Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

Rain, again......followed by a cold front!!! We woke up to clouds today. Sarah, Kylie and Pam and I went shopping at the local shops in the morning. We went to Tortilla Bay for lunch! So good. We headed back to the condo and hung out there for a while. The rain came in the afternoon for the rest of the day! Mom and dad went to the outlet mall for the afternoon. Jeremy and I headed to Five Guys hamburger joint for our Date night. It wasn't all that glamorous but we had a nice dinner. Thanks to mom and dad for watching the kids. They had tacos at home that Pam made for everyone. Tuesday night was also Nick and Sarah's "date night" they headed to the outlet mall too. She picked up some flip flops for me that are soooo cute!!! The cousins all headed over to their house to hang out after the kids went to bed. Wednesday was a cold morning. Jeremy and I went for breakfast at the Gulf Drive Cafe. My dad took all the boys away for breakfast to the public beach for pancakes and then they rode the swings for a while. My mom took Haylie to the hardware store with Gayle and the Chloe, Hannah, and Annalyse to get some pin things that they wanted. In the afternoon we sat by the pool for a while but it warmed up quite a bit so we heaeded down to the beach around 2pm for a couple of hours. Wednesday evenig was Sophia's 3rd birthday party!!! It was Dora themed and so much fun. Sarah did a great job with the decor and activities. The kids had a blast. We headed down to the beach for a sunset watching party it was beautiful. Thursday Kylie, mom, Gayle, Haylie and I went to Jennie and Jane's for a muffin for breakfast. We headed back to the condo and got ready for the beach. We were there all day! We had plans for dinner in the evening at Moore's Stonecrab. Before that we had a little photo shoot on the beach. All the girls had matching outfits from Plum Paisley and the boys coordinated with them. They were sooo cute!!! Two Scoops ended the evening!! Friday was our last day on the beach. We spent all day there!! We wanted to make the most of it. We decided to come up at 5 pm and start packing the car. Jeff and Kylie headed out of town, heading for home around 7pm. They plan to go through the night. Jeremy and I took the kids to a souvenir shop to get a little something before we headed out too. They all got a little shark tooth necklace, Haylie's had little shells on it in the shape of a flower. On the way back we stopped at Tortilla Bay again for dinner. It was so good the first time, we had to go back. We got back to the condo and finished packing for our early morning departure. 4 am is when we plan to leave!!! Ugh....... See you on the flip side!!!!

Monday

Another beautiful day on the beach. The wind was whipping today but that was good b/c it was a HOT HOT HOT day! I think the news said it got up to 85 degrees today. The men went fishing this morning in the Gulf and caught one grouper that Nick and Jeremy at for dinner. When the men got home us women went to the Sandbar for lunch. It was a beautiful lunch sitting with our feet in the sand. It gave new meaning to lunching on the beach. Love it. We were there until about 3pm and headed back to the kids and men. I spent about another hour on the beach and headed up to the pool so Hunter could swim for a little bit. Haylie had gone up earlier with my dad and Chloe and Hannah. Noah stayed down with Darren and Allison for a few minutes to swim in the waves. Jeremy took the car into the station b.c we have yet another weird noise going on. He is taking it back tomorrow to get it fixed. I say we leave it here and buy a new one to take home, that idea isn't going over so well. In the evening we didn't do a whole lot. I wasn't hungry for dinner b/c we had lunch so late so we headed over to Nick and Sarah's for a little while. Jeff and Kylie were on their date night so Nick and Sarah were taking care of their kids. We took the kids to the beach for a little while to watch the sunset. Then it was back to the condo for a little Dancing with the Stars and basketball. Tomorrow is supposed to rain again so it will be a day to lay low and heal the sunburn. Until next time......

Sunday

Today started out awesome. We got up and headed to the Baptist church for our worship this morning. It was a great sermon on anger and what to do with it. After church we headed to the beach for the day. The Wiers family went on the boat to the island for the day so it was just the "Terps" on the beach today. It was quite a smaller group but a beautiful day. Jeremy fished on the beach for a while but wasn't catching much so he and Hunter headed to the "hot spot" to fish for a couple of hours. I headed up from the beach aroun 3:30pm with Noah and Hunter and Jeremy were there by then. The boys swam for a little while and then it was time to get ready for dinner. We had tacos at the Terpstra/Leeuw house. After dinner was Two Scoops. We headed back to the condo to watch the ACM awards. Not too much exciting but it was an absolutley beautiful day on the beach. 85 degrees and sunny all day long. More of the same is predicted for tomorrow and the next day and the next day.........

Thursday, Friday and Saturday

Well Thursday ended just as it was predicted. RAIN RAIN RAIN!!!! Many natives around here have said that they have NEVER seen in it rain like it did yesterday. It started in the afternoon and it PORED all day long. We manged to get in a girls only breakfast at Gulf Drive Cafe. My mom, aunt, cousin Allison, Cousin Lori, sister in law Sarah and sister Kylie went for breakfast together, it was great. Then we headed to some of the local shops to see what cute things we could find. Soon after we were shopping for a little while the sky's opened up!! It rained until well into the night. We managed to have our annual cousin's dinner at Bonefish Grill. What a fun time we had with the cousins that were there. We ended the night with a drink at Bortell's, a local bar on the island. Friday was an amazing day at the beach. We were out there by 10am b/c we were all waiting for some clear blue sky. That it was!!! Lots of fun in the sun. The rain had lft a bunch of "ponds" on the beach so the kids had a great time playing in those most of the day!! Friday evening we had a Italian dinner with all 36 of us here at our condo. Saturday was another day on the beach. We hung out at the condo until about 11am and then headed down. Jeremy went fishing with Jim, Dean, and Darren and caught 15 grouper but only 6 were "keepers". We cut them and had them for dinner that evening. Such a nice evening with all of us. Tomorrow will bring more of the same.......Until then....

