Jon and Darlene

Well we had Calvin's parents Jon and Darlene here for Christmas! We had a wonderful time with them, they arrived the Thursday before Christmas and went back the Sunday after. We enjoyed having family with us on the Holiday, feels a little more like home! So I will post pictures of the week that we had with them with a few posts. So keep looking in!

I Guess Squirrels Like Pizza Too!!!

So I was going to work today and happened to look over to the neighbors yard and saw this Squirrel....... At first I thought he was eating a big Christmas cookie so I went to get my camera and when I came back I saw that it wasn't a cookie it was a piece of PIZZA!!!

How cute!!

Our Cruise

Well we are back from our cruise, we got home on Sunday. We had such a wonderful time with each other. We relaxed and had lots of fun. The fist night we cruised to the Bahama's to Coco Cay the Island that Royal Caribbean leases. We got there Monday that was a cool little place. Then we cruised for the day on Tuesday and arrived in St. Thomas on Wednesday. We went on a Island tour and then went snorkeling. Then we cruised all night to St. Martin and arrived there on Thursday. First we went to the Tree Tops a old rain forest and went on a obstacle course in the tree tops, it had rope, and wooden bridges and zip lines in the trees to cool we loved that. Then we took a taxi to Orient Beach that was one of the most beautiful beaches we'd ever seen. We had lunch on the beach and the food was great. Then we returned to the ship and had 2 days cruising back home.

There was a lot of stuff to do on the ship and all the pictures will explain some things. I have a lot of pictures so check them out!

New Hair.....

Well I went to the Redken Academy on Sunday and Monday in Orlando. It was a 2 day hands-on classes I had so much fun but wow learning makes you so tired! Well I was so excited because my two favorite Redken Artists (Shannon King and Omar Spina) were there teaching classes. We had 4 classes Business, Styling, Cutting, and Color. Well I just love Shannon he is my favorite hairstylist I always try to go and see him if he is in town. So the best part about the whole thing was that I got my hair cut by Shannon it was awesome!!!!!!! The one thing that made me mad was that my camera was out of battery, so I didn't get that many pictures :(

SPIDER!!!!

If you remember the Spider that we told you about that was in the house well I took a picture of it. It was so disgusting I know that it was huge by the way Calvin was freaking out!!!! It was so gross! I guess that is what you get when you live in Florida. Take a look!

Night Out

Well a few weeks ago we went out to the new Irish Bar (Shindigs) that is down the road for our house. We went to celebrate R.C.'s 25th Birthday. We had a good time!!

Storm A Comin.......

Well as all you guys know there is a big hurricane coming our way!!!!! Hurricane Ike, we are not that excited that we may get hit by this one. But all we can do is bunker down and ride it out.. They are saying that is may slow to a "Cat 3 or 2" if it hits us by Tuesday afternoon. Which that would be better than the "Cat 4" it is now. So we'll keep you all posted on how it is going down here.

We are going to get some rain and wind from Hannah, we are happy that it changed it's course so we will have yet another yucky weekend :( It is already starting... I was on the phone with Bri and I looked out the window and couldn't believe the sky it was ORANGE so cool so I went and got a few pictures it was Amazing how pretty it was. Well talk to you all later.

Love Jess, Calvin and Boomer

Labor Day

Hope everyone had a wonderful Labor Day! We had a good one Brook was still in town and we were able to get out on the water :) Berto took us out on his boat with his new girlfriend Sam. We had a good time when went all the way to Fort Pierce to the Tiki Bar that is on the water. The weather was just perfect hot but a good breeze and the water wasn't that choppy. We had a wonderful time with Brook glad she could make it down!

Brook's Visit

Brook decide to take a trip last weekend and come visit us for the holiday. We had a great time just hanging havin a good time! The first night she was here we went to the famous Charlies, you now how that goes always fun and maybe to much fun sometimes...... R.C., Paul and Jeanie meet up with us also.

Kalen Dancing!

So here is a video of Kalen dancing. She loves when
Bri does this stuff to her. She would get mad when she would stop!

Tyler Fishing!

I just find these so funny! In the second one he is too cute!

Dad, Sisters and Kids Visit

So we had a good time when my Dad, Meagan and Brianna with the kids came about a month ago. Dad and Meg wanted to go diving to get some lobster so we went out on day and only got one:( Man this lobster put up one fight my Dad had his arm up to his elbow in a hole to get this sucker and we finally got it. We almost ran out of air getting him! The lobster wasn't anything like the ones I got in the past. I think we have to go out at night to get the monster lobsters. But we had a good time!

