Some videos from the Gulf trip (scroll down for the picture post)

A day at the Gulf of Mexico!

The water from the bridge, going towards St. Theresa.

Footprints in the white sand.

Anastasia walking down to the beach...



Stepping into the warm water.



Out of order, the kids getting ready to get in the water.

Noelle and David splashing into the water.

Anastasia coming down the beach.


Wading and playing in the waves.



Alligator Point.

Warm waves.

David said: "Daddy can we sit in the waves and talk?"

Burying Anastasia in the sand



Identified by Rebekah as "a sandpiper type of creature"

Burying Timothy "I'm Sandman"

David with a Boogie board

Our wonderful hostess Joan West who not only let us use her beach house, but also fed us lunch and took us out to dinner!

Silly 'Stasia with a mouthful of banana

The sideyard of the beach house

David and Anastasia buried in the sand

The front of the beach house

My BEAUTIFUL wife!

Striking a pose!


The front yard of the beach house.

The local fish house Joan aka Mamma took us to for dinner.

Some random pictures.

Timothy practicing to be a Beefeater...
I think he needs more work on the face control part!

Noelle, "We found some mud!!!"

Reading our bedtime Bible story.

"Come play outside with us!!"
(Timothy on one of the practically brand new bikes someone at St. Peter's gave the boys!)

Timothy with his mondo-burger creation.
("It has EVERYTHING on it! Even fries!")
He couldn't fit it in his mouth but still managed to eat most of it!

David's sunburn from staying at the pool for 2 hours
(Daddy was foolish and didn't insist on sun screen)

Anastasia also found mud!

Anastasia and her "Big Buddy"

Smiling at Daddy's "big, fat belly"

Doing "crafts" with Mama

"Daddy, please put this on my head and take a picture!"

A couple of videos of some of the rainstorms we've experienced here in Florida
(This is an unseasonably DRY year!)

Visit to the Tallahassee Museum

Last Friday we went to the Tallahassee Museum. Someone had four free passes they gave us, so we only paid admission for one of the kids! It was a lot of fun. They have a large zoo-ish section with animals native to Florida, in natural habitats, and then also a farm, old farm houses and other buildings, and a plantation house.
There were more animals than we got good pictures of, so I'll just share the ones that turned out well.

Timothy looks at the map to tell us where we go next.














Part of the snake section.














Bald eagles!














Here's a little owl in his box.














Some wild tom turkeys. We got a kick out of hearing their gobbles.














The kids, walking along the raised walk.














A panther. (aka cougar, puma, etc. But this one is a subspecies native to Florida--Florida Panther.)














Very pretty woods/swamp!














Alligator. All we could see was his head.














Foxes. This one is snoozing in a tree, the other one's on the ground.




























Okay...this is the first time I've ever seen a white squirrel!



















Cypress trees. They're so cool looking!





























A huge snapping turtle (in the water)...I don't know what the other kind of turtle is. We got told the big one was a snapping turtle because the boys were calling it a tortoise.



















David gets eaten by a big tire snake!














Noelle is getting pretty good at sliding down fire poles.

































Ummm...limes? That's what I'm guessing anyway.














Sugar cane.














This was inside an old farm house that was built in the 1800's.




























In another log house built in the 1800's.




























This sheep was making faces at us...it was pretty funny.














Goat. They also had horses, geese, chickens, turkeys, and a cow.














In a blacksmith shop. Look at the huge bellows!



















In a caboose.






































And on the back of it.