Foggy Mountain Breakdown

Anyone who has been around me this week knows that Ben got me an early birthday present because I've been talking about it a lot. What is it, you ask? A banjo!!!!!!!!!!! I love it!!!!!!!!!!

Foggy Mountain Breakdown is a classic banjo song, so I found a youtube tutorial on how to play it...I pretty much just dove right in :) I still don't have it well enough to play it as fast as a pro banjo player would...but hey, it's only day #6 with my banjo - I'll get there eventually!

4th Annual Ft. Walton Trip

Last week, we went to the beach for our 4th annual family vacation with Ben's family to Ft. Walton Beach. All 13 of us were able to be there, so it was perfect...well, except the weather the first 3 days. Tropical Storm Lee was blowing through so the wind and rain were terrible and we were cooped up inside except for a shopping trip to the outlets, pedicures for the ladies, eating out, and church. We got some good quality time together playing The Game of Things and the guys playing Risk.

Luckily, the sun came out and the weather was beautiful the last half of the trip so the board games were saved for nighttime back at the condos. The Costco Relaxation Station was totally worth the money; everyone loved it! It made a great boat on the water and a great bounce house for the kids on the beach. We all laughed at Ben when he wanted to attach an anchor to it, but turns out the lifeguards wouldn't let us use it with the "high winds" unless it was anchored...who knew!

Without further ado, a bunch of pictures.

Can't wait to go back next year!

Senz Umbrella

I bought an umbrella off woot.com quite a while back for $15. It is supposed to be wind resistant, but I hadn't really used it anywhere windy before. Finally, last week at the Ft. Walton Beach during Tropical Storm Lee, I had a chance to truly test it out. I know you can't really hear me in this video, but what I'm trying to tell the camera is that there are hurricane-like winds, double red flags at the beach, and basically, look how awesome my umbrella is after I get it open.

Photo enhancer

Playing around with a photo enhancer app.  The two pictures in the middle are altered (can't get this blogger app to arrange the pictures in the order I want).

Blogger app

Finally google has an app for blogging on a droid! This is just a test to see how it works and if I like it. I think I do! This gives me something to do for the next 7 hours in the car on the way home from Ft. Walton!