Sunset Dinner at the Beach

We decided to have a picnic dinner the beach last week, so we loaded up Rhett's new wagon and headed down there. We stopped at our place to pick up some Fish, Shrimp and Chips and made our way across the street just in time. The water was cold, but Rhett didn't care.. he kept trying to go in. We got to watch the boat come in with all the tourists from the sunset cruise. It was a great evening... we need to do it more often!!!!!! Isn't it horrible how we take it for granted??!!

Helping Opa Kost

Opa took Rhett for a ride on the mower. I guess he is training him early for mowing that BIG yard ;)

Boy's Best Friend

Rhett just adores the dogs. When they make thier way into the house Rhett squeels and gets sooooo excited making a bee-line them. Kaiser is the only one that sits and lets Rhett just climb all over him. It's soo sweet that Kaiser puts up with it!

last post from Florida... sorry, I had to catch up with my posts!!!

We went to visit Great grandpa one more time before we headed back to Hawaii. He is staying with a nice family in Merritt Island that is able to give him 24 hour care...... he is in great spirits and seems to like the company :)


Tata and GrammyLia have started a piggy bank for Rhett. We were teaching him how to put the pennies in the slot. Ofcoarse, we also had to teach him not to put them in his mouth!!!

Justa Swingin'

We took a ride in mom's convertible one afternoon when the weather was beautiful. We ended up at the Cocoa Village for some lunch and some play time at the park. Rhett just looooves the swings... oh, and tootsie pops too ;)

Jaws Spotting!

Dad and I had the chance to go scuba diving in the Living Seas at Epcot at Walt Disney World. It was amazing!!!! I highly recommend it :) We were in a HUGE indoor tank that had atleast 8 sharks, lots of rays, gigantic turtles and groupers. Some of the sharks were 9-10 feet long... WOW!! We were within just a few feet of them!! Wish we had more picture, but they didn't allow us to bring cameras. We were lucky to get them to snap this one for us before we went down.
I took this one from the viewing area through the glass after the dive was over. The picture is of a little under water bubble that we could come up into . It was fed with surface air, but was 20 feet under. Realy neat! The coolest part of the dive was that we could swim up to the glass and wave at all the people in the finding Nemo ride and eating in the Restaurant! It was fun to watch thier faces when the sharks would swim by us! Dad and I even bought a DVD of our dive for proof!!

Havin' fun in Florida!

It was soooo cold on New Year's Day in Florida. A front came through and lasted for several days. Brrrrr!!
We made a visit to the Brevard Zoo with my cousin Brenda and her kids, Grace and Ben. Rhett just loved all the animals.
Here he is checking out the otters.
I got a kick out of this.... Rhett kept putting his hand through the fence and the deer was just licking away! Rhett was laughing and didn't even care that his whole hand was in the mouth of a deer! He is such an animal lover :)

Happy New Year 2008!

We went to the First Night Celebration in the Cocoa Village with mom and aunt Susan. Chris, Melissa and the girls met us there.
Rhett playing with Patience and Uncle Chris :)

Rhett and I playing in the drum circle!

Santa came to Tata and Grammy's house too!!

The Grassman Family Christmas Party! It has been five years since I have been there for a family Christmas.... it meant so much to me to be able to spend time with everyone! I don't think that Rhett quite knew what to do with himself. There were so many little girls!!! (my cousin's kids) Whoohoo... he is such a flirt and attention hog!!!

Rhett with his great grandpa Grassman, who is doing great after his heart surgery!

Rhett loves his uncle Chris :)
Bonnie, Erin, Livy, Monica, Sue and Connor

Our 'second' Christmas morning.....

Dad gave Rhett his first Tonka dump truck, just like Grandpa Grassman gave Chris his first Tonka truck :)

I think santa went a little crazy!!! Look at all those gifts... Rhett was loving it!
mmmmmmmm! What a morning :)

Christmas Morning

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
Waking up with his morning sippy of milk. He was so content and was in no rush whatsoever to open his gifts. In fact, I had to open most of them for him. Funny that the gift he was most excited about was an 88 cent toy cell phone I picked up at the last minute at Walmart. Ha!!
Connecting the webcam with Tata and GrammyLia... we were on it for almost 3 hours!! Rhett just can't keep his little fingers off the keyboard, so it makes it difficult. We had to cover the keys with a magazine, but he is a little too smart for that. Eventually we had to hide the computer and just set out the camera where he could not see it!
One of his gifts just had to be a 'German made' dozer ;) He is sitting in his new radio flyer wagon!

Christmas morning was wonderful. We were in our Pj's until almost noon. We opened presents with my parents in FL on the webcam. For lunch we went to Mike's parents for lunch. Marion made a beautiful Goose! (very hard to get in hawaii!) That evening I spent packing... we left for FL the next day.