Florida 2011

Most of you won't care about these next bunch of posts. I am using the blog for a sort of diary of our trip to Florida this year. I like to keep track of what we did and look back on it in later years. We headed to Anna Maria Island on Friday March 25, 2011 The kids went to school for half a day and we got them out at lunchtime to go meet Jeff and Kylie for our trek south. We were on the road by 1:30pm. We kept going and going and going. By 8:50pm we were in a HUGE traffic jam that lasted until 11:20pm. That's right, 2 1/2 hours going no more than 2miles per hour. It was torture. We finally got out of that! I drove until 1:30am then Jeremy took over until about 7:30, what a champ. We were able to meet up with Nick and Sarah in Lakeland or Lakeside Fla. for breakfast. We traveled the rest of the way with them. We got off on our exit around noon. Our fist stop was to Wal Mart to get all our groceries. We used my cousins truck and filled the back between us four families! Next stop was the beach house!!!! We got there around 3:30pm and couldn't be happier. After unloading our groceries we ordered some takeout from the City Pier restaurant. Then is was off to bed. We were all exhausted!! Sunday we woke up to a beautiful morning! We headed to the beach and spent the day there. Sophia wasn't feeling well, running a temp. all day so Sarah and Pam took her to the e.r. to get checked. Turns out, after another trip to the dr. on Monday morning, she has roseola. A fever with a rash!! Poor thing. Sunday night for dinner we cooked steaks on the grill. So good. Monday was an okay day. We didn't head to the beach b/c the weather was questionable. We sat by our little pool we have here at the condo. Monday evening we had a huge rain storm!! It pored. We headed over to Nick and Sarah's and Jeff and Kylie's for burgers on the grill. Tuesday was another good day. We ended up sitting on the beach almost all day! We headed up about 3:30pm and had no plans for dinner. Jeremy made venison steaks and macaroni and cheese for the kids. I headed over to The Leeuw/Terp house to hang out with Noah and Haylie while Jeremy took Hunter fishing. We were back at the condo in time for Dancing with the Stars!! Wednesday was not the best day. We started with clouds clouds and more clouds. I went for a walk in the morning and then ran to the grocery store for a few things. The sun couldn't decide if it wanted to come out or not so we didn't go to the beach. We ended up at David and Lori's pool for a good portion of the afternoon. We headed back to get ready for dinner at the Sandbar. Our family went out, all 16 of us!! It was great! We took some pictures and then walked back on the beach. After dinner we hung out on the deck with Darren and Allison for a while. Tomorrow is another day. It is supposed to rain, again. Not the best weather we have had here in Florida. Good thing we have two weeks because this weekend and next week look great!!!

Merry Christmas to ALL!!

WOW I am not sure I can believe it is Christmas already. This year has seemed to go soooo quickly. Last year at this time we were getting ready for the big Disney trip. What a great time that was with our family.
So many great things happened this year, along with some challenges. We are trusting God to help us through those tough times.
I am so thankful for our families and friends. We love spending time with all of them during the Holiday season. This year is no different.
We pray you all have a safe and happy Holiday, wherever you may be spending it.
God bless you in this new year to come.

Playing Catchup

Wow has it been a while since my last post! We have been pretty busy here at the Freriks house. We started school, soccer, Wed. nights at church and hunting season is right around the corner. Haylie started 3rd grade with Mr. Sneller and is loving it. He is a great fit for her this year. It brings back a lot of memories for me because he was a 3rd grade teacher at ZCS when I was there!!

Hunter has Mrs. Zwiep and she has been wonderful this year. He is enjoying school and making lots of new friends.

Noah is in Kindergarten with Mrs. Rozema for the time being. She is filling in for his actual teacher, Mrs Renz until she comes back from maternity leave in late November. He loves, loves, loves school and is excited each day he gets to go.

We started school before Labor day so we got to look forward to one more weekend at the cottage! We celebrated Mercedes birthday and Masons birthday while we were there.

Our next venture has been playing soccer. All three kids are playing and all three kids play on Sat. morning at different times and different fields. I must have been crazy to think that was doable. Thank goodness for grandparents and rainy Saturdays where games are canceled. Our parents have helped transport kids and it has been a huge blessing!

I only have some pictures of Noah's game so far. Jeremy is coaching with his brother for Noah and Lucas and they are loving it. Noah even calls Jeremy "coach" when we are home sometimes.

Reminder for this weekend. There is a fundraising bake sale for Lindy and Dusty Verbeek. It is being held at the HCHS vs. ZHS football game at HC. We will be there from 5-9. Please stop by and grab some goodies for a good cause!! All proceeds go to Lindy and Dusty's medical bills.

Let me know if you need information on baking or where to bring your items or any other questions you might have!

God Bless.