Destin Florida-2009

We decided to take a "last minute" trip to Destin Florida with our wonderful friends!!! Before the trip, Phil went to the Salvation Army Thrift Store, and found these festive shirts for the drive down! I think it has the possibility of a tradition!! :)

Grace..all set up for 16 hours of Dora!! Thank goodness for headphones!! :)

Phil took the girls down to the ocean every morning to hunt for shells. The girls looked forward to this time with their daddy! The Pool.....and THE goggles...

A day at the ocean!
Sandcastles with Daddy, and Uncle Phil
Baby Anna, catching some rays...and some zzz's
Emma's first swim in the Ocean!
Maddie went up to about her knees..and that an accomplishment! :)

Sunset pictures

We decided to head to the ocean again towards the end of the week. The goal was to create some kind of grand "Michigan themed" sand art. What started out as a UofM football helmet...ended up with each of us creating a letter to spell DESTIN.

Phil decided to do the Detroit Tigers "D"...to continue with the Michigan theme! He, of course, made the rest of our letters look unworthy! :)

Scott and Stacey teamed up for the "N"

If you look really close you can see "Destin" written out in the sand! Hey..at least we accomplished something!!! :)

Grace, helping bring up water for the sand letters!

Phil and Scott body surfing

Shark Attack!!!!

The whole group! :)

Our house for the week!!!

About half way through the trip, White Chocolate (Sayer's van) started overheating! It slowed us down just a bit...but not enough to stop us from laughing and taking pictures! :) I'm pretty sure Scott and Phil S. have the problem under control here, and Phil is just ordering a pizza...or maybe making reservations for the stellar buffet that was available at the "gas station" we stopped at!!! :)

Wake us up when we're home!!!!

Thanks again Sayers and Lubbers for inviting us on this amazing trip!! We had SO much hanging out with friends and making great memories!!!

Last one...I promise!!

This one is for Phil & his fishin' buddies!
*Pause the playlist on the side first!!!*

YUM!!!!

***Don't forget to pause the playlist on the side first!!***

Soccer...finally!!!

We finally got Emma signed up for another session of Soccer!! I promise Maddie has been busy doing great things...I just noticed the last 3 posts have been all about Emma...oops!

Warm ups

A friendly game..Emma's breakaway here, followed by her first ever GOAL!!! :)

She's not afraid to go after it...I'm pretty sure she gets that from Phil as well! :)

Showing off her new shoes and ball!

Like Father...Like Daughter

The girls got Lego's for Christmas this year. Emma has (not surprisingly) done really well at following the directions and creating really cute little things! :) I was NEVER good at this!!! So I'm really glad she got this skill from her dad! :) Although, we haven't figured out why she HAS to do it in the middle of the hallway????

I was impressed! :)

having some fun with the new camera!

Date night with Daddy

Emma has been asking Phil to take her ice skating since she was 3. And every winter, when we pass by the ice rink(on a daily basis), he tells her "when you turn 5 Emma." He finally made good on his promise, and they had a so much fun together. I did sneak over and take a few pictures...Did you really think I'd let this photo opp slip by??? :)

Happy Valentines Day

On Friday the girls and I headed to the garage (just like every other morning) but as soon as we turned on the light Emma noticed that there was writing on our car!!! Sure enough...Phil had left his ladies a little valentines message! The girls LOVED it!!! I...well.. thought it was very thoughtful and cute but didn't really enjoy the honks and long stares on our drive to school! :) Especially since I basically just rolled out of bed, threw on some sweats and hopped in the car. :)