Tori's Birthday Fun!

Tori got to celebrate her birthday twice. She decided she didn't want a big party with all her friends from school. She only wanted the Allred's, Benjamin's and Kitsmiller's to help her celebrate. Beth and Adrian were nice enough to let us sneak into the Marriott and have an afternoon of fun in the pool.






Beth stayed up until the wee hours of the night to make this sandcastle cake for Tori. It was super cute! Thank you Beth!



On Sunday for her actual birthday, Tori wanted to invite her teacher from school for the past 2 years since Jeanette and Jeremy are done here and will be going home next week. She also wanted our good friend Jill over for dinner. Her cake wasn't as fancy but Tori had a good time dishing it up for everyone.

Happy Birthday Tori

It's hard to believe that 8 years ago I was telling the Dr. that I was not going to be pregnant or in the hospital with a new baby for my birthday. So Tori came into the world 4 days before "my day". The years have flown by and it has been such a joy to watch Tori grow and learn new things.

Basketball Champs!

Friday night, Windsor (one of the medical schools on the island) challenged Ross to a basketball game. The Ross boys (or all they all thinking they are 'old men' after that game?) walked away victorious with a score of 68-62. The game was close and tied up in the final seconds but Ross pulled ahead and showed Windsor who was the boss!
Proof that old, white man can still jump! Look at that #13 get air :) WooHoo!!
Please excuse the blurry picture. Remember I'm working with an injured camera so there is no previewing pictures during the action :(

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Desperate for the beach

As promised a few days ago, here are the pictures from our Tuesday outing at the beach. You know your desperate when you go the level we did to get there!


We had planned to go out snorkeling on Tues. but the Allred's car was in the shop and Chad had ours at school. So to not disappoint anyone Jaimie took all 10 of us in her car! We were laughing the whole time about how we looked like a clown car.












We just kept pulling stuff out of the car...it seemed to never end!





















The kids and Adrian had a fun time jumping from the dock!











































Jordan enjoyed being the oldest and took the duty of Damon watch

Need a title for this post...any ideas?

Well, I'm not sure what title to give this post and maybe as you read this you will think of something for me. (leave me a comment and I'll change it to what fits best) Yesterday, Morgan and I went to summer camp in the morning with the girls. I took a few pictures of different things going on. Then we loaded the bus for a field trip to the ice cream making place. I pulled out my trusty camera again to snap some pictures only to find that......the LCD screen got broken somehow!!!!! I nearly fainted! For those of you that know me well know how much my camera means to me. It still works but I have no way of looking at the pictures after taking them to see if I need to make an adjustment to the settings. AHHHHHHHH!!!
So dad, when you come I will probably be sending home my camera in hopes you can find a good repair shop and get my trusty friend repaired. (I may ask to borrow your point and shoot also, so I don't have to finish off my last few months here with nothing...and I can get some more underwater pics :))
OK....WAIT! The day is not a total loss. I took the kids out of camp early and we went with the Allred's and our friend Jaimie to the beach. We went snorkeling and I found a number of shells I haven't seen before. I came back to shore and showed "encyclopedia Jordan" and she started jumping for joy saying that one of the shells was a rare find and rambled off the name of it. We bought a book a few weeks ago about the shells of the caribbean and she has them all memorized. It was a fun few hours and I will have pictures hopefully soon to post when I get them.
The day doesn't end there though...well kinda it does because the rest of the story we don't know until morning. Chad and the girls leave for school and as they are getting ready to leave this morning I say to Chad "Where's the 4-wheeler?" He looks at me with utter confusion while looking at the front of the car where it should be parked. LOW and BEHOLD....there is NO 4-wheeler. Many of you are saying AGAIN? Yes, we were hit again. I swear we are not meant to be driving that thing. Funny thing is, Chad had it taken apart and part of the exhaust is in my kitchen window. So the 4-wheeler won't even run as is. Sunday we had some guys stop us on our way to church on one of the side roads and ask if it was for sale, we said no. And last night it was stolen....HMMMMMM. I'm not placing blame but this is almost the same way it happened last time. We were asked if it was for sale and then woke up to it gone. SIGH!!! Oh well, worse things could happen to us.

Traditions

Since our moving to St. Kitts it has been a weekend tradition to stop at one of the roadside BBQ's and get dinner. We found our favorite right away and even though we have tried others we still always come back to "the chicken lady". She recognizes our car and could probably have our order ready by the time we get out and walk across the street to her. Chad and Jordan like her fish. The rest of us stick with chicken. Once in a while we will get ribs or pork. It's all REALLY good and works for a fast food fix on a weekend night when I don't want to cook.