Fort Myers, FL - Our mini vacation/Adam and Casie's wedding! *Part 2*

We went to the Seashell Factory! It was really neat they had a bunch of different things set up! They had...

a safari area...

Joshua was thrilled to see all the animals, but still a little nervous. Probably because they weren't moving, just looking at him :)

Joshua and Uncle Adam checking out the train!

All anyone needs to have to be a friend of Joshua's are these :)

Casie, I wanted to show you this before you got married... but now you already know this is what he looks like when he wakes up ;)

This car was on display...but it had notes all over it telling us that it was very monitored...so don't even breath on it! HAHA!

Joshua jumped right up on this motorcycle! He is loving motorcycles right now! It was just his size! "Mommy see motorbike, please!"

Even seen 'Dr. Dolittle'? Its a "push-me pull-me"!!

"Roars!"

Kodiak! Just a little guy :)

I don't think Matthew was really getting into all the big stuffed animals like us.

Mum Marks, I was thinking of your living room when I took these next few pictures ;)

...a Christmas section...

I thought I got pictures of it, but for some reason they had a bunch of Christmas trees setup upside down and decorated...I thought maybe they just aren't sure how they are setup in Florida since its not really a Christmasy place ;) lol!

I really liked this tree (Joshua did too), a John Deer tree!

This is what I envisioned for Christmas trees in Florida...lol!

Matthew do really well through all the heat! He was a bit more excited about all the lights in the Christmas section than all the stuffed animals ;)

at first Joshua didn't want to sit in the train but when we walked past it again he really wanted to!

Yep, I was right...they are very confused about Christmas here in Florida!! A zebra pulling Santa's sleigh?!?!?! Hahaha!

Gator!! That baby was only $400!

The Seashells....Matthew really liked these :) Me too!!!!!

Look at them all! They are so pretty!

Purple coral!

I forget what this is called but it was really neat. It was like a big bowl but very pretty on the inside! It looked very brittle so I didn`t want to touch it ;) ...you break it you buy it!..yeah not a good thing when I am traveling on an airplane!

HUGE seashells

to finish off our visit to the Seashell factory...a race car!!

Fort Myers, FL - Our mini vacation/Adam and Casie's wedding! *Part 1*

The first full day we were in Florida we enjoyed sleeping in for the first time in a LONG time and we actually slept a lot longer that we were thinking. The prophets chamber we started out in had no windows, so it stayed dark in the morning...well, it was dark all the time, but it made it especially hard to wake up each morning because it was still pitch black in the room.

My suit case with my clothes and the boys clothes did not arrive in Fort Myers when we did, and neither did the boys car seats. Yeah, not to fun! So, we had to wait in a long line, along with the others who were missing luggage, to see what was the timeline for out belongings. We were able to borrow car seats from the airport and we just had to wait for our luggage to come on the next flight. We were originally told that we probably wouldn't see it until Saturday morning...we arrived on Thursday night. Friday we went to Wal-mart to buy the boys and I some clothes to wear so we could be clean after spending hours on the plane the day before! It turned out that they were able to get our luggage on a small plane that arrived Friday afternoon! It was such a blessing to have our luggage again :)

Friday night, we went to Fort Myers beach with Uncle Adam, to watch the sunset over the Gulf of Mexico! It was beautiful!!!!

WHITE sandy beach! :) the sand was so smooth and warm! I loved it!


Nathan and I enjoying the beautiful sunset! We even saw some dolphins swimming by :)

Joshua was actually liking all the pictures that were being taken...normally he runs off when I try to take his picture. Here he wanted to be in the picture when he wasn't even supposed to be in it ;)

:) mmm! BEAUTIFUL!

It was soooo hot in Florida...Matthew's face was rosy red all the time.

He loves to hold blankets...I think I have another blankey boy ;)

A random pirate ship that sailed by...it made for really nice pictures though!

Our Family :)

I Love to take pictures....especially of God's beautiful handiwork!

How much do you think I could get for this shot? ;)

Priceless!

Daddy and his little look alike!

Even though he didn't act like it all the time...Joshua LOVED being with Uncle Adam! He asks to see you everyday!! We had a really nice time with Adam since we were able to get to Florida early!

I took soooooooo many pictures....can you see why!?!!!

This was the view along the beach.

I love this shot!

collecting seashells! We added them to our collection in our bathroom...thanks for the idea Casie!

Enjoying the somewhat cooler weather...by the water and past 8pm was bearable;)

Guys!

Matthew at the beach

We didn't swim in the water...we didn't feel like swimming with the possibility of getting stung by a stingray or meeting a shark (I'm sure we would have been fine..but). Mr. Crawford told us some stories of people who were stung and we decided that we didn't like the sound of that! We did step in the water though!

Watching the sunset!

Pom pom trees (as Joshua calls them) ;)

This picture reminds me of a very excited day to come as Christians...when we meet our Lord in the clouds!!

Sunset over the Gulf!

We had a wonderful mini family vacation!

more pictures to come...we have VBS this week, so it may not be until next week :)