Our Shadows

Jonah, Papa, me and Annabelle

Just a picture of our shadows. We were walking back to our van, I noticed our shadows and decided, why not take picture of it. So I did!

The simplicity of the picture say it all.

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Aquatica 2011

In July, we spend the weekend in Orlando with Jasmine and the Pletenets family. We went to Aquatica and we had a lot of fun there. Then the following day we went to Orange Lake resort to swim, again, we had fun!

More pictures....

Searching for dolphins.

Jasmine, Annabelle, Jonah, my senor and me

Jasmine and Jonah looking at the black/white dolphin

Annabelle, Daniel and Jonah

At Orange Lake

All of us together, PAH!
Alex,  (I cannot remember his name, my BAD), Natalia, Isaac, me, Jasmine
Daniel, Annabelle, Jonah

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Jasmine's Farewell at airport

As promised, here's the farewell pictures.

Last month on the morning of Saturday, August 13- we all got together at Cracker Barrel for breakfast with friends and family to say farewell to Jasmine before she fly out to Brisbane, Australia. Then just us family to the airport including her mother.

I love this picture. 

At the airport before entering. See how Annabelle is "helping" Jasmine with her suitcase? And Jonah holding Jasmine's hands. Joshua pulling the suitcase and Aaron lugging the backpack.

A close up when I saw how cute they were and snapped it. They know she is leaving.

I had to hurry to the front to take picture.

Family plus Aaron. Her mother hasn't arrived.

Jasmine and her papa

Jasmine and her little sis and bro

It was picture taking time. Lots of em'. I'm not going to show all of them. Just one more.

me, Isaac, Kerry
Justin, Annabelle, Jasmine, Jonah, Joshua

Jasmine has been in Australia all this time now and will be for at least 6 months to a year.

Jasmine, bless your heart and your willingness to help others to know Jesus.

Jonah's 4

Our little boy is now 4 years old! 

We had a birthday party for him. A pool party then a simple cook-out of chicken breast with potatoes salad and salad greens. And of course the cake and ice cream afterwards.

Next are the pictures....

4 years old Jonah

Big and little brother
Justin and Jonah

Justin is getting ready to throw Jonah in the pool

Horsing around

Jonah loves potatoes salad!

Jonah and his birthday cake!

Family

Jonah's getting smooched by his parents!
Whooo!

Happy Birthday to you dear Jonah!

You are 4 years old now!

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Jaguars Time Again- season 2011-2012

True Jaguars Fans!

Last Friday was Jaguars' first pre-season home game. Our 2nd year of season holder at Jaguars. We signed a 3-year fixed price for our seats.

So we will be going to every home game here in Jacksonville. We will have fun and memories.

Here's proof of our fun!  

:0)

My babies.

Annabelle and Jonah

my senor and me

Go Jaguars GO!!

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Salt Springs, Florida

We went to Salt Springs on Sunday with the Pletenets family. It was H O T outside but being at the park. It was perfect. They had towering oak trees with moss dripping over the picnic area near the water where we all swam.

The water was C O L D. It took us a while to get used to it. We have been so spoiled by our own pool being in the 90's to their 70's. I took great delight in throwing our kids in the water. They'd shriek and hurry back out of the water and here I am there to catch them only to throw them back in the water. LOL!

I didn't even take pictures of the water itself. Sigh! But I took pictures of all of us at the table and the kids who were thrilled to find all those big feathers. Those feathers belonged to the vultures that were hanging by.

I teased the kids not to go off by themselves or they'll get eaten by them. Didn't work but they were cautious.

From what I understand, there are 33 springs in Florida. We decided we will try to go and visit all of them. So this is the first one we have gone together.

Love love that silly picture of them!

We had a lovely day there!

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Parrot at the beach

We went to the beach and decided to go for a walk and there we met a guy who brought his pet, the green parrot to the beach to entertain the beach goers.

Our kids were delighted but did not want to touch it. I gladly let the parrot hop on to my hand but he like to go to the top of my head. I reckon he feel safer on top of my head. The kids were squealing with delights and well, they were well-entertained by the parrot.

Here's a couple of pictures.

I love love love this family picture of us, thus the header picture of this blog.

That the parrot's owner! :0)

Turkish Festival

We all went together to a Turkish Festival last Sunday. It was their 3rd annual and we had fun there.

Paid a $1 each person to dress up and pretend we are a Turkish family.

So this is us.

Isaac said his family on his father side came from Turkey. And that our last name "Abenchuchan" are Turkish. Interesting tidbits!

Annabelle's 4 now!

On Annabelle's 4th birthday, March 31, we all had a lovely day being together going to Denny's for breakfast, then to the zoo. After the zoo, we stopped at Chipotle to pick up the burritos for us then onward to Chic-fil-a for Annabelle and Jonah. They love playing in their playground.

All of the pictures below are of our long day together.

Happy Birthday Annabelle!

We had a birthday party for her the following weekend, that's for the next blog!