Retirement! Here We Come. (Well, Don is back to work)
by Vicky Showalter

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

FLORIDA in January!

January 9th and I'm off to Florida! Don will remain in Iowa to coach his basketball team.

WEEK ONE - ENGLEWOOD WITH BOB AND LORI
Bob and Lori picked me up at the Fort Myers airport around 10 PM and we headed to Englewood where they rent a house for the winter.

Picking grapefruit and lemons.


Supper at Cafe 776 - Yummy seafood!


Englewood

The Beach!





Bob and Lori at the house.

Bob fixed prime rib one night.

We purchased lobsters, they cooked them for us, and we brought them back to the house. Bob and I enjoyed them! No lobster for Lori - she ordered a fish sandwich from Cafe 776.


Week Two - St. Pete's Beach with Judy
I will spend the second week with my sister Judy! Thanks to Bob and Lori we get to St. Pete's Beach, get groceries and pick up Judy at the airport Saturday night. Judy and I are staying at Coral Reef for the week.



Lunch on the patio

Supper at Crabby Bill's

Collecting shells and the sunset - the ending of a great day!




Week 3 with my dad and mom

Bob and Lori (thanks again) transported me to Orlando so I could spend time with mom and dad. On the way we stopped at Plant City for the famous strawberry shortcake. It was YUMMY!

Our daily routine - morning walks at Celebration


Time at the pool

Games of Sequence

Walking through Downtown Disney to see Lego Land


Time to head home to Iowa! Florida in January was wonderful!

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Christmas 2011

Christmas means FAMILY time! Brent, April, Cade and Kasen arrived late Friday afternoon.



Cade was excited to get all the hoops up.





Christmas Eve day and evening at the Kahler's





Papa and Nana with our four little boys!

The Kahlers

The Showalters

christmas Day!

The boys opened their stocking presents before dinner.


Dinner!


Time for presents.









Relaxing time. We invited Darrel, Janet and Dorothy to come over for the evening.



The Lego guys working on Landon's new one.

Cade using Brent's old Legos.

A game of Sorry.

Bath time and "Sleep-Over" in papa and nana's bedroom!



Days of Fun!

Time to play at Papa's gym






Time together to play, play, play!


The high hoop gets put together.


Super Hero Fort playtime!




Our precious four little boys!


An evening at grandma/great-grandma Iva's

A few more days of play at Papa and Nana's house.




Play time at the Wellman Y before they head to Kansas.


Extended Showalter Christmas

Thanks, Dave and Cathy