Our Weekend in Jacksonville

We spent this past weekend in Jacksonville. My Cousin, Molly, who graduated from high school last weekend had her senior dance recital on Friday night. She has been in dance since she was little and we could not miss her senior solo! There were a lot of emotions watching her dance. I remember when she was born and now she is going to college. She is going to be a Longhorn. I guess I approve...if she doesn't go to A&M, UT is the next best school here in Texas. I am so excited for her!

My Aunt & Uncle have a lake house on Lake Jacksonville, so we stayed there for the weekend. We got up on Saturday morning and went to Tomato Fest. It is a big festival they have each year. My Uncle (blue shirt) was in the tomato eating contest. He doesn't attempt to win, he likes to put salt and pepper on the tomatoes and take his time eating them.

Look at all fo the tomatoes! If you look closely, you can tell that Mikey is eating something. Guess what that something is...a tomato! Well, it is a fried green tomato, but still, he is making progress. I was so proud!

This was a special year at Tomato Fest. Jacksonville is now in the Guiness Book of World Records for making the biggest bowl of salsa. I think it was over 2000 pounds of salsa. This the bowl.

These are all of the people chopping all of the ingredients. They chopped tomato, onion, cilantro, garlic, lime, and jalepeno. They chopped for over 12 hours. We got to taste it. It was more like pico de gallo than salsa, but it was very tasty!

After Tomato Fest, it was finally time to relax at the lake. Kiley went for a refreshing swim on the dock in the kiddie pool. She loved it.

She was having so much fun, Molly got in with her!

Dad, Mikey and Matt decided to go jump off of the neighbors balcony. Matt made it a point to jump off of the highest point possible.

Mikey getting ready for his dive.

Look at the action shot I took!

Kiley playing with Aunt Lisa.

Both Friday & Saturday night, Mikey, Matt, Mycah, Molly and a couple of Matt's friends took the boat out night fishing. Here is a picture of a bass that Matt caught. Of course they are sober =).

On Sunday morning, Kiley went swimming in the lake.

Yes, Nonie, we are all sitting up on the deck enjoying our cocktails while Kiley floats in the lake all by herself....

Just kidding, Marmee and Guy were in there with her. p.s. It was Mom's idea to take that picture =).

We had a great weekend in Jacksonville. It went by so fast since we were so busy. We can't wait to see you again in New York!