the beginnings of Destin!

Ellie swinging at Grandma and Grandpa Johnson's house on our way to Destin!

Sitting in her Daddy's old high chair!

Making her famous "Ellie face"

Ellie's first picture in our summer home in Destin!

Ellie trying on her new "floaty" suit for Florida! She obviously thinks it's pretty neat!

Hey all!

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Again, the days are flying by and I'm just now getting around to posting! It's been a wild couple of weeks! I got to celebrate my FIRST Mother's Day and it was WONDERFUL!!! Joel and Ellie bought me a beautiful pandora charm bracelet that I was so excited about!!! We also got to go on a picnic and had so much fun. I, of course, didn't get a good picture of the day! Such a bummer. :( But it was a wonderful day. :)

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The last week of school was a blur of final meetings, parties, etc. It's always so hard to say goodbye to everyone...even if just for the summer. I guess that's a good sign. We just love our students. They really are like extended family to us!
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Now we're in Destin and almost a week into our Kaleo Summer Training Program. Can't believe how quickly time is going. We are LOVING being here... such a neat change of pace and we absolutely living life on life with the students so closely for a few weeks. We build such neat relationships with them in this short amount of time because of the intense time we get together everyday. We love it.

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Ellie is loving being down here and just eating up all the attention from the students. I know I've said this many times before, but she is just an extrovert to the MAX! She comes to life when there are people around and is always so full of smiles and crazy expressions... It's the best! She also has some little friends here her age, which is so fun for both of us! It's great for her to be around other little people and fun for me to get to be with other young Mom's every day...

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God has been good! Looking forward to updating you throughout our summer here.

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Love you all! Thanks for checking in...