Sunday, July 26, 2009

A Visit With The Tiger!!










We had a great week!!! With most of the time off from work, Jessica, Zach, David the Tiger and I were able to relax and enjoy the time visiting by the pool. By our clocks, it was always 5 o'clock here, so we indulged in every sense of the word.

On one of our excursions into Savannah, we took a trolley ride and toured the cities beautiful historical places. Taylor love the trolley ride and participated happily in everything we did. When the tour was over, we tried to get in at Paula Deans for an early dinner. She was booked up and so was Mrs. Wilkes so we strolled down to the "Mellow Mushroom" where we had pizza and beer!!! The pizza was great!!! The company was even better and I need not go into how enjoyable the time with Taylor was.

Wednesday and Thursday Jess and Zach went up to Charleston, SC so Papa and I spent our time experiencing life from a 20 month old's perspective. Wow...could he keep us busy. We went to the Nature Reserve to see the alligators, birds and fish, checked out the excavators in the area (a past time of the Tigers) and headed home to do chalk art on the driveway and blow some bubbles. We swam, went for walks, and truly enjoyed the time we had alone with him.

Friday flew by... and before we knew it they were packing up the car to head home Saturday morning. We had an awesome visit so needless to say, Nana is anxiously awaiting the next time they visit!

Here are some photo's of the week we had! I hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoyed the time I spent taking them!
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Sharing the wonder and the terror of witnessing our child’s final days of life is a very extraordinary and intimate experience. There is no other path so devastatingly sacred or painfully traveled as this. It is my belief that no other experience in life can make us question the validity of our Heavenly Father’s genuine assurance of comfort like having to trust and lay our child in Christ’s heavenly arms.

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