Balloon craziness

I volunteered to blow up 150 balloons with air and fill 175 water balloons to be used for Field Day at my son's school tomorrow.  It's been an interesting evening/night. :)  I have a huge blister on my finger from tying all the balloons...  Thank GOD my husband brought a scuba tank and air-filling valve home from work so we didn't have to blow the balloons up with our lungs ourselves.... We got the kids to help with the water balloons - we had an assembly line going.  It was a very soaking experience - ha ha - but so fun!  Drank some wine and watched a movie while we filled the air balloons.  Here is my husband buried in bags of balloons tonight after we finally finished filling them all up.  Hilarious.  Not at all an artistic/pretty photo, but it tells the story.  :) It's gonna take a few trips to school in the morning to deliver them all! 

Beautiful sunset

I watched another beautiful sunset tonight.  It was the perfect way to end a great day.  We wound up having a completely different day than planned since the baseball games were cancelled due to flooding on the field.  We were disappointed, but it wasn't a total wash.  We made the best of it and went out on the boat all morning and got to do some snorkeling and swimming!   Very fun!  

Pizza with the Principal

My amazing son received the "Principal's Award: Pizza with the Principal" this semester and went in a limousine to lunch with the other recipients from his school and his principal today.  I'm so proud of that little guy.  This is the second time he's gotten acknowledged - the first time was when he was 3 years old in preschool.  Back then, I didn't let him go in the limo (I drove him myself and had lunch with everyone) since he was so little and there was no car seat for him.  Today, he went like a big boy with the other kids....without Mommy.  Big sigh.... how can he be growing up so fast like this???

Little green heron

I saw this little green heron tonight at sunset.  He was just sitting up on a Slash Pine tree as the sun got lower in the sky.  He and his mate were gathering sticks and twigs for a nest, and I sat and watched them work for a few minutes before the mosquitoes chased me away.  Another peaceful night. :)

Foraging cardinal

Look who I came across tonight in my yard.  This little male cardinal was just hopping around in the leaves looking for food.  He almost didn't mind me sneaking up on him to take this picture...

Sunset over the Blue Hole

Tonight, I shared a beautiful sunset with an alligator, a few turtles, a couple little green herons, and some dragonflies.  It was so peaceful. All I heard was the occasional splashing sound of a fish jumping in the water, the crickets, and the calls of the herons in the trees.  Can you see the alligator in the foreground of this picture? Paradise.

Amazing sunset

Sometimes all you need is a beautiful sunset to put things back into perspective. I am so glad I took a half hour for myself tonight to witness and photograph this moment and to breathe in some nature...