Susan’s Photo Blog

My sister-in-law and I arranged a photo-session swap.  First, here are the pictures I took of her, my brother, and their beautiful girls:

And here is one of the pictures she took for me:

Did I mention that she is an OB-GYN?  :o)  Baby #3 is on his way and should be here by mid-June!

I was going to post this yesterday, but then life happened, so here it is today. :o)

This is the view we woke up to just about every morning - shot while standing on my bedroom balcony.

And a couple more pictures of the beauty that surrounded us all week.

It took two tries, on two separate nights, to get some family pictures down at the ocean.  The first try resulted in chopped limbs and several out of focus pictures.  The second try may have ended in better results if Jubilee hadn’t been so opposed to the idea, as you can see from the second picture.  So, the keeper is the first one, I do believe.

And, of course, here is Nick doing what Nick does:

One of the gorgeous sunsets:

And, another of the gorgeous sunsets:

One last picture I snapped while walking back up from the beach, after sunset:

We were blessed with a family vacation to Florida’s Marathon Key at the end of September 2009.  Nick’s family, as well as my parents all had a wonderful week at Tranquility Bay.  I have so many pictures, but I did my best to pick out just a few.  My “just a few” is still too many for one post, so I’ll be adding more later tonight, or tomorrow.  Today’s post will be mostly just snapshots from our week.

Walking to the pool with both grandpas.

Jubilee playing with my mom.

Alexis getting ready to use her new snorkeling gear.  She did a pretty good job with it and had fun.

Of course, anything Alexis does. . .

. . . Jubilee has to do as well.

There were geckos EVERYWHERE.  Nick, Alexis, and Jubilee went on several quests to catch one, as can be seen here.

They were even successful a few times.  Those little guys move fast!

There were putting greens right outside our condo doors, so we took advantage of that on a few very HOT afternoons.  Here are the girls with my dad.

And, hey look, it’s another rare picture of me!

Florida post number two will have a few artsy, fun shots, and some sunset-at-the-beach portraits, which means another picture or two of me!  Crazy, I know.

I have been in a funk lately and haven’t been taking many pictures of my girls, and the ones I have been taking haven’t made it online anywhere for friends and family to see.  :o(  I am going to start doing better.  I promise.  :o)  Starting today, as a matter of fact!

We went to the Library a little while ago and my camera tagged along.

Miss J in all her cuteness!

Alexis begging me, “Just one more book mom, puh-leeeeeease!”  (yes, I let her pick out one more)

Jubilee playing with one of her favorite library “toys,” the swinging double doors in the kid’s play area.

Alexis reading her books.

And, hey look!  It’s me.  :o)  Well, kind of.  Does a reflection of me count?

I am going to try to get one post a day (or two) up so I can get caught up on the pictures I do have from the last three months, and then I am going to try to continue taking snapshots of my kids and uploading them.   So, stay tuned!  Next post:  Florida vacation from September!  :o)

My adorable niece is three months old!  Here are a few pictures we took to commemorate the occasion.