Father's Day...Finally

We celebrated Father's Day the Thursday before. Liz and I both had to work on Father's Day and Wade, Diana and the girls had a chance to go to Disney with some friends that day. So Hut and Scott spent Father's Day together, which was nice for them. But on Thursday we told Hut that was going to be his Father's Day and we were just going to take him out to eat. He picked Longhorn's to eat at. What he didn't know was that Scott told me about a tool set that he wanted. So all the kids chipped in and we bought it for him. Liz made him a Father's Day card and everyone signed it.

Hut's reading the paper but spies someone coming around the corner with something.

Here is Hut reading his homemade card which he really loved better than a store bought one.

Santa Claus is coming to Town wrapping paper. What better wrapping for you know who (wink).

Here's the proud Daddy with is 117 piece tool set. The kids really made his day. We all love you!

I hate my computer

I don't really hate it, but it just aggravates me. I spent 1/2 an hour this morning waiting for it to quit freezing up and stuff. Our friend hasn't had a chance to look at it. If I can just get photos uploaded, I can do posts from work. I have the photos uploaded to the computer I just haven't been able to upload them to the blogger system. So bear with me, friends, and I'll have some more posts coming your way soon. I hope.

Mother Nature at Work

Just a little play on words there. I took some pictures of Mother Nature while I was at work. I am so lucky to be able to work in a beautiful location. And I'm lucky enough that I can carry a camera with me and take photos whenever the opportunity arises.

Even inside the building. This flag hangs in our Atrium in the middle of the building. It hangs from the balcony on the 3rd floor to just past the balcony on the second floor. This flag is HUGE. They don't hang it all year round but they do put it on for special holidays, like Memorial Day, Veteran's Day, 4th of July.

We see lots of these guys around, Sandhill Cranes. This one walked right up to the car. Unfortunately they really have no fear of humans anymore.

Here is a Momma and a Daddy Sandhill Crane.

And their two babies. Notice the babies don't have the red markings on their face yet. Sandhill Cranes mate for life. If something happens to one of them, the other goes on in life alone.

Here is a very dangerous Florida Squirrel. Just kidding. They are not dangerous. And they are everywhere.

This is an Ibis. It's the mascot for the college football Florida Hurricanes.

A painted turtle that I saw crossing the road. It was so hot I picked him up and put him in the grass in the shade. He tucked himself all in and wouldn't let me get a good picture of him. A few minutes later he was gone. He was heading towards the pond we have on property.

We have Magnolia trees all over the property. Here is one of the blooms in the tree.

Pansies that border the parking areas.

Cracker Roses that are planted on one side of the building.

I'm not sure what type of flowers these are. Or the next two pictures either. I just know that they have some beautiful flowers on the property.

These border one of the three employee parking areas.

These are down by the pond. I'm not sure if you can tell or not, but these are purple flowers with some white flowers mixed in.

This is a Bird of Paradise. I just found out these are considered to be trees. Not sure why, lol. These are planted by the Cracker Roses and the other pink flowers.

A close up of the Bird of Paradise. See the snail. I thought this was pretty cool, so I tried to get a clear close up. Like I said before....I am very fortunate that I get to not only work, but work in such a beautiful place for a company that truly believes in keeping things as natural as possible. Alot of the land that this company owns is undeveloped. They also have working orange and grapefruit groves around the building. By working I mean that they take care of the groves, and the grove produce fruit. They then have someone come in and pick the fruit, which they then sell and they donate all the money to their charities. It really doesn't get much better than that.

Old Town

A couple of Saturdays ago we went to Old Town. Old Town is a "shopping center'' based on the old " cobblestone Main Street" days. On Saturday nights they have a classic car show and cruise. The Saturday night we chose to go just happened to be the 20th anniversary. It was so busy and it was VERY HOT!!!!!. Scott went with us ( Liz had to work) and Wade, Diana and the girls met up with us. Scott's friends Matt and Nicole also met up with us. It's kind of a central meeting place between St. Cloud and Winter Haven. Here is Daddy trying to make Rossi giggle.
She's thinking about it.
Rossi trying to figure out what Grampy is, lol.
Nana got Rossi to giggle.
Nana and Rossi playing some more.
Rossi is such a happy baby.

Layla didn't even know Nana took this picture. You can tell how miserable hot it is just by looking at her face.
My handsome hunk of a husband.
His goofy side. He was imitating some of the kids who think they are so "gansta".

A face only a mother could love ( yeah right). Uncle Gotty being goofy, too. Must have been the heat.
One of the shops had some cardboard things that you could use for photo ops. Here's Layla escaping with Stitch.

Rossi trying to escape to. Had to be the heat.

Layla on Mission Space. I love how she made a face to match the other two faces.
Here are some photos of some cars that were there. I'm not sure how many were there that night but the cruise took 2 1/2 hours for all the cars to cruise. It's usually only 45 minutes to an hour.

This car probably at one time ran moonshine. How exciting. And moonshine cars are actually how NASCAR started.
I'm not real educated in cars, but this one was cool in that some of the engine components were painted to match the exterior of the car. I tried to get a picture to show that.

This picture doesn't do this truck justice. This truck had the longest front end I have ever seen in my life. If I had an extra $64,000 laying around I would have bought it. Yes, I said $64,000, with 3 zeros. It is a beautiful truck.
I took pictures of this vehicle because my husband and his friend Daryll made up an imaginary band a few years back and called it the Possum Band. No one played...they just talked a good story, lol. When I saw this I just had to take a picture for the "band". I wish I had taken more photos but I would have filled a months worth of blogs with all the vehicles that were there.

Computer Problems

Once again my computer is being a putz. Yes, a putz. Hopefully my husband's friend Brenda (who is a computer whiz, thank you) will be able to look at it and figure out what's wrong. It constantly freezes up. I spend hours waiting to do anything on the computer anymore. Took me 3 days of trying off and on just to post a video of my Molly. So please bear with me. I have not forgotten ya'll. I wll do a post as soon as I am able to from somewhere other than work. Shhhh, I think the boss is listening. Gotta go. Love you all!!!

Clearwater Beach

Clearwater Beach is my FAVORITE beach. I love, love, love this beach. I'm a little sick that the oil spill may eventually reach it since it's on our west coast, but until then I am going to try to enjoy it as much as possible.

One of my favorite things is seeing the Pirate Ship that sails out of there. I have never been on it, but some day I will. If you wave at it, and they see you, they fire the cannons, lol.

Layla Sue when we first got there. She had no idea she was going to the beach until that morning when she got up and Mom had her bathing suit on.

Rossi Jean on her very first visit to the beach. I think she is definitely going to be a beach baby.

Although the water was nice...most of the time was spent playing in the sand. Here's Aunt Liz and Layla before we decided to buy toys.

Scott was a good sport by letting Liz, Diana and Layla turn him into a merman.

Aunt Liz having some Rossi time.

Nana and Rossi watching the crazy kids bury Uncle Gotty.

Rossi was pooped out. Taking a nap with Mom. I just love this picture of Diana and Rossi.

Finally Nana bought some beach toys and it was fun time for everyone....especially Layla.

More constructing. If you look in the left hand bottom corner you can see the start of Fort Scianimanico.

Another shot of sand toy fun with a bigger shot of Fort Scianimanico, which was built by the way, by Diana....Queen of the Fortress.

Rossi is happy as can be after her nap. She is such a happy baby and she had a great time at the beach...even if it did rain.