New Pool!

So we got Zander a Delux Kiddie Pool for Memorial Day so we could play in it...to bad it took us so long to inflate all of the "features" that he only got to play in it for like 30 mins before the weather turned bad!This is what torture looks like to a kid. Watching from inside while your dad puts your cool new toy together!


Well folks...it is official...this is my kid! The only trait of mine he seems to have so far is my cheesy grin! You look at any photo of me as a child...and this is the look on my face!

FLORIDA!!!!!

Mitch and I got this amazing opportunity to go to Florida this past weekend and we had a blast! A company that we are buying a new feature for the tanning salon from flew us there and here is a little bit of what we did in the 36 hours we were there!I took this picture the night we got there from the back of our hotel! This was like 25 yards from the back exit!Saturday morning we went to the Everglades and did an airboat safari! It was so awesome. As you can see from this picture the water is not deep at all, only 12 inches in most places in the Everglades. There are 1.7 million acres of land and water that is protected as the Everglades!
Here is a picture of one of the many aligators we saw from the boat! Crazy to see them so close!
This was part of the educational part of the safari. This aligator walked over to this man like a puppy begging for treats. He was feeding them raw chicken and they all rushed over to him with there mouths open. When they close down their jaws it sounds just like when you slam a big book shut, it is crazy. This man took his fist and knocked on the aligators snout and it was as hard as a rock!
Another gator we spotted but this one was right under the trail we were walking on, no fence seperating us from him...Mitch took this picture!
Here is a lame photo of Miami Ink...from TLC! Mitch totally spotted this out of the corner of his eye. We had no idea we were even close to it!

Again, the Everglades! We had this crazy boat captain that seriously talked like Nacho Libre, and he kept shouting..."Ladies and Gentlemen....THE EVERGLADES!"
Mitch being blown away on the airboat ride!
Me being blown away on the airboat ride...funny, my hair bounced right back after that! A true testimony to good hair product!
Another shot of the Everglades...I was trying to take a picture of the beautiful cranes, but my camera wasn't fast enough, but I got this awesome shot anyways!



No, this is not a post card, this is actually what we got to spend the rest of our saturday enjoying! Mitch was so weirded out by how warm the water was, and how far out we could go in the ocean before it got deep. If you look close at the picture, you can see where the water changes color from light to dark...that is where we could swim to and still touch the bottom!
Here we are taking a picture of ourselves, because we seriously couldn't find anyone who spoke english!
Once again taking our own picture for lack of any english speaking photogs! This was our last night there, can you tell where we spent most of the day....in the sun!

With such an amazing trip is it such a shame that our trip home had to be so horrendous. We spent 13 hours stranded in the Chicago airport...I won't go into details but let me just say that spending Mothers Day away from my son, and in a stinky, stuffy, boring airport was not my idea of fun! But irreguardless, we had a blast and hope to return soon!

Saturday,,,in the park!

We spent a beautiful day in the park on Saturday! It was a day of many firsts for Zander and a lot of fun! I think we had more fun just watching him! Determined to run on his own without holding anyones hand!
Playing tag with daddy!
Making a run for it. We turned around and he was gone!
Going to see the ducks in the pond with daddy!
Mommy making a poor attempt to be in at least one picture!

First Swing Ride!
First merry-go-round ride, First time getting sick on a merry-go-round!

First time running in the grass! And Loving it!
Well, Loving it after a few tries. He crawled around backwards in it for a while before trying to stand up and play!