Daily Journal

We Survived Birthday Season and School is Almost Out!

We celebrated out 11th Family birthday on January 11th. The Spring was busy with birthday celebrations, soccer, Easter, and camping trips to Fort Clinch, Payne's Prairie and Gamble Rogers for Spring break. The pictures tell the story.

Here are a few of pictures!

The photo diary is below:
Family Birthday		VA Trip
Fort Clinch Camping Trip		Easter
Soccer		Sierra's 12 Birthday
Kai's 12 Birthday		Mother's Day
Gamble Rogers Camping Trip		Miscellaneous

Family Birthday (back to top)

We celebrated our 11th birthday this year. It was on a school day, but we managed to squeeze in dinner (at Chilis) and a movie, followed by a cake!

Fort Clinch Camping Trip (back to top)

For Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday weekend, we headed up to Fermandina Beach and Fort Clinch State Park. It is one of our favorites.. right next to the beach, mountain bike trails, fishing, and lots of shark teeth hunting. We had perfect weather - it was a great get away.

Paynes Prairie Camping Trip (back to top)

President's Day weekend brought another beautiful, long weekend to get back outdoors. We tried another state park out we hadn't tried before. We saw wild horses, bison, birds and alligators. We celebrated Valentine's Day there and also went up to see University of Florida for an afternoon since it was close by. Fun weekend.

Soccer (back to top)

Another successful soccer season!

Kai's 12th Birthday (back to top)

Kai turns 12! He had group of his close buddies over to celebrate. They jumped at Rebounderz then came back to the house for pool, pinata (4+8=12), pizza and cake. It was a fun time!

On his actual birthday, we went to dinner at Kobe!

Gamble Rogers Camping Trip (back to top)

For Spring Break this year, we went up to Gamble Rogers State Park in Flagler Beach for a few days. We lucked out and a beach location came available at the last minute. It was a little chilly/windy for the ocean, but the kids still managed to brave it some. It was nice being so close to the beach. We also went fishing and kayaking on the inlet side and some kite flying on the beach. Love the beach!

Trip to VA for Mama's Second Surgery (back to top)

Mama/Memaw had her second surgery in the Spring to put her 100% back together. Carla went up for the surgery and a few days after to help get settled. All went well and she is now 100% back to normal!

Easter (back to top)

Easter church service, Easter baskets, Easter Egg Hunt... oh my!

Sierra's 12th Birthday (back to top)

The birthday caboose has arrived! Sierra is 12! She chose to go to Gators for her birthday dinner (same as every year). She had a few friends over for a sleep over (pool, pinata, pizza, cake) for her party and a few friends went to Rebounderz the next day to wrap things up.

Mother's Day (back to top)

Mother's day started off with a nice service at church (where they gave us fancy cupcakes), followed by a nice day at the beach. It was a beautiful day!