Feb/March Catch-up!

Okay, so my MANY vacation blogs  made me quit blogging for a bit -- but I'm back and am going to get caught up! After returning for vacay - we resumed regular duties -- quite daunting when you are still on Island time:) but we managed!  We met Pop, CiCi, Auntie M and Adam at Outback one Friday night - and brought a friend . . . this is how the boys looked the entire time at dinner - glued to electronics! (hey, it kept them busy and quiet!)

 Evan and I took a quick mid-week trip to Lower Arkansas to do some Foster's business and to pick up Blu and spend the night at the "Arkadelphia House".  We spent one day in Little Rock at the zoo.

 Evan LOVED the penguin exibit!

 Evan's buddy had been in Mexico for 2 weeks - so Evan was glad to have him back! They are trying out my new dining room table with Legos!

 Evan LOVES to eat lunch at Subway - so after some park playing one day while the boys were in school we hit the sub shop!  This boy can put away an entire 6 inch sandwich, bag of chips and a chocolate chip cookie - no lie!

 We are keeping Blu while Pop and CiCi are in Costa Rica -- Him and coco are becoming the best of buds!

Do you notice anything different about Jayden?  Well, he got a hair cut!  Like a MAJOR hair cut!  He decided he wanted to try his hair shorter (he hasn't had his hair this short since he was little!)  Guess who his hair stylist is . . . ME - I was a little nervous about this one, because it was such a change - but I think I did pretty good!  He likes it - he can switch up his look - spikey to side swept!

One day I searched the entire house, twice! . . . yelling, "Evan" - no Evan . . . finally went out on the deck and guess who was IN the dog house with BOTH CoCo and Blu!  Silly Kid - he then smelt like a dog all day!
There's my random catch up post! DONE!

One-- Zero! The Big Double Digit Birthday!

Jayden wanted to celebrate his double digit birthday with a skating party -- and this 80's raised Momma was just fine with that!

However, skating is not near as easy as I remembered!

Kerry rocked!  He helped the struggling skaters!

check out Kyler getting his skate on!

 . .  And Evan!

The mover and shaker, the birthday boy himself!

10 Years old! 10 Years old!  Just can't believe it!

Skating, Pizza and Cookie Cake!

Somebody got his Mom's limbo skills :)!  How low can you go?

Happy Birthday to my first baby boy!  We are super proud of the 10 year old he has become - can't wait to see what the next 10 years bring!

Back to the Mainland . . And Reality

Bye Bye Island life . .  you will be missed!  Notice that the leaving Key Largo sign says, "back to reality" . . . so true! 

 We headed back to the mainland after a day of boating . . . exhausting!  Just look at Kyler - he fell asleep with a hunk of hamburger in his mouth - slept for an hour- then continued chewing and got another bite! Hilarious!  (shhh he didn't want me to post this!)

It wouldn't be a Pitts vacation without a little excitement!  Our flight left Orlando at 7:30am - I set my alarm for 5:15 am - guess who woke up at 6:20!!! We had to get 5 people dressed, car loaded, from hotel to airport, return a rental car -- PACK all the crap in the car we had been throwing in the back all week, check-in and check bags, get 5 of us through security and on an airplane in an HOUR!  My only excuse is that my body was still on island time (and I might use that excuse for the next month or so!)  We made it!  However, we were quite a motley looking crew and I later realized my dress was on backwards! Back to REALITY!

The Islands BY SEA!

Our last day of Island living was spent seeing the Islands SEASIDE!  We rented a boat for the day and this might be my favorite thing!

Kerry makes a great Captain - ocean or lake! 

Jayden turns into Chicken of the Sea when he gets on a boat!  He warmed up to it, but I don't think it was his favorite part of the vacay.

Here is Evan feeling a little sea sick!  Right off the bat, we headed out to do some fishing and it was pretty rough out there!

Kyler gave it a try - but we decided to head to the sandbar and come back to fishing when the waters were calmer.

How beautiful is this sand bar!!  I LOVED this!  I LOVE how you can see the anchor!  You could just walk around and pick up seashells!  This is not by a shore - it's just out in the middle -- really cool!

We stayed at the sandbar for a while and had a boat picnic for lunch.

Then it was back to fishing!  We had better luck this time!

It was like fishing in a goldfish bowl!  Look at all these colorful fish going after our chum!

We also did some exploring down the channels between islands and checked out the houses.  We saw sting rays and sea turtles too!  It was the perfect last day of vacay -- IF there has to be a last day!