Santa and Mrs. Clause!

This is what Dave was doing on his lunch hour today

Thanksgiving in Mississippi

We left Jacksonville Wednesday 11/25 at 5:00AM and headed to Brooksville, MS to spend the Thanksgiving holiday with Dave's side of the family. On the way, we stopped at a John Deere dealership (Dave's client) in Alabama.

We stayed at Aunt Esther's house in Brooksville which was abosulutely beautiful.

There pictures were taken in her backyard....

Thanksgiving Day we headed to William & Michelle's house in Starkville about 30 minutes away..

David and Esther

Dot (Dave's mom), Parker and Dave

Dave and I

Julianne (Dave's cousin), Dave and I

Of course Dave and William went hunting the day after Thanksgiving. Dave shot 2 deer and William shot three! So needless to say, we came home with a cooler full of deer meat!! woo hoo!

I didn't get any pictures of them with their deer because they cleaned them out where they were hunting but I got a few pics of William's friend 9 pt. buck and Parker checking it out...Needless to say, I got about 20 questions later that night about why that deer was dead ( "was it a nice deer, mama?" " Did it have a boo boo?") LOL!!

Halloween/Florida Georgia Weekend

Pictures of our weekend (all out of order!)

But, here are some pictures of Parker in his "Scary green skeleton" costume at his Halloween party at school! He's is a pretty adorable skeleton if you ask me!

His best friend Avery was spiderman and his friend Harvey was a ghost.

hmm yummy!

Second round of pumpkins!!

Lunch on Sunday at Harpoon Louie's

"Seven Bridges Cancer Survivor Park"

Tailgating at the Florida/Georgia game!! GO GATORS!!!

Pumpkin carving

Our first set of pumpkins, last weekend. Dave carved the large pumpkin. Parker drew a face on the smaller one and helped me carve it out. How cute is his little pumpkin!? : )

"TA DA!!!"

Road Trip to Gainesville!

About 2 weekends ago we decided to take a road trip to Gainesville. It was a GREAT trip. All of us has so much fun and Parker was able to experience new things. It was an all around good day.

Our first stop was Lake Lochloosa. We stopped to see if we could find some gators for Parker to look at. We didn't find any gators but did find some small bugs, flowers and great scenery!

Dave and Parker looking for gators

The super cool tree canopy

A grasshopper Parker and I found!

Dave and Parker having fun!

A neat flower in the lake..

Our next stop was Tony's Taxidermy. I laughed when Dave said he wanted to stop here but it was actually very neat and Parker had a blast!

"whoah, Mama! What is that!?"

Then we drove by THIS place in Orange City. It was supposed to be some kind of outdoor antique trade center but it was really acres of JUNK! Dave and I saw it when we drove by and both agreed we HAD to stop and check it out!

A pretty neat old Tractor that Parker thought was pretty cool.

Dave and Parker being silly with some "treasures" they found!
Dave being silly!!!

A headless dinosaur? More JUNK!!

Antique "Open" sign... pretty neat

Our next stop was Micanopy, FL.... this was by far my favorite part of the day and can not wait to go back! Micanopy is the oldest inland town in Florida. Its is so quaint and filled with old antique shops and great old buildings.

For example, the Herlong Mansion!

There was a wedding going on as we walked by!

A cute old church!

The stairwell in one of the stores. Love this saying... "Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and look up at the stars"

My sweet boy.

The next stop was Paynes Prairie. Did you know there was a prairie in Florida!? I didn't!

A snake!!

Then, we finally made it Gainesville. Of course we headed straight for the University of Florida Campus. Our first stop was Lake Alice. And we found those gators we were looking for!

Then, heaven on earth.... THE SWAMP!

The gator chomp!!!!