The kids were as cute as could be!!! Tyler just keeps getting bigger and bigger and Kalen is beautiful and so smiley! So I have oodles of pictures so I'll do a slide show, I also have a few movies!

Dave Matthews Band!

Well I have one of the greatest friends in the world!! You all have may heard me talk about Katie!! She is Awesome and a Amazing person! We became friends New Years Eve this year, Calvin introduced us. Her husband (Robert) use to work with Calvin! She is from Michigan so we get along so well a normal down to earth girl. It's like we've known each other our whole life!!!

So anyways she got tickets to Dave Matthews Band concert!! I've been wanting to see Dave the day Brianna got her wisdom teeth out..... My mom got Bri the Cd the day she got her wisdom teeth out and I remember that like it was yesterday (I'm weird I know). I love him the concert was great! We went with her friends from work and the guys from face-book who sponsored the concert. We were VIP everything so cool. We are going to Brad Paisley next month awesome! So here are some pictures and a video of Dave ENJOY!!!

Charlevoix July 4th

One of my favorite places to be is at Grandma and Grandpa's up in Charlivox! It is so relaxing and just Beautiful! We had such a great time Up North this year! Well poor Calvin had a hard time with his back but he really enjoyed the relaxing. It was so nice to see most of the family and can't wait to see everyone again on the next time we all get together! Jon and Darlene Calvin's parents joined us and it was very nice having them along! Here are all of the fun memories of this year's July 4th!

All Dress Up!

Calvin and I were in our friend's (Paul and Jeanie) wedding on May 31st. We had a great time and got all dressed up!

Visting Tyler & Kalen

I went to Alabama in May to lend a hand to Bri and Mike after they had Kalen. I had so much fun with everyone! Tyler is just a great kid I love spending all the time I can with him, and Kalen is just a little angle! I had fun shopping for a little niece we went on a few shopping sprees! Tyler actually liked shopping for his little sister with me!

Bri and Mike got Tyler a little pool which he loved, it also help the time pass when he was bored.

I had a great time and can't wait to go back and visit!!

My pictures are when Kalen was 2 weeks old she is a lot bigger now!!

Here's a video of Tyler in the pool So Cute!!

Beach with Tyler and Izzie

So the other thing that we did while Tyler and Bri where in town was going to the beach. We went with our friends Robert and Katie. They have 2 children Izzie who is about 18 months and Aj who is about 3 months, they are really cute kids and a very nice family. I wanted Tyler to meet Izzie and let him have some kid time. He had a lot of fun at the beach with Izzie. After the beach we went back to there house so Tyler could play a little more with Izzie. Kaite made us a wonderful dinner which we all enjoyed.

Swimming at Grandma Kloote's

Well while Tyler and Brianna where here at the end of April we did a lot of activities. The first thing that we did together was swimming a Grandma Kloote's house. Tyler calls her "Grandma Cute" to funny! He is such a good swimmer. Brianna got him some water wings and he loved swimming with those. He also liked to jump off of the deck, but he had to hold Brianna's finger. The other thing he was doing was with the dumb-bells, he would hit them together and then raise them up and said "Tough Guy" so funny!

The Z Girls

Yeah Yeah I know I haven't been updating! I was going thru pictures on my computer and I decided to add a few posts. Calvin is watching the Red Wings game, and I'm listening him yell at the t.v and he is jumping in and out of the recliner. Pretty Funny!!! Stanley Cup here we come!!!


So back to Easter the Zdanowski girls came to Orlando with their dad. So it's kind of a tradition now that when they come I'll drive up there and spend a few day's with them. The past three years I've done that and we have such a great time. Can't wait for the next years to come!

Well this time it was a little chilly like last year but we stuck it out and went to Wet n' Wild. The best part was that barely any people were there so there were no lines!!! We had lots of fun I got Katie and Claire on some cool slides! Taylor did real well with the big slides also! After the water park Bob got us tickets to the Arabian Knights dinner show. http://www.arabian-nights.com/
Talk about amazing!! Check out that website and it shows what it is. We went and saw all of the horses before the show and got to pet them, so cute. The show was great we sat and ate our meal as we are watching this live show with horses and people doing acrobats and tricks with the horses. The horses are so smart and knew exactly what to do. They would dance and everything. I recommend that show to anyone who goes to Orlando!

So that was my trip with the girls Claire, Katie and Taylor was great and can't wait to see them for the July 4th weekend!

