Melissa's Coming!!!

Oh yes, I almost forgot to mention, that In exactly one month from today, she will be arriving from Omaha! We can't wait for her to get here, and look forward to her safe arrival! She'll get in around midnight and stay until noon Tuesday. We'll go the beach, go shopping and she'll visit local colleges that offer culinary!

So far so good...

All we received in reference to Fay is a bunch of rain! Schools were closed today, though and so were city and government offices, which includes the trash and stuff. I believe they are watching for another storm on it's way! So, keep updated on that!

HURRICANE FAY...and pics!

Yes, at this time it is all over the news. We are not not do we believe that we shall have to evacuate. Our evacuation level is E if you are following that at all! We are preparing though, and schools have been canceled here, so Jason's first day will be delayed! Just wanted to update everyone rather quickly! Check back to see how it went!

Oh yeah, and Jason got his Chuck Taylors all black, because those are the BEST! And I will post a pic of him in those later!

Here are some pics from the weekend!

Went to the commissary and bought some tropical fruit...delish!

Even though he hates his pic being taken, it has to happen sometime!

These little lizards (not always little) are EVERYWHERE!!!

Check back later to see what progresses!

Been a while...

Things have been rather hectic here at the Carrier household. After Terri got her job, she realized she had about a week to get ready to teach a whole new curriculum to a whole new grade, so on and so forth! I have been helping her at school and at home, and things still aren't ready! She did have Meet Your Teacher on Friday and that went really well!

Saturday, we thought we'd try something local...they had been advertising a Greek Wine Fest in Tarpon Springs...sounds good, food and wine...hopefully free and lots of fun stuff to do. Well, it was the equivilant of a few tents, some loud music and wine and food you had to pay for. And we had to pay for parking! Didn't stay very long, headed back home to watch a movie!

Today, we headed to the beaches after dad and Jason had to fix the Escape. Yep, the battery...only two year old, has had some tough times according to the auto shop guy. We went to two beaches in Tarpon Springs, one Sunset Beach, wasn't crowded at all, small, but perfect to lay out or picnic! The other one Howard Park, was a fairly large beach with quite a crowd. And it will be closed for about a year starting Sept. 2, 2008! So we only have a few days to take advantage of it...and it allows pets! I can't wait to take Boomer! We're thinking about going back there to picnic tomorrow night with Boomer! I will post pics when I have more time tomorrow...hoping to hear about a job interview I had last week and they went on vaca right afterward!

Family movie tonight is Fools Gold, Oh YEAH!!! We also went and saw The Dark Knight last night, it was AWESOME!!! Got me thinking about who the next villain will be, I'll post more about that later, let me know what you think!

Busy, busy Saturday

This morning mom and I headed out to Office Depot, which is only a few minutes away, BTW, for their annual Teacher Appreciation Festivities.



Did you check out our goodies, I mean seriously, JACKPOT. My favorite was the unexpected scrapbooking wonder that is the Glue Dots Package, I mean they must know our secret walk of shame! Anyways, they opened their doors at 9:00 a.m. and we got there at like 8:40 or so, and there were already lady teachers there! It was kinda like showing up at a scrapbooking store for a sale/Pink Saturday and/or Black Friday! They also treated us to breakfast provided by Burger King, Starbucks and McDonalds. YUMMY!!! And sooo not good for us! But we did include Orange juice, so it's all good! While we were there I found a pink external drive, I called dad and he was like "oh really"?!? Funny man!

Dad had to work ALL day today, he didn't get home until 7:30 or so. Mom and I spent most of the day running around. We hit two Teacher Supply stores, that was okay. We also went to a Dog Lovers store, because you know we love our Beagle!!! Found a perfect rug for his bowls, matches the other rugs in the living room!

Our last major event of the day was a bike ride. Fun, fun...especially when Heather doesn't know the rules of the road and almost runs mom off :)

Have a good Sunday!

Pics

LOL!!! So this is how dad has been grilling out for the past several months while he was living here. He thought he'd show off his skills and cook us dinner on Monday night, hence his arm looks normal! We are currently seeking a much larger grill :)

Now this is how you live, huh?!? For the first two weeks we were here, we looked high and low for some nice, comfortable, color coordinating couches. While we were searching high and low, we had to endure and enjoy our entertainment via our "white trash," as Joey and Chandler put it on Friends when they had to do it, living room set!

