Picture overload!

Time gets away from me.  So I think I should back track.  I honestly write this to keep track of things for my family, I don't journal, so my hope is to print this out at the end of the year and make a book out of it, hopefully so that my kids can read it some day.  Lets see how that goes.

A lot has happened since I last posted in March.  We went to Florida, had a lovely, warm and sunny spring, planted out garden, celebrated Mia's 3rd birthday, and took a trip to Maine to see Doug's side of the family.

We spent almost two weeks in Florida.  Doug couldn't get off work, so the girls and I flew down a week before him.  I was so nervous flying alone with the girls.  But they were great.  No fussing, Mia listened, Georgia slept most of the time, and we didn't even have a meltdown.  I think the girls really enjoyed the change of scenery and we all enjoyed the sun.

We had such a nice time.  The sun and warmth was amazing.  We went to the beach, went on a boat ride with my dads work, went on walks, to the dog park, out to eat, and had a really relaxing time.  My dad has a coworker who volunteers at a shelter that takes in exotic animals that people have been found with.  We are talking lions, tigers and bears (literally!).  There even was a Hyena, peacocks, and a Leopard, lots of monkeys and a Baboon that we had to stay away from because he wasn't very friendly.  I could not believe that these were animals that people had! I think a couple of the bears were rescued from the Circus, but for the most part it was people.  I think Lions are great, I don't want one in my house! 

Doug joined us when he could take off work.  It was nice because he hasn't been able to come the last couple of times.  While he was there our dear friends we knew from Texas, Erin and Daryl, were going to be going to Disney World for their family vacation.  We decided to drive two hours and meet them!  It had been five years since we had seen them, but it was really like no time had passed at all!  We just had three kids between us now:) It was so wonderful to reconnect!  I truly believe that the only reason we moved to Texas was because we were meant to meet the Royal family.   Our personalities and likes are so similar it is scary!  The best part of our meet  up was getting to see our kids together:) Unfortunately I didn't get any pictures of all of us while we were in Downtown Disney!