A Thorn Among Roses

a few things me and fam DID NOT do this week... we DID NOT take an 10 day vacation to the most fab beach house in indian pass, florida...we DID NOT take nana and papa with us...and the kids are def NOT spoiled from having them around for an entire week. paige DID NOT get roasted, red, burnt on her back on the first day sunning on the beach...it WAS NOT bc she had her 5 yo sister, brooke, put the sunscreen on her back. brooke DID NOT tell me: "when i grow up, i definitely will be rapunzel." me: "really. why rapunzel." b: "bc she has beautiful long hair. oh, and a dog." we DID NOT have a visit from mr. easter bunny in our hotel room in nashville on easter morning...and it was NOT weird to not be at our church and just drive all day on easter. jada DID NOT see a little girl walking in the hotel on easter morning out of sight of her parents and look at ryan and say, "that poor little girl does not have a family, daddy." ryan DID NOT take us on a wi...

and around these parts...spring means spring break. and i'm not gonna lie, it's more about me getting to the beach and having family vacation than almost anything else. wehn you have 4 girls, no matter the ages, they will torment each other. paige (in spite of the fact that she is 14 tomorrow) loves to make fun of sofie, her 15 month old sister. {stinker} so my entry for the week in i heart faces, amateur, is this shot... paige dumked sofie's feet in the very uber chilly gulf this last week and sofia, obviously, was less than impressed. there's all kinds of fun shots from all kinds of folks over at i heart faces...so go and check them out. you won't be disappointed.

my idea of vacation=beach ryan's idea of vacation=golf the birds here at indian pass are amazing!  they are everywhere... the waves are absolutely amazing...the girls have spent hours "running" from the waves onto the beach. nana and sofie were playing peek a boo on the beach... paige found way too much humor in putting sofie's feet in the cool gulf water... i love this outfit on b!  i found it at a little boutique in port st. joe and it shouted 'brooke'. heading back to the cold north...very sad.

indian pass, florida {{right in front of our beach house....ahhhh}} Hosted by Cecily and MamaGeek

words take too long tonight...i'm off to eat ice cream and hot fudge. the beach is beckoning me with the moonbeams bouncing off the water... :]

the beach is totally full of great pic opps...and i am loving it!!! angie's got some fun shots and stories...head on over and check it out. all the cool kids are doing it.

and if google or blogger or photobucket were working, there would be uber fantistic pics from today. but since there is a failure of pictures, i will simply share my fav news story from this morn from CBS sports site ... "Destinee Hooker, a student at the University of Texas, won the NCAA outdoors high jump titles in 2006 and 2007, and last month won the NCAA indoor title with a college record jump of 6-6. Now she's engaged to Clifton Gay, setting the stage for this wedding day introduction: "On behalf of the Gays and the Hookers, we'd like to welcome you here on this joyous occasion." Hopefully Destinee takes Clifton's last name. Better to be bound for happiness than bound for prostitution."