Aydens' Day 1YEAR OLD

                                                                        

                          It's hard to believe but Ayden our beloved Grandson has turned 1 year old.
                   Sheila & Darren have been very good parents.  Ayden is a lucky boy.
                             His party was held 4 days before he actually turned 1 at a park in
                   Plainfield near them.   He had several friends & family to attend the party.
                   For the first time party that Sheila ever planned for she did a super job!
                             Ayden did start walking a few days before he turned one.  He is such
                  an active boy, (could be just like his father) lol!

                            Posting several pictures for you to enjoy.

                                                                 

                                                                             

                                                               

4 days before my 1st Birthday and I am walking pretty good.

The theme of the party was "CARS"

                                                                          
                                                                           

                                                               OH BOY  OH BOY
                                                      They say this is a "SMASH" cake and
                                                                    it is ALL mine!


                                                                            

                                                       Yummy  Yummy in my tummy, 

                                                                           

                                                                             OOPS !!


                                                                                        

                                                                          ALL GONE !!


                                                                                 
                                                                          

                                               This is the outfit that Jen made me to put on
                                           when I ate my "SMASH" cake.  Notice it goes
                                            with the theme of  "CARS"
                                      The hat was from Grandma.  It says BIRTHDAY BOY


                                  After we got done with cake, it was time to open my  presents.
                                   Would this be like the Christmas you talk of ?

                                                                               

This is so much fun

 

 

                                         Uncle Nick made me the step stool there on the left.
                                           I will be able to climb on anything I want with that.
                                                                  Thanks uncle Nick.

 

 

I love my Aunt Shelly

 

 

 

Grandma & Grandpa Fites put together a swing frame

in their barn then took it apart & transported it to my

house on my birthday.

 

 

                                          Grandpa put the frame boards on his car and drove
                                             to my house.


                                                                           

Daddy helped Grandpa put the frame together

 

The smile on your little face tells us that you like your swing!

 

 

                                                                                 

Mommy, this is fun!!

 

We went to Texas Road House for my birthday supper.

Mommy got a plate with my name on it.

 

They sat me on a saddle and sang Happy Birthday to me.

I was not so sure that I liked that.

 

I finally get to try ice cream.  I AM 1 YEAR OLD.

And ya know what,  I LIKE IT !

 

 

 

 

Notice what Ayden is chewing on....IT'S A LEMON

and he is chewing on it like it's a piece of candy.  It makes

me pucker right now just looking at it.  You're something

else Ayden.

 

 

Here are some random pictures of Ayden

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                            

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ayden has traveled on a plane in his first year

of life, more than most do in a lifetime.  You can see he enjoys it,

look at the smile on his face.

 

Uncle Nick & Ayden (7mo)

 

Me & my little buddy   (9 mo.)

 

Ayden  (1year)

 

 

I am closing the chapter of Ayden's first year which went by way too fast!

 

HUGS & KISSES TO YOU AYDEN

LOVE YOU

 

 

 

 

 

 

4 MONTHS OVER.... IT'S TIME TO GO HOME

                  We had such good weather for the 2 weeks at Treasure Island, and Ayden
                   was a waterbug.  He seems to really enjoy being in the pool.  Fun to see
                   how he does next year.
                  After we finished at the Timeshare in Treasure Island we got Sheila, Ayden
                  & Darren back to the airport, we went back to the Condo and packed getting
                  ready to pull out Saturday morning heading back to Sarasota to the RV.

                                                                    

 

 

 So Saturday morning we checked out of the Condo, and headed to

Sarasota.  We did not do much Sunday & Monday Kent made an

appointment at the Honda dealership to take care of a recall on the

car.   Tuesday Cheryl & Dave came over and we drove down to

                            Sharky's restaurant and ate.  It was delicious.  I cannot remember
                            the name of the entre but Cheryl & Dave had had it before and that's
                            why they wanted to go back.

We drove on down to Caspersen Beach to look for more sharks teeth.

It was kind of windy and the waves were coming in pretty hard, plus

the beach was covered in seaweed. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Just taking a break...

 

 

We found several shark's teeth again, but this was

the biggest I found this day.  Dave had one about the

same size. 

 

We always  stop at the sign and take a picture.

Cheryl is holding a piece of coral that I found on the

beach.  It was pretty much buried, and I pulled it out

of the sand. 

 

An up close view of the coral.

 

Well so our day at Caspersen was a fun day again

with friends.  So we said our goodbyes as we are

leaving in the morning or whenever we get everything

packed in the motorhome and car.

 

 

 

I know, I know....what can I say,  we even sent

things home with Von & Jenny.  If we hadn't

we would never have gotten everything in!

You bought things to ! lol

 

So we got everything in & pulled out about 12:30.

When we left the park it was 90 degrees, and we

had the air conditioner on.  By the time we arrived

home it was 46 degrees, and we had the heat on.

Gees !

 

The first night of travel we stayed in a campground

just off I-75, so we could run the air conditioner

plugged in. 

 

 

 

Believe it or not this is a homemade Truck Camper.

I didn't get a side view, couldn't believe when it passed

us, I couldn't get my camera quick enough !  Not sure

even how he gets into it.  To each his own !

 

 

The second night we stayed here at a county park

just outside of Chattanooga.   You can see the pond

that it sets beside from I-75

 

Do you see that big yellow thing !   Seems like

we see them where ever we go.  Oh that was in

our other lifetime,  and we have moved on.  lol

 

This is about the only time we got into heavy traffic.

We kept moving so it wasn't too bad of an experience.

Kent says he thinks we were going into Nashville.

 

Snapped some pretty flowers growing from the rocks.

 

We stopped in Franklin, Tennessee at this antique mall

to take a break.

 

 

 

 

We pulled in to get fuel and saw these HUGE tires.

How would you like to buy a set of them!!

 

 

Rain, Rain go away.   In the 4 months we were

in Florida we only saw rain maybe 4 days, so to

come back to cool temps, & rain was very

unpleasant.  Shelly kept telling me we should not

leave yet, that we needed to stay to the end of the

month, which we were paid up to, but we were

ready to come home, just would have liked to have

had better weather to come home to. 

 

 

This is the monitor for the back camera on the motorhome.

And that is our car behind us.  So in this monitor

You see the car.

 

Now you don't see the car!!

 

We had stayed overnight at a rest park and when

Kent went to prepare the car, the battery was dead.

He eventually got it started, so ok we're ready to roll.

Pulling out of the rest park and Just before entering

the interstate, he slows down really fast and has a

terrified look on his face.  In a split second when he

put on his turn signal it cancels the view of the car,

and he knows that

so after the morning he was having, he thought

the car had come unhooked!  Wasn't going to tell

that but Oh why not!

 

We finally arrived at Sheila & Darrens'.  We did

lunch with them, visited a little more then headed home.

It was about 5:30 when we got home, and boy did it

FEEL GOOD!!

 

 

 

 

 

Until our next adventure

Kent & Martha