FlorIDA Hansons

Success...our first family trip with just Matt, Viv and I was a complete success! Not that I expected anything different, it was just good to know that even though we miss traveling with the boys, we have some good adventures left in us!  We went swimming with the manatees in Crystal River and then spent a couple of nights in Ybor City. This was the birthday trip that Viv and I planned for Matt for his 50th birthday. Nothing says 50 like manatees and roosters, right?! As cool as Ybor City was (shout out to all the wild roosters), the highlight of the trip had to be swimming with the manatees. That was a once in a lifetime experience!  The Urban Roost  Our tiny home for weekend... The weather was absolutely perfect  Columbia Restaurant We sat in the original 1905 dining room.  Very, very cool All the wild roosters were super fun during the day... and SUPER loud at night 

Middle school dances just hit different. How is it that we're already here with Viv?!  She was so excited all week that she barely slept. She asked me a hundred times if I was sure that it was on Friday night and not Saturday night. She went through the list of songs that she thought the DJ would play and who she thought would dance with who.  And then she asked... "What the heck do I do if a boy asks me to dance?!"  So there we were...in the living room...practicing slow dancing. Exactly like I did with the boys when they were her age. Hand placement was the only difference - 'no hands lower than this and no hands higher than this' was all the same though!  I even gave her the best line to ever come out of a Bishop Machebeuf High School dance..."remember when you're slow dancing to always leave room for the Holy Spirit".  It's like riding a bike, this mom-of-a-teenager-going-to-a-school-dance-thing. Nailed it :)  The Fun Run was during the schoo