No kids and hoops

Last night Amanda brought home a friend from work to the house to watch the kids. Us four adults wanted a night out together before Owen and I left.. Owen has been wanting to eat at the Macaroni Grill so we waited in line for an hour to eat there.. it was worth the wait the food was great!






After dinner we went to a place that was like an adult Chuck E. Cheese.... They had one whole wall of race car video games..where you sit in the drivers seat and race each other. After we spent all our tokens at the race track we reloaded with tokens and headed to the basket ball hoops to out shoot each other...

Owen practicing his Micheal Jordan moves ..if only he knew that any moves he pulled out weren't going to help him...


The boys were working their hardest to be the best shooter and highest scorer but if they only knew who they were up against.......

Notice the high score in the bottom right side of the board... that is put there to help motivate other players who want to attempt to achieve such greatness .... yep , 117 points set by the one and only Jessica Gaines.....Though they try and try but fail continuously in beating the high score.... (I do have to admit Donny came the closest with 109 but close doesn't win games..hahaha)

Here is just some average scores they were putting up while attempting to beat the great Jesse Jordan:)

After having spent our life savings on video games only to come out with a dollar toy we decided to go home and rescue the babysitter.. But what a great dollar toy it was .." The Claw" There is something about the Claw that takes over and you start grabbing everything, it's like it has a mind of it 's own..(ahhhahhhahaha*said in the worst Jessica evil voice)






I love our kids but a night out alone is so relaxing. It was a blast to be able to spend our last night with Amanda and Donny. Only one call from the sitter about Torin getting a bloody nose from jumping on the bed, great food from the Macaroni Grill, Driving fast race cars ,out shooting the boys, and taking home the Claw...all in all a great night!!!

Our time is coming to an end...

The time has come to start packing our things up again. This weekend we will be back on the road and headed to Alabama. Packing has got to be towards the top of my worst things to do list..I am amazed at how much more stuff we have accumulated while we have been here!Where did all this junk come from?!! I still have no idea how everything is going to go back with us... I guess the condo got word of us leaving this weekend and finally fixed the swimming pool .. It was 80 degrees in the pool yesterday...ahhh wonderful! I am so glad we at least get a week to swim in the pool .



Sage and Kaden both can go under water now. Kaden loved diving for objects and swimming underwater. Next we will have to work on actually swimming above water.


This past weekend Amanda and Donny watched the kids so Owen and I could go out for dinner and a movie(two thumbs up to Slumdog Millionaire !!) So on our way to their house we pulled over at a park to let the kids play.

Owen and I had a great night out and loved the movie! I'm not sure if it made it to a lot of theatres because it is an independent film but Slumdog Millionaire is defiantly worth going to see..
And here's big thanks to my sister and brother-in -law again for watching the kidos!!!

Florida gets cold?!

Soooooo we have discovered Florida can also be very cold! The last couple of days has been in the 30's and very very cold for Florida ..like I think the news said it hasn't been this cold in 10 years or something like that:-) If you would have asked me a few months ago if I could live in a 500sq ft condo with 3 toddlers and a "sometimes" hyper active husband ..I would have said " Noway!! Are you out of your crazy mind!!" Well I am proud to say we have made it and survived (with of course a few extra grey hairs I found the other day)but since this blast of frigid air has passed through and has confined my three over active children inside I have been pushed to almost my limit... Today it was sunny and 67 so the kids and I lotioned up and headed to the beach only to turn around in 15 min because the kids and I started to loose feeling in our limbs...hahah ...I guess I was to excited to leave our small quarters to look at the wind chill which seem to make the temperature actually around 50 or so.... I now know why we were getting " the look " from those elderly people who seem to gather in their small clicks outside their rooms... ..Yes, I am the crazy mom that dress my kids in swim clothes and head to the beach in one of the coldest times of Florida history ...they probably thought we were crazy loons for heading to the beach..hahah...The light at the end of the tunnel is coming though this weekend a high of around 75 and sunny ..yaahoooo! freeeeedom!!! Even if I have to dust off the kids winter coats we are going to escape to the great outdoors!! Since not much has been going on the past few days I will leave you with some pictures the kids and I were taking on the beach together:-)



Yes we are a jumping family:-) We love to take jumping shots.. The kids find it so funny they are laughing the whole time taking the pictures... there is just something about flying through the air so carefree..... Every ones Assignment: to go outside with a camera and a friend and start JUMPING and shooting your camera off!! It's an experience that everyone should enjoy!!




Sage was taking this one... she was a little excited about holding mommies camera so I think she got a little distracted and cut Kaden's body off...