Captiva Island, FL

After the wedding we headed west across the Everglades to Captiva Island. A few friends told us about the South Seas Resort so we thought we would check it out since it was only a few hours drive.

 The resort faces west so you get amazing sunsets every night. The first night Chris and Julian fell asleep and the boys wouldn't come out with me, so I watched solo.

                    There were two tube slides at one of the pool areas that the kids LOVED.

 The resort has a cute discovery finder so you could walk the entire island. We did half of it one night, and then decided to finish when it was about 450 degrees outside.

 We had a rough storm one night but the sunset managed to peek out as we walked out and watched the dolphins. Andrew stayed out with me to do a little late-night swimming.

We had a great time, even though it was very steamy! Back to Baltimore!!

Nick and Chelsea's wedding

We woke up nice and early at 4am to fly down to Miami for my cousin Nick's wedding at 2pm. The kids did great flying down and lasted until about 130...

                                             This was the scene on the way to the ceremony....

 For real...it was this hot...and must have felt like 135...

They had a caricature artist...looks like we have three pretty little girls....

                                                                  Selfies with Grandma

        Our boys TORE up the dance floor...and swept it

Off to Captiva Island!

Happy Birthday America!!

We had ANOTHER dreary 4TH of JULY this year! We made it to the pool for the festivities before the rain started coming down hard, but it was COOOOLd! 

 The little kids do a money dive in the baby pool. Julian racked up.

 Then they split age groups for the money dive in the shallow and deeper ends.

 But then, the fun really starts with the beer dive  for the men and women.

 We invited a bunch of people back here for some dinner and our friend Josh brought some fireworks

                                                   A fun, relaxing, food-filled day!

NY State of Mind

During Chris's time off we knew we needed to find an apartment in NYC for his commuting. We went up and checked out 10 apartments in about 8 hours...the craziness of NYC! 

 We went to The Stand Comedy club and sat front and center. We were heckled quite a bit, but it was hilarious!

We found a new home away from home, and hopefully he will be in by August 1st!