more pictures from summer adventures.

The mama is slightly behind on posting pictures from all of our summer adventures.  Little bird has done great with all the travels this summer has found us apart of. She traveled wonderfully in her carseat for a total of just under 10,000 miles! add in to the fact that she has visited 18 states all before her nine month birthday! I perhaps am encouraging my little girl to become a world traveler ;) Unfortunately, she won't remember any of this so that is why these pictures are so valuable...

The last part of our Florida trip

We made our last trip to the beach a memorable one by getting up early to see the sunrise over the ocean.  There are certain moments in life that you realize how precious what you are experiencing really is and thinking back to this morning makes me emotional, for that experience has come and gone...

these are some pictures that lauren took that I love. they are not in any fancy order obviously...

Our trip home

Leaving Florida was tough for us.  We were excited to see the daddy but sad knowing that another trip to the beach would be an eternity away....(perhaps if we didn't live ten million miles from the beach on either side? Josh. (cough) )

To make things a little less hard we decided to treat ourselves to a little southern hospitality in the beautiful city of Savannah, GA.

After some research we found that the best southern cooking was at a little resaurant called Mrs. Wilkes House. Although the wait was close to an hour it was worth it! Overwhelming amount of delicious food all things "southern"...sweet tea, collard greens, fried chicken...and yes ALL that food on the table was served to us only....um....whoa!

Savannah is on my list of beautiful cities to visit again.  Honestly, not many make that list because I feel that my life is too short to visit places over again when there are too many new places to experience on this earth...

my eighth month birthday

hello friends. Adriana here...

i was fortunate enough to be able to celebrate my eighth month birthday with very special friends in a very special place. :)

Arianna was very sweet and adorned me with my very own, homemade, birthday crown!

although i like celebrations,such big-to-do's and attention over me sometimes makes me nervous to the point where stuffing my hands in my mouth helps me overcome the excitement...

Eight months of life lived already! I look forward to many more...

with love,

Adriana.

Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale...

A tale of a happy trip...

That started from this tropic port...

Aboard this tiny ship...

Annnnnnnnnnnd..... that's gunna be all of the gilligan's island...

but we really did set out on a tiny ship, a boat taxi actually, (boat taxi? funny right?) to a little island called peanut island for a day.  It was a beautiful little paradise that was perfect for snorkeling, camping, and little bird's personal favorite...eating sand.

We have seen quite a few animals that are native to florida while we've been here. Here's our list:

1. Alligator

2.Egret

4. Needle Fish (gotta look closely for them)

5. Rat Snake (that Ari boldly touched!)

6. SEA TURTLES!

I told this turtle to "stick 'em up!"

 We visited the Loggerhead turtle rehabilitation center. 

 Turtles recovering from alcoholism come there.

that's a joke.

Turtles recovering from injuries involving shark bites, getting hit by a boat, or

sicknesses are bought there.

Have you ever seen a turtle on an IV before? Now you have.

This poor guy was hit by a boat and when they found him they discovered 2 lbs of sand as well as a live crab inside his cavity.

After the turtle museum Adriana and Luci were ready for the beach again. Unfortunately, Adriana grabbed her four-wheeler for some fun crusin in the sand when Luci decided  to build a sandcastle... Adriana was slightly disgusted in the fact that she had to hit the brakes...

on a different note......

Our Florida Adventure

Little bird and I are enjoying our time on this little island off the coast of Florida.  It may be very tough to go home and have considered just sending for our Papa Bear, puppy, and a few of our things...but then we realize that we would miss the rest of our dear family very much...

We are living the life.  When people talk or invision their happy place, well, let's just say I'm in mine... It helps that we have connections via my beautiful friend lauren and are able to experience this beauty with the least amount of tourist litter, if you know what I mean... 

We visited a new beach this last week that was off the inlet and was a perfect place for the babies to enjoy calm, peaceful water. It was a perfect place to relax, collect shells...maybe have a little picnic...  Lauren and I walked out in the mangroves a bit and found different kinds of snails and crabs...

Little bird even enjoyed a delightful snooze on the beach...(please note the big orange arrow pointing to her head..just in case you have trouble locating her...)

Nothing like a good nature walk for a fun vacation day.  My baby's first real "nature walk". I look forward to many more encounters with the big world for her in the future... It will be so fun to "re-experience" things with her as I'm sure many parents can relate to...

We spent a day at the John Mc. Arther State Park...

So glad we had Ranger Rick there to help discribe the many trees and wildlife.  Couldn't help but notice that everything he had to say was almost word for word from the video we watched in the nature center but he was a cute old man and you could tell he took his job very seriously....

This interaction is quite common between grayson and adriana. 

 He's kinda a get up in your face kind of guy...

Ari took this educational adventure very seiously and was sure to document everything she saw...I can't believe that I will turn around and my little baby will be doing these thing shortly...

The nature center at the park did a fish and turtle feeding that was fun to watch.  This is a little loggerhead sea turtle.

Can't remember what kind of fish this was but little bird enjoyed watching them...

The beauty of this place overwhelms me.  Can you imagine waking up and taking a jog to the beach every morning on this beautiful path? pictures really don't do justice.

Beware: extremely adorable surfer chic who is ready to hit the waves...or maybe just eat sand... :)

This last set of pictures are for my grandpa because he was concerned with the fact that adriana was not wearing a hat in some of her pictures.  Trust me, if she doesn't have a hat on then she has an ungodly amount of sunscreen on top of her almost bald head ;) but for those times when she forgets to apply sunscreen to her noggin she has mama's hat she can borrow...