Sadie 's First Birthday!!

We Can Not believe our little princess turned One on Saturday!!  She is such a happy little one, and without any doubt, loves her big brothers!!

 Learning to blow out the candle with the help from big brothers!

 Emmmm  Just Love the Birthday Cake!

 The First Great Granddaughter, and her first Gem, from Great Grandma, and what a beautiful Opal!!

 Our first Steps alone!

 

A cuddle with Mom and hug from Colby before bed!!  Its been a Big Day!

Beachin, Mabel Lake

Well this is just too cute to not post first! This is how I babysit!!?? :-)

I will be adding more, but had to try something for the purpose of helping Gary and Sannon.. More coming!!

This is the new color of the casa. You can see the before below and the after above. I believe it is a real Improvement in color and certainly cleans it up!!

Hola and Welcome to Paradise. I am attempting to make this the first picture you see.. but don't know how to do that without deleting the first one and adding it as another message... All is good in paradise and hope things are warming at home.

Dec 27 and in Houston. Well this is definitly out of order, but worth a post. We had a layover in Houston, planned, so we could see the "Mathews". It was a quick visit but a good one! Got a chance to see everyone and it was a treat for us.

Emmm dinner!! :-)

At the far end, Cory, Wendy, Mel, and Jose next to Wayne.

Had to get a view of the other end of the table and the back of Cory's head!

Don't you just love those big brown eyes!! What a cutie! and the rib Alexander is enjoying is really good too!

With Grampa! Lots of love in this picture!

Emmm Dinner... These pictures taken with Wayne's new Underwater Camera. This is the first try so hopefully we will get better!
Star Fish

Puffer fish

I know this next one is out of order... But this little guy visits every night and he is very camera shy. We just pointed at the noise and hoped we got him. Believe me there were several that we didnt have anything.. But finally we got about 4. I think this is the best of those 4.

Also out of order... but always a Thrill and we will Never tire of this.. We were fortunate enough to release turtles about 2 weeks ago. They are so very cute. We released 63 this night. One had died or there would have been 64. I believe they are Olive Ridley Turtles.

This is the race to the water! And they know exactly where they need to go!

Did I mention that we are very lucky to have a wonderful garden, and a fantastic new Gardener.

The gardens have been a work in progress, one I have enjoyed and it is paying off. These are just a few of the flowers and pictures I have taken this year.

My Arches are starting to really come alive with color.

Two Hibiscus, double flowering.

This is Pink Ginger and I also have Red. Just got to love them! This one is just outside our patio!

These next two are just outside our patio and the hummingbirds love them.. Thus they Stay where they are!







and of course there is the orchid.




Ok. this one needs a little explaination. This is Wilson. Last year he didn't look so good and they told me he was going to die. Well Jose, who is now our gardener, told me to give it fertilizer, water and wait. Well the picture below tells you how Wilson is today!

Doesn't Wilson look great!

The next few pictures are of a couple of Critters.

This first one is of a sand crab that Wayne chased on the beach. He tired as he couldn't find his hole to go down. I was able to get a good close up of him.

The Next critter, the Iguana privides hours of entertainment! Going for a dip in the pool. Eating the hibiscus, bugs or what ever else it is after. This is one of the regular visitors on a daily basis.

This one climbs the tree to the west of the unit and then wanders around the roof waiting for something to eat to come to him, I suppose...

This particular day, there were two.. emm the war is on.

I just happened to have the camera.. the Chase was on..

and what a racket they make on the roof..

Down to the other side... and off the roof.

Here are a few more pictures: The pool in the Daytime

The pool by Night, with the lights.. Reflection was great!

Did I tell you we have some amazing sunsets!!