Here's Jason sporting the fashionable chair that is done in the traditional Magenta water-resistant material!
So, doesn't this just look delish?!? This is what my dinner and dads dinner looked like, all nice and forming a pyramid! Yummy, yummy, yummy! I can't wait to eat lunch today, I had quite the left overs, it was a lot of food!

And here's mom and dad, not only enjoying their dinner, but pointing out dad's nice boo-boo! It's healing rather nicely!
And here are the "kids", I think I am trying to decide how best to disassemble it! And Jason is oogling my food, and wishing he had my plate!

Then we headed to the beach, remember. Well, ocean pics are boring, everybody has seen those and we didn't get some good ones at this beach, so those will have to come next time. But, I found this really cool foot print. Leave a comment and see if you see what I see, I'll comment ina couple days what I saw!!!


We miss you guys terribly and can't wait to see your smiling faces when you find the time to visit us! Let us know if there is anything we can do that you can live vicariously through us!

Bayside Adventures

This evening we went to celebrate Moms new job with a wonderful at a local seafood restaurant. Rusty Bellies is tucked back at the end of Dodecanese Blvd. in Tarpon Springs. They have an outside patio deck overlooking the water. However, due to the rather warm weather today, and the wonderful air conditioner we experienced when we stepped inside, we opted to eat our meal indoors. It was an expensive dinner, but it was delish, as Jason would say! In fact he had a first for the Chef, a crabcake sandwich/burger with bacon and cheese. I tried it, it was ok... I had ______ (I can't remember the name right now)...but it consisted of shrimp and scallops on Skewers, and Fresh Catch, which today was Mahi, Mahi; Talapia and two others that of course, I can't remember. It tasted good, and doesn't it look pretty! Dad had the same with Mahi, Mahi and of course, mom had an non-fish dish that included chicken! Bless her heart for humoring us though!

Then it was time for our first trip to the beach since we've been here. We headed to a beach that was part of a state park, not very crowded and had a lot of shade. Definite A++ when looking for a nice spot to lay for a day! We only stayed for a little while, but I can't wait to spend a lazy Saturday at the beach...
Sooo...right now, we are having technical difficulties. The pictures I have been talking about and/or wanted to post from this evenings adventures are stuck on the camera...no cord to retrieve them...still packed away from the move for moms purse camera. So, I will hopefully be able to post them tomorrow or this weekend, sometime!

In other news, Heather has an interview/meeting with a marketing department, you can read more about that at her blog, and hopefully she will be posting about how it goes afterwards!

Terri got a J - O - B...

Yep...she received the call a little before lunch today. As of right now she is signing papers to be a 4th grade teacher at a Christian School, located and in conjunction with Generations Christian Church, the church we have been attending. She was doing her HAPPY dance, and jumping up and down!!!

We are definitely going to celebrate tonight, hopefully we'll go see The Dark Knight...I know, I know...we're like the only people in the world that haven't seen it. But, seriously, we have been a little busy. Here are some pics of the outside of our house, working on cleaning up the inside.


Now she is headed to get a drug test, I don't know that she has ever had to do that : ) and the stamps for the Change of Address Cards so we can send them out to all of you! Here's what they look like, Simple, but I really like them. Although, I could be a little biased!

WELCOME...

Hi Everybody,

So, you received our postcard did you?!? Well it's about time, seeing as how we didn't even get them sent out until we had already been here over two weeks! But things take time, don't they!

I could go back and start at the beginning right now, but I won't. I will start with the happenings of Sunday, Monday and today.

Sunday:
- We attended Generations Christian Church in Tarpon Springs for the 3rd time in a row. It really seems to be a great church, awesome music, GREAT preacher(s) (I have been in tears every Sunday) and a lot of involvement opportunities. Jason has been playing with their youth band for two Sundays in a row now, playing the keyboard last Sunday and the Bass guitar this Sunday.

Monday:
- Evening, dad and Jason headed out onto the Pinellas Trail which is right outside our neighborhood to go biking. On their way back, apparently dad thought he would try and pass Jason on the trail and ended up crashing his new bike! He has a nasty scrape on his right elbow and mom had to get his bike fixed up, it will be ready Thursday!
- The air conditioner seemed to quit working and the A/C guy headed out to our house while they were gone, it was really HOT. Apparently he helped it a little, he'll be back tomorrow!

Today/Tuesday:
- Not much happening on the home front. we're going to be working on the Change of Address cards for all of you! Sooo exciting! I will get back on here with pics SOON!!!
- The A/C guy came again, it works REAL nice!

BTW (by the way) This post was by Heather and I could possibly be the unofficial blogger here in Florida!