In Love With The Boy: New Year's

Kacy and I had decided to go down to Orlando to visit his parents for the week of New Year's. Kacy had a lot of time that he could take off from work, so we decided to go down on Monday for the whole week. We left Monday after Landon's last nap, hoping that it would be a little easier ride since Landon would probably go to sleep. We headed about 5:30 loaded down with stuff. I think there was a short time before we left, that Kacy was rethinking this whole trip!! You just totally forget how much stuff you have to take and how much room it takes up.

I fed Landon his dinner in the car so we could go ahead and get going. We drove for about and hour or so and decided that we better go ahead and stop for dinner so that whenever Landon was ready to go to sleep he could. My goal was to keep him awake until 7 and then he could go to sleep anywhere after that. We ate and it bought us about 30 minutes of time. By then it was 7 and he was free to go to sleep. The rest of the drive was smooth sailing except for when we had to stop and get gas. I figured he would wake up (which he did) and then go back to sleep. He had a hard time for about 45 minutes and then he was out cold. I just couldn't keep my eyes open anymore so I think I slept the last 4 hours of our trip. Kacy was so sweet to let me sleep and drive with nothing to do! We got to Orlando about 12:30 and went straight to sleep.

Tuesday we woke up ready to be at the beach!! We hung out at his parents house for a little while and then decided we wanted to be at the beach. His parents live in Lake Mary and their condo is in New Smyrna, so it is about a 40 minute drive. We packed everything up and headed to the condo because we were all staying there the rest of the week. We were just lazy on Tuesday and walked around the grounds for the condo, went and got on their sailboat, went to the grocery store, and then cooked dinner.

I kinda decided that since it was my last week before Student Teaching started, I didn't really want to have an agenda for the week. And Kacy didn't mind either. After Landon woke up from his morning nap, Kacy, his mom, Landon, and I all headed to Publix for subs and then to the beach to let Landon crawl around in it since the last time he was at the beach he was only 3 months old and didn't get to play. We of course decided to go on the windiest day we were there. It was fun and Landon was a trooper. And of course since there were wind gusts that about blew us over, Landon was bundled up in corduroy pants and a long sleeve shirt. Just FYI....don't wear corduroy pants to the beach...sand sticks to them!! He had a good time exploring the sand, but really couldn't stand the hard packed sand. It hurt his knees and by this time, his pants were off. The water was freezing, but we still put his feet in it just for fun. We headed back for his afternoon nap and just relaxed at the condo. Kacy's dad had to work New Year's Eve day so he came a little later in the evening after he got off work. Kacy mom was going to cook Pork Scalapinni for the four of us that night. I know none of ya'll know Kacy's parents, but let me just tell you about their cooking. Oh my goodness is it A-mazing!! They make all these fancy meals (well fancy to me, but to them I don't think it is...), and they make everything from scratch. I love just watching them. Oh how I wish she would just come a cook for me every night!! Anyway...she fixed a wonderful meal and then we all planned on staying up until midnight, but you know what happens after a few tasty drinks!! haha His mom and I were asleep on the couch I think at about 10:30, and we simply woke up at 11:58, watched the ball drop, said Happy New Year and headed to bed!! We were such party people!! :)

Ok, so talk about things being made from scratch...she even made waffles for us on Thursday morning with homemade syrup!! Seriously....who does that?? She does...simply the best!! We headed back to his parents house after breakfast to hang out there and have the traditional New Year's Day meal with his sister and her boyfriend that night. His dad had already headed back and on our way back to their house, we got a call from his dad saying that their house had been broken in to while they were gone. They stole all of his mom's real jewelry (which is a lot) and thankfully didn't do anything else to the house. So once we got there, it was just a lot of cleaning up glass, and trying to recall everything she had so she could report it. What a way to start the new year. We hung out there and then had dinner that night which consisted of turkey, greens, black-eyed peas, and cheese and grit casserole. It was delicious!!

Friday we got up and just hung out. We went to see his grandfather's boat at the beach and then ate at a fun little burger place right on the water. We walked around down town and got ice cream. Of course, the last day we were there was the warmest, but at least we got to enjoy the sun for a little while. Landon took his nap and we loaded up for our journey home. :( We didn't want to leave and really contemplated staying another night, but then we wouldn't have been home until late Saturday night and I really wanted two days to recover before school started. We said our goodbye's and then we were on our way.

The ride home was great. Landon did even better on the way home. And I did even better on the way home. I only slept for 45 min. instead of like 4 hours. We got in about the same time as before. We just left everything in the car and went to bed! Our week with his parents was great and we had so much fun being able to spend time with them!! We can't wait until we get to take another trip down there to visit! I'll go anytime... I really didn't plan on rambling this much, but there are certain someones who like to know about each and every day!! :) Hope everyone had a great New Year's too.

This is where Landon found his love for pickles :)

Landon fit in to this huge vase and loved standing in there and also pulling it over on himself and busting his nose...thats boys for you!!
Kacy and Landon on the boat