books, friends, & fountains..

on tuesday, amy,  had the idea to head to books-a-million for some book exploration (both of our kids loveeeeee books)...

amy reading to the kidlets

next...we headed to the fountains, which are located right outside b.a.m. (talk about convenient location). ;-)

laura joined us at the fountains...she has two of her four kids in this picture (she's preggie with her 4th). ;-)

the gang in all in their colorful fountain-playing attire

little miss, 'c'...the youngest of amy's three precious kids.

lily trying to stop the flow..

lily realizing the water is pretty chilly..

my other friend, amy, (wow, amy is a lovely, yet popular name here) just recently did a post on her blog of her adorable daughter, MM, at these very same fountains (just on a different day)...see it here.
seriously...MM is precious!

i really am loving my new friends in gulf shores and will miss them dearly when we leave later this summer. i know the kids will miss their friends, too.

but, for now....we will continue to enjoy every moment...as each is a blessing from God.
even when we do leave, i am certain we will keep in touch. plus, when rocky gets his pilot's license (and an airplane)...we will be making weekend trips back here, i am sure. ;-)

lunch at lulu's...

last weekend continued...

so, naturally...since we had company we just had to go to lulu's restaurant.  (owned by lucy buffet, who is jimmy buffett's sister, in case you were curious) "lulu" was a childhood nickname. i love this place!! great fun for the kids...oh, and the food is great, too!

i did not take any pictures of the food (food photography just isn't my thing..well, not usually), but i can tell you the food was yummy and i look forward to coming back here when my sister is in town in a couple weeks. they even offered vegetarian options for us veggies, but i'm sure asking them to leave the meat out of an entree would work as well. rocky and i enjoyed the veggie burrito. delish!

so..here is another reason i don't take food photos too often anymore...i am too busy taking pictures of the people i am eating the food with. ;-) people are so much more interesting than food..;-)

so sexy, yet so silly all at the same time. ;-)

love this picture of my love...like it in b & w.

here is a picture of me trying on a pair of sunglasses in the gift shop. what do you think? too big, too white for my very fair skinned, freckly face? i kind of like them, but am not sure if they "work" on my face. ;-) do they look clown like?

note: this is a rare post in that there are actually pictures of me..that almost never happens..

i will probably go with a simple black pair of bole's i have spotted on sierra trading post. but, we'll just have to see.

so...after we ate we played in the sand..yes, even the adults.

so cute!

can you hula?

then it was time for our sweet friends to board their plane to head back home...

naturally..a family photo was in order and in front of their plane seemed like a great place. our friend;s shadow is in the photo as he snapped the photo for us.;-)

bye bye for now!

isn't their airplane adorable?

makes me look forward to rocky getting his pilot's license.

so...it was a fun filled weekend with sweet friends...i am so thankful they got to stay with us and also thankful that they own their own plane so that the trip here for them was just two hours instead of 7. That meant more time at the beach.;-)

oh...and i added a page to the blog entitled, 'our story',,,it's pretty much our story via a few words and lots of pictures..go check it out. ;-) i will be working on this section as i get time..i will have to scan in pictures when i get back to tn to add to it (for those "before digital" photos. ;-)

till next time...
many blessings..
<3, kelly