Amy Clouds Baby Shower
Sunday afternoon

The cute cake

Logan is excited about meeting his first cousin on the Redmond side....don'tcha think?

Jennifer (standing on left) planned some games. We had to guess animal's baby names...did you know that a shrimp baby is a shrimplet?  We also each had to cut a length of string that we thought would measure Amy's waist. Wow, it's easy to misjudge!
The last thing we just got to watch....Nancy(Amy's Mom) had to feed Amy some baby food and she had to guess what flavor it was!

This one tasted bad!! I like both their expression! LOL!!

On to the fun part...opening the gifts...

Scott's Mom made a cute Pooh quilt.

New Grandma coming up!! (Beth on right).  The lady on the left is Beth's husbands Mom.

In the evening we were enlightened by watching Napoleon Dynamite with some friends!   Quite the movie...that's all I'll say about that!

Friday evening we were invited to Merrill & Marie Detweiler's house for pizza. They also invited Chaplain Smith and his family.

 We had alot of fun with the zipline Merrill has up in his back yard! 
 Here comes Tamara....

And Danny.....

Dave taking Dan to the top...

Hope Divine loved the trampoline that was just her size!

Some of Marie's pretty flowers.

Merrill used to work in a pizza shop...maybe even Pizza Hut, not sure, but anyway, he makes VERY GOOD pizza!! Interesting to watch him "throw" it!

Time to eat!!

Jill, Leah, Rachel, and Dan

Merrill, Marie and David

Dan  I

Merrill grows azaleas and he offered to send some home with us....free of charge since they are going to the ministry house.

He dug up a few....

..and Danny helped load them in the van.

So, Saturday morning we spent an hour planting 10 azaleas. Dan dug the holes and put the azaleas in them...

Danny put the dirt back in the hole around the new azalea....

I watered them....

Tamara helped wherever needed. She stacked up the pots to give back to Merrill and also helped me fill the watering can with Miracle Gro and water.

Almost done...

After that was all done, we went to the Ocheesee Park with church friends. This is a monthly event. Whoever it suits can come and play soccer and have lunch together.

Molly with her baby brother Nehemiah.

A frisbee got thrown on the pavilion roof, and Jake was the brave one to be sent up after it!

A little help from Grandpa....thank God for big men!

Well, guess what? I FORGOT to take my camera yesterday!!  Even after I said I was going to pack it!  I was so bummed, so I bummed pics off of Jill! LOL!

Leah and Rachel....fight nice!

From here.......

to here....  aahh! That white sand...

Loading 'em up with sunscreen...

The kids had so much fun....Danny loved pulling the girls around on their "raft chairs" and they enjoyed letting him...
This was all of them...Tamara, Rachel, Hannah Grace, Leah (mostly hidden) Hope, and Danny

Some guy showed up and wanted his picture taken with Jill!
 Okay, so she knew him....quite well, in fact!  It was her husband. He was on his way to a prison down near the water and happened to find us..

Thanks Jill for the pics!! I'll be ready to go again in a few weeks!!

 My friend Jill and I are taking our kids to the beach today!! It's supposed to get up to 80*!!    Fun coming up....

 Off to pack my camera!

Friday our homeschool group took a trip to the Florida Capitol....
 This is a view of it from the where we entered...

Outside they have dolphin statues in a pool that spills over into a lower pool.

And look at the beautiful petunias...makes me want to try planting some again...

They looked so vibrant!!

The whole group of kids before we entered the Capitol building for the tour.

All 22 stories...

We took an elevator up to the 22nd floor and got to enjoy the view! If you look in the lower center, you will see the entrance to the underground parking garage we parked in. The elevators for each level bring you up to the dome shaped building towards the left. It's weird to think we were parked in under all that!

The group on the top floor..

FSU Stadium..

See the fire in the distance. Our guide said it was a wild fire!

This is in front of the old Capitol building which is directly beside the new one.

The House of Representatives room...

Top of the old Capitol, which is now turned into a museum.

Another group picture in front of the old Capitol....

Rachel hitting it off with our Governor, Charlie Crist! LOL!

Daniel & Tamara back a few years....

This picture was taken out the front door of the old Capitol....same place as the shot down from the 22nd floor...(6 pictures up)

I loved the canvas awnings over all the windows on the old Capitol....

A parting view.....

I had got a ride out to Tallahassee with Kay P. and then Dan met us in Tallahassee when our field trip was over. From there we headed up to my sister and brother-in-law in GA. We had hamburgers and hotdogs grilled over the fire and then sat around chatting and eating roasted marshmallows till it got too windy and cool!

Saturday we just hung out at the house, took a walk, checked out their garden, took Tyler to play football, and Nicole to help her friend clean, had pizza for supper and talked!
 Tamara letting the kitten play with her "strubbly" hair.

Cody & Daniel trying on one of Dwayne's birthday gifts!  

 What a fun, relaxing, encouraging weekend....
  Tonight Dan works late, Tamara has Bright Lights and Danny is going to stay with a friend till Dan comes home. We are dropping the van off at the Dodge dealership to have some work done on it...hope they get it all taken care of! I'll be without a car till Wed. sometime! So that means I can get lots of work done, right??