It's Tradition

Our monkey!

Dinner and entertainment

Napping after a full belly

Nonna and the grands!

First group photo!

So sweet....

Love!

The kids were up early again today.  We went to breakfast at new place for us.  It was aptly named "The Breakfast Place".  It was really good -- there are lots of great breakfast/brunch places down here.  After that we gave the kids the option of going to the beach or the pool/lazy river.  Surprisingly they chose the lazy river.  It is fine with me.  It doesn't take near as much effort to go there as it does the beach.  There are two hot tubs, a kiddie pool, a pool with waterfall and the lazy river.  So, there is plenty to keep us busy.  Andrew and Mandi joined us around noon. The kids were so glad to have them there.  Andrew and Mom were on Harrison duty while the rest of us played.

Anytime we are together we try to get family pictures.  This visit was no different.  We realized we will not all be together again until Christmas so we decided to get some picture options for Mom's Christmas card.  Andrew forgot his camera so we ended up using my new phone which actually did a very good job.  We took quite a few shots and all the kids cooperated.  After the photo shoot we went to a nice Italian place on the water.  The food was fantastic but the service left a lot to be desired.  There was a wedding reception outside at the restaurant and we overheard a waiter comment that the should have scheduled more than three servers on a holiday weekend.  Overall the kids did really well, but we ended up being there about 2 hours!

We wanted to go to the lazy river one more time before heading out in the morning so we went back and got our suits on.  Andrew and Mandi went with us.  It was late but Harrison is content most anywhere.  Mom kept him and fed him a bottle while the rest of us relaxed in the river.  We have had a great trip!  It was so nice to relax and visit with Andrew and Mandi and the newest addition to the family!  It was so fun to see how much the kids already love him.  We are sad to think about how much he will have changed by the time December rolls around.  Thanks to technology we will be able to video chat with them so we can keep tabs on how big he is getting.  We said our goodbyes after 10 o'clock so it was a late night for everyone!  Our kids were exhausted and were asleep as soon as their heads hit the pillow...