jupiter 2010 cont.

KJ and I took the girls and Aust on a quick trip out with Jess, the babysitter, and jordy and shands... to catch some bait but it turned in to a really exciting trip with Jessie Getting seasick (something fierce) and Austin netting the catch of the day

Fish On

at least the trip out for sweet jess was somewhat worth it

moments after this pic she was down for the count

captain Jordy and His Little Lady

 Just as we realized Jess was hanging over the side of the boat, Austin yelled"mommy I see something"

Sure enough he had spotted a little loggerhead, which we didn't realized until after he had scooped it out of the water. So we snapped a few quick ones while jess was hurling, hence the pathetic pics, then tossed him back right where he came from.

see! there he went right back to his natural habitat undisturbed and safe

pretty sure they are endangered and there is a mega fine for doing this very thing

 

oh my princess and her perfect boat hair

Munns Family Reunion 2010 Jupiter

For the past 2 years our family has made a trip down south to do some deep sea fishing and some good old munns partying. This year was VERY fun. Although we didnt have much luck fishing we did have a great time trying. Because this was the trip that we all were going to make it to we called it the Official reunion. we had a schedule of events that included some alternative activities like beaching and visiting the Bush Sanctuary. we also had schedule for evenings. We had devotionals and games planned for each day. Our theme for the reunion was ANCHOR YOURSELF IN THE GOSPEL. We had devotional given by the haughts, wards, jake and tiff munns and dan and em munns. We were taught by them how to anchor ourselves in the Gospel through, obedience, scripture study, prayer and understanding the holy ghost. It was a real success. This vacay we took some babysitters along..aka some cousins and friends.. and so we were able to go out, just the adults. it was Fabulous. Thanks Mom and Dad for doing this for us. 

i pretty much took 500 pics on this trip so i will take my time in posting.

first trip out on the first morning with my man on board

all three boats headed out to sea

her scallops are better.

Kara's post about our scalloping trip is much more exciting than mine... check it out here

Munns Family Reunion 2010

We are so lucky to have so many members of the Munns family here in Florida. Because of this we are able to get together A LOT and if there is one thing about the Munns folks... we like to party. This year we had 2 installments, as Mother calls them, of the reunion.

first Crystal River, FL 

Scalloping 

This being the first trip there were a lot of backer outers, meaning husbands, when it came down to the wire. Luckily the trip was still on.  Dad rented 2 Party boats each day. we loaded them up each morning and... A'Scalloping We Went. 

Have you ever been scalloping? It is so fun.  It feels like you are on a treasure hunt. You put on a snorkel, and fins if you dare, and slip a little mesh booty baggie over your arm and hop in. You search and swim, looking among tall sea grass until you see a little shell type thingy, with what looks like 10 blue eyes. The Booty.  Then you dive down and pick it up carefully... it just might snap at you... and drop it in your bag. Warning, don't think for a second that once you've got your treasure that it wont try to escape. Mine did and scared me half to death.

 the crew on day one

these boys were in heaven

 

just 2 of my many handsome brothers

a couple of cute little scallopers

 on the way in we had to prepare the spoils by cleaning them out of the shell

This year Mother came up with the Brilliant Idea of bringing babysitters along. That made it possible for us to indulge ourselves in dinners with no children... my favorite thing.

Laken.Leah.Erika

Jordan.Shanda.baby sophia

collin.christine

oh dear...

i need to get into gear here... only 2 more months til the Ragnar

Race Day November 19

in weeks past

we had a few Birthdays, a few reunions and have taken many, many pictures... so I'll try to catch up here a couple of events at a time.

my 27th

my birthday was a good one this year. a relaxing date with my hus, thanks to my friend melissa for watching the girls... and a birthday dinner earlier that week with my family. here we have my cute little birthday cake that JW picked up for me.... it was just the right size for the 3 of us. while I was putting Hazey to sleep he pulled out the ol' birthday lanterns and strung them up just for me.

our little curly girl candle blower

goldie loves birthdays. she sings happy birthday at least twice a day.. and it usually goes like this, "happy boothday to kitty. happy boothday to russy, happy boothday to sam, happy boothday to charlotte..." and so on until all the peeps that are on her mind, which are more often time then not kara's kids and sam, are wished a happy birthday. i should get a recording of her singing it... its pretty great.

ANYWAY, because of her undying love of birthdays we have let her take over the candle blowing. she loves it.

Wild Florida Airboat Rides

Sweet face John

my brothers were so nice to take us on a ride a few weeks back. Goldie loved it, she was even ok with wearing the earmuffs. She was comfortable on the loud boat the she even took a little potty break off the side of the boat. Thata Girl.

 

love that boat hair

Captain Jordan taking the Haught's out too

here we are

We are just hanging with the Hyde cousins in Nevada.

Goldie is loving her life rediscovering her many cousins. here she is with Lauren.

the fouth

on the third we had a munns shindig at  Wild Florida... the new airboat ride fish camp the guys have.

the fireworks were grand, as usual. it was a great night.

these two like eachother

Some of the Gals 

maddie munns, little miss silver spurs

russell loves  fireworks

these girls dont... they ran screaming as fast as they could to get back in to the shop.

Mom and Dad

The Haughts posing in front of the Gift Shop goods

jw turned 28

this year JW turned 28. Goldie insisted on Daddy having a race car birthday and that we, she and i would have a Barbie birthday too.  We pulled off the race cars, but had to settle for princesses for the girls.

Since VQ was having her birthday just a couple of days later we celebrated her Bday too.

our little ones took care of the candle blowing... so cute

rfmunns family photos 2010

today we had our dear friend Laura take our R F Munns Family pictures (55 folks all together)

it was quite the task... cant wait to see them

here are a few we snapped while she was shooting

the most adorable little clapping Haze

this girl knows how to pout