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Camera Stickers

Discovering how quickly my children find stuff on my phone (camera) I’ve never found… I’m sure technology is made for kids.

July 20, 2018

Camera Stickers

Today I found some strange-looking pictures on my camera and thought perhaps they were pictures of toys…

I zoomed in and found that my upgrade had added stickers to my camera. My children found those stickers.

Enjoy these amusing photos!

I think these are supposed to be super dogs with steam coming out of their ears…

Above, Lucas; below, Becky

Oh wait, (above) Kimberly says these are super dogs flying through clouds coming from their ears… so I get the totally amazed and exhilerated expression on this one…

Above, Jaquline (not sure what flower she’s looking at, but I will run from it too!)

Above, Kimberly (This sticker is just terrifying, and I’m not sure why the tongue is hanging over the watermelon – who licks watermelon?)

Again, plainly terrifying – Becky this time. Maybe it’s a crazy raccoon who just swiped the last melon on Earth just before the Ice Age… (oops, those were dodos.)

Above, Becky again. A festive raccoon fixing her dapper tie.

Above, Jillian as a princess kitty with a butterfly on her nose – I love the tiara of flowers. (At least these flowers aren’t scary.)

And to top it off… haha, I’m back to scary! Jillian and Lucas in the crazy starving raccoon sticker with the world’s two last melons (why can’t they just share? Nevermind, who wants to share after someone else licked it?)

Thanks for reading (or looking this time!)

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~Nancy Tart

Matanzas Inlet

May 19, 2018

Matanzas Inlet

I thought I had visited all of the beaches in the Saint Augustine area. Vilano Beach Pier, Vilano at the Crossover, Saint Augustine Beach, Anastasia State Park Beach, Crescent Beach, and Butler Beach. (At least, I think I’m not leaving any names out.) But then we went to Matanzas Inlet.

Oh my goodness! This place is so beautiful! We were able to walk the inlet onto several sand bars with our rolled up pants. Okay, so the adults and wanna-be-adults rolled up their pants and waded carefully, but the children just jumped into the water and got every strand of hair on their body soaking wet.

In the inlet we observed turtles in the sand, crabs and fish in the water, birds overhead and in the dense bushes on the other side of the inlet, and humans floating on boats and a giant duck float in the inlet.

Lucas is running from the water to Daddy, who is building a sand castle in the middle of a sand bar. Beautiful place, isn’t it?

Blue water is slightly deeper than the muddy-looking water. Louis is on the far sand bar, that big yellow blob is the duck float, and the figures headed to Daddy are Jillian, Jaquline, Kimberly, and Lucas.

This picture reminded me of me and one of my little brothers, Charley, as kids! It’s Kimberly helping Lucas get to Daddy.

Our wanna-be-adults carefully wading like Louis and I were. (Christina and Rebeccah, the lovely young ladies who suddenly appeared in our house – where did the toddlers go?)

Another sand bar, another picture of my completely wet fun-loving crew and Daddy guarding the far side (actually, he’s either taking a picture or dispatching to Papi).

Matanzas Inlet has become a favorite place for lazy-day water fun. It’s not the ocean with fun waves for the thrill of surfing, but for lazy, wander-through-the-water days or days when the ocean is still a little too cold for Daddy’s liking, this will be our go-to!

Thanks for reading!

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~Nancy Tart

Daytona Beach Boardwalk

May 17, 2018

Daytona Beach Pier & Boardwalk

We’ve been to Daytona Beach’s park a few times. We like to park at the top of the parking garage (level 6, but today, that one was closed so we had to settle for level 5) and go down the echoing steps to the huge colorful crossover walkway to the shops and restaurants! This walkway is a covered bridge over the six lanes of traffic. It always has a strong ocean breeze whistling through the glass panels. Lucas loves the pretty pictures of fish, turtles, dolphins, and other sea life on the floor. He likes seeing the cars go under him!

Lucas and Jaquline rode all the dolphins!

But Lucas wouldn’t do the turtle – just the girls in age order.

Our Mother’s Day picture was taken at the stone fountain on the far end of the Daytona plaza. Louis took a burst shot of us (new camera function, I think) and we managed one nice picture!

We like to wander up and down the plaza where Lucas stopped three times, mesmerized by the drones. A golf cart came down the beach collecting beach umbrellas and Lucas squealed, “a tiny truck in the sand!” This made one of the teenage boys driving it turn his face red. Jillian calls out, “why is your face all burnt now?”

A helicopter completed the aerial show. Kimberly spotted it and showed Lucas and Jillian. “Can it land, Mommy?” Lucas asks. Since the Family Fun Fest and the landing of the Police helicopter, Lucas thinks all helicopters are going to land next to him!

We went back over the walkway and down the elevator to the ground floor. (These elevators are amazing, they have a window!) After playing on the stone critters, taking some pictures, walking around the city for about three miles, climbing the stairs again, going over the walkway again, and down then up in the elevator, we made it to our van.

The sun was setting on a beautiful day of family adventure!

Thanks for reading!

Type at you next time…

~Nancy Tart

Fort Matanzas

May 15, 2018

Fort Matanzas

If you’ve read anything else I’ve written on this blog, you probably know by now that my family is an outdoor loving brood. This adventure is one of our latest: a trip to Fort Matanzas.

Fort Matanzas is a nice place to wander around and walk the half mile covered boardwalk. It feels like you are in the old Florida jungle – except the snakes and gators are going under the boardwalk and you are on top.

Fort Matanzas has the most amazing trees! They are windswept toward the intercoastal from all of the fierce ocean winds they’ve endured. You can picnic right under them (exactly what we did!) and walk through them. You are even allowed to climb them as long as you don’t mess with the hurt limbs or the really small ones.

Lucas loved climbing them – with a little help.

We tried for a good picture… (I love digital cameras, because I can delete the hundreds that look like this and keep the one or two that might have almost everyone looking!)

The ferry was closed but they said it will reopen soon.

Lucas found some beautiful flowers at the base of the building. He said, “Mommy, take my picture with the pretty flowers for you!” If you look closely, there are two orange lilies to his right!

Days like these linger like warm sunshine in my memory and I hope the kids remember them as fondly as I do.

Thanks for reading!

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~Nancy Tart

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