A big day!

September 6th, 2009
What a big day! I woke up to a naked Dani! When I first went in to see her she handed me her diaper, then she laid back down. I just couldn't resist the naked butt picture! (I'm sure she'll hate me for it someday)




I love this little sleepy face!





Then we went to Grandma Zonnie's and played in the pool...A LOT.




She had so much fun!!






I think she wants to be a ballerina because she kept using the hand rail to stand on her toes.





Always a princess.

Sorry the pictures in the next collage are so small but they are all from the same sequence of events. Dani would stand outside the pool and John would throw water at her, she loved it! Please click on the collage to get a better view of the individual pictures.

Most of you know that my kid is a goof ball so these next pictures should come as no surprise. She was doing this crazy little "airplane" run where she would put her arms out, tilt, and zoom around, then it kinda turned into dancing.

Here are some of my favorites of Dani and her Daddy (I love you both!)

That was a super fun day!!!

Splash park!

September 4, 2009

There's a splash park in Tavares that we finally visited. It's only $2 per person and you can come back any time during that day. And of course Danica loved it! I wasn't planning on getting wet so I wore regular clothes, but Dani had different ideas. It was an overcast day but still nice enough to play and have fun.

She especially liked the crocodiles that shoot water out their noses.

At one point she scraped her toe. First I had to kiss it then take a picture. (Notice how wrinkled her foot is!)

I think there was supposed to be another picture or collage here but I'm not sure. If I find it later I'll just throw it on a random post. Lots of soggy fun!

Mommy made a dress!

August 29, 2009

I saw this material and fell in love with it so I decided to try my hand at making a dress for Danica. I did the whole thing in one morning and she wore it that afternoon.

I know it's super simple but I'm very proud of this little dress! And Dani seems to like it too :)

Dani's big geocaching day

August 22nd, 2009

Some of you know that I love geocaching, some of you are probably wondering what that is. For those who don't know, geocaching is a global scavenger hunt "where you are the search engine". You go to the web page www.geocaching.com and look up the area you want to hunt in, from there you get the coordinates, enter them in your handheld GPS and start looking! Our family's team name is AScarlettRose, A for John's middle name, Scarlett for mine, and Rose for Dani's. There are geocaches everywhere from in the middle of town to the middle of no where and they come in all sizes. We've found 50 cal ammo canisters and "micros" the size of a pencil eraser. Some have goodies inside (if you take something, leave something) and some only have a log for you to sign showing that you found it. For our family it's usually a team effort, I'm good at getting us to exactly where it should be and John is good at actually finding it.

So in August we took a trip through the woods to see what we could find, and we did pretty good!


For the next group you may need to click and enlarge. The top left is peeking out between the palm fronds. Top right is a camo ammo can, dead center. Bottom left is in the crook at the bottom of the tree (35mm film canister). And the bottom right is John fishing it out of the end of the log.


There were a lot of these pretty little purple flowers in bloom all over the place.


It ended up being a rainy nasty day but we still made it fun. These are some of the trails we took, several times John had to get out and remove trees or limbs from the road. Once he had to raise a tree a few inches so I could drive the jeep under it. The top right picture is an area we drove through that had me very nervous, I don't think we were supposed to be driving through there!


We stopped and had a picnic lunch in the back of the jeep and as expected Dani fell asleep in her car seat before it was all said and done.

I also have a page for my geocaching adventures it is www.geogoodness.blogspot.com but be warned...I'm even worse about updating there than I am here!!

Visiting with Tristin

August 15, 2009



Our little family went to play with Aunt Kiley and Tristin!





And we got a demonstration of how to play Superman...first you bounce on the bed then you have somebody bigger than you throw you onto a pile of pillows. After that you laugh a lot and beg them to do it again.





After a while you start a pillow fight





And here's my favorite picture of Tristin from that night. He's such a cutie!

Playing at Raymond's shop

August 8, 2009

Daddy went to work on his big truck AKA "Babe".



Dani loves this truck so when I told her we could go visit Daddy AND see the truck there was no stopping her! But once we got there and she saw that she could sit on the forklift she decided that was fun too.


And a few random favorite pics...

Goodbye Papaw Mike - We love you!

On August 7th we put Papaw Mike's ashes in the Veteran's Cemetery. First we had to get the princess dressed and ready.

The grounds are beautiful. I'd like to spend a day there just wandering around with my camera. Most of the pictures in this collage were taken from the window of the car.

Parker and Tim said their last goodbyes then it was Dani and Daddy's turn. I love that in the bottom right picture she's blowing him a kiss.

Times like this make you appreciate the family you still have.

Talk about kissing cousins!!!

There was plenty of random Danica cuteness to keep us all from getting too depressed.

And I had an opportunity to get a couple good pics of Grandma with her grandkids and great-grandkids.

I would say it was a nice day but as expected it was very sad. So I'll close this post by saying... we miss you Papaw Mike and we love you. You will always be with us in our hearts.

Bed Head

This is what Dani's hair looks like most mornings, some days it's crazier, it's rarely tamed down. I just thought she was sooo cute with the crazy curls and the new outfit I couldn't resist snapping a few pictures. Judging by the last picture she liked the idea too :)

A day full of Grandmothers

OOPS! Mommy posted out of order! Sorry! That last blog should have waited it's turn, oh well.

On August 8th Mommy and Dani went to church with Grammie.

After church Mommy, Daddy, and Dani went to Grandma Zonnie's house where there's always lots of fun stuff to do.

Dani got in a kissy mood and we all had to kiss her and her bears.

These next pictures are some of my favorites, especially the center one.

The reason we were there wasn't just to visit. Our project was to add some of Papaw Mike's ashes to Grandma's and Dani's bears (both were designed for this). Dani loves her Papaw Bear.

And we'll finish with one of my favorites of Grandma and Dani.