Saturday, June 28, 2008

Kylie Jo & Anniston



Kylie Jo and Anniston arrived here in Florida Thursday .
Kylie Jo asked papa for pink, green, & yellow balloons
to be at the airport when we picked her up.
Of course we had all colors there for her
when she got off the plane.
This is papa's first time seeing baby Anniston.
We are all so excited they are here visiting us for two weeks!




Thursday, June 12, 2008

D ~ Day is here!


Dooms Day is finally here. These pictures were
taken just minutes before they left to for
Tampa airport around noon today.
Notice the Florida Gator attire! Ryan and Brandon
will be here with us till July 9th and then they fly
out with their other grandparents.
So for a month we get to have them here with us.
Kristen here they come!


Wednesday, June 11, 2008

The Big Move!

This picture was taken on Friday June 6th
at Dr. Robb's Formal Graduation Dinner at
University of Florida.
Tomorrow is the big move and they will be off to Utah.
Kristen is just so excited for them to be coming out there.
She's keeping Robyn, Kaiya and Hunter for few days while
Amanda and Robb look for a place to live.
We are going over to Bob and Carol's for a farewell
breakfast tomorrow morning.
This is so so sad and we will miss them terribly.

" Beauty School "



Robyn and Kaiya wanted aunt Marie
to cut their hair before they move. Kaiya had to
get her hair cut later because Marie got to busy at school .
They now both have shoulder length hair
and it looks really cute.

Ryan's 5th Grade Graduation


I can not believe my oldest grandchild
is old enough to graduate from elementary school.
Congratulations Ryan!

"Papa's Peanut"

Papa has a special name for Kaiya. He calls her Papa's little peanut .
Kaiya doesn't really like to be called this she always says
I am NOT A PEANUT I AM KAIYA !
One day as they were traveling down from Gainesville
to Inverness Ryan saw this peanut factory and said
said to Kaiya look that is where you were born Kaiya.
Of course she didn't like that either! But when Papa
went up to help move them he was able to convince
Kaiya to take a picture with him in front of the sign.
She must really love her papa to do this!
Oh and the funniest thing she will only let him call her that
if he promises to take her to the Dollar Tree!

Monday, June 9, 2008

" A Girl after my own Heart"
















Jayde is slurping up an Icee . She is truly a girl
after my own heart! Icee's are my favorite
thing in the world especially in the summertime.

Sunday, June 8, 2008

"Luau Party"








Iam posting some pics of what it looked like outside for Lauren's party. Notice the blue table that was Cliff's Tiki Bar. He set up a blender and made all kinds of fruit smoothies . We grilled up some yummy grouper that Mikey caught a few days prior . We also had some marinated chicken. We had two Jello cakes and a huge variety of fruit bowls & sweet and sour meatballs. Just tons of food! While Nicole and I were in the kitchen we looked out of the window and saw this huge flame it looked like the house was on fire but actually it was the grill. The drip pan had gotten so greasy that it caught on fire! So that was a bit of excitement for the evening. Things settled down a bit and people were eating and enjoying the evening when we had another event take place. Cliff had been going in and out of the house delivering his smoothie treats and it seems he picked up a hitchhiker he had a huge coach roach on his back. I ran over to try to swat at it only to find out it was a flying roach. It flew into the living room where all the guests were and then the screaming came (mostly women) some even ran for their lives! It landed up on our 12 ft ceiling . Nicole got a broom and tried to kill it only to have it fly a second time into the crowd this time it landed on my mother's chest where she started screaming and it nearly ended up in her mouth! Everyone was laughing or scared to death it was going to get them nexted. It finally landed on the floor where we could step on it. With the rain , the fire and the flying roach we all had quite a evening. I know Lauren will remember her graduation party forever! Lauren thanks everyone for coming and supporting her and a special thanks for all the nice gifts $.

Saturday, June 7, 2008

Congrats to the Graduate!


Lauren
graduated this past
Thursday night on
June 5th.
It was quite an evening
when we left
it was hot
and sunny so
needless to say we didn't pack an umbrella. Graduation
at Citrus High
is held out
on the
football field
and family
and friends
pack into the
stadium bleachers.
Parents sit
out on the
field where they
have chairs reserved.
Right before they were about to
call the graduating class up a huge rain cloud
formed only over the field and began to rain.
First it was just a drizzle then it began
to rain harder people were scrambling to find some
cover. The funny thing was they never stopped
the program and kept calling the students names. Really the
kids caps kept most of the rain off them.
The rain stopped right before Lauren went up to get her
diploma. It made the night very memorable!
Lauren had lots of her family and friends
attend her gradutation.
Lauren's grandparents came all the way from North Carolina
and set through the rain too. Thanks Nana and Papa!
Afterwards we headed back to the house for a
Graduation ~ Luau party.