Friday, July 30, 2010

07-30-2010b


Justin & Jenny leaving the hospital with baby Jude.. everyone is doing great! Grammy went home with them to help out for a few days.

07-30-2010


So perfect baby Jude sleeping peacefully... he is such a good baby, so far he has barely cried.

Thursday, July 29, 2010

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An equally happy grandpa!

07-29-2010


A very happy Grammy!

07-28-2010


Jude in Uncle Travis' arms... so sweet!

07-27-2010


HE'S HERE!!!! OK, I'm catching up with Baby Jude pics... He is so perfect!

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

07-26-2010


33.. the number of screws you have to remove from a MacBook Pro if you happen to spill a cup of coffee in the keyboard...

Monday, July 26, 2010

07-25-2010


Good News! Waffle House is hiring managers!

Alicia if the lawyer thing doesn't work out you may want to think about it.... I'm just sayin with an MBA and all...

07-24-2010


Sarah's latest cupcake creation.. a hamburger cupcake!

07-23-2010


Jenny, who is all tummy these days... Jude is now almost 9 pounds! The doctor said she will probably deliver next week, about a week early!

07-22-2010


How true for most families! ... of course this doesn't apply to anyone I know...

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

07-21-2010


The most perfect breakfast ever! It includes the 3 major food groups, Pecan Waffle, Bacon, & Coffee! Bet your mouth is watering just looking at it!

07-20-2010


Sarah practicing her hair flip.. this was from Fathers Day lunch at Mimi's... Travis is programming Aunt Karen's new cell phone in the background.

07-19-2010


Karen Perry and some friends from church doing the Cha Cha Slide at the wedding Saturday.

Sunday, July 18, 2010

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Me with my grand-dog Chloe Comet who is wearing a very stylish scarf..

Saturday, July 17, 2010

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We went to a wedding for a couple at church tonight.. it was at a wedding chapel in Hurst and was really nice.

07-16-2010


Travis made a wonderful meal that included Rataouille and grilled chicken... then a dessert of chocolate mousse!

Thursday, July 15, 2010

07-15-2010


Today, after 85 days and millions of gallons of oil, they finally got the Gulf oil spill stopped... Pray that it stays that way.

07-14-2010


Jenny with just 1 month to go! Baby Jude's current weight is estimated at 7 lbs 7 oz so the Doctor is expecting he will be 9 lbs by the time he arrives!

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

07-13-2010


I found 400 of these cables in the warehouse that I forgot I had... they came in with a system last December.. I looked up what they cost and found they are worth $45.00 each... Hummm, 400 X $45.00 = real money! Time to find them a new home!

07-12-2010


The final pic after all plumbing has been repaired and sheet rock replaced.

07-11-2010


After cutting out the cast iron drain pipe and replacing it with PVC here is the after pic.. it only took 4 trips to Home Depot!

07-10-2010


The plumbing in Dad's house starting leaking inside the kitchen wall... I cut back the sheet rock and found the leaking pipe, when I tried to remove the pipe another pipe broke.. and it quickly turned into a plumbing nightmare..

07-09-2010


On the Florida coast they advertise products based on the hurricane season!

07-08-2010


Susan going over our on-board account summary the morning we left the ship.. it seems Travis was spending money like a drunken sailor.. or was that Sarah?

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

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A giant bee getting pollen from our magnolia tree, look closely and you can see the bees wings moving.

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

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Sunday morning, just before we left the ship, taken on the balcony of our cabin with Ft. Lauderdale in the background.

07-05-2010


I took this picture from an observation platform above the bridge on deck 16. As you can tell from the angle of the shot, the bridge/deck extends a good bit off the starboard side of the ship. The sun is about 30 minutes from setting off the stern.

Monday, July 5, 2010

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In Miami Beach they have a FERRARI STORE!!!
I bought a cool F-1 shirt.. They also have lots of Ferrari's driving around.. After this we drove to Key Biscayne and then back to Ft. Lauderdale to fly home..

07-04-2010b


Sarah & Travis in front of the Starbucks in Miami Beach.. I wore a blue shirt, so the 3 of use made red, white, and blue... Happy 4th of July!

07-04-2010


Sunday morning, as much as we resisted they made us leave the ship.. Sarah walking off with her best pouty face... Since we had 8 hours until our plane left, we decided to rent a car and drive to Miami.

07-03-2010c


We ended the day with "movies under the stars", the movie was Valentines Day and was shown outside on a giant 50+ foot screen.

07-03-2010b


We spent the day playing around the boat.. swimming.. playing miniature golf.. eating.. more eating.. still more eating..

07-03-2010


Saturday was a sea day so we slept late and started the day with breakfast on our balcony.

07-02-2010c


Grand Turk from the top of the ship, deck 19, just before we left to head back to Ft. Lauderdale. Grand Turk is just 7 miles long and 1.5 miles wide.

07-02-2010b


We went snorkeling in two places, the first was a large coral reef with bunches of tropical fish and the second was over a section where the bottom dropped off from 22 feet to over 7000 feet. We saw tons of tropical fish in all different sizes and colors and even saw a couple of small sharks! Sarah went too but she stayed on the boat long enough to take this pic of the other three of us.

07-02-2010


We arrived in Grand Turk, the capital of Turks & Caicos, on Friday afternoon. The population of the island is just 3500 so with our ship in port we more than double the population! The beach was voted as the best beach in the world by some travel magazine.

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Thursday was our 2nd formal night, we are all looking more tan/burned after snorkeling, we had another great meal, lobster was the featured entree.

Friday, July 2, 2010

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The "Castaway Girl" catamaran that took us out to Shipwreck Cove where we snorkeled over the shipwreck and a coral reef, we had a great time and got to hold a live starfish!

07-01-2010


The harbour in St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, as seen from the balcony of our cabin on deck 11.

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The harbour in Marigot, the capital of French St. Martin. We ate lunch at the cafe with the yellow awning in the center of the picture, it was soooo good!

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A beautiful beach in Philipsburg, the Dutch capital of St. Maarten.

06-30-2010


Greetings from beautiful St. Maarten (Dutch side) and St. Martin (French side) where we went on an island tour of both sides and had a wonderful lunch at a small French cafe on the French side.