Florida '08 Slide Show

White Beaches, Sunny Days & Great Food!

Ah! Vacation! There are too many pictures to post so I will try to create a slide show of the highlights to accompany this post. We just got back from 11 days in Clearwater, Florida. Our days mostly consisted of LOTS of swimming (beach & pool), treated to a nice lunch at various fancy restaurants by Grandmom Wellborn (the kids "Great" Grandmom), then more swimming/beaching and finally gourmet meals at Grandma & Grandpa Dieckmans' at night. Everything homemade & delicious (crabcakes, coleslaw, lasagna rollups, chocolate mousse pie, canolis were some of the highlights). We also checked out the Clearwater Marine Aquarium where the kids could see stingrays, dolphins, sea turtles & river otters up close. Our favorites memories were skimboarding, hunting for shells along the beach, & boogie boarding. Weather was perfect the whole time (hot & sunny with a nice sea breeze) Jim & I came back with extra pounds & everyone came back tan. A great time for everyone!

Jim earns "Purple Belt"!

Moving up belts in Pedro Sauer Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is very difficult and a VERY big deal. There are not many belts awarded in this martial art (white, blue, purple, brown, black) There are very few black belts in the world- usually only instructors. So for Jim to advance to Purple belt was a great accomplishment. He has worked hard on this for years! Congrats Jim!