On My Summer Vacation....

...I obviously didn't blog.  It's not that I didn't want to--it was just a bit inconvenient.  We decided to drop the internet at our house and just have it on our phones.  I wouldn't recommend that. Mobile phones are just not conducive to blogging.  We are working on a way to get wired again at our house, though.  I missed blogging!

Anyway, I thought I'd share a few highlights from the summer of '11. Enjoy!

June started off with a wonderful two-week vacation in Florida where we enjoyed the beach...

                                            

                                                              admired the palm trees.....

                                  Stayed in several awesome hotels (Thanks to Hotels.com!)....

                                Took a gator-hunting ride on a fanboat through the Everglades....

    

                                                    (no gators seen on the boat, but.....

                     
                                         we did see this baby gator in the museum afterwards!)...

                               ...took a ride on the Jungle Queen riverboat in Fort Lauderdale...

                                            ..and saw LOTS of millionaires homes! WOW.....

                          ...played in the Florida Science center.. (that's me creating a cartoon!)

                      Cole got to ride in a space flight simulator...(I couldn't because of Tiny T!)....

                                         ...I got to pet a manatee at the Florida Marine Center...

 ....again, I need to say how wonderful the beach was.....

 

...and Baby T took his first plane round-trip plane ride!

Speaking of Baby T, this summer the little one got bigger...(below, we're at 29 weeks)...

and bigger.....(33 weeks)...

....and bigger! (38 weeks!)...

We also took the haunted "ghost tour" in Hannibal with my aunts who visited from D.C...

...and saw some awesome fireworks!

Sweet Pea's nursery is coming right along. In early July, I painted a tree on his wall that I thought would look good with his bedding.  It turned out pretty well, if I do say so myself. I still have some work left to do, but it's pretty much ready for a baby now.  Here are just a couple of sneak peeks.

Overall, we had a terrific (but F-A-S-T) summer.  It's so hard to believe that Little Tippett could be here any day now.  Now, we play the waiting game! I go back to school tomorrow, and we'll see how long I make it! It's all up to Sweet Pea now! :)