Garden is in full bloom!!!

Mike has been taking awesome care of his gardens - thought I'd just share how they were looking - Zinnias are blooming, then there is lettuce which we are enjoying lots this year, carrots, beans( we are picking tonight when garden gets in the shade) onions, peppers and then......

Mike's tomatoes this year - WOW - they are as tall as the sweet corn and ......

taller then me ( I'm not too good at taking pictures of myself-concentrating so hard didn't even smile-sorry)

Sweet corn and then the potatoes - I am so anxious for the potatoes and to make potatoe salad too - but I will be patient!!

And here is the other garden - the cucumbers, squash, zucchini and popcorn......

Zucchini that I just picked - we are eating lots of vegetables and enjoying them too - He had Kohlrabi in lower garden too but they are finished and were amazing as well!!! Soon we will be busy canning and freezing :)

Away they go again!!

I think I posted when Marcus and Patrick took their bikes to school one morning when it was not even 30 degrees outside - this is a picture from that morning - well today there is a heat index here and these two plus two others are taking their bikes to Lake Cochran for the weekend(Kooima's have a home on the lake there) They aren't leaving till 7 tonight and it's a two hour ride - they won't need jackets tonight :) It's suppose to be very hot and there is a heat advisory out till next Wednesday here - Summer is in full swing!! This is the first weekend Jamie has no plans - she leaves for church convention in Indiana next Tues till Sunday so we need to pack her and get her ready for that!!! Enjoy your weekend and stay cool!

Picures from our wet cameras!!!!!!

These first 6 pictures are from Discovery Cove - this one is of a huge sting ray there were many inside the Coral Reef where we were snorkeling - Marcus would dive down and rub their backs - some swam right under us - it took a bit for me to get use to this - yikes!! But Mike and Marcus kept telling my that their stingers were gone but just the thought was enough.

Our kids trying to stay under water for me to get a good picture - it took a couple times!!!

These next few are on the lazy river

Jamie loved to climb on this rock everytime we floated by it

Inside the cave on the lazy river!!

Jamie being Jamie - too funny!!

This picture is from Google.com - this is what a Manatee looks like and these are what was swimming up to us on our Kayaking tour at the Merritt Wildlife Refuge State Park

These were the Manatees at Sea World - they had an exhibit there too.

Here come the pictures from our kayaking trip.......

Jamie and her guide Mike

Me and my guide Marcus

on our way to where the Manatees feed - we saw this jellyfish and

this horseshoe crab

and here they came - this is one of their noses - they loved to be rubbed on their backs and bellies!

Mike is scratching ones back and his tail is out of the water my Marcus

Here Jamie had his nose against their kayak and his tail is right behind Marcus' paddle - some of them were huge!!

This ones tail we got a good look at :)

For some reason they loved the blue kayaks and we were both in the only two blue ones - we had the most interaction with the manatees and there were 9 kayaks on this tour - we were extremely pleased about this and loved every minute of it!

This one wanted us to shake his fin so we did - these were out in the wild but were extremely friendly - just like a puppy they just kept coming back for more scratches!! - This was an awesome experience and if we ever get there again I'm sure one that we would do again!! Awesome find Mike!!!!!

Discovery Cove Pictures!!!

Swimming with the dolphins at Discovery Cove - we all got to kiss them and pose with them for pictures!!

If you hugged them and leaned into them they picked up their tail - makes for cute pictures!!!!

Then we swam to the deep water and the dolphin came and swam us back into shore

Marcus even posed for the picture!!

By the looks of this picture - I think that I might be shrinking-seems I keep getting shorter around here!!!

Just brought away the underwater cameras-so will have more in a few days!!!

More of Florida

Grasshopper by our house - Marcus wanted to show how big it was - it's really quite large - yuck!!

Mike and Marcus taking off on their fishing trip for 4 hours!!

while Jamie and I sat on the beach at Cocoa Beach - it was hot and gorgeous to be on the beach today and yes we are quite burnt today - even though we reapplied 3-4 times today

Mike and Marcus joined us after they were done fishing - enjoyed cooling off some in the waves - if you can see Marcus is way on the right side in the wave - I was under the umbrella since had enough sun for the day!!!

We walked out on the pier at Cocoa Beach right before we headed back to our house - it was really neat out there as well!

And this was the catch of the day - Marcus caught a Sting Ray and he got to keep the barb from it - their guide cut it out and Marcus just got finished bleaching out the poison and is taking it home - the guide cut it out and let him go again and he said that he would grow another one back - that seems weird to me but cool for Marcus!!!

Last day tomorrow already - wow time flies when your having fun - we are sleeping in and talking bout going back to Sea World - Good Times!!!

Florida - Part 1

there is a dolphin in this picture - hunting for food - hard to see but he is there

Kids swimming at Canaveral Beach - was an absolutely gorgeous beach - found many shells here too

Marcus feeding the birds at Discovery Cove

Mike-Marcus and Jamie snorkeling at Discovery Cove

Airboat ride on Wed - seen lots of alligators - wow - crazy!!

On airboat!!!!

Shopping at Ron Jon Surf Shop

Sea World on Thurs - AMAZING

CUTE

Mike and Jamie getting along well - :)

Dolphin show at Sea World - more later when we get back !!!!!!!