Home again, home again, jiggidy jig!

Well, it's over. We made the journey home with great success. The kids slept the majority of the ride and we had smooth, safe trip (thank you God). It's 6:30 pm and we've been home almost 12 hours already. I just hit the wall... I feel like someone drugged me, I'm so tired. But, I'm so thankful for a beautiful vacation with my children, my new sister and her family and the BEST Mother in the world! What great, lasting memories we have to cherish forever!

Pictures above are of our last day (yesterday) at the beach. SO MUCH FUN!!!!!!!!

Surf & Turf Dinner - Lori

Last night we checked the hour by hour weather forecast and tried to plan a cook-out with every one's favorite food. We found a local fish monger and purchased crab legs (Syd Slater), Lobster Tail (Keefer), Steak (Skeet, MeMaw, Lori & Cathy), pork chops (everyone), and hot dogs & bacon (Ellie Bellie Boo Bug).

Cathy fired up the charcoal grill and she and I shared some good wine and conversation at the grill while the kids swam & MeMaw tended to the potatoes in the condo. The sky was very grey and it was windy and threatening to ruin our cook-out... Sure enough just as the meat was ready to come off the grill, it started to poor. We all ran back to the condo and ended up soaked.

The food was great (especially the crab, if you ask me)! Everyone was stuffed beyond capacity! Then around 8:30pm the kids talked us in to heading down to the pool so they could swim. They had a ball and so did we!

Cathy and I keep finding similarities that make us wonder if something fishy went on at our birth. We think we might be blood sisters some how! We discovered that a few years ago she went to a Halloween party as the "Snow Miser" and I went to a different party as the "Heat Miser". Trust me, it was a great discovery last night.

Any who... it's our last morning (unless we completely change plans and start the drive on Saturday night). The weather is finally going to be perfect, so we're heading to the beach today. We're planning to head out around 7pm.

Oyster Adventure!

Biker Babes at Floribama!

Mom, that looks great!

Marine Biologist tries her first oyster!

Yummmmmmmm ! Slater's Rock their first oysters!

Crabs, Crabby(Boo Bug's),Dr. Phil(Keefer's),Larry(Mine),

Dolphin Cruise / Floribama

Wrote about the dolphin cruise below... After we docked from the cruise, we went across the street to the well known bar/resturaunt "Floribama". First, we tried to catch lobsters in a big tank (like the stuffed animal claw games at BW3's). For a $2 try, if you catch one they will cook it. We didn't catch one
:(

Then we all put our heads in the photo cut outs for a photo op. We signed our names on the walls and the kids got to go down to the beach for a little bit. The Slater's tried oysters for the first time and I had one too (not my first though). Yum! Then, before we left we got our picture with the kids in Alabama and the grown-ups in Florida. We all had a great time!

We came up from the pool a little bit ago. It's really storming right now. It's supposed to blow over fast and should be good until we leave. It's almost over and even though we miss our husbands/dads we're sad we have to go.

I am in HEAVEN - MeMaw

Wow, I never thought we would have such a GREAT time.It is so Beautiful here and the Kids have been totally Awesome. I now have two more little Darlin's calling me Memaw. Sure makes my heart happy.I feel like I have known them my whole life.They have had so much fun together.Thanks PawPaw Litchfield for the wonderful Dophin tour. They are such amazing animals.The kids loved it..Brittany Spears has a home on the bay ,Or did. Not sure if she still owns it.I guess the guide said there are alot of stars who do.
Well, I have felt like a star here..Start saving your Money family A three bedroom is l,800 a week. YIKE.. The Lazy River is really fun to sit in the innertube and fut float around. If ;it gets really warm the O'l Memaw might go down the slide.We will see about that. MeMaw misses the little boys in my life and my Girls and PaPaw and son-in-laws. Maybe someday we can all do something like this together.
I am not much of a Blogger but Lori made me write something. I am Thankful to God for this wonderful opportunity,to be with the Spang and Slater Family. Love to all, Memaw P.S. Lori has agreed with me that from now on I will tell her what to say like Ellie does and she will write it for me.....

Hair twisties Syd Slater

The two Syds at Alvins Island got these hair twisties. (their awesome) Syd Spang has blue,purple and green with the same color of beads. Syd Slater has orange,yellow,green and blue and has blue,orange and yellow beads. Syd and Syd love them but the first couple days you get them they give you massive headaches. Expecialy to Syd Spang. They are supposed to stay in for about 6 months or more. Thats a really long time! Well lets hope it stays in for a while.