o.k. so I am a bad blogger. But in my defense I have been busy moving into a new house and all that that entails. So here are some pictures from some of our new adventures. We are having a great time on the block, and lots of fun with our neighbors!!! I am so glad we decided to buy a house and move, I am so much happier!!!
This is a picture of Gasparilla, apparently in Tampa they celebrate the invasion of the pirates into Tampa Bay. It's a week long celebration of parades bead throwing and dressing up as pirates. It is a very big deal here and we did enjoy our first experience. My little pirates looked so cute. Here is a picture of Ryan and his friend Mason with their decorated wagon for the parade, they were so cute!!! And of course no good Gasparilla celebration would be complete without a boat full of pirates...






And here is one of the best things I have found about living on the ocean. Dolphins and beauty. It is so pretty out in the Bay, and every time I have gone out there, we have seen Dolphins. This one followed us home down the canals. He was so close. It was amazing. I am looking forward to many more ocean adventures when we finally get our own boat.



Well I think I have updated enough for now, I am going to try to update more often.

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Wow It has been so long since I have updated. The kids are having a great time in school, and enjoying the great weather in Florida!!!! We have a new park in the neighborhood and it is lots of fun.

Wow we have done so much since last time I updated. Ryan's birthday party was at chuck E cheese. Riley's was at Libby LU, so much fun, the girls got to dress up and get their hair and makeup done like princesses. Then I took them to make build a bears and dinner. It was a great night, Riley Samantha and Hayley said they had the best day ever!!! I think that means they had fun. We have been doing a lot of swimming up at the pool which is awesome the kids really love it. Owen is getting to be a good swimmer I am so happy. We also went and saw a concert outside one night where they had fountains for the kids to play in, they had a great time. When the sun went down the fountains were lit different colors, Ryan thought that was the greatest!!!!

Here is an updated picture of everyone. They are enjoying being back in Florida. They can't wait to get all their stuff from North Carolina. Riley will be 5 soon I will post with some birthday photos soon.

So much fun!!!The kids just love to fish from the dock!!! I have to say it has been lots of fun. I did decide however that Owen needed a life vest after 30 minutes of following him around so he did not fall in. So I bought him a pirate one it is so cute and he likes it. from now on if we are out on the dock the life vest goes on. We have not been lucky enough to catch a fish but Ryan does like to practice casting a lot(YOKES) someone is definitely going to get hooked and it is not going to be a fish!!!! The night after this we were outside fishing again and we watched a pelican hunting for his dinner. He caught 2 fish that night, but none for us oh well we'll try again another day.