Happy Birthday Dad!

Happy Birthday to my dad! His birthday was actually yesterday so I'm a bit behind :) I have the best dad ever and I'm so thankful for him!

LOVE YOU!!!

Baby Bump Weeks 11-15

I should probably title this post pre baby bump to barely there baby bump pic :) I grouped them all together because there wasn't a ton of progress to show!

I'm 18 weeks now and the belly is actually getting bigger! It's still not huge but it's getting too big for my clothes at this point. I'll post more recent pics soon. Things are moving along...pregnancy is more fun now that everyone at work knows and I'm feeling less and less tired. Here are a few more updates....

- I can feel baby T moving now! It's a hard feeling to describe. It's really faint and only happens when I'm sitting very still.

- I'm going to prenatal yoga here. It's AMAZING and I love it. I received a 10 class card as a gift and it has been the best present :) Thanks Mom!

- The only pregnancy "craving" I've had so far is chocolate milk. This is the first time I've had this much milk (let alone chocolate syrup) since I was in elementary school. Starting this week I can't get enough. Guess there are worse things!

Hope you had a good week! It's almost Friday :)

Florida Part II

Our second Florida stop was in Naples...we made the drive through Alligator Alley from Delray to Naples and it lived up to its name - I spotted 27 alligators in the water on the side of the road before I stopped counting! I'm not kidding. They did have a large protective fence between the water and the road just FYI...

We stayed in a cool hotel in Naples as well although I didn't take any pictures of it. It was called the BellaSera...We had two suites with kitchens so it was nice not to have to eat out for every meal.

We took 2 different boat adventures while we were there so I figured I'd share those photos first....

For our first adventure we rented a boat and took it out in the Gulf down toward Marco Island. It was a bit chilly that day but we made the best of it :) Hey - we were on a boat in December (a foreign concept for someone living in Vermont)!

We waited here for our boat to be ready...

My belly wasn't big enough to show it yet but baby T was in there!

Unfortunately we didn't see any of these...

They were out there though!

The men listen to a brief lesson :)

And we were off! Check out the scenery on the way out...

There were some HUGE boats out there - we were swamped by the wake of one on our way out - soaked but we didn't sink :) Our scenery quickly changed to this...

We stopped for lunch on Marco Island.

On our way home we saw some dolphins! Very close to the boat and so exciting :)

I zoomed in on some of these pics and it made them a bit blurry - sorry about that!

Have you seen enough dolphin pics? I took about 10 times this many and picked just a few for you :)

Before we returned the boat, we stopped on a beach to explore...

Have you noticed Matt's beard yet? He was so proud of it...

I can't believe I'm posting this one - but I will to prove I did some tanning on my pale VT winter skin. You can't zoom I don't think :)

Our next tour was on a completely different type of boat. We took an air boat tour of the Everglades! We had quite an adventure and many of you have already heard all about it. I'm not going to post much here but I did want to show you some of the great animal sightings we had.

I took all these pics and they were all real alligators!

We started out in the open...

Then rode through the Mangrove trees...

They set up floats for the gators so you have a better chance of sighting them :)

That's a marshmallow beside his nose - Meg threw it and hit him with it :)

There was other wildlife too...

OK that's it for now! Happy Sunday everyone!

xo

So Proud!

I'm sorry that this post is long overdue...Words cannot express how proud I am of my sister!!! In December she found out she was accepted into TUCK business school at Dartmouth University! She will start this fall. To say I am excited to have her in the Northeast would be a major understatement. I know her friends in Atlanta are going to miss her BUT I am ecstatic to have her a mere 2 hours (or less) from us! She is so smart and motivated and is so deserving of this opportunity.

CONGRATULATIONS MEG!!!

xo

Florida!

Hope you're having a great weekend! Ours has been nice so far - Matt has been skiing (without me sadly) and I had a fun day doing some baby visiting and snowshoeing with Lindsay! Today I'm finally getting around to posting our Christmas vacation pics...It was below zero here in VT last night and supposed to hover in the single digits all day today so I need a reminder that it's warm somewhere!

Matt and I joined my family in Florida after Christmas for a week - it was wonderful. My brother lives in Delray Beach so we started there visiting him :)

We stayed here - in Downtown Delray.

If you're going to visit - I would highly recommend it!

The colors were so Florida!

There was an amazing porch where we ate breakfast every morning :)

The guys (Matt, John, and John's friend/roommate) make plans....

Since the hotel was downtown - they also had a beach club on the ocean. We spent the majority of our time there :) (Sorry for the ihpone photos - I never brought my camera down to the beach.)

Ah.

Delray is such a cool, funky town. It's just south of Palm Beach on the Atlantic side of Florida. I loved it!

I'm sorry for the lack of people in these photos! We spent most of our time relaxing and checking out John's life there. However, one night John was busy and we had Mexican so I did take a picture of this person to send him.

Anyway - I'll leave you with this one...

There are more people photos from Naples...coming up soon!

xo!