Parasailing fun

I almost forgot to post my pictures of our parasailing excursion we took while vacationing in Cocoa Beach. We went on our parasailing fun cruise with the great team from Cocoa Beach Parasail. They were an awesome crew, very friendly, knowledgable and we felt totally safe the entire trip. I would highly recommend them to anyone in the area looking for a fun and exciting time parasailing. We will most likely do it again the next time we are in the area. The day we went out it there was a storm brewing so it was a little overcast at times, in fact, when we were getting close to the dock it started raining, we made it in just in the nick of time. The rest of the afternoon it rained and we spent it in the hotel room watching movies. The amazing thing about being so far up in the sky is you can really see the sealife down in the ocean. We saw so many stingrays while we were up it was amazing! We saw dolphins while riding in the boat back from the excursion. Can't wait to do it again!

Vacation Fun!

Just a few pics to share to show you all how much fun we had on our vacation! First picture is odd I know, but there is a funny story behind it. We were eating outside at the diner at the Kennedy Space Center when out of nowhere a seagull swooped down and snatched up Jakob's basket full of fries! I was messing with my camera and just happened to look up to see what the commotion was and snapped this picture of him flying off! Notice he has only one french fry in the basket! It was full when he picked it up but they dumped out on his way up and then a BUNCH of seagulls swooped down and ate the rest of the fries! It was pretty funny really, but Jake had to go get himself some more $5 fries! HA! We also went to Universal, which was really fun. I loved the Jurassic Park ride, the Jaws ride and the Men in Black ride. Jake's favs were The Mummy ride, Simpson ride and the Spiderman ride. We got totally soaked on the white water rafting ride! Our hotel we stayed at in Cocoa Beach was right on the beach and was really nice! Here you see Jake with his boogie board, playing in the waves and then a view of the ocean from our hotel room balcony. Then we were lucky enough to find a nice lady to take our pic together on the beach. The Shuttle Endeavor will hopefully blast off tomorrow morning early and although we won't be there to see it, we were able to get some neat views of it on the launch pad when we visited the Kennedy Space Center. A very majestic site! I haven't edited our parasailing pics yet, but we did parasail and LOVED it. So check back later this weekend and I will try and get a few of those up to share! Enjoy your Friday everyone!

The Great Pumpkin

Well, as promised, here are the pics from our Great Pumpkin scouting expedition at Vala's pumpkin Patch. The weather was gorgeous, the pumpkins were plenty and we had the BEST time. New this year was a GIANT corn maze. We would still be there if it hadn't have been for Mari's expert guiding ability. She led us out in no time flat, we didn't get lost once! Our pumpkin was suppose to read NEBRASKA #1, but unfortunately I cannot cut letters very well, and so to save my son from embarrassment we ended up carving out an eyeball where the letters had once been and just went from there! We had an uneventful flight back and are now at home catching up on laundry, grocery shopping and of course holding little Miss Molly who was so lonely without us. It's good to be home, but we can't wait to go back again next year! Now it's time to get cropping again, I am a day behind on the Octoberfest LOAD contest at Personalscrapper so tomorrow I will try and catch up. I will post my creations once I finish them! Have a Good Monday!

Hello from the Cornhusker State

We arrived safe and sound in Nebraska. We are having a great time. Today we got to do a bit of shopping, I was able to go to my favorite store - Archivers. I picked up a few things I "needed" and also got some chipboard letters for my friend Angie that she has been searching high and low for :o) You're welcome girlfriend! Then we headed over to the Pizza Machine for some good food and fun games. Jakob had fun winning a few jackpots as well as driving a Go Kart. Tonight we roasted weiners and marshmallows over a fire pit ...mmm. Junior and Sprint are sure glad we are here to play fetch with them , here is a picture of them waiting for scraps of food from our weiner roast! Jake also got to drive a ATV for the first time and he and Uncle Matt had a great time driving around their yard this morning and again this afternoon. We are heading over to Vala's Pumpkin patch tomorrow to find the Great Pumpkin. I will post some more tomorrow letting you know if we found it or not. If you want to see what Vala's is like, check it out here: http://www.valaspumpkinpatch.com/ its loads of fun. The weather was gorgeous here today and we are hoping for more of the same tomorrow. Have a great weekend everyone and GO BIG RED!