Thursday, April 16, 2009

Easter with the Reddoch family!

Boat ride on the St. Nicholas to retrieve a sponge the old fashioned way
With the sponge diver, Matthew
Baby's first bathing suit
Eliza Faris jumped right in with the boys. It was precious!!

EF with her great-grandfather, Papa Coach (11 months and 90 years old)

All decked out for Easter
Mama Marge and Papa Coach with EF in the chapel where Ken and Amy were married
Our Easter best
Christopher, Matthew, Abigail and Eliza Faris (2nd cousins)

Okay, so I can't blog very well...please read this from the bottom up. So, after we visited the Palumbos in Jacksonville, we drove down to the Tampa area on Friday. We stopped in Dade City, FL to see Uncle Paul and Aunt Gena. They made us a yummy lunch and we enjoyed relaxing in their beautiful home in the county. Uncle Billy and Aunt Janet came too. Eliza Faris loved crawling around their home and their back yard! Her favorite things to play with were the cat toys. She seemed to charm all the aunts and uncles as well. :)

After we left Dade City, we drove down to visit Mama Marge and Papa Coach in Tarpon Springs. We had a fun weekend with them. We went "site-seeing" in Tarpon Springs to the sponge docks and to the beach, ate yummy Greek food for lunch on Saturday, and had Marge's home-cookin' for Friday and Saturday nights. It was so nice to spend time with Caleb's grandparents. They absolutely love Eliza Faris and she loves them as well. Mama Marge's nickname is "Chirp" and after the weekend, I decided that Eliza Faris should be "Chirp, Junior". She loves her Mama Marge! Mama Marge and Papa Coach are 86 and 90 years old and are still doing so well. It's amazing! They've been married over 60 years and take such good care of each other. They are such a great example to us. We went to their church for Easter, but because of Eliza Faris's schedule, we ended up going to the "contemporary service". It was funny because Mama Marge and Papa Coach don't normally go to that service...Coach kept saying that it was the "hippety hop". Ha!!! After church, we went out to Hudson, FL to have an Easter gathering and lunch at Aunt Janet and Uncle Billy's house. Eliza Faris got to meet her cousins, Abbigail, Christopher, and Matthew. Well, actually she met lots of cousins, I just named the children. We had a great time and look forward to another trip down there. First cousins, Eliza Faris and Olivia
For Easter weekend, we had the pleasure of visiting all kinds of family. First, we drove to Jacksonville on Thursday night and stayed with Kat and David in their new house. It is awesome--I know they are so glad to be in a home of their own after renting! Eliza Faris got to visit with her cousin, Olivia, who is a month or so younger than she is. See the pictures of the two in the tub!

2 comments:

Sarah Baggs said...

So fun seeing you guys last night and Kelly and Goodtimes' shower. Eliza Faris is the CUTEST and can't wait to see what the next baby will be! Take care and hope to see you guys soon!

Connor Family Blog said...

Sarah, thanks for reading. We loved seeing y'all too...wish we lived closer so we could get together. See you soon!!