Home Improvements

Well we had some company the last month if you don't know already. The Coddington's (Jon, Darlene, G-ma, & G-pa) were here and then my Dad, Brianna, and Tyler were here. Well while the Coddington's where here they were such a wonderful help to us! They brought down some things that I had purchased while I was home in January. My Goose!! I absolutely love my Goose she is to cute!

They also brought down this antique sewing machine that Jon and Darlene refinished for me! I'm so turning into my Mom!

One other thing that they did was put cabinets up in our laundry room!! I was so happy to get this done. We went out to Home (rep-off) Depot and Lowes looking for cabinets. We found some real nice ones at Lowes. Good quality and not to expensive! So the next day I went to work and came home to find my cabinets were already up!!! Jon and Grandpa worked all morning and afternoon on putting them up. I was so excited!! It makes such a difference and I can hide stuff now!

Thanks so much for all the home improvements, and we enjoyed the time we had with you!!

Jess and Calvin

Concert of the Year!!

So on January 12th we went to the best concert in the world!! We went and saw Jake Owen! Now if you don't know who Jake is you better find out! He is one of the best country artist out there! We had such a good time the concert was at the Lyric Theater in Stuart. The coolest part about it was the theater is real small so there was only like 100 people there. We where so close and could see everything. So towards the end of the concert Calvin and the boys got pretty brave and went up front while he was singing and shook Jake Owen's hand!!!! After that everyone started rushing the stage and that was the best part, he started to sign autographes and so I handed up my ticket and he signed that and also my shirt! To cool We had a blast!!

Up North

Well I really need to keep up on this and start posting at least a couple times a week!!

Well if you didn't know Calvin and I had to go up north to Michigan for a weekend in January. His Great Grandmother Coddington had passed away on New Years Eve:(

Which was really hard for everyone and Calvin that is his Birthday. Well she was an amazing lady and had a very long life 101 years old. That is someting amazing!! Wish we all could have a long life like that!! Well we all miss her and think about her everyday.

So while we were home for the weekend we went and saw as much family that we could. We got alot in, in the short time that we were there! We were at Grandma and Grandpa Coddington's the whole day on Friday. After the funeral we went sleding with the kids Sean, Anna, and Owen. We also got Brook and Uncle Mike out there with us. We had such a good time I felt like a kid again.

Then on Saturday we were able to get the whole crew together for dinner at the Irish Pub on Lee road. Which I have to say was really good! We had most of the Coddington's, my mom and Aunt Leslie and the girls and that was nice to see everyone! Then we ended up at the Damn Site Inn with everyone. Back at the old hangout again, dancing with the moms and Uncle Mark. (Good Times).

New Year Eve & Calvin's 25th Birthday!

Well New Years Eve was lots of fun! Calvin turned 25 Wow he's getting old :) We had a party at Berto's house and the whole MarineMax crew was there, also a few other friends. We had the pleasure of having Meagan here with us for the New Year party! This year we were good, we ended going home at 1am and not staying out till wee hours in the morning! We had a great time and hope evryone one else had a Wonderful New Year :) So here are some pictures of New Years Eve!

"Charlies"

When Mom and Meg were here in Florida we took them to the Famous Charlies'! Darlene you know how much fun it can be there:) Well the band was awful, it wasn't one of the normal bands that they have and I was bummed that the Rock Doctors weren't playing that night. But we all know how to make the best of what you got and we sure did that! We had a blast and mom was the best driver there was! She took us to Walmart after Charlies so we could get stuff to make suasage and gravy the next morning. That was real good! So enjoy the trip to Charlies' :)

Christmas At The Coddington's

Well Santa came to our house on Christmas! We had such a good time with my mom and sister here for the holiday! Mom made fudge for us and all other goodies that I have been graving! We had a little get together on Christmas Eve, R.C. came over and we did our tradition with the appetizers for dinner. Lots of goodies... meatballs, crab meat yummies, taco salad dip, little weenies, and of course cookies and fudge! We also played some games after we ate, we played Taboo and another game that I can't think.

So on Christmas morning we took our good old time getting up and watched a Christmas movie and ate a little breakfast before opening presents which was nice. Calvin I think made out the best. He got a screen for the garage and a table saw, he also got Tommy clothes and other little things. I also did pretty good this year! One thing that I just loved that I got was my Nativity Scene from Darlene and Aunt Sherri. Boomer cleaned up with the bones, treats and toys, one Happy Dog!

We had a wonderful dinner we had Ham!! Mom was a nice help with dinner!

Hope everyone had a nice Christmas!!

Jess