Merry Christmas from the Florida Kids

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Shark!

We dropped Christina and Elektra off at the airport Saturday morning so they could fly to Phx to spend the Thanksgiving week there. Then Mike, the boys and I drove to Pensacola, FL. Its about a 7 hour drive. In fact, Christina and Elektra had just arrived at Sky Harbor when we were arriving at our Hotel.

The next morning we got up and went to the Naval Aviation Museum. Mikes parents have been and they highly recommended it.  We totally agree. We got there about 10am and left after 4pm.

Mike and I could of stayed longer.

Time to sit and relax in a museum inside of the Museum.

I wish the hotel we stay at often in Palm Beach had this swimming pool.

 There were 3 pools. 2 heated, and a kiddy pool.

Thats the Gulf in the background.

They swam at least twice every day we were there.

This restaurant is called Crabs! We Got Them. It was half a mile down the beach from the hotel.

We walked there every day along the beach.

Every single restaurant should have this.

That is the best idea. The kids can go play while we can have a beautiful relaxing dinner.

And we can take as long as we want. Especially when Mike orders All You Can Eat Crab.

There are 3 baskets with 2 clusters each per one order and he got 5 orders.

Caleb had his own order of crab and ate it all.

The boys brought their rocket. 

They had a blast trying to catch it!

We built a Shark!

The Browns Sand Shark. It was even there the next day.

We came back home on Wed night. Thursday for Thanksgiving we went to Diane and Als house. For some reason, this is the only picture I took while we were there. Guess it was because I was to busy having fun chatting and eating the delicious food!

Mike and I have been doing alot of projects this week.  We repainted half the house.  Then we had to resod some areas in our front yard and lay mulch all around the plants.  I also am in the process of bleaching all the grout in the house.  I say 'in the process' because I can only breathe the bleach in for a few minutes at a time. Plus, I have to do it early in the morning, so the house has a chance to air out really good, for Zachary.

Christina and Ben put up the tree and helped with Christmas decorations.

I let the kids decorate the tree for the most part by themselves. They did a great job!

The bottom half of the tree has approx 80% of the ornaments.

The upper middle half has 20%. The top has none. I can't reach it, and Mike keeps forgetting to move some of the decorations higher.  Oh, and the back of the tree? NO decorations. I over heard Zachary say "You can't see it, so don't waste them on the back".

Christina is making our new cats their stockings, and also one for Ben.

How are you coming on our stockings MOM???