Nolan and Amelia had a piece of artwork in an art festival in Orange Beach this weekend. Nick had more fun tasting and playing with the paint than he did actually painting.
Nolan and Nick showing off their beads with Dale.
Nolan and Amelia are standing in front of their featured artwork. Nolan painted a turkey on a fence and Amelia painted a "dream". 
We thought this video was pretty funny. Nolan was having fun keeping an eye on the tree as we drove back to the parking area. So no, I'm not trying to run him down here. And on the radio, a Christmas song I've never heard before. It may be a new classic. Pretty funny....something about if you ain't got a turkey leg then God bless you?????
Today was a gorgeous Thanksgiving day. We got out early for a bike ride around Gulf Shores.
Dale's Aunt Ricky and Uncle Bob were staying at their condos in Gulf Shores this week, so we got to see them along with Grandpa Schulz who came to help with a few condo projects. We stopped by their condo, and they were all able to take a break with us for lunch at the Shrimp Basket.
This is for Grandma Garner....we saw this on our bike ride, and we instantly thought of you!
Looks like we wore out a couple of kids during our day long bike trip. And to imagine they weren't even pedaling.
I think it was just a few minutes after this sign that we got a flat tire on the bike trailer. Crikey!
I couldn't pass up posting this one. This is the Orange Beach path that took us back to our car. We finished our fun bike ride and went home to enjoy our turkey dinner. I hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving.
Nolan wanted to have his own art sale today, so he opened his art store.
He originally was going to have his store only open for a couple of hours, but he sat outside painting from 10:30 until about 4:00 today.
Amazing what you can accomplish with a small set of watercolors. 
These are some of the paintings in his gallery. Besides the ones on the wall, he sold a total of 6 paintings for 10 cents a piece. His hottest items were the sailing cruise ship and the barn scene. They sold as fast as they were put on the wall. He said he is pretty tired from all of his work as an artist, and he plans on being open tomorrow----but to his original hours only.
We decided to get out early and try to catch the first ferry of the day. We were running a bit late, and had only seen the ferry back in the summer when it was packed and there were long lines to get on board. So we were speeding up Fort Morgan Rd......and end up being the second car. Anyway, we were glad we made it aboard.
Shoes. And socks. :( It was a bit cool in the morning, but all week long we were sort of dreading that on Saturday it was only going to get up to 60. But, 60.....is really not too bad ;)
Amelia doesn't like to be left behind. Nolan decided he would take his training wheels off last week, and Amelia, of course, wanted hers off as well. So this was her weekend to prove she could do it.
With a few instructions from Dad, she took right off and figured it out in a day.
Not bad for a three year old.
Today was a beautiful day, so we went for a good bike ride. We eventually made our way to the pavillion in Gulf Shores to eat our lunch.
Everyone had lots of fun trick or treating on Friday night. Nick was the cutest puppy ever!
Amelia had fun in her princess dress, and Nolan was pretty good at being loud on his whistle as a lifeguard.
There is a cool Estuarium on the Island, that we got to check out. Amelia found here favorite fish pretty quick. There was a bunch of other cool stuff....things...fish, but most of our pictures turned out pretty bad. I even used the aquarium setting on the camera, I mean.....