Our Spring Vacation--Part 2 Jacksonville

Let me start this post by saying the Heather is much more gifted at blogging than I am, please check out her posts about your visits at http://web.mac.com/burrows4
We were hoping to get up and leave first thing Sunday morning to head to Jacksonville, but we got a later start than planned!! We finally got on the road around noon, and were hoping that Isabella would take a great, long nap in the car--turned out only be around 30 minutes long!
Thank you Megan and Scotty for loaning us your portable DVD, it definitely made the time go faster for Isabella, and in turn better for all three of us!!

Isabella intently watching Mickey mouse, still her favorite!

Around 4pm we finally arrived in J-ville!! We were so excited to be there!! Pat and Heather have been wonderful friends of our for years, they have a 4 year old girl Alana, and another girl Lilliana (Lilli) that is just almost 6 weeks older than Isabella! It is always so much fun to watch the girls interact and catch up!!
That night we started our visit with our tradition of a taco dinner! The weather was wonderful and we ate outside on their back patio! So very nice, and no mosquitoes!!
I have come to the conclusion that Jax is the place for yard sales! They have this really fun climbing toy with a slide in the room that Jason and I slept in, the girls (all 3 of them) loved playing on it all week!!

An action shot!! They loved playing together!!

After dinner Heather, Laura (Pat's wonderful sister), and myself went and did a little shopping and the guys put the kiddos to bed!! What a nice evening out!!

On Monday Heather baby-sits a baby by the name of Carmen and we decided that we all wanted to go the Jacksonville Zoo--actually much nicer than Riverbanks in Columbia!! It was the first time that Isabella had been to the zoo since last spring, she seemed to like it so much better this time!!

Towards the end of the day we headed towards the splash pad, all of the kiddos loved it, except Isabella! She is just not too sure of water splashing her!!



On Tuesday we went to beach for the late morning, early afternoon! Alana joined us after she was finished with school for the day, we missed her while she was gone! It was a wonderful, beautiful day for the beach! We had a wonderful time flying kites, the guys played Bacci ball (with a little help from the girls, we played in the water. . . all of the very fun beach stuff!!







I just love these last two pictures of Isabella and Lilli--they are just so cute and such sweet girls!! Tuesday night the four of us got to go out on a date--Laura baby-sat the kids for us!! Thank you so much Laura, you are the best!! It seemed like the old days before either of us had kiddos yet!! We had a wonderful evening of dinner at the Cheesecake Factory and then onto the movies to see Prince Caspian! It was so great to get to spend an evening out, just the four of us!!
Not a wonderful picture, but the only one that we had of the four of us for the whole week!!

We decided that Wednesday would be a day to stay home and make sure that the girls rested up and stuff! Jason and Patrick went and picked up their new piece of furniture and made an awesome castle with the box for all three of the girls to play with!! What wonderful, imaginative, handy Daddy's our girls have!! Huge Daddy points for this!!


The girls loved playing in the castle!! It was so much fun to watch them play!



We saved going out on the boat until Thursday, again we had to wait to hang out with Alana until after school! Once we were all together, we had another wonderful, perfect day!! We have always loved hanging out on the boat with the Burrows'--on water or land!! : ) We boated to this semi-private beach and had a picnic and just played for hours!!






This became my new favorite picture of her!! She loved playing in the water!!



This one made all of us think about what empty tomb must have been like!!

This sweet picture is how our precious baby spent the boat ride back to the docks!! She was so tired!! Thursday was another wonderful day, we capped it off with a trip to a Japanese Steakhouse to see Adam and Allison (some friends from CIU that are now living in Jacksonville)!!

Thank you so much for another wonderful time with guys! We absolutely love you so much, and wish that we could be together more often!!! Hope to see you again soon!!