New Plan for the Present

As our adoption process is slowly moving I want to focus a great deal of time and energy on the amazing children that God has given me.  So the plan for this blog, until we move further along in this adoption, is to use this blog to tell you about the amazing times we have.  I already told you about camping at the 300 year old fortress and the puppies.  I wanted to say that we have an amazing island family.  In the midst of not being near our families we sometimes get a little sad.  But, we have island family that are amazing and some of the greatest people I have ever met.  For them I am truly grateful.  God has sent us some amazing friends.  Today we spent the vast majority of the day with "Aunt" Loren at the pool having a great time. 

We had a splash contest, she taught us the colors game, we went round and round the whirlpool, she and I got to play the trusty steeds for the jousting knights and my tiny Gabe swam completely unassisted between the three of us so many times I got tired.  I love having island family that will do what we love with us and loves our kids.  Since we do almost everything with them it is very important to have friends who like them.  We are so grateful. 

We also got invited to watch the meteor shower at Banana Bay the other night.  We had a great time on the beach with 3 other families and tried to see the meteors but the moon was far too bright to see the meteor shower.  The men all hunted down fire wood and we had a great bonfire where we roasted marshmallows and ate smores.  Since I know you all only look at my blog to see all the great pictures of my kids I will post a few more right now. 

Roasting marshmallows. I spent 10 minutes roasting Gabe's and he took one tiny bite and was finished. Nice one.

Eli wanted to collect things to burn all night long.

A man and his fire!

Yep he did it!

One bite of smore and there is chocolate everywhere.

Enjoying the fire.

If you look closely there is a beautiful butterfly in this picture.

Swinging on the vines at the old sugar mill.

Trying calamari for the first time.

Calamari is yummy!



We had such a fun day on the island.  Thanks for reading.  God Bless.  ~Missy