Florida!

Sad to leave, but happy to be home. That's how we felt after returning from a full and very exciting trip to Florida over Thanksgiving. Between seeing family, a trip to Sea World, tennis, airports, colds, Thanksgiving and friends, the days flew by and suddenly - we were home again!

Hannah's special request for our trip was to go to Sea World. I've been to Sea World in San Diego, but the Orlando Sea World tops it, hands down. It is huge! We all liked the sea lion show the best for its antics, but the Shamu (killer whale) show could only be described as "awesome." Here's my favorite picture of the day, Caleb waking up on Granny's lap from a nap despite the booming of the Shamu show. (Notice Daniel wiped out on Grandpa's lap in the background.)

Other highlights included tennis matches (Peter and I even WON against Andrew and Mary in mixed doubles!), volleyball, ping pong, watching Lini and Adam fall in love (Peter's sister is courting), date nights borrowing Mary's race car, sleeping in until 7:00a.m. while Granny fed Hannah and Daniel breakfast, the drama of receiving an offer on our house the day after we arrived (more on that later...), Mongolian BBQ, going to Covenant Bible Church, visiting and singing with the Lee family one night, painting the sidewalk with water (Hannah), wrestling with Uncle Andy (Daniel), arresting innocent people with a giant smile (Caleb), and just hanging out together as a family.

Thanksgiving. Ah, we have much to be thankful to our Lord for.