Wednesday in Paradise

 Only 2 days left of Paradise!

 Buddy loves his playtime in the sand and water--he can play for hours!

 Lunch on the beach....

...before his nap on the beach!

Tuesday in Paradise

 After breakfast stroll by the froggies.

 Hang out spot on the beach for the day!

Tough life I have!

Monday in Paradise

Today we went to the Buccaneer Resort--this is where Nana and Pop Pop stayed on their honeymoon years ago! It was a great place--they had an entire kids camp where Archie was able to do games and play with the other kids. A great find!

 "Umm, how am I going to talk to any girls at camp looking like this?"

Don't worry, can't slow Buddy down...

Some swimming time with Mom. A bunch of blue and yellow fish came swimming up and Archie loved it--he kept on trying to grab them and was a giggle monster!

Sunday in Paradise

 Breakfast on the water!

 The little crabs come out of the rocks looking for food--the Caribbean version of squirrels!

The hotel doesn't have a beach right out front because it is on a pier, but the island across the water has one and the hotel provides a water taxi to get to it. Pretty cute!

 On the water taxi!

 I love the beach!

 On the island looking back at the hotel--it is the yellow one in the center.

 Old fort in the center of town.

St. Croix

Teresa and Buddy made it to St. Croix this evening after a long day of travel--flight from Pensacola to Miami, then to Puerto Rico and then to St. Croix....Arch was a champ and did great. Tired, but all happy to meet up with Grandma in 85 degree, sunny weather! The hotel is on the right--right on the water!

Re-hydrating from the flights!

Florida

 Teresa, Archie and Mom made it to Florida ok. Arch was great on the flights and they didn't have any issues with connecting our missing luggage. It will be a quick stay and then it is off to St. Croix tomorrow morning! Uncle Pete did have time to admire Buddy's sweatshirt, though.

 Playin' in puddles!

 Fresh shrimp caught this morning!

Weekend

 Teresa and Archie headed down to Portland to see Cam, Kelly and the kids. Buddy loved playing with the kids!

 Coloring with Maddie

 Fun at the Apple Farm!

 Buddy loved his new monster rain boots--didn't want to take them off!

 Taking a walk with Pa Pa to see the seagulls

Happy Buddy

Loves his cheese!

Hearts

 Valentine's Day cookies for the kids at pre-school...Archie was really concentrating on the sprinkles

Testing the icing throughout the process...

Hope Lodge

 We had a great weekend at the Lodge this year--lots of snow and we had about 23 of us there. Lots of fun and not much sleep! Here we are sledding down the front slope where the jump progessively grew as the night went on....

 Buddy watching the Action

 Ready to drop in...

 Watching the action with Daddy

 Playing with Uncle Mike and Dori

 A rough outing for Archie...he was sick all weekend and really was not feeling a few hours in the pack this time. We even found an old Binkie in the bottom of the pack and that still didn't work! Nothing like peaceful snow covered woods, a babbling brook and a screaming Buddy.

 Some good cousin time with Dori.