Sugar Mill Gardens

As previously promised...here is a post dedicated to our day at Sugar Mill Gardens. Again, here is a brief history. Sugar Mill Gardens was originally the Dunlawton Sugar Plantation. It was attacked during the first Seminole war in 1836. What we visited were the ruins of that plantation and it was beautiful. At one point in the 1950's they tried to make it a theme park called Bongoland featuring cement dinosaurs but the park failed. The dinos are still there (and quite ugly).

First some ruins




Then some pics from the gardens





For more pictures from Sugar Mill Gardens go here
http://picasaweb.google.com/tigerbait598/SugarMillGardens

Originally posted Wed May 22, 2008

Well, it's been entirely too long since I posted a real blog so...

First he're the generic blog I posted yesterday: The baby is doing well. She's over 12 lbs now 2 weeks ago she came down with a cold but she's past that now. Now she has Thrush from the antibiotics so I get to swab this nasty stuff around her mouth several times a day. But she's talking (making noise), smiling, and laughing now and soooo much fun to be around. She has a bad habit of fussing at night until I let her cuddle up w/ me in the big bed for a while but then she goes to sleep in her bed so I guess it's not too bad.Now for the real stuff, you know PICTURES!


In February we went on our annual vacation to the beach. We were there from Saturday to Saturday.Hubby played at a drag racing park and Danica got to sit in her first race car



This is the mural over the door to the place...pretty cool





There were many beautiful sunrises that I got to watch from the comfort of our balcony.

This is the little boy we met at the Petty Driving Experience (where hubby used to work) who had a crush on Dani, she's already breaking hearts!

Look at the mini mullett!

On Wednesday my mom came over and took care of the baby, it was my first time away from her and it sucked! I didn't do very well.

Friday Kat met us at Sugar Mill Gardens. I'm putting those in a different entry since they aren't as cute as Danica pics. But just for a bit of history, Sugar Mill Gardens was originally the Dunlawton Sugar Plantation. It was attacked during the first Seminole war in 1836. What we visited were the ruins of that plantation and it was beautiful. At one point in the 1950's they tried to make it a theme park called Bongoland featuring cement dinosaurs but the park failed. The dinos are still there (and quite ugly).

After that we went down so I could put Dani's toes in the sand for the first time

Then it was the ocean for the first time.

She didn't care for either.

And here are some random pics from our vacation that make me smile.

All that fun makes a baby sleepy

The day we came home was my birthday, luckily we had the baby so we weren't out dancing because right around the time we would have been coming home there was a bear on our porch. We chased him through the neighborhood (we were in the jeep) then we lost him so we came back home and he was back on our porch!!! Damn brazen bear! He came back the next 2 nights but appearantly realized there was nothing tasty to be found so he hasn't been back since.

Originally posted Sunday March 22,2008

First of all...Happy Easter!



Before I overload you with the adorable Dani...

Here are a few pics of Mr. Parker.





Now that that's out of the way be prepared...she's TOOOOO cute!!!









The best birthday present I could ever ask for...



See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.











And I stole the idea for this pic from Skeeve and his pictures of his baby . ADORABLE TINY TOES!



That's all I have time for tonight. Aside from the Easter pic those are all from Feb. I still have to post pics from our vacation (in the middle of Feb) and the awesome pics I've taken this month (March).



As an update, I have been back to work for 2 weeks now. It's the same as when I left. Dani is doing well with the babysitter and thanks to hubby's job she's only there a few hours a day. She has started smiling on purpose as opposed to the previous accidental smiles. I'm still not making enough milk but I'm too stubborn to give up, besides...it's that much less formula I have to buy. That's all for now.Love you all!

Originally posted Tues. Jan 29, 2008

The princess is here! Please welcome to the world Miss Danica Rose







Born Tuesday, January 22nd at 6:27pm, she weighed 7lbs 8oz and was 19.5 inches long.


My water broke at 4:15 am, labor wasn't too bad...once they got my epidural fixed and working. We were supposed to come home Thursday but her bilirubin was too high (yellow jaundice) so she had to stay an extra night under the blue lights.


In all honesty I'm exhausted, for some reason I thought that being home with her I would have time...time to play on here, time to do stuff. But I can't tell you where the last couple days have gone. Everyone says "sleep when the baby sleeps" but I don't even have time for that! Oh well, enough whining.


Prepare for baby picture overload


















Long, long hair






Under the blue lights

On the way home

At home

That's all I have time for, she's demanding my attention now.