Billy Bowlegs Pirate Festival

Each year Ft. Walton Beach holds this great festival, Billy Bowlegs Pirate Festival. The Blackbeard II is really hazzy b/c of the smoke from the cannons they were firing. http://www.fwbchamber.org/Billy-Bowlegs.bowlegs.0.html
We attended it two days. We had a great time. The kids dressed up like pirates, played games, ate snow cones and corn dogs.

Charlie and Dusty hunted pirates. They had a wanted poster with four pirates on it. If you found all four pirates and got their signature then you would get a prize. We did not make it for the first day of the festival and the treasure hunt. We were only able to find three of the four pirates on the wanted poster but we sure had a great time trying. The cannons were really loud. We had a great time.

Missing Family

We had a great time with my sister and her boyfriend Chase. As you can see we played pretty hard. B is out cold. We took all of B's old stuff (cradle, clothes and many other baby things) to Tonya. She is due to have my nephew two days after B's 1st birthday. She is going to be a great mom. Chase will make a great dad also. They were very patient with my kiddos messing up their beautiful home.
Here is B in his seat. He did not like it too much by hour 16 of our trip home.
Thank you technology. Charlie was great on the trip. She had a MP3 player with 12 books on tape, she had a DVD player w/ an assortment of movies. She had a back pack with books, notebook, and crayons. She also had a leapster. She was so good on the trip.
I really hate that I only see my family once or twice a year. Here is me with my sister and my mom. We had a great visit. I just wish that they lived closer.

Flowers for Mom

I have pretty bad allergies. Most flowers and trees make me sneeze. Charlie has always been told to leave the flowers growing for others to enjoy instead of picking them for me b/c they make me sneeze. The few times she has brought me a weed (flower) or two I have ended up sneezing and we have to take them out of the house. Monday morning Charlie, Brantley and I went for a walk when we woke up and enjoyed God's beautiful wild flowers. Every time Charlie smells a flower this is what happens. It just makes me laugh.

Red Rock

I love going camping. I hate the bugs and the walk to the bathroom. I hate it when the air mattress gets a hole in it but I love going camping. I think it has something to do with getting to bed early, hearing nature, just enjoying family. Yeah, it's that...getting to spend time with just the family we are just enjoying each other.

We had smores' went climbing on this great tree. We also got snowcones from the snack shack. Brantley loved it. He kept trying to grab the cup. Charlie loved roasting hot dogs and marshmallows. We love going down to Red Rock.