3/8/18...EVAN ASKED JESUS INTO HIS HEART111 We left our condo at 9:30 and headed to Christophers. We all forgot to remember to bring the baby gift, wedding card and Zayden's gift that we had got at Walmart. Didn't realize it until we were too far. Had a great time with Chris and Angie. Loved holding baby Kylon. Went out to eat, came home and packed some stuff, played cards.

Great Great Uncle Bill with his nephew, Kylon...3 mos. old

Christopher, Kylon and Bill

Angie, Chris, me and Bill at their house

Sue, Chris, Angie, Bill and Charlie

Bill trying Oyster bites....I was amazed...maybe cheese will be next

Me and baby Kylon.  He was so precious!

We went to the Air Force Museum

Bill and Charlie looking at all the guns

Bill...loved the flag behind him

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Sue and Charlie...thought this was so cute on the ride home.  They trusted Bill's driving so much that they fell asleep on the drive home.

We left at 9:40 a.m. and headed to Christopher and Angie's, Bill's great nephew  On the way, we realized none of us remembered the baby gift, Zayden's gift or the wedding card we had gotten the night before at Walmart.  We didn't have time to go back, so when we got to the town they live in, Niceville, we stopped at a Walmart and got the same gifts.  We got to their house and visited quite a while and I held the baby.  They had two dogs.  One was older and more mellow and the other was young and all over us. It even jumped up on the couch by Sue.  Bill held the baby too and we took pictures while we were there. We went to lunch at a restaurant on the water.  I had the whitefish parmesan.  It was delicious!  I held the baby while his mom finished eating her food.  He is such a good baby.  We headed to Eglan Airforce base where Christopher works after that.  He though we could get in by Bill and Charlie showing their VA cards.  They have changed the policy now though, so we had to go to the other side from where we were to get passes.  There were 3 foreigners ahead of us and they took so long looking their information up, that after we filled our forms out, we realized we wouldn't have enough time to go through the base.  Zayden would be home from school and getting off the bus so we told the guy we weren't going to go through.  We said goodbye to Chris, Angie and the baby and gave exchanged hugs.  Then Charlie, Sue, Bill and I went to the Airforce Museum and walked through it.  We left there and headed home and I took that cute picture of Charlie and Sue in our backseat snoozing.  We packed a lot of stuff when we got back,  made burgers to eat and then played cards  Charlie and Sue won the first game and we won the rest.

3/7/18....It was a beautiful day, but windy again. 65 degrees out...Stopped at the Donut Hole, Went to Pensacola for a drive...ate at Chic Fil A, Checked out where Christopher's house is, played cards

Bill and Charlie checking out the weather

Charlie and Bill

Waves were smaller today

We went for a beautiful drive today

Stopped at the Indian Dealer in Panama City

We went for a walk on the beach

Not sure what the blue light is in the pictures

Beautiful walk but had to watch out for lots of jellyfish

Empty pool today.  90 degrees but it was so windy you freeze when you get out

Beautiful Sunset

We got up, ate breakfast, checked outside to see what the temperature was.  It was pretty windy out so felt cool on our balcony.  We ate our breakfast and then deduced to ride to Pensacola. We stopped at The Donut Hole and had a donut and coffee on our way.   The ride was beautiful with lots of amazing scenery. We stopped at a Chic Fil A for lunch.  We ended up going to the city, Niceville where Christopher and Angie live and found where there house is.  We are going there tomorrow to eat lunch and go to his base.  He is getting passes for us.  We came back and went for a walk along the beach.  There were still lots of jellyfish.  Some people were walking barefoot and Sue asked if they knew what those things were. They said no, so she told them to be careful because they can sting.  Afterwards, we checked at the office with the girl working and asked her if they were the kind of jellyfish that sting and she said yes.  Ate up the leftover spaghetti for dinner.  Played cards.  Chuck and Sue won 2 and Bill and I won 3.

3/6/18...71 degrees, windy and had some rain. Evan almost got ran over by Melissa at the school. Praising God for His protection. Played Euchre. Went to Publics for Almond Milk, cookies, batteries and spaghetti sauce

I looked out my bedroom window and saw this girl in the back and she reminded me so much of Hailey.  Makes me miss my Hailey girl

The weather sure has changed...Sunny skies are gone and the wind has picked up.  Warm  out, but the wind is crazy

Sue took this when I was telling her how to take the picture.  It was cute of Bill and the only people picture I have for today so I put it on

Got up to high waves with lots of wind and no sunshine.  In the low 70's here today so temperature was warm at least.  Melissa called very shook up because when she dropped the kids off, they got out one by one and went up to the door.  They just changed the policy two weeks ago after the Florida school shooting and now have a man standing outside the school, opening the door and letting students in.  Melissa got busy with Max's costume for the day, and thought she saw Evan go in the door.  Evan had asked for the change in the van before he got out because they were having penny wars in the school.  Max went in and Melissa checked the van to make sure nothing was left behind and waited to see Max go in.  Just then she started to pull forward and the car behind honked and the man by the door screamed to wait and came running.  Evan had dropped the money and had crawled under the van to get it.  If the guy wouldn't have been there, Melissa would have run over Evan.  She was so scared and still very upset and crying when she called me.  She had called Bruce first and he sent a message to the principal to thank the man.  The principal said she had seen it and it was SCARY (she put it in caps)  Said it could have ended much worse.  Evan looked terrified when he stood up by the van.  This is one thankful Nana.  I can't even imagine how horrible that would be.  I am thanking and praising God.  

