Susan’s Photo Blog

The girls and I had the pleasure of going to Florida with Nick’s mom, to visit Nick’s grandma.  We had a lovely time and have lots of pictures!  We went to the zoo, played at Grandma Jan’s house, and saw the sunset over the ocean.  It was lovely!

First, the Zoo.  I have so many pictures, so I’m really just picking a few.  We saw lions, and tigers, and hilarious monkeys.  Here are some pretty birds:

And here is Jubilee with Grandma Patty.

And a gorgeous gardenia bush!  This thing was HUGE.  I took this picture for my mom because she loves gardenias.

And the feeding of the alligators.  It was really fun to see.  I was very thankful for my 50-250 mm lens at this point, even though it isn’t the best lens in the world, to say the least.  :o)

Next up:  Hanging out at Grandma Jan’s.  Alexis had a grand time in the swimming pool every day.

Jubilee, on the other hand, just wanted to climb in and out and around everything.  It was driving me a little crazy.  But she had so much fun.

Grandma Jan with the girls.

And, here are some flowers I found just walking around the backyard.  So pretty!

And, one of my favorite parts of the trip!  Playing at the beach, and seeing the sun set over the ocean.

We went over to spend the day with Nick’s mom on Memorial Day.  Nick’s brother, Chris, and his wife, Carly, joined us.  We played games and ate and had a nice time.  Here are just a couple.  I’ll try to update with a few more later:

Alexis practicing riding her bike with the training wheels higher.  She did pretty good at balancing.  The goal is to get rid of the training wheels this summer.

(I know she’s not in focus. . . shhhhh. . . don’t tell anyone)

I *almost* got eye contact from Jubilee on this one.  :o)

And we did a little lawn bowling:

And Chris and Carly brought their new Ladder Ball Game:

Alexis was not the only one who used her new bike helmet.  ;o)

I tried to get some pictures of the girls on Mother’s day.  It didn’t work out too well.  Jubilee was definitely not interested.

So, I gave up on that and decided to get some pictures of Alexis by herself since she always wants me to take her picture:

That lasted for about five minutes.  Then she decided she was done and wanted to go play with Jubilee and Nick.

I did manage to get a couple of pictures of Jubilee, although none of her looking at me.  Oh well. She’s cute anyway.

One last one of Alexis.  She picked the flowers herself.

Welcome to our new family blog.  I’m going to be doing my best to update often.  Most updates will be in the form of pictures.  :o)  So, to get us started, here are a few from yesterday.  I got a new lens.  Yay!

Sweet Sleeping Jubilee: