Casey Key days 1 and 2

We started our beach vacation off with a baby sea turtle sighting.  Emily, gramma and I saw the turtle ladies in the AM and they had a bucket of turtles they rescued from a nest.

Then we had a day filled with swimming!

That night we had popsicles on the beach and we got to see those same sea turtles released into the ocean at sunset.

On day 2, we did a lot more swimming.  Andrew and Emily got new boogie boards for Em's birthday, Andrew hopped right on his and spent a good portion of his vacation in the water on his boogie board.  We also did a lot of paddle boarding, soon Andrew will be off paddling on his own!

First Day of School 2015!

Both my babies are off to school this year!  Andrew is going everyday for 3 hours and Emily is going Tuesday and Thursday mornings.

Andrew had his first day yesterday.  His teachers this year are Ms Martin and Ms Windsor.  He tells me that there is one kid in his class that he went to school with last year, but he was bummed his two friends aren't there.  BUT, he made a new friend on the first day, a boy named Oliver.  He tells me a lot more about school this year, he has been excited to tell me all the details of his day when I pick him up, which makes me really happy!

And I can't get over how much my sweet boy has grown up over the past year.  Here is his first day of school photo from last year next to this years...slow down kid!

Emily had her first day today!  I am a little bummed because they put her in the 2-3 year old class instead of the 3-4 year old class I thought she would be in.  Some of the kids in her class are over a full year younger than them and at the open house Tuesday night I noticed a lot of them were just really starting to talk.  She is such a smart little girl, I am worried she will get bored in there...and won't be happy about being in a class with "babies".  But her teachers, Miss Mia and Miss Courtney, seem really great and she said she had a lot of fun on her first day.  

Casey Key 2015!

We went on our annual Casey Key beach vacation with my family last week!  It is one of my favorite weeks every year!  And as usual, I took tons of photos, over 815 to be exact :)  so expect to see a lot of beach pictures coming.  First up, some beach portraits and family photos!

These two, they kill me!  It is still so so hard to get these two to cooperate, stand still, and look at my camera for these photos. But I somehow end up with a lot of good ones still!

And some grandparent shots...

(my favorite grandparent shot :) )

Some Aunt Jenny shots!

Some family shots, I guess these are officially our first family photos as a family of five (yay!)

And finally a big group shot!