Photo Shoot: Look Who's 5 Months Old!

Pictures courtesy of "J.W.Anderson Photography" (a.k.a. my sister)

Beach Vacation

Last month, we spent some time in Pensacola, Florida for one last little vacation before KR's school started up again. We stayed at the Navy Lodge on the Naval Base there for the first couple nights and planned to mostly just chill on the beach.

The Lodge was right on the bay and the water was warm and calm. We didn't have to share the beach with many other people either which was nice. Occasionally, a coast Guard helicopter would fly real low right over the shoreline doing drills.

KR took this picture (below) from the lodge balcony. You can see Bailey and I out on the beach between the trees.

The major downside was the wind! It was sooo windy on the shore. Sure it felt nice to have a breeze since it was so hot and humid, BUT, not when you have to stake down all your stuff and hold on to your beach umbrella the whole time to prevent it from uprooting and flying half way down the beach and having to chase after it-which happened. Also, not only was it hard enough trying to keep Bailey cool, but the sound of everything flapping in the wind was freaking her out. We either had to cover her ears or create a little tunnel for her to shield the wind.

All in all, I'm sure we were more stressed than she was. When you think of a beach vacation, you picture relaxing in the lap of luxury, swimming, getting a nice tan, etc (at least that's what those of us inexperienced, non-beach-savvy-with-a-new-baby folk imagine.) We did manage to have a good time, but it wasn't exactly ideal. We spent a long 2 hours out there and called it a day. And it's amazing how much sand we found on our baby who never even touched the sand!

Wouldn't all of us like to have this tree in our backyard?

Across the street from where we stayed was the National Naval Aviation Museum. This place was huge and had so much to see (much more than our Aviation Museum at Ft.Rucker). You could easily spend all day there. We only planned for a few hours so we pretty much did a brief walk through and caught an I-Max film about fighter pilots-way cool!

The base there is home to the Blue Angels (like the Thunderbirds for us Air Force brats) and although we never saw them flying, we would wake up to the sound of them practicing there in the mornings.

If you notice, at the beach KR was wearing his Air Force shirt and on this day he was wearing his Army shirt. He got a few stares and comments at the NAVY museum but he loved it! haha :)

And yes we pulled Bailey out of her car seat for this one!

We spent our last night at Eglin Air Force Base and went to Ft.Walton Beach the next day for a bit. It was nicer since it wasn't windy, but it was so hot we didn't last long. Poor Bailey was ready to go!

We then met up with Rachael and Eddie and they stayed a night at our house.

The following weekend, we met up with them at their spacious villa down in Seaside. These pictures don't do the place justice. It was beautiful.

Our day at the beach in Seaside was the best by far. The water was just right and the company was great!

We had so much fun with you guys, Ed and Rach!

After the beach, we took a refreshing swim in the pool. (While Bailey relaxed in the shade working on her non-tan.)

And after the long hot day, Bailey was sure ready to head home.

Where's Waldo?

Bailey is 3 Months Old!

Check out that red hair!

Still Playing Catch-Up

(One more post after this and I should be all caught up with old stuff I wanted to blog about but never got around to! This is all pre-Bailey stuff of course, going clear back to last fall.)

AARRRGH! KR and I participated in a pirate themed murder mystery dinner at a friend's house! Lots of fun!

KR and I spent a weekend in Panama City. It happened to be the weekend a hurricane hit across the Gulf. The waves were huge and as you can see, the tide was really high. It kicked up lots of good shells onto the beach.

Last fall, we traveled to Mississippi with some of KR's classmates who are also here from Idaho, to attend the BSU/So.Miss. football game. Lots of fun, and of course...we won!

This was our last minute attempt at Halloween costumes to go to a friend's party. I was "Little Caesar" ("Pizza! Pizza!") and KR was "Sugar Daddy!" LOL! (I stole this pic from your blog Kristen...hope you don't mind! :) )

For the holidays, we traveled home to Idaho to be with KR's family for 2 weeks. It sure was a nice vacation, and nice to go "home" for a visit. When we left Alabama, temperatures were in the 70's. Idaho was freezing when we got there and we were practically snowed in for half of our stay. KR enjoyed that though because he got to
watch lots of movies, and also go skiing!!



While there, KR and I celebrated our 4th Anniversary by staying in a fun room at the Anniversary Inn. Unfortunately, I was so sick (not from being pregnant...just caught a nasty bug) that I spent the majority of the night in the bathroom. What a waste!

We spent New Year's Eve having a traditional fondue feast and playing games with KR's family. This is us and our friends, Brandon and Nycole, celebrating in style! We then banged pots and pans on the porch at midnight-whoo hoo!

We also rented a cabin with them for a few days and had an awesome time!

My last day of work at the vet (Feb.)

My co-workers threw me and another gal a baby shower. Thank You!

Some good friends from church threw me a baby shower too!

And one last noteworthy thing...pictured here is KR with the 32oz. steak he ate one evening along with 2 sides, some ribs and a roll! So proud!!