CC Duren

i am sure most of you know that i just recently got home from a Florida vacation where i was visiting my big sister and her family (Ryan, my brother in law, Harper my 2 year old niece, and Layne my 3 month old niece).  

it was a great time, and as usual i was really sad to leave.  while there we did just about everything, i went shopping (ahhh i love FL shopping), went to the beach, had dinner with friends, and of course while i was there it was halloween.  halloween was a blast, i loved every moment of it! my sister made pumpkin role, which is probably one of the best desserts in the whole world, i went tricker treating, and ate LOTS of candy.  Harper was a mermaid princess, and Layne was a flower child (we put her in a tye dye onzy, and put a peace sign on her cheek, and a flower headband).  we went to this thing called a trunk or treat, its where people set up there cars in a row, and decorate there trunks to hand out candy to the kids.  it was pretty cute!

one day after church my sister took me shopping, which was really fun, and special.  i may have a huge shopping addiction, but i am the only one in the family, you see my sister doesn’t share the same love of malls as i do!  but she sucked it up and took me shopping all afternoon, i think we walked just about every square inch of the Palm Beach Mall, not to mention we ate a Mrs. Feilds cookie that was pretty much TO DIE FOR!  i think the best part of the day was finding “the deal of the century”, it was a pair of riding boots from Kohls and they were only $40, the same pair are $180 on Piperlime.com . 

while there i was also able to surprise all of my friends from PBA, i haven’t seen them since i left so it was nice to catch up!  most of them are graduating this year, getting married, and movie across the country.  we even went out to dinner at Cheesecake Factory, which is one of my favorite places to get really full, and really fat all in the same meal.  I also got to see my friend Amy who lives in Pompano Beach, she came up and we surprised some old friends, and talked for hours!!! it was a great time, not to mention lots of laughs!

the last night that i was there my sister, harper, and layne and i went to the beach, it was amazing! it was the perfect sunset, and the perfect weather.  while we were there i took tons of photos of the girls ( in the hats that i knitted them).  KT even paid for us to go onto the peer, which was fun, harper really liked all of the fishermen, and the dead fish!  i got some beautiful photos of the ocean, the sunset, and those cool old school viewing machines (which i love).

it was a great trip, and i was real sad to see it go, but i as super excited to go home and edit all my photos! well when i plugged in my camera to my computer the other day something went wrong and i lost all 239 photos from my FL vacation.  as you can imagine i have been devistated, photos are my life, and that vacation meant the world to me!  

well at least i have the memories!