IT WAS A GREAT WEEKEND!!!

Dear Sisters,

I had a fabulous weekend!  Lately I've been feeling down because I've been jobless for a while but that is all going to change.  Yesterday I finally took my CNA exam and I passed both my written and clinical!  The written test was pretty easy because it was all common sense, but the clinical was the part I was very worried about because most of the people  who took it before me (I was the last in line to take it) failed :0(  There were about 15 people there to take the clinical test and only 5 of us passed.  I feel bad for the people who failed because half of them were on their 2nd or 3rd try.  But yeah, I passed and I should have a job in a couple of weeks (I'm hoping).

Today we all went to the seafood festival in Destin (which is an hour away).  Ray felt bad that I missed the one in Pensacola last weekend so he took us to this one.  I've been waiting all summer for this and it was definitely worth the wait :0)

Here's my lil pumpkin sleeping on the way to Destin and yes she still likes to "eat" her blankie.

This was the food section of the seafood fest. The smells coming from this section was so intense that you can taste it! There were 4 other rows of tents which I did not get to visit because we got there an hour before it closed plus I was too busy stuffing my face.

I got the jumbo shrimp skewer and crab fritter platter from this booth.  Stupid me did not take a pic of my food because I dove right into it :0)

Ummmmmmmmmm..........

look @ all of this fried goodness!!!

I did however remembered to take a pic of my second plate which consisted of fried crab legs, sausage gumbo and seafood jambalaya.  Man, that gumbo was insane!!!!!

Daddy had a headache, but he was still able to enjoy his food :0)

Shown in this pic: a very happy me after committing gluttony.  Not shown in this pic: my stomach busting outta my pants ;0)

Poor kiddies, I was not paying attention to the time and they were only able to go down the slide once (which is shown deflated in the background).

After eating, I wanted to check out the beach because I heard the beaches in Destin are gorgeous.  Man, the beach we went to was SWEEEEEET.  The sand felt like baby powder on my feet and the water reminded me of light blue sea glass.  I can't wait for my next visitor to come down because I will be taking you to Destin!

And again more beach pics. At least the children are wearing something different ;0)

I wish we had our bathing suits because the water felt really nice.

The brats got their shorts wet..........

especially this one here and that is why she is not wearing any pants in this pic.

So, I hope you guys had a nice weekend as well.  I really wish I was home for Alyssi's bday party.  She must have been so cute blowing out her candles.  Please send me some pics of her bday party via Kodak Photo Gallery or something like that.

Miss you guys sooooooooo much,

Joy :0)