Anna took her first steps last night! Just in time for Daddy to see before we go for 2 weeks in Ohio. I will try and get some pics of her walking and post them.

Anna & I are headed to Ohio tomorrow! I am so excited for my visit to come. We have many plans of visiting with family & friends. Please pray that Anna will do well on the plane. She is very active, so sitting for 2 hours could be quite the challenge. The last time we flew to Ohio was December 2007 & Anna was just 4 months. She has changed so much since then. I will be sure to post pics of our trip when we return in 2 weeks. Thanks for your prayers.

Like father like daughter. I just thought this was really cute. Anna loves her daddy very much! And we can't forget about Smudge on the back of the chair :)

This girl loves her some spaghetti! I didn't realize how much she enjoyed it until tonight. She ate that stuff up. I love her spaghetti face.

Anna loves boxes! Whenever there's a box she's either in it or on it or pushing it around. I love that the simple things are what entertain her the most :)

About a month after Dan and I moved to Wauchula, we were invited to attend our church's annual marriage conference. We were thrilled to go and felt blessed to be able to go, but little did we know that we would become the grand prize winner of the event! We won a $300 gift certificate to the Gaylord Palms Hotel located in Orlando Florida! We finally had our chance to use it on Friday night. It was the first time we had Anna stay at someone's house overnight. But it was a much needed get-away, and we had a fabulous time!

Gaylord Palms has several different themed hotels inside, an atrium, and restaurants and shopping! So much to do and see. We had booked our room in the Emerald Bay as a second choice being that the Everglades was not available. But when we checked in, we were given a free upgrade to a suite in the Everglades!

The living area.


The dining area. The doorway goes to the bedroom & bathroom.

Here's the view from our balcony!

The Old Hickory Steakhouse, a fine dining restaurant where we had dinner Friday evening! It was delicious! Here's pics from dinner.



A stool for my purse!



The meal was a la carte and cooked to perfection! Dan and I have never really had dinner at a place this fancy before, but it was worth the experience and we have a great time together.

The next morning we had breakfast brought to our room!



After we had a delicious breakfast on our balcony we decided to take a full tour of the hotel and get some shots of the many spectacular things!

There are baby gators and turtles on the rock!













We had such an amazing time! If you ever have the opportunity to go and stay there, I highly recommend it. Thank you Darin & Jen for watching Anna. She had such a good time with you both :)

Anna's always so happy playing during the day.

Mommy & Anna :)