Saturday, August 23, 2008

First Day of School




Hard to believe the first week of school here is already over. Thanks to NOHurricane Fay we only had a 4 day week and one of those was a 1/2 day. Andrew has the same amazing teacher he had last year, we are so happy about that. I can remember when I was in 4th grade, that was the year we started to write in cursive and learned multiplication, now they start learning that in 2nd grade. Our 3 4th grade teachers team taught and my homeroom teacher read chapter books aloud to us each day. Wow, times have changed.
Andrea and I hit the very end of Talbots Summer sale last night up in Tampa. I just love our salesperson Barbara! She gives us incredible customer service. We had a yummy dinner at Nordstroms and then came home. Seems like today will be a rainy day so I think I will start scrapbooking our Amelia Island pictures!

Saturday, August 16, 2008

More of Amelia Island






More photos from our trip. We rented the best tent, a 10x10 and the best thing was they put it up everyday and came out and took it off when it rained. For non beach people like us this was heaven sent. the sun was brutal in August in Florida, surprise, surprise. We thought we would buy one for the week, but good thing we didn't, our first tent broke after 2 days and they had to come and put weights on it when it got windy, we wouldn't have been prepared for all that! Yesterday Fern and I sat out there all day, just talking and reading and watching the waves.

Summer toes





I promised David I would post these on my blog. here you go David. Our summer toes!

Back from Amelia Island






Talk about relaxing. We just returned from a week at Amelia Island with the Grace Family. We had the most relaxing and wonderful time. Thanks to Fern we stayed at a great condo right on the beach. We had the most beautiful and peaceful view of the ocean. We had great weather except for two rainy days but even those were fun. I read 3 books and we went out for dinners and walked around the quaint town of Fernandina. We played poker 5 nights and I am proud to say I won 3 nights in a row! Fern won once and David won once. Sorry Jeff. Poor jeff he taught me to play and now I just love it. Fern bought me a beautiful silver lucky coin, Thanks Fern. We stopped at Sea World on our way. Now I remember why you don't go to theme parks in the summer, too hot and too crowded. We saw the Shamu show and rode some rides and were happy to leave at 4 and go to the hotel for some AC. We hit the Cheesecake Factory for dinner and then Talbots summer sale. Good to be home again. I alread uploaded all my pictures and even made a photo book on Shutterfly already. Back to work on Monday!