World's Best Petting Farm!

Here in FL is the, I think, the world's best petting farm.  Complete with a pony ride, train ride through the some 50 acres, and always ends in a hay ride pulled by a tractor.  They have a Zorse (horse & zebra breed) named Tigger and a ton of other animals.  Always look forward to taking Stella here each year.



This year we went with Sarah & Ava (Soko's wife & daughter, Soko is part of our RTB crew).

Here's Soko.  He stayed with us for a few days in the beginning when we arrived in Florida and Stella had a new best friend.  He's sporting the crazy Stella smile here - they both are :)

PETTING FARM

Stella & Ava

On the hay ride

Stella liking the xmas gift we got for her stroller...the wheel board, so when the babe comes and we're on quick errands she can just hop on for a quick stroll while the baby is in the stroller.  

The girls were using their mom's cameras and taking pics of each other

Stella likes to "Cheers!" to everything - so why not to their sucker treats!

Kissy Kissy the little duck

Dinosaur World!

What a wacky place but I loved it.  A great place for Stella to stroll through the Jurassic Park Rainforest Like trails for 2 hours, play in the boneyard sandpit pretending to be an archaeologist, and run through man made caves discovering her echo for the first time (she couldn't get enough of that).

Thanks Jeamma & Ter-Bear for the field trip!

 Feeding the skeleton dinosaur rocks

 "Bee-Bee" dinosaurs, as Stella says it (baby)

Why Whitney Why?

I say the title of this post that with the utmost sincerity and saddness, unlike some who responded with a heartless joke on their facebook pages such as "crack is whack!" or other similiar posts....  as I loved Whitney Houston.   She was on my Bucket List to see (along with Celine Dion, check that off the list saw her in Vegas last summer, Mariah Carey, and Christina Aguilera).   I remember jamming OUT to her first debut album during the Spring of 1985, I was just in 6th grade.  My dad was always in tune...well with the tunes and so I was fortunate to grow up with a kick a** home stereo....to again, blast away this album :)

I came across this video today and it's a spectacular rendition of "I Will Always Love You" by the one and only W.H. at the Diva Awards show in 1999.   I just wish i could iTunes her version here.

Her voice will be missed.


Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You (Divas... by alexandru2006

The 8th Wonder Of The World....

I'm almost speechless.  My mom and I hit the FL outlets for 5 hours yesterday (man was that nice with NO distractions of a toddler!)  And guess who watched Stella and even changed a diaper or two - HER TER-BEAR (My Dad)!!!  Really, this should go down as the 8th wonder of the world (how did that happen, ha!).   They had a blast playing the entire time, they BOTH skipped their naps that day ;) and she loved it cuz he walked over to her other grandpa's and went swimming too.  QT with the grandpa's & mommy here got a nice break and some me-time.  Put this one down in the books as amazing...like the following: 

Grand Canyon
The Great Barrier Reef
The Harbor at Rio de Janeiro
Mt. Everest
Northern Lights
Paricutin Volcano
Victoria Falls

Kickin' It FL Style with Aunt Amy

We had a great visit with Amy this year - tooling around in a golf cart at the auction yard, eating lots of good food, swimming in the pool, pedicures, picnic under the tree at the auction, eating more food, shopping a bit, and...yes...eating more food :)

 Check out my sister's LONG CRAZY limbs

Our cute little picnic at the auction yard

 Stella's first manicure & Pedicure! She was so cute about it - and it was all probably because of the fact it was a BOY doing it for her!

Till Next Time, G.A. Janice :)

A cute pic from Janice's FL visit that i forgot to post....

I dropped Aunt Janice off at the airport yesterday afternoon after another wonderful annual Florida visit.  This time she hopped in the car with me in Georgia, where she lives, and arrived at the rental home with me - which was really fun and MUCH APPRECIATED as she helped get me organized (it would have easily taken me a week long to do if it were just me and Stella!) 

Thank you Janice for everything and I always look forward to our time together each year in Florida - and hopefully you and uncle Mark can make it down later in the month :)

 Painting her toenails

 Our rainbow toenails  (nevermind my abnormally short toes - they are almost as long as Stella's!!!)

 Subject:  Great Aunt Janice.
Photographer:  Stella!
Yup - she's got a good handle on my digital camera i'd say, not bad huh!

 The photographer at work....

 Janice enjoying one of JoNana's margies

Our dinner night out - Stella stayed back at her grandparents who have a rental home just across from us....she had a blast swimming and playing while we were stuffing our faces at Olive Garden :)

Happy Birthday Great Uncle Rick!

 

This photo was obviously taken some time ago - in August of 2010 when I THOUGHT it was Uncle Rick's Bday, woops!  His bday is today, January 27.  Happy Bday G.U. Rick!