Last week we went to St. Augustine, where my family rented a house on the ocean. This year has been the year of grandsons for my parents. Bo, the oldest, just started a 15 month tour in Afghanistan. He has already seen a little combat, which is a great learning experience if you can live through it. I'm jealous. Parker and Luke graduated from high school and are on their way to college. I'm not jealous. (it's funny how I'd rather be shot at than go to school.) John Buck made the all stars in baseball and is traveling around Ga. winning tournaments. And then there is the new guy! Brody, born April 24, has added the special little seasoning to an already tasty "family" soup.
Leah is the only girl; which makes her special everyday.
I really enjoy the personalities of all of them. I had to come back after 4 days to start work and realized how much I miss being with everybody. I'm sure Brody has created a deeper sense of family in me and has made me want to be more apart of my family. I feel like I'm moving farther and farther away from the guy who wanted to sail to Fiji. I still want to, but now I want to take about 15 people with me. That is a bigger boat than the original plan called for.
CO and our son was with my Dad on Father's day in Ga. and I was at the bottom of Fl. So to combat my family missing sickness I decided to remodel the kitchen. We have talked about doing it ever since we moved in, but it has always seemed to be too big of a project. So! I tore out a wall, ripped up the floor, took out 40% of the cabinets, before I realized I just opened a big can of stuff I got to get done before CO comes back home. I thought that I would surprise her, but I got scared on Monday and told her about it, so she could have time to pray and let God give her some supernatural grace to deal with my overzealous-ness or whatever it is that causes me to do stuff like this.
I've also starting to clean the bottom of boats -a dirty job, but it pays well. It feels like you're swimming in a chum bucket while you're scrubbing and scrapping. The business is called Maintenance Down Under, and if you have tried calling the house that is what has been on the answering machine.
Well, I'll leave you with some pictures.
"The ocean is smaller than I thought it would be."
"MOM!!!! I hate this hat!!"
"But...I am on the beach!"
"Mom! I don't want another picture, I want to go swimming! "
"Let's see who's foot is bigger"
family
cousins,Parker and Brody, Brody is on the right and Parker is on the left.
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