We played Euchre.  Poor Charlie is getting discouraged because we have won 16 games and they have won 2.  He isn't giving up though.  We went to Publics to get a few things....milk, spaghetti sauce to add to what we have from the other night and cookies.  Charlie got some batteries too.  It was raining when we were out, but it didn't rain hard and didn't last long.  Charlie wanted to play more Euchre when we got back.  

What Melissa wrote about God protecting Evan this morning: 

Thanking God today for protecting my baby! Almost ran over Evan this morning when dropping him off at school. He had gotten out of the van and dropped his change for the penny war just as Max was getting out and I was distracted talking to him. Some of the change must have fallen under than van so Evan crawled under to get it. (I couldn't see him and did not know he did this.) I waited as Max walked up to the door and double checked the backseat to make sure nobody forgot anything. As I started to pull away, I heard a honk and then someone yell "Wait" so I immediately stopped. He ran up to the van yelling "Wait, he's under the van!" I still didn't know what he was talking about thinking maybe the kid from the car behind me somehow got caught under my back bumper or something. I thought Evan had already ran into the school. I didn't even realize it was Evan until he slowly got up from the ground and I could finally see him. He looked so scared and I could hear the fear in his voice as he told me he was getting his money that fell. As I pulled away from the school, panic struck me as it started to sink in what had just happened and how close it really was. I just sat there crying, thanking God over and over again. Going over it in my mind later on, I started thinking of all the little things that made this turn out the way it did. Only a couple weeks ago the school decided to have an adult always standing at the door to let the kids in. If it hadn't been for that, I wouldn't have known and the outcome would have been totally different. I will forever be grateful to him and his quick thinking to yell for me to stop. If I had pulled away any sooner, not checking the backseat or not waiting till Max made it up to the door, the outcome could have been totally different. If the car behind me hadn't honked, I might not have been paying enough attention to hear someone yelling "Wait" or maybe would have thought they were just talking to the car behind me. All these what if's are so scary to think about but it definitely shows that God was watching out for us today. And these were just a few of the little things that prevented this horrible thing from happening. I can't wait for my baby to get home from school so I can squeeze him extra tight, I might not want to let him go! As I talk to him about NEVER EVER crawling under a vehicle again, I will also be giving him some extra hugs and kisses. Sooooooo thankful!!!!

So I just want to say again, THANK YOU JESUS! I can’t say it enough! I won’t stop! He is such a gracious God! 

3/5/18...Ate breakfast, Went for a ride, Ate at Docker's seafood and Oyster Grill, Swam, Relaxed by the pool, walked the beach, played Euchre

Upside down Wonder Works House

Ripley's Believe it or Not....We are going to go through these if it rains tomorrow

Cute little Shopping area near our Condo

Bill, Charlie and Sue

Bill and Charlie

Bill, Charlie and Sue eating Cinnabuns...They were yummy!

Bill pretending to get a drink from this turtle

Bill working hard to get on the turtle....notice the chair

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He had success, but something about this picture doesn't look right

View out our window when we ate lunch.  Pelicans sunning themselves

More of our view

It was beautiful how this birds feathers were blowing in the wind

Emily's wedding

There are tons of jellyfish on the beach this year.  We didn't see any the first day, but every day there is more.

Charlie and Sue waving at me.  I just got back from walking the beach

We ate breakfast and drank coffee.  We spent time reading our Bibles and then watched the news.  Went for a drive to sight see.  We stopped at a cute Shopping area.  Had a nice time walking around it and enjoying cinnabuns.  Bill decided he wanted to sit on the turtle.  I was taking pictures and was pretty nervous because it was really hard for him and he almost fell.  He finally got on it and I took his picture.  Well when he climbed down and got back to the table, I went to look at the pictures.  Oh no....I had my phone camera turned on me and all the pictures were selfies of me.  Bill tried again and it went better this time, but he still had his moments as you can see from the pictures. After we finished walking in shops, we went to lunch at the Oyster and Seafood Grill.  We wanted to eat at Captain Andersons, but it didn't open until 4:30, so we went to the other place next door.  Lunch was really good and the scenery outside was beautiful.  We came back to the Condo and I swam.  We all relaxed by the pool.  It's supposed to rain tomorrow, so we wanted to get some sunshine in.  I got cold because it was really windy by the pool and I was wet, so I went up on your balcony and layed on the lounge chair on our balcony that was out of the wind.  It was so warm and nice there.  Charlie and Sue went for a walk on the beach and Bill stayed by the pool.  When Charlie and Sue got back to our condo, they said Bill went for a walk on the beach.  I called him and he said he could see me up on the balcony.  I went to try to catch up to him, but I turned around a little ways before the pier.  He went under the pier.  I walked back to our condo and then went the other direction for a while.  There were so many jellyfish along the beach.  YIKES!  I walked up in the sand.  We sat on the balcony for a while and then had some snacks.  None of us were hungry for a meal.  We played Euchre.  We won two games and they won two games.