We ended our spring break week at Nana and PopPop’s house in beautiful St. Augustine Beach where we were lucky enough to spend some time with, in addition to Nana and PopPop, all of the Williams cousins, Aunt Jacqui and Uncle Randy, Aunt Chrissy and Uncle Chris, and—bonus!—Aunt Anita, Uncle Mark, and Grandmom and Grandpop!
The weather was just gorgeous while we were at my parents’ house and we took advantage of it by spending most of our time outdoors. We explored the Manatee River area of their neighborhood by bike and golf cart (Olive enjoyed her first golf cart ride) and then we tried out the neighborhood bocce ball court (court? pitch?) No wonder why Nonni and Papa are so good when we play on the beach in HHI—they’ve been practicing!
Thanks for having us, Nonni and Papa! It’s always wonderful spending time at Casa de Slaton.
For spring break, we loaded our whole crew into the car—including Olive—and headed down to Florida for a week of visiting family. Our first stop was Jacqui and Randy’s house in Orlando. We must’ve been very busy hanging out with Harper and Hudson because I do not have any big camera pictures from our time there. We had a great couple of days including some park time, good food, and good beer. It’s always a fun time with these four. Harper and Hudson are just the sweetest and most loving kids and they are open to anything. I wish we could see them more often.
After Orlando, we headed over to Nonni and Papa’s house for several days. We got in plenty of pool time, of course, but we also wanted to check out some new sights while we were there. Nonni and Papa took us to The Ringling where we were able to explore beautiful gardens, try our hand at the high wire and clown car at the Circus Museum, check out Italian Baroque and a modern art installation at the Museum of Art, and visit the beautiful Ca’ d’Zan (House of John), the mansion of John and Mable Ringling.
April is one of my favorite months. It’s not just that my birthday falls in April, although that’s definitely bonus. The weather is just so beautiful, the Volvo Open (a WTA tournament in Charleston that is just so fun and gives fans up-close looks at quite a few of the top players) is the first week of April, we usually have spring break in April, and I get to enjoy a lot of time outdoors in April (including playing a ton of tennis).
i was immensely humbled to be grace miner’s confirmation mentor. | volvo open! shelby rogers taking on maria sakkari in the big stadium. | gold medalist monica puig | australian open semi-finalist mirjana lucic-baroni | grand slam winning doubles player sania mirza | bethanie mattek-sands! | sam stosur playing jelena jankovic for the night match. | we did a tour of florida for spring break, starting with a visit to orlando to see aunt jacqui, uncle randy, harper and hudson. | next stop was nonni and papa’s house. | we visited the ringling museum in sarasota. | and toured the ringling house, ca’ d’zan. | back of ringling mansion | ca’ d’zan gardens | full-sized replica of david | ella and jack with nonni and papa | us | renaissance men #reallyitalianbaroque | pathless woods art installation | seeing the jack for the trees | someone else is having a fun spring break trip, too. | nonni and papa resort has all the amenities. | lovely day for a bike ride | manatee river | a man and his dog | honing our bocce ball skills for hhi this summer. | back with our sweet cousins | and more cousins! | all of the williams cousins! | olive’s adoption day—she’s been with us for two years, so we celebrated with some of her favorite things starting with an off-leash walk at flat branch. | and her football (although at some point we had to take it away) | and family time outside | happy easter! | enjoying our new patio furniture
