First half of Mom and Dads visit!

Ok, I am finally getting around to doing my blog! Warning.. there are alot of pictures. However, not as many as I would of had, if I hadn't of broken my camera phone in half. I'll get to that later.

The blog is taking a very long time to do, because its not letting me upload the pictures right now. Ive done several, but now its stuck. So I guess I will break it up into two blogs.

Mom and Dad got in late Wed night. We visited for a bit before we headed off to bed.

The next day mom and I hung out around the house and talked and talked and talked!! Dad and Mikey went and played golf with the boys. They all had a great time!

This was the only picture Mikey took of being at the golf course. I also put dad to work helping me with the green beans. I have tomatoes growing like crazy, so we made this appetizer. Tomatoes, basil and mozzarella. Yummy!

On Friday we went to Zachary's school and ate lunch with him. He really enjoyed having all of us there! Then Dad and Mikey went golfing. Mom, the kids and I went to the mall to get Christina's pictures done for her modeling Expo thats coming up in 2 weeks.

Because it seems like one of us have to get hurt during visits or holidays, Zachary kept up the tradition by falling on Saturday and cutting his chin open. This day didn't turn out like we wanted it to, and this was just icing on the cake.

We headed out early Saturday afternoon to go to Kennedy Space Center. However, a few blocks from our house the CHECK ENGINE light came on in the Durango. Since KSC is about 35 min away, and we had alot more driving planned for the rest of the week, we didn't want to get stranded out on some freeway. So we turned around and went back. Mike and I dropped Mom, Dad, Christina and the boys off at a nearby park while we took the Durango to our local shop. It took them about 2 hours to determine the problem. Something with the fuel tank fume sensor. (??) But the mechanics assured us that we could drive on it without any problems. We picked up the family from the park only to discover that Zachary had fallen off the swing and cut his chin. By the time we cleaned him up and debated on stitches, it was too late to go out to KSC,(its an all day experience) so we decided to go to a Jungle Adventure park about 25 min east of us.

Isn't this a neat building? There are also many acres of swamps and animals to see. Here I am holding a baby alligator. Daddy holding a snake. If Gramma Ginny sees this picture she just may faint! Mom held it with no problem at all! Mikey had no problem either. Can you tell by the look on Zacharys face how he felt about the snake?!! Baby alligators are cute, but can still bite a finger off, so they taped his mouth. This was as close as Caleb would get to the alligator. He was the same way with the snake. But Zachary liked holding the alligator. Don't be fooled by this look. He was loving it!

We also learned alligators can jump. They can jump over 6 feet! It was a little scary being so up close to these massive creatures! You can see Caleb is shuddering!

They had over 200 very large alligators but they also had a little zoo as well.

We went on a boat ride thru the swamp land. This is what Florida USED to look like before we came in and razed much of the lands.You can see a few alligators lurking under the water. This is why you DON'T go swimming in any swamp or lake out here! Ok, I am going to end this blog for now since this is all the pictures I can download right now. Sometimes the blog gets an attitude, and right now is one of them!

. I have many pictures of the Space Center that Mikey took. We went to it Monday and Tuesday. However I have none of DisneyWorld. :( My phone broke before I could download all the pictures. I hope when I get a new phone they can retrieve the pictures, but I am afraid they are lost forever.