Archive for the ‘Destin Deals & Favorites’ Category

Ok, it’s been awhile since our last entry so we need to get back to work.  The end of last year was a hard one for our entire family here and in Palermo.  Peter will always be in our thoughts and prayers. Everyone is ok here, Annie and James are fine.  Amber continues to work [...]

2011 is gone and we are already in to the New Year slacking a bit.  Today, Amber and I realized at 4:45pm that the kids should have gone to school. We thought for whatever reason that they started on the 3rd but nope got a recorded message telling us that are child was absent from [...]

It sounds so cliché, but it seems like a month ago that Amber said to me, “You know your stuff if pretty good, how come you have never thought about doing this full time?”  She was talking about my photography and for a while every time we talked about it I would just shrug it [...]

Ok, this is my second time writing the blog and I have a feeling you guys may have to adjust to a totally different writing style hope you all like it.  Since the last blog we have been all over the country.  We had just gotten back from Vegas and then I am sure Amber [...]

It was too beautiful to stay in the house this weekend, so we scooped up the children and headed to the beach.  We loaded up with towels, sunscreen, water, snacks, beach toys, football and volleyball… and hoped the children would be satisfied.  Going to the beach with children can be absolutely exhausting!  Today, the sun [...]

We were so tired that we almost spent the last moment of 2008 on our couch with our eyes half open.  Neither one of us has been feeling very well the year has just been exhausting!  I managed to climb onto our kitchen counter and give Joe the “look” long enough for him to ask [...]

Baytown at Sandestin is a great escape from the realities of every day – it’s like walking around an amusement park filled with great restaurants and unique gift shops.  Now that they have added the ice skating rink and the ropes course – it’s really got something for everyone.  My father was in town visiting from [...]

We celebrated our son’s 9th birthday at the Destin Seafood Festival.   We were excited about the culinary options – self proclaimed seafood aficionados, we drifted towards the aroma of fried water creatures as soon we crossed the entry.  The vendors were familiar from festivals past, and Joe opted for calamari and fried shrimp the first night, [...]

Fay, Gustav, Hanna, Ike …. tis the season for Hurricane Parties!  We rarely make it out to the local watering hole these days but a few members of the family were visiting this weekend and tensions were high in the area with all of the looming storms so we decided to head to Blue Point for [...]

Many families that venture to the area want to bring a tangible memory home with them and having professional photos taken on the beach is a fabulous treasure for the whole family to share! By the way, just in case you were thinking you might take a little bit of our precious sugar-white sand – [...]