Christmas in Florida!

We spent Christmas in Florida with the Watsons! It was a great trip...despite Shaye and Landon fighting like siblings! But, of course now Landon says he misses Shaye! Fortunately, they would stop arguing long enough for pictures!

We weren't exactly prepared for our day at the beach (no suits) but we still had a BLAST!

No trip to the beach is complete without ice cream on the pier!

Maggie and Presley!

Tanner, Shaye, Maggie, and Presley!

Aunt Kris and Big L!

Later, Maggie painted Presley's nails for the very 1st time!

So Landon was DYING to get his nails painted too!  LOL!  So, we let Maggie paint his big toenails (while Daddy was out golfing, of course!  He wasn't exactly thrilled when he saw it!)

Presley put her skirt on all by herself (yes, upside down!)

Dinner--Landon was DYING to have fish!

Later, "Golf Cart Grandpa and Grandma" drove from their Florida house to visit us!

Christmas Eve!  The Watsons, us, and Golf Cart Grandpa and Grandma!

Christmas Eve--presents from Grandpa and Grandma!

Christmas morning!  They were so cute staring at the tree  and the presents from Santa!

Landon's FAVORITE gift was the "Shark Boy/Lava Girl" movie!

Making a birthday cake for Jesus!

Landon made a friend (very nice young guy) who was nice enough to play tennis with him!

Of course we spent a lot of time at the pools!

Little Miss SASS-A-FRASS strutting to the pool!

Ever the gym teacher, Aunt Kris taught Presley to throw with her opposite leg out!

We made Landon a bed between 2 twins.  1 night I went to check on him and found him like this!  Poor baby!

And Sweet PJ!

Landon....ready to golf!

We later went to Ft. Myers Beach and met up with some friends who used to live in Texas!  It was so fun to see Matt, Krista, and Max again!

The "hit of the day" was playing with these dead Horseshoe Crabs that were washed up ALL OVER the beach!

Snack Time!

That is one of two HUGE piles of dead Horseshoe Crabs that they collected! 

The next day, we went to Manatee Park!

Landon REALLY wanted to rent a boat so we did....and it was AMAZING!  We paddled all around and there were Manatees just feet and sometimes (deep breath) inches from our boat!  I was excited but COMPLETELY freaked out at how close they were!  I know they can't hurt you but they are BIG and I was afraid we would be swimming with them!

1 Manatee about to surface

3 Mantatee

After that, we went to the Ft Myers Children's Museum!

Presley was not afraid to hold the snake!  (Landon either but I didn't have my camera then when he did it)

Presley WAS, however, too afraid to hand feed the Stingrays!  Not Landon though....he LOVED it!

For Landon's last dinner in Florida, he ordered Tilapia and LOVED every bite of it!  

We had a lot of fun with lots of great adventures!