Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Better Late Than Never

So I know Mother's Day was last month, but I am finally getting around to posting the pictures. It was one of my favorite mother's day ever. We headed down to Panama City, Florida to go to the beach for the weekend. It was going to be just for the day on Saturday, but while we were there we didn't want to leave and decided to stay the night and play again on Sunday. I am glad we did because it was a lot of fun. On Saturday we just hung out at the beach all day until around 6pm. We then went out to dinner at Pier Park which is a huge outdoor shopping and eating joint. We then walked around, ate ice cream, and "people watched". I love to "people watch"! We then went to our hotel that was at an Air Force Base and crashed (We can get rooms for way cheap on any base around the world!). Sunday morning, Ryan and Kobe got up to go see if there was somewhere to get me breakfast for Mother's Day. When they came back Ryan had a handful of papers and a look on his face that said, "Are you ready for this"! While they were heading out to the car Ryan saw a marina down the road so they went down to check it out. It was the outdoor recreation center on base. They had boats, pontoons, kayaks, canoes, and jet ski's to rent. Ryan asked if we could rent a boat for the day. We could if Ryan had a boating license for Florida. Ryan did not have a license for Florida, but now he does! He came back to our room with the Florida boating license test. Two hours later he had a boating license. We wanted to rent a speed boat, but by the time we got out there they were all gone. So we decided to rent a 10 man pontoon! They handed us the keys, gave us the rundown on running the pontoon, and said have fun! So we loaded all of us and our stuff on to the boat and we were off to explore the ocean on our 10 man pontoon!

Oakley ready to go swim in the ocean





















Kobe trying to catch some waves















Ryan and Oakley swimming


















Kobe was quite excited to be at the beach















The water was a little chilly



















This is where we road our boat out to. It was beautiful! The water was crystal clear and warm. We anchored our boat and stayed for a few hours and swam around. If anyone visits this same place anytime soon and you see something in the water that looks like a Babe Ruth, well it's not! Ask Oakley what we mean! When nature calls, nature calls!

















Captain Oakley





















Mya's first boat ride at 3 weeks old! I think she liked it. She slept almost the whole time!


















On our way back to the dock the waves were getting pretty big. It's not that easy to maneuver a 10 man pontoon through some good size waves. We ended up with waves coming into our boat three different times! It was crazy and a little scary. The first time it happened Oakley would of gone overboard if I wasn't holding onto her life jacket, Kobe was laughing hysterically, Mya was sound asleep in her car seat (luckily with it covered), I was panicking, and Ryan had a big grin on his face! Everything in our boat got completely drenched including ourselves. Thanks to these waves, my camera is no longer working, my cell phone won't charge, and Ryan's IPOD is fried! If you look at the floor of the boat in the picture, you will see some of the water that is still in the boat.





















Oakley waking up from her nap














Thanks Ry, Kobe, Oakley, and Mya for an awesome Mother's Day!

7 comments:

Jess said...

That looks sooo fun. You deserve a wonderful mothers day!

I can't wait to see you this week...

Jess

Jill said...

Ryan called and left a message around Christmas that is still on our answering machine. Torrey is TERRIBLE at returning calls. He did send me your email that had your blog info, so I have been reading up on you guys. Congratulations on the new baby. Your kids are darling. We actually were walking out the door to go to your brother's viewing when we rechecked what time it was at and realized we were a day late. We felt so bad, and Torrey wanted to see Ryan. We are so sorry, and hope we can be better friends in the future.

Jill said...

Send me your email address, Torrey is much better at writing than calling. torreyandjill at yahoo dot com

Sara is crazy four my boys said...

Glad you had a great Mothers Day weekend! We went down that weekend too but just Saturday. The boat sounds like it was fun-you will have many memories from that adventure...

Arrington Fam said...

Fun pictures! It looks like you guys had a blast. Good job saving Oakley from the waves! The Baby Ruth comment cracked me up.

Tilese

Adam & Christy said...

What a blast. It makes me trunky for summer. I love boating. Here in Utah, however, we have not been able to enjoy the outdoors so much. (rain!rain! and more RAIN!) At the moment I'm having to live vicourosily through your pics. SO thank you very much!

Adam & Christy said...

Oh by the way, good job, Ryan, on the boating license. You not only had a good vacation for the weekend but you walked away with something to add to your many accomplishments. Good for you!