monkey

love all of these monkeys. the big one, too

bucket

so andy makes our beach excursions the most fun. when he's along, the net comes too, and the kids LOVE it.  rowe swims around trying to grab up all of the seaweed and he and andy see what they've caught, shove it into the ole sand bucket and then chapin goes about kissing every fish, shrimp, and marine creature that is currently swimming. super fun night with the fam.

and of course this goes on until sunset.

sprinkler

sprinkler fun.  even the next door neighbor joined in for a bit.  gotta love a sprinkler

so we are trying out 'hotspots' with andy's iphone for our summer internet, which means i have to blog a little bit less while we are here.  just fyi, so more pics to come next week.

oops, forgot to add our other exciting news.  a river cooter, that is what my husband swears is its name, paid a little visit to our backyard and the kiddos were loving the poor thing.  i hope it didn't die of terror after andy released him.  2 crazy dogs & 2 crazy kids are not good for a poor turtle.  here he is, mr. river cooter himself.

spanish

a couple of days ago, some bad weather was coming in so andy could only fish for a little bit, so he ended up taking rowe with him which is perfect for mr. short attention span:-)  rowe caught his first spanish mackeral & some lady fish & they kept this fella. he loved showing it off, then  man handling the poor dead thing and then chucking it in the yard, see last pic in the grass as he is now way more interested in climbing.  also, mainly for my dad who wants to see these sorts of things, here's the sweet little house we are renting for he summer. lovin' the fenced in backyard/side yard.   

ps - lins, do you recognize rowe's shirt?  :-)

farewell

 

new favorite pics of chap playing around with jack & henry's playhouse

oh, our sweet friends from everglade city.  we had a little farewell dinner the night before we left for panama city.  i love the first pic.  henry climbing up the door.  jack grabbing andy's beer. chap's dress is tucked into her underwear  and rowe is staring at the fish.  we are gonna miss the synder's for the summer, but we'll be back before we know it in ole chokoloskee. andy lovingly refers to it as 'the chuck.' so we hauled ourselves up here to the panhandle. andy is gonna be guiding for shallow water expeditions and the kiddos and i are just gonna be playing on the beach, which is literally down our street.  here are a couple pcb pics.  never thought i would live in pcb. pcb, baby. you just have to say it like that if you have ever been here, you know:-)

took a little almost night stroll to the beach in pajamas. war damn eagle.  pretty awesome, pretty sandy, but pretty awesome.  i'm not quite sure what's going on in the background and of course, fishing was involved.

haven't taken any good pics of the beach itself, but it really is beautiful here.   last, but not least, some pics of rowe being rowe.