Straight from Nate

Nate and Cade spent a couple of nights with Grammy and Granddad.  Grammy sent me a Nate quote.


Tonight before dinner Nate raised his shirt, pinched the skin around his belly button and asked, "Grammy, can I have one of those little donuts with the white stuff on top?  I only have one percent flab on my belly."

Life in iPhone Pics - Italy

More Florence











Cracked me up that instead of juice boxes there were wine boxes


On top of the duomo - 400 something steps


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Life in iPhone Pics - Italy

Next, we went to Florence. We loved our hotel there











More Florence





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Life in iPhone Pictures - Rome

This cracked me up





Triton's fountain





Ruins in Rome


Coliseum





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Life in iPhone Pics - Italy

Last night at our villa - off to Rome


Our amazing hotel room in Rome


The view of Rome from our balcony








Walking around Rome


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Life in iPhone Pictures - Italy

Amalfi coast


The cars and parking situations were very interesting


View from our villa





Pompeii





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Life in iPhone Pictures - Italy

The view from our villa on the Amalfi Coast - it was 140 steps to the villa!


Eating pizza the first night


A spot my parents wanted us to find - can't believe we spotted it. This is in Sorrento








Amalfi Coast


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Life in iPhone Pictures - Italy

On our first flight to Italy. I had stayed up the entire night before finishing things up. I still couldn't sleep very much on the flights. I don't seem to have that ability.


Jenise watched the boys for us. She truly rocks. She sent this picture of Nate


Part of the menu on our flight


Me and Charlotte


My seat was broken. They couldn't fix it, but Brad was kind enough to switch seats with me


Dinner on the plane


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Life in iPhone Pictures

Sweet kitty


Many trees looked like this in our neighborhood this summer


Mark feeding Bonnie some pizza right before she had to be put down


- Nate's birthday cake

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Life in iPhone Pictures - Brownsville

We didn't have a chance to take a family vacation this summer, so when our good friends invited us to come and stay with them in Brownsville, we went. We miss these friends and their boys. Cade and their older son are good friends, and Nate and their younger son are two peas in a pod. We really had a great time.


Chase turned 14 on this trip. How did that happen?


Punk!


Playing at the beach


This picture melts me.





Playing in the waves





Nate and his BFF


Since it was Chase's birthday, he was able to bring a friend

















Our friend is a dermatologist and was kind enough to freeze a spot off of Cade's hand. Cade was surprisingly brave.


The view from their back porch.





- Jenna