Beach Time!!

I've been missing for a few days, but with a good reason I promise!

For an extra long weekend, the hubs and I packed up all of our beach belongings and headed to Santa Rosa, FL with three of his college roommates and their wives.  And we had an incredible time.  The beach was beautiful and food was yummy.  I haven't laughed so much in a long time too!

We ate at the Local Catch the first night and the boys made a low country boil the next night that was incredible! We dumped it out on newspaper and quickly ate up the fresh shrimp.

Later that night we went putt-putting! A lot of us had not done it in forever and it was definitely entertaining!

The next morning we went to Another Broken Egg cafe, seriously the best breakfast I've had in a looonnnnggg time! We briefly hit the outlet malls and then camped out on the beach into the evening.

That evening we went to the Great Southern Cafe in Seaside, FL.  We spent some solid time thinking about where all the Truman Show was filmed in the downtown and shopped while we waited for dinner. The waitress recommended a dish called Grits a Ya Ya. It was a featured dish in Southern Living. And I can tell you, there is a reason it was featured... It was SO GOOD!

David and I had a great time catching up with everyone while getting our tan on.  It was a great trip!

School's ALMOST Out For the Summer!

I'm purely exhausted....

and it can only mean one thing....

school's ALMOST out for the summer!

While I still have to go into work some, make brand new lesson plans, learn new curriculum, and create common assessments aligned with the standards in my time off.... at least I can do it wherever I want!

Today, one of my cousins, Alex called me!  We talked about what all we were going to do this summer.  We talked about going to the pool and playing with Hazel at the dog park.  It gave me a glimpse of summer and there is no going back!  Above is a picture from Christmas (when Hazel was HALF the size she is now!)  We can't believe how fast our precious puppy has grown!

Hazel is REALLY excited about hanging out with her cousins this summer!

Thinking about summer is getting me through these long and exhausting days.  I am so excited to spend time with the hubby, my family, go on vacation, celebrate our 1 year anniversary, and the most important thing of all, GET A TAN!

 Hazel was also not very happy that I was paying attention to the computer and not her!  This last one is her begging me to play right now! So I will appease her :)

I know we are all looking forward to summer summertime!