Sunshine State

It's school vacation week, so we took advantage of the break to escape the seemingly neverending misery of this year's winter and head to Grandpa Tim and Nene's house for some much needed Florida sunshine. We lucked out by leaving on Friday morning, which put us perfectly between two snowstorms (and between two days of cancelled flights) and while we were gone we missed 3 different snow events. The sun and high 70s weather was much needed!

Henry is obsessed with going to Florida - particularly due to the pool. We barely made it to the house before he jumped in.

Elliot also loved the pool - but considering he can in no way swim and didn't seem to have any fear of running straight off the edge, this caused a wee bit of stress for the adults.

We spent one afternoon at a local nature preserve where the boys spotted all sorts of birds, turtles, and alligators:

Headed to the zoo one morning:

Went to Henry's favorite playground where we rode the carousel:

Went to the beach:

And did lots of relaxing:

It was a great, but too short, trip (and returning to the sleet and giant snow piles this afternoon was not fun!). Only two months until we head back to Florida for our Disney vacation!