Hello Me - self portrait by Hannah

It’s unusual to catch Hannah pointing the camera at herself so this was a fun picture to find!

Jennifer on Safari - by Hannah

My cousin Jennifer is like me and does not like her pictures taken, but I thought this one would be acceptable.  She has the MOST BEAUTIFUL wavy red hair and the sunny, fun personality too match.  I wanted to spend as much time as I could with her as a child.  Now we have gotten to spend 4 whole days with her, and it has been exactly what I thought it would be those many years ago, wonderful!!!

Finally left Fort Lauderdale with a BANG today, more on that later, but was able to meet up with my sister Honor who was visiting Orlando with friends and have dinner on our way through town.  Of course, we had to eat somewhere fun so we visited the Hard Rock at Universal Studios City Walk.  Not only was it loud and obnoxious; therefore perfect for my cooped up kids who had just sat in the car for three hours, but the wait staff was fabulous and company was even better.  I highly recommend it and ask for Vegas as your server, he is great with kids!

Drummer Cade

Three years ago.  That’s how long it’s been since the kids and I visited my cousin in Ft. Lauderdale, and even then, it was only for a night before we left for a month long trip to Europe.  The kids were almost 3 and 4 — they were young.  But they have never stopped talking about “Jennifer with the drums” – NEVER!  So here we are again, our third stop of this trip and the drums are here.  I did take a video of them playing today and I am going to work on posting that so you can all experience the beautiful music they can play, but in the meantime . . . here’s some pictures!

Drummer Hannah

NehNehNehNeh - Cade's Temperment (self portrait)

I have decided to do a daily (crossing fingers that I can keep this going) feature of some of the kids photos from this trip.  I keep two cameras with me including one that I allow the kids to take pictures with as they wish.    Most of their pictures are, of course, abstract, but for the first time, some are getting really interesting.  So once a day I’m going to feature a picture by one of them.  Most of the time I won’t write much, just a caption on the image.  So here are some of Cade’s for the first day.  Enjoy!

YES! I pissed my sister off again, GO ME! - by Cade