Every year, Rob's family makes a 10-hour drive up the State of Florida, from Miami to Panama City Beach. We were thrilled that this year we had the chance to join them there for the first time in eight years, and for the first time ever for Lucie! Here are some pictures of our time together there.
Our cousin, Kyle captured this great shot of birds in flight.
Lucie, ready to board the flight from NYC!
Family selfie
First things first, Lucie had to hold Baby David.
Once we got settled we went down to the beach for a bit before dinner.
Michael and Uncle Rob in the stream. Grandpa's streams flows all the way out to the beach from his property and it creates the perfect area for the kids to play and everyone to cool down.
Beach Bums
Love this shot of Lucie and Rob. (Another great one by Kyle.)
A daily tradition of eating cookies from Aunt Neise after lunch!
Playing on the porch swing with Grandma. Lucie would hold the chain and sing, "the wind is beHIND me!" from the Moana's song, How Far I'll Go.
Sparklers for the 4th!
This is the only picture I got at the infamous Island Pizza. I thought I got one of the whole family at the table. That was a memorable dinner to say the least! FUN MEMORIES!
Lazy, lovely mornings getting ready to head down to the beach.
Best Mom Ever = Chaos Coordinator =)
Addi, Lucie and Donna in the stream.
Lucie in the stream, running to Addi by the shore. She followed her everywhere asking, "What 'Addi-Cadaddi' doin'"? (Like Abby Cadabby from Sesame Street.) They got along great the whole time...
Well, almost the whole time! ("Lucie, stop kicking your cousin in the face...!")
Mark built a Go Pro camera stabilizer to attach to his kite which was cool! The wind was not very strong this day so he kept backing up and backing up until finally he was in the water!
Lucie and Addi loved to be in the "Ocean" with Grandma.
I feel like this photo perfectly summarizes our relationship: Cracking up about something, sitting on a pizza float.
The neighbor to the house we rented had a pet pig that he would walk every morning! On the last day, Lucie and Addi went over to say hi.
Saying our farewells! Once we were on the road, we realized we forgot to say bye to Baby David and Cristie left her purse! Oops!
Cotton Candy Skies!
Love,
Los Hicksons