Eating Babies & Holding Fish

This weekend we went to Palm Bay to meet our new niece, Lucia, and spend some time with Jan, Chad and Janet.

She sure is a little thing!

Violet seems to be adjusting well to her new role as a big sister. Although, there were moments where we weren't sure if she was trying to eat the baby...

...or kiss the baby. (Thankfully, it was the latter)

We got Jeff to hold her for a few minutes. Although, he insisted that he must be sitting down to do so.

The highlight of our activities was spending the day fishing, listening to the Gator game, and cruising the intercoastal on a little boat. It's hard to believe that life could get much better than that!

(Cue the music..."I only have eyes for youuuuu...")

After a near-sinking (Really! We had a couple of big wake-waves enter our vessel and had to bail quickly!) and subsequent death of my digital camera (thanks, Jan, for photo-documenting in my stead), we found some great fishing spots!

Jeff took one for the team and jumped in to bury our anchor...

And then we fished!

I caught a couple of catfish (including the biggest fish of the day but, who's keeping track ;0) ).

Jeff caught catfish...

...and a puffer fish!

(Couldn't get him to puff up though...)

Chad's first mate did pretty well on the boat. She liked pointing out all of the wildlife. But, after 4-5 hours, she was ready to ditch the salt water (and clothes)...

...for a (naked) swim in her froggy pool!

The big kids went for a sunset cruise and more fishing...

...enjoying a lovely end to a beautiful day.

Thankfully this gem was not lost with the flooding of my camera... Jan was really excited to wear these sunglasses! (And is probably equally excited that this picture survived :0) ).