Florida III (and final!)

Here's the end of the Florida pictures. We had such a fabulous time and did so many fun things!

Girls' Day Out!!! We shopped 'till we literally dropped--about 8 hours. It was so fun--can you tell? We had a blast at a local outlet mall. It had every store you can imagine.

Trying on sun hats.
Our last night we tried some pictures on the beach. It was a little late and there was a storm coming so the light wasn't the best, but the people in the pics are pretty darn cute!

Here are James, Lybi, and their boys, Adam, Samuel, and Joseph
Cindy, Andy, and their little boy,Ryan
Wayne and Sandy, Ben's parents
We tried getting a pic with all the grandkids. It was pretty funny. This was the best one. LOL!
Me, Ben, Carli, Kate, Megan, and Brandon

The pools at the resort were so great. The kids had a blast with the dads playing water volleyball. We got some good action shots here.

Ben with Kate.
Carli is such a little fish. As long as she has her floaties on she swims wherever she wants to.
The water slide was the biggest hit with the kids. Brandon loved it!
Carli was dying to go, too, however, she was supposed to go alone. You are not allowed to have 2 people together. Kate took her up there, but she wouldn't go down as much as she wanted to, so Ben went up and put her in the slide and pushed her down. Well...she stopped herself before she even got halfway down and just sat there! The lifegaurd finally said her could go get her and bring her down. Notice her terrified look as they come out. She didn't worry about going down the slide again. :)
Me, Lybi, and Cindy at our dinner out as couples. Nana and Papa were SOOOO generous to watch all 8 kiddos and let us go out together. What a fun night.

Andy, James, Ben
It was this fabulous restaurant right on the beach called the Sea Watch. Seriously yummy seafood. I went for it all--lobster, shrimp, scallops...
Lybi and her "claw."

Florida Part II

Brandon and Kate jumping waves.Megan in the sand
Kate in the hole
Megan in the hole
Daddy and Carli waving from the ocean
Brandon building his sandcastle
Megan and cousin Sam braving the ocean water. How cute is this?
We went to the science and discovery museum in Ft. Lauderdale. The kids had a blast!

Me, sil Cindy, sil Lybi, mil Sandy, taking a break at the museum.
We went to this great seafood restaurant (twice, actually!), 15th Street Fisheries, and this was the view from our table both times. It was just lovely.
Me and Brandon waiting for our food.
Daddy and Carli at the fisheriesBrandon getting a little board at the restaurant. :)The drive home after dinner. It was so beautiful!Carli ready for some swimming!!! LOVE this picture. :)

Florida

We had a really lovely trip to Florida to spend time with Ben's family. I have to say that I have the best inlaws. I love them all and we have so much fun together. All the other cousins are boys, but my girls don't seem to mind that at all. The had a blast playing, swimming, eating, climbing on Uncle Andy, and building sandcastles and digging holes in the sand at the beach. Here are some pictures from our adventures. I'm going to have to do this in 3 posts to get all the pics in. :)

Carli at the beach

Kate at the beach hopping through the wavesBen's parents Wayne and Sandy at the beach. Aren't they cute?
It was so funny to see Kate and Megan in the same stance playing the sand.
There was a fun little miniature golf course at the resort we stayed at. Carli had so much fun. We were there about every day. The kids all loved it.


Our little nephew, Joey, playing golf. You can see how wet the ground is. It had rained really hard the night before and that area was all flooded.Carli and her cousin, Ryan, playing on the little playground.

Here are all the cousins eating popsicles. This was a common occurance that week. :)

We went to church Sunday morning and I couldn't resist a pic of everyone looking so dressed up. The plants around the resort were beautiful.
This was pizza night!

Kate and her cousin, Sam eating pizza. These two are quite the little pair. They loved hanging out together.
Sandy (mil), Lybi (sil), James (Ben's twin brother)
Uncle Andy (Ben's "little" brother) playing with the kids.