Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Momma's Birthday
Monday, November 23, 2009
Our Little Girl turned 15!
Later that day her boyfriend and my parents came over dinner and we had her favorite meal lasagna, salad and garlic bread.
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Forever Florida
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Homecoming Dance
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
First Day of High School
Where did the time go. My youngest daughter started high school on Monday. Her best friend/boyfriend gets up extra early and rides his bike to our house and waits for her to get ready. Unfortunately we do not have bus transportation to the school because we live 1.8 miles away and you must live 2 miles to have bus transportation. Ridiculous considering our children would have to cross a major 4 lane highway to get to the school. And what about if it rains? Anyway, I have been taking them and it stinks because on the days I have to work it puts me behind and on my days off I still have to get up early to take them to school :-( Oh well, on the bright side since I am forced to wake up early on my days off I will hopefully get more accomplished!
Gini
Friday, August 21, 2009
De Leon Springs and the Old Sugar Mill
This is the entrance: (click on picture to enlarge)
This is a wheel located in the restaurant that was once used in a sugar mill.
The kids had pancakes that they brought out in pitchers. They were $4.50 a piece for all you can eat and for $1.75 you can purchase add ins. The kids had chocolate chips and blueberries.
My mom and I had eggs that we scrambled ourselves, bacon that we did not cook, and toast that we buttered and toasted on the griddle. The only negative to this fun was that there is no air conditioning in the rustic restaurant and the griddles produce alot of heat and in turn it made for a sweaty meal. But it was worth it.
To get into the coollllddd water you have to just dive in. Rachel and I had no problem but her boyfriend was pretty wimpy about it. My mom... she didn't even wear her swimsuit.
This was a beautiful place and we had a very good time. When my sister and her family come in October we will make another visit.
Gini
Saturday, June 27, 2009
My Garage Sale Finds
The necklace came with earrings and it was $3. I think it might be Premier jewelry brand but I am not sure. For $1 we bought 3 sets of crab claw crackers and gave one to my mom. Vintage tupperware one is a container and the other is a jello mold with interchangable shapes to make a decoration on the top of the jello those were $1 for both, a large plate or picture stand for $1, a set of three candle holders for $2, and....
This milk glass rooster for $1! I have wanted one of these for a long time and cannot believe I found one at a yard sale for $1.
We also bought a wrought iron rocking chair to put out on our patio around our fire pit. That was $2. After garage saling we went to the Farmers market to buy vegetables. Then we had lunch at P.R.'s a mexican restaurant.
Gotta go. I am cooking eggplant parmesan with the fresh eggplant we had today then watching Media Goes to Jail.
Gini
Sunday, June 14, 2009
New bathroom done!
I am not quite finished here....
I love our new bathroom. The master bath is next.
Friday, June 12, 2009
Our new temporary addition..
Monday, May 25, 2009
St. Pete Beach and Tarpon Springs
On Saturday we went to the Greek village of Tarpon Springs. This village was established in 1890 and the Greeks made a fortune harvesting and selling sponges. The next two pictures are of sponges that were brought in while we were there. The pictures are backwards.
There are alot of shops there that sell sponges and homemade soaps. There are Greek restaurants and bakeries.
We ate outside at this restaurant. There was a sponge boat right next to us with the Greek boat owner on board and about 4 old greek men hanging out with him.
Friday, May 8, 2009
This is changing from one color to the next:
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Tosohatchee Wildlife Management Area and Lone Cabbage Fish Camp
These people were there with a horse and buggy. Looks like fun!
Mitchell brought along his fishing poles and we stopped a couple of times so he could throw his line in.
This Bridge was the perfect spot for a photo op.
This was an old wooden bridge we had to cross.
We saw this big guy in the creek on the side of the road. Scary!!