Vacation, Day 6, Part 1

On Thursday our friends, the Flitters, came to visit! While we didn’t have a lot of time together, we tried to make the most of it…first it was off to the ocean with boogie board and skim board in hand!Here are Brianna with her very first boogie board, Spencer with his very first skim board...Britney and Dustin are playing in the wake...

The Flitters are a VERY special family to us...Buddy and Judy (the dad and mom) have a heart for adoption...they didn't just adopt 4 of their 5 kids, they also adopted us! Judy helped homeschool and care for Brianna when I had to go to work in an office which didn't afford me the opportunity to bring her to work with me. I'm thinking it was about a year and a half or so that Judy kept Brianna multiple days a week...Talk about servants!

SO, if you know us at all, you've heard of the Flitters. AND, if you haven't met them yet, here they are...

Spencer, age 10-3/4:

Markie, age 7-3/4 (he also has the same birthday as Mr. David - November 28th!)

Dustin, age 6-1/2

Britney, age almost 5

Cheyenne, age 4-1/2

And here's Judy, a.k.a. Brianna's "Other Mother", the woman with more grace than anyone can imagine! (YES JUDY, I know you're a big sinner who gets angry at your children sometimes...but God's grace is bigger!)

Fun was had by all in the ocean...And the good news…we all wore our sunblock and no one got sunburn! Yay!

Then it was back to the room for lunch! We did feed everyone, but here is the cutest picture of the Flitter girls eating ice cream...

And Brianna got her Little Flitter Girl fix! Here she is with Cheyenne...our brown-eyed girls!

And with Britney...our "B" girls! (Hey Nettie! Is this a Chrissie pose or WHAT???)

And then, off to the pool, where Brianna got her Dustin fix!

Markie stayed poolside...

And Spencer swam...

As much fun as we were having…it had to end…for now. The Flitters had to get back to Orlando…Brianna had to get to the Gabriels…and I had to get back to Jacksonville to get MY DAVID!!!!

David’s boss (and big brother) was SO kind and managed to work things out so David could have Friday off, so I went home to get him and bring him back to the BEACH! I giggled most of the way home because I was SO excited that I was going to see MY DAVID! Yes, we’re still newly weds!

Work took longer than expected, and David didn’t get home until after 7, but we had a nice dinner and drove back to Ormond Beach…with plans to get up and watch the sunrise from our balcony!

What an amazing day!