Category Archives: Ft.Lauderdale

Bubblebaths….a thing of the past

While there are so many things we are looking forward to in the island Magens Bay Cruzan Rum Drinks Great Weather New Friends and most definitely many new adventures! There are things we’ll miss here too Bubble baths–well Sophia will, … Continue reading

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Weekend antics

What a weekend: We celebrated Sophia’s 2nd Birthday with cake, presents and a huge singing Dora ballon. FSU won! Yeah!!! Gators lost.  Yeah!!! (sorry if this offends you but it is MY blog ;)) Toy stores aren’t what they used … Continue reading

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Whirlwind….

Our stuff is still scheduled to arrive in STT this weekend.  Crazy.  It’s taking one week instead of the expected four to five we had been planning on.  As a result we are flying down to STT NEXT Saturday!!! October … Continue reading

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First Haircut….

After taking the weekend off of making all decisions I decided that this was really not going to work anymore. Mostly we have her hair up like this but really the hair was getting too long and Sophia has gotten … Continue reading

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“Back to normal” weekend…whatever that means?

We’re recovering from the last crazy week. Sophia and I are both exhausted and have been going to bed at ridiculously early hours, really early. I’m reading”The Tenth Circle” and can hardly put it down. Haven’t been this lost in … Continue reading

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Lists, lists and more lists!

Soph and I are headed to VA on Thursday for a week to get the house packed up and moved. We have packers which is great but there is still a ton to be done.  I have: A list of … Continue reading

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I rode a camel today…..did you?

Random but true!  We went to the Miami Zoo again (its what we seem to do when hurricanes approach).  This time we rented a bicycle and had Armando with us–we definitely saw more –and different things than we saw on … Continue reading

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Dodging Storms

We’re in Jacksonville now until tomorrow, looks like Hanna could be headed in this direction.  We’ll be back in South Florida but most of Keith’s family is here, we are hoping this is not “the one that hits Jacksonville”. In … Continue reading

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Pineapples, birds, flowers and oh yeah…..butterflies

We went to Butterfly World yesterday…so I took this picture of a pineapple.  What else would take pictures of there.   I like it, do you? This guy looks mad, there were tons of other birds there and lots of … Continue reading

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Family time

My cousin is visiting us for a day or two before moving back up to Virginia. We’re having a great time hanging out and chasing Sophia. We went on a river cruise yesterday, super bad jokes but its cool seeing … Continue reading

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