Rick's Birthday Fun

We all went out to Casino Beach and I brought shrimp cocktail and brie cheese, Rick's favorite. Every time Rick gave Emma the cheese to try with grapes, he would say " Do you want some more of the brie?" And Emma kept asking for more "debris" cheese. Just like her mother, Emma is not partial to the stinky rind, which Rick is more than happy to snarf down.
We just got the girls these long sleeved rash guards, Adeline felt pretty special in hers and kept pointing to the butterflies and smiling.

Alright, so this was the day AFTER Rick's birthday, b/c the Spanish ship arrived Wednesday NOT Tuesday. It came to celebrate the 450th anniversary of the founding of Pensacola. Reece brought his little rubber dagger from DisneyWorld, with him so he could look like a pirate in the pictures, but apparently Emma had snagged it away in this one.

Rick requested a cheesecake for his birthday, the kids loved it and Reece kept picking off the crust with all the buttered graham cracker crumbs.

While we partied at the beach, a small group of men were toiling in the hot sun, getting ready to lay the cement for our new patio near the pool. This is the area they dug by hand and then laid the cement later that afternoon. I'll post the after pictures next.