Easter Weekend

 We are finally recovering from a busy weekend.

 The kids didn't have school on Friday so we headed down to Sawgrass bright and early to spend a fun morning on the beach with all of our cousins.

After a few hours playing on the beach we headed back to Aunt Sandra's house for a delicious lunch.

The kids all modeled their Argentina T-shirts that Baba and Aunt Sandra brought back.

Saturday we went set off on a boat ride.....

to celebrate Wiley coming into town and the exciting news of an engagement 

"A three four hour tour, a three four hour tour...."

Cue lightning.

and that's all i have to say about that matter

Let me introduce you to the cast of As The World Turns

We were super excited that the Easter bunny remembered to come by our house,  

of course he/she brought Legos

(is the EB a boy or a girl?)

I'm not quite organized enough to have my children dressed in their Easter outfits for the egg hunt, it was all i could do to get my contacts on and find my camera

My adorable God-Baby

Jonathan McKinnon Collins Jr

was baptized Easter Sunday at St Marks during the 11:00 service

I Love this family

There was a sweet reception/ Easter lunch at Biba and Erik's house afterwards

 Roe liked to be the entertainment

We planned this

April with the Alexanders

We have had a great month, the weather has been beautiful and we have spent plenty of time outside enjoying things before it gets to hot around here.

Uncle John gave Roe and his buddy Charlie a fun tour of all the big tractors at John Deere

The flowers in our back yard

my bottle tree in bloom

silly brothers hiding from mom

Roe, friend and minky all snuggled up watching TV

another Sunday Fun day at the lake

Kirby at school

finally mastered the wake board swing

best brothers

Wedding weekend

April 2, 2011

Sierra Finnegan and Kevin Clemmons

were married at The Cloister in Sea Island

Ted and I stayed at the Sea Palms Golf and Tennis Resort

it was a bit dated, but clean and the price was good.

Above was the view from our patio.

 The rehearsal dinner was a Low Country Boil which included a cocktail cruise on the

Cloister Belle

 Kevin and Sierra

 the three amigos

another beautiful Golden Isles sunset

The Cloister Chapel

This was supposed to be our "sassy" pose..... check out the awkward sassy bebe in the back

March

So, March was a big month. 

We went to they keys, we got the news we were going to have a new little cousin in the fall, and we celebrated lots of birthdays!

 Roe is the best little helper EVER!

It was a great treat when Uncle James and Mary Jane, and Ray, Jon and Baby McKinnon all came to town to celebrate the "March Birthdays"

We were sad Preb and Teddy didn't make it. :(

 Six of us celebrate our birthdays in March.

We also have 5 birthdays that i can think of between Oct 13 and Nov 13

this seems like another real fun reason to celebrate!

Keys

This is Roe the day we left.... he fell asleep standing up at like 11am.

Not feeling so great and in major need of some sun therapy.

This is Roe 24 hours later

The week before we left was quite the challenge, but we made it, and all it took was a little sun and a little salt air to make a full recovery.

The boys checking out the humongous fish at the World Wide Sportsman in Islamorada.

First stop for dad (after making a little rum punch) was the pool

We stayed at the most wonderful place,  Ted and I both agree that we must go back.

Kirby playing on the lawn in front of our place.

Dad playing a trick on us

The Pirate pool

Much better

The week that Kirby missed at school was "I" week and the alpha-friend was Iggy Iguana,

how fitting that Kirby got to meet him.

Pops in the pool

We almost got caught by security. 

Gigi and I thought it would be a great idea to lure the seagulls in with some chex-mix and then let Kirb shoot them with his Super-Soaker.... well one of our party-pooper neighbors called security!

Luckily we had just run out of Chex-mix and stepped inside when they came to arrest us for feeding the birds. 

silly boys

This may be considered child abuse.... Roe's first Popsicle (yes he's almost two)

Uncle James the adventurer

Riding the train

One of many evening cocktail walks on the docks.

Thursday James, Mary-Jane, Ted and I went down to Key west

It was fun since MJ had never been there, but then it monsooned.

Gigi the Great

A beautiful sunset to end a wonderful week.

Thank you Pops,

and Thank you Ted.

xoxoxox