Gaylord Palms!

We just got back from a lovely little getaway at the Gaylord Palms! It just would not be summer without a trip to our favorite hotel. The weather was absolutely perfect! We were so happy to see some sunshine after all that rain! The hotel has updated the pool area and they call it the Cypress Springs family water park. We all had so much fun swimming and riding the water slides. We had our dinner poolside Wednesday night and swam until the sun went down. We slept in Thursday morning and spent most of the day at the pool again. We did a little shopping at the outlet malls and had dinner at Landry's Seafood. Ben had gone the whole day without a nap, so he and I crashed as soon as we got back from shopping and dinner. We woke up early enough today to get some more swimming in before we checked out. It was a perfect little getaway!

Ben's 1st Bowling Trip!

It has been really hard keeping Ben entertained with Tropical Storm Debby hanging around. We decided to brave the weather yesterday and go to the mall in Lake Wales for some bowling. Ben had such a good time! We will definitely do it again soon!

Chick-Fil-A, Museums, Papa and Reese!

I had an appointment for a hair cut in Lakeland on Friday, so we made a fun day of it while we were so far from Frostproof. We took Ben to eat inside a Chick-Fil-A for the first time for lunch. He had fun playing on the slide in the restaurant, and we all enjoyed some chicken and waffle fries. After lunch and my hair cut, we took Ben to the Children's Museum in downtown Lakeland. This museum has 3 floors of fun! Ben brought his fireman's hat because we figured they would have a firetruck like the one in Sebring. They also had a grocery store section where Ben enjoyed shopping. I think his favorite part of the museum was the bottom floor where they have a tree house and slide play area with a model orange juice making plant. We played at the museum for two hours! Ben took about a 30 minute nap from Lakeland until we stopped in Bartow to visit Papa Stone. While Jeremy and Ben were visiting Papa, I snuck over to my friend's house to visit her new baby girl, Restina Maria Lane. She is a precious baby girl with lots of dark hair and beautiful blue eyes. Restina is my friend's maiden name and she has always wanted to name her baby girl that and call her Reese for short. I really enjoyed holding Reese and having some mama talk with Anna-Maria.
Here are some pictures from our fun-filled Friday!

Ben added sunscreen to his cart and said they were buy 1 get 1 free. Can you tell he shops with me? Ha!

And here are a few cute ones of little miss Reese......