august 2011

Luckily, we live not too far from the beach…well, like 4 hours, which is great!  We made it down to the gulf of mexico coast in Florida.  It was a good little getaway, but as getaways go, still very busy.  Since we were still eating milk, gluten, and mostly sugar free, we ate good, but had to make everything homemade.  (Thank goodness we don’t have to do that anymore…it’s a lot of work for a family!)

Jarom came down with us Saturday, stayed until Tuesday, and then came back on Saturday to drive home with us…so he was a bit busy but we got to see him a few days nevertheless.

We had a lot of science opportunities for sure.  A man on the beach next to us caught a baby shark.  After a big storm one night, we went out the next day, and there were about 6 jellyfish floating where we like to swim…so in order for my kids to try and get back in the water, I went and fished them out, including getting stung…we saw crabs…birds…it was so great.

Now for a ton of pics…