Fairhope

Here it is...our new spot. We are gradually falling into the slower pace of things around here. Nobody's in a hurry, and that's a good thing! Everyone keeps asking if we miss Key Biscayne. And the answer is, no. We are so happy to be here and be close to our families, something that means a great deal to us. We just hope to have as many visitor here as we did there.

If you walk to the bay, you can see downtown Mobile.

This is the main pier where lots of shrimpin' is done, Forest

This is where you find lots of retiree's walking around, very pretty though


This is our cottage house. Josh is looking out the top window- if you look close you can see him.



Another picture of the bay

Here's to document that we're really here - i was by myself so this was the best i could do

We live in Alabama!!!!!!!!!

Boy does it feel good to be back in the Bible belt!! Josh and I have officially had our first week here in Alabama. We have been around the block on the move thing....so, it's been a breeze!

Yes....I am being sarcastic. Moving isn't exactly my style of fun. Thankfully Mom was there to help us, and keep me calm. But, so far, things have been great, and we're so humbled by God's blessings. We have seen his provision for us in so many details of this move. Tonight Josh is out of town and so I took a long walk along the bay amidst a beautiful sunset. It almost brought me to tears. I have always loved sunsets. And it seems God always brings gorgeous ones along just at the time I need it. Tonight was one of those, and I think there will be many more like that here in Fairhope. Unfortunately I have no pictures to post this time, but I promise I will soon.

Here are some more pictures we took our last few days in Florida though........oh..one great thing, we are less than 2 hrs from Seaside!!!!!! And Josh found his place to kiteboard....Pensacola! Just a short drive east. A beautiful beach there!!!

This picture is for Shelly, at the delano pool. Doesnt this make you want to just dive in there?

I wonder where I'll kiteboard in Alabama???

Mom came to help us move - thanks Mom.

Ciao Key Biscayne!

Bittersweet is our farewell to Key Biscayne as we make our way north to a new spot. This will always be a special place to us. Ciao Key Biscayne!!!!!!!!!!

More beach photos....

Our house "Saratoga"

When we all arrived and got settled in, we walked down to the beach to toast to Dad's bday!

Josh doesn't wear shoes anywhere in Seaside

Happy happy, joy joy

Pop's b-day party

In the kitchen with Dad!

Every time we're in Seaside, we have a tradition of taking our picture in front of this blue fountain in Watercolor.

Kara and Phil

Steven and mystery girl - Steven makes us laugh so hard!!

Ava's new boyfriend, "Doss" as she calls him - we laughed the whole time about Ava. She made goo-goo eyes at Doss for the first two days, and constantly had to know where he was! He loved it!!

This year we actually had tans!!




The water was SO clear this day

Seaside, FL!

Here we are at one of our favorite spots, Seaside, FL!

Last Thursday we left for a great beach trip with everybody to celebrate Dad's bday and just be together. Everybody was so happy to be at the beach. This was our family picture this year, turned out pretty good for a spur of the moment Bevilaqua family photo.

Josh, me, Steven, Shelly, Mom, Ava, Dad, Kristen, Brian, Clayton, Phil (Kara's boyfriend), and Kara

Beach fireworks!

This was a pretty cool picture Josh took over the water of the fireworks last night. We had a perfect view right from our beach blanket. It was pretty awesome! Hope everybody had a fun holiday....Shelly, Steven, Kara....how were the fireworks in NY?

Flipper

The real Flipper lives about 2 miles away from us at Miami seaquarium, so we thought we should go pay him a visit. We saw him last weekend. There's just so much to do here in South Fla, and so little time left!! We've done so many neat things, that now anything else is just icing on the cake for us.