Happy Thanksgiving:
this morning we went over to my grandma's house to prepare the dinner.... well mom and grandma did all that ;) i did make the tea...... anyway, we ate around noon and it was awesome.
my great grandpa came, great uncle noel and aunt nancy, uncle james and daisy....
mom, john and little brother jesse, us and grandma & grandpa.
It was a great time. i only got a few shots though, i didnt want to bother everyone with the camera.... here they are.
grandma making her famous jello salad. laykin loves this time of the year b/c she loves EGGNOG!
the turkey, so golden and yummy
then laykin had the camera to take a picture of mommy
awww. laykin & daddy
now, we are fixing to go to kevin's aunt dianes house to have dinner with his family....
i'll be posting those later on.... i will have many photo friendly kids to photograph!

so tonight i had my first session since we have been back!

heather knew exactly what she wanted in the photos of her and her sons. black and whites, in studio, white background... simple and clean. they are so sweet to each other. it was a joy working with them.... here are my favorites!

here are a few photos that were from the little camera on the "water" days that i didnt want to take my expensive camera on... these are unedited... and this camera has bad redeye problems :)

one of the days in little cayman... we went kayaking over to a small little island called Owen Island. it is sooooo beautiful. We all dreamed of owning the island instead the the guy that does own it. there aren't any houses or anything on it... the most awesome aqua water and the whitest sand! see for yourself ( keeping in mind that this is a cheepy camera and photos are never as good at showing the beauty.)

this is me taking the picture towards the island at dad and kevin while we were leaving it.
this is from a little open air bar that we visited on the kayak day...
this is on owen island looking back at little cayman...
this is the couple that we met from south africa (and the redeye problem! haha..... also the day after kayaking ( note kevins RED face ) ;)

the cool underneath of our favorite open air bar at the little cayman beach resort. It is so neat b/c you paint a board and they hang it.... i will show you ours later !!!

awwww... and this is the lovely Sherry.... we loved her. the best bartender in the WORLD! you must go meet her. she is from canada if i remember right! so glad to have had the chance to meet the amazing people that we did.and this is Mark on the left! the other greatest bartender in the world from boston. this was on karaoke night and all these guys work at the resort.this is the view from outside the plane overlooking grand cayman as we were landing!

WER'E BACK!!!
after a looonnnggg day.... 4 fights, 15 hours of traveling, a four hour layover in tampa, a dead battery once we got back to the car... we got back early this morning (1:00 am) yuck! and i thought while i was getting all the laundry done.. i would post some pictures since i have a better internet connection now!
so, here's some more of Grand Cayman....
I still have to get all the pictures off the little camera too so that i can share them! :)

the beach... where the guys went snorkeling...

this was the first night we were were there... for pirates week

and all of us after the CRAZY sailing trip....
this was a house started 15 years ago... i guess the guy ran out of money. or ambition!?
these little guys were everywhere... more later... gotta go do some more laundry! wahoo!!!

last day....
we have had a great time here...with the island life, but i am ready to come back home and get back to it! i will have to get caught up on the posting when we get back in the states... this internet, like i have said, isn't working with me.... :) thats ok.

lastnight we went to a local restaurant bar and met some really neat people from south africa... there was also karaoke (jessi, we missed you) !

we are headed back home in the morning.. our plane leaves @ 8:55 et and we will be back late tomorrow night.

friday: i am thinkin' 1o days away from home is just a few days to many.

we are having a great time, kevin & dad want to move here... but i am ready to come home i think! i miss normal life. crazy, b/c you go on vacation to "get away" and then once you are gone, you wanna go home! ha! anyway, yesterday we went kayaking to Owen Island, a little private owned island off little cayman. i didnt want to take my big camera since we were on kayaks but i brought the little one. i wont be able to post those b/c i dont have that software on my laptop.

this is for laykin... i wrote "hi laykin" in the sand!

this is on the north side of the island!well, this internet is a pain. so, thats all for now.....see you soon.

thursday! just a few more days left!!!

yesterday we finished out our 24 hour jeep rental and went exploring around our 10 mile long island. we went to the far east tip and over to the northern bloody bay wall side. our villas are on the southern side (less windy). we had a great time as christopher columbus (who first discovered the islands) and then took the jeep back by mid afternoon. we then bicycled up to another little resort, the little cayman beach resort, and sat at the bar far a little while. after the mudslides, darla and i headed back to the villas and regrouped and then headed to the hungry iguana to wait on the guys. so, if i havent mentioned before... they have these rum punches here that are the common island drink. anyway, they are great but the bite you. here is one pic for now. my battery is going dead, i will try and post more later tonight~



internet here is iffy... so, i may not get to post as often as possible.

ok! so we are here and settled. i am a few days behind on blogging though since we didn't have internet the first 2 days at grand cayman. we got in grand cayman at about 5:00pm saturday night and stayed until about 2:00 pm yesterday. we had a great time over there. we just happened to stumble up on pirate week which was a blast. everyone danced up as pirates and danced on the streets, beer in hand! there were live bands.... latin. sunday morning we went on what turned out to be a crazy sailboat trip. it was a 22' boat crazy windy the waves were crashing over us... but we ARE alive! we didnt get to snorkle the wall or see the stingray city, but we still have a crazy story to tell! our captin "john micheal" was great. he was definatly a pro at what he does. if you ever come her.... definalty call him up! so, with out further ado.... her is the first pictures from our trip......

this is at our villas... grand cayman

this is downtown georgetown during pirates week. me, darla and some locals ( the guy was a little sweet on darla!) haha...
this was just another local....
thought this was a funny sign.
haha.. and us!

downtown georgetown at night!this is all of us after our sailing trip. john micheal was holding out the camera so we could all be in the pic.and our boat. i thought we were gonna go overboard.more later.... today we are renting a jeep to explore the island.

hello all! we are here!!!! at grand cayman we had NO internet! just arrived at little cayman and are going to go EAT! we love it and i will post pics when we get back from the " hungry iguana" restraunt.

so, we leave tomorrow! my plan is to document our trip as we go & share it with all of you. so, when we get there and settled, i will blog and tell you how the 6:45am - 4:05pm flying was! K
so stay tuned and give me some love with COMMENTS! see you all soon, down where it's warm! have a wonderful week. p.s. (i'm gonna miss my baby) *tear* shes staying here.....

here are some more images from the day that kevin and i went on the drive!

btw: 2 more days..... :)