Fun in Florida

Betsy really enjoyed our trip to Florida. She was spoiled like crazy by Gee Gee and Hippie. See the photographic evidence.

Lobster feast

The first night we were in Florida my parents hosted a Lobster dinner at their house, for my Nana and Floyd's dinner club. They cooked about fifty lobsters though not all fifty were consumed that night. Some people like my parents, ordered extra for later in the week. My mom made lobster rolls, lobster fritters, lobster sauce on toast... not to mention beef tenderloin... needless to say we ate very well the whole week.

Fishing with Hippie

Ben's favorite part of vacation was the several times he and my dad took off and went fishing. They were very successful, and caught ten or twelve fish between the two of them.

First thing you need to know is that we've re-Christened my dad from Grandbuddy to Hippie. I've been calling him the hippie for a while, as he does stuff like jog on the beach, kayak down the canal and bike through the neighborhood, but we've decided Hippie is a cute nickname for Betsy and Baby B #2 to call him too.

We discovered is that Bets is in no way scared of the fish, nor does she think of them as 'yucky'. She wanted to dive right into the cooler and pick up the fishies and would have given them kisses had we let her (we didn't).

Anyways, enjoy the pictures of the sweet girl, her daddy, hippie and their fishies.

Fun with Addy and Jake

On our way back to Texas from visiting my family in Florida we met Ben's cousin Andy and his wife Lisa at Cracker Barrel for dinner. It was a great break to get out of the car after 10 hours and I'm amazed at how grown up Addy and Jake are. Lisa and I are both picture-happy people so we got the kiddos together in some baby sized rocking chairs for pictures. These are the best ones!

Daddy/Daughter pictures

Betsy is a Daddy's girl. We see this quite often. She also loves to bring a book to Ben and read it TO him. As Ben loves being read to this is fun for him. It'll be even more fun when we understand what she's reading.


One of their favorite activities is riding the pony around the house. Ben makes excellent 'hoh-see' noises and Betsy has picked up the whinny of a horse as well.





While snuggling Betsy to sleep is mostly my job, on occasion I share the responsibility with Ben.


P.S. Forgive Ben's lack of shirt. It's Texas. And 90+ degrees!