up at the airport to grab our bags, then Tee's mom and dad picked us up.  They stay there for 3 months out of the year during winter time up in Michigan.  We drove down to Bradenton, dropped off our bags and headed to Myakka to see some gators!  Once we got there, we took a tour of the area.  Saw some baby, kid and adult gators along with lots of other animals.  It was so much fun. 

The next couple days we hit up some beaches, found some shells, saw a movie, played putt putt, ate frozen custard, played cards, went to the orange market, caught up on life...and relaxed!  We both got pretty bad sunburns, thankfully it's now tanning, but whew, boy, it hurt. 

Port De Soto

Putt-Putt

Gators at Putt-Putt!

Anna Marie Island

Shopping at the flea market

yummy custard

Thanks Tee, momma Sue and papa Tom for being such gracious hosts.  And for the hubbs for watching the babies!

While I was gone, the kids had church, preschool, but also ran errands with dad, went to the mall, ate pizza and had their first teeball practice.  They loved their special time with daddy!

throwing pennies in the fountain

 picking up a mattress for our friend, Miss Anna

 hair-do by daddy..apparently there was a melt down because he didn't do it like mama

first practice...

Almost the Weekend!

It's Thursday and we're almost to the weekend!  The weekend for us is on Friday and Saturday since Tim works on Sundays.  It's currently snowing, but suppose to warm up starting tomorrow, yay! 

Tuesday and Thursdays the kids have school.  Today I got the phone call that Theo wasn't feeling too hot so I needed to come pick him up.  Which meant, picking Madelyn up at the same time....because I wasn't going back 2 hours later to get her from the same place.  Got there and cue Theo on the floor resting (which he never does!) and a fit from Madelyn because I showed up too early.  Then we get home and Theo heads upstairs to get ready for nap and I hear him scream and say "mommy, I spit"...which means he barfed.  Everywhere.  If you know me, I don't do barf.  It makes me barf.  After I made him sit by the toilet for about 30 minutes making sure he got everything out, he got all tucked in bed and both kids are now out.  I disinfected everything and threw blankets and all objects close to the barf in the washer.  Now I'm drinking some water hoping I don't get sick.  Poor buddy boy.  His teacher said another kid left earlier because he was throwing up.  Hoping he gets better son.

Update on Madelyn - she is doing better, thanks for all your prayers.  Still saying she misses her friends, but I've put up pictures in her room and that's made her feel a little better.  And we got to facetime Logan and Shaun last week.  Thanks Suzanne!!  The kids LOVED seeing you all.  If anyone else ever wants to, let me know. 

Last weekend it was beautiful so we went outside to enjoy some of the weather.

Hi mom

let's pick some flowers

Tim preached on Sunday night

and some lazy time watching shows

Tim and I have also been watching some "Fuller House" - only have a few more episodes left of season 1.  Tonight I'm going to yoga and zumba with some friends then heading to eat some dinner after.  Should be a fun time!