Busy, Busy, Busy and Fun, fun, Fun

Wow, we have been busy. I have been getting stuff ready, and putting stuff online to sell. So far things have gone well and I have been able to sell everything I have posted. Yesterday, we sold our car. That is a huge weight lifted off our shoulders. I still have several things to sell but I just sort of need a break. It is sort a pain and takes up a ton of time. Here are some of the things we have been doing besides selling things and going to school.

Poor little Allie noticed that the last few posts on the blog have been about Kaity. I told her I would do one of her because she lost her first tooth. Two and a half weeks later I am finally getting around to posting this. She had a tooth growing in behind her baby tooth so we told her she had to pull her baby tooth out. She wiggled it and wiggled it until it was super loose and barely hanging on. The next day she came in our room about 7:30 a.m. (on a Sunday) to tell us she pulled her tooth out. She was so excited.

It was so funny when she was about to put the tooth under her pillow she said " I have to kiss and hug my tooth good-bye" then Kaity says " I have to kiss and hug Allies tooth good-bye too."

They were laying here discussing how much money they though Tooth Fairy was going to leave. She left $5 because it was her first tooth. I sure wish that I had gotten that much when I was loosing teeth.

The girls told me that they want to go to Margaritaville and The Turtle Farm one more time before we leave, so a few Saturdays ago we took them to the Turtle Farm.

These are just some cool waves out by the parking lot.

They have a little salt water lagoon that you can snorkel in and we have never done it before so we decided to give it a try. The water was sort of mossy (that is why we have never done it before) but it was cool. We saw some cool fish and snorkeled with some little sea turtles. Allie and I got close enough to one that I could have reached out and touched it. It was also cool to snorkel up to the glass by the shark tank.

The other thing that we did this trip to the Turtle Farm was the Nature Trail. Allie had a map of the Turtle Farm but she thought it was a map of the Nature Trail that she was navigating us out. Austin and I pretended that we were lost and she would look at the map and follow the trail. She was so proud of herself when she lead us out safely.

The girls and I went in the Aviary place and Kaity fed the birds. Allie would hold her hand out but was too scared to let any birds get close enough to eat out of her hand. Kaity had a good time though.

The girls and Austin swam in the pool for a little bit, but it was sort of cold so we didn't stay there long. Lastly, we stopped and let the girls hold the baby sea turtles one last time.

Last Saturday we had a BBQ with Rita, Lyle, Ish, Aline and Debbie out by our apartment. It took us a while to get the coals burning enough to cook the meat. We still had a good time even though it took forever for us to get to eat.

It tasted extra good once we finally ate.

Then we sat around, talked, and laughed.

I don't know how we got on the subject but we started telling ghost stories or if you are from Jamaica (like Debbie in the Red) they are called Duppie stories. I think we laughed more than we were scared though.

Monday we had a F.H.E BBQ with some of the families/couples in the branch on the beach. It was amazing. These first few pictures are of Austin and Allie on the Yolo board at sunset.

This is after they fell off once.

Allie rowing before they came back to shore.

Here are a few of the branch members. I am going to miss the branch members SO much. They really have become like family to us.

The pirate ship passed by on it's sunset cruise and I just though this was a cool picture.

That morning Allie lost her 2nd tooth. She wanted me to take pictures and make a huge deal out of it like we did for the first one.

My 2 cute toothless girlie's.