Summer is my favorite time of year. Baseball is in full swing; homegrown tomatoes and juicy watermelon; longer days and weekend evenings relaxin' and grillin' on the patio after day of yard work. And of course, the much anticipated summer vacation trip to the beach. This year we made 2 trips - first to Dallas over Memorial Day weekend to celebrate my parents 50th anniversary, then we made our annual trip to Perdido Key, FL for the week of July 4th.
This was the 6th year in a row we have been, and we are so grateful to Barbara and Jim (Cindy's sister and my brother-in-law) for allowing us to stay at their beautiful condo (Indigo) facing the beach. The first year we visited, in 2007, the girls were 2 and 4 yrs old - now, they are 7 and 9, and for the first time they really enjoyed getting in the ocean. It's always been more about the pool and just enjoying the condo and fun restaurants, and to a lesser extent, playing in the sand the past few years (the first couple of years they didn't even like walking on the sand!) We all look forward to our family beach trip and I'm thankful for the memories we are making.
Every year I have made a slideshow (love doing this on the mac!), and this morning while I was running I had the thought -- how can I share this with my parents who are currently half-way across the world in Russia on a cruise to celebrate their actual anniversary date (7/12)? Upload it to youtube! As much as I love youtube, I have never attempted to upload a video. After figuring out how simple it was, I posted it to facebook, but later discovered that my video could not be viewed on mobile devices as it contained music on it that was copyrighted. I even received an email from youtube acknowledging this fact; however, there was no syndication issue with allowing the music to remain on the video for regular (non-mobile) youtube viewing. So, here it is.
Summer 2012!
And now I think I'll upload my previous year's slideshows. Enjoy your summer!
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