Last year, Memorial Day was a unique time for the Jennings / Christensen families. We spent the day itself driving from Arizona to Utah and then blessed Jackson that night.
Then on Wednesday, June 2nd we said goodbye to my brother Michael as he went into the MTC to prepare for his mission to New York.
Now we're celebrating his one-year anniversary of serving his mission (or "Hump Day") Jackson is a completely different person this year...
This was actually my first year in Florida for Memorial Day and we spent it at the Munns' home for some bbq and boating and then headed down to the Miami area for a couple days.
The main accomplishment of the week was getting Jackson to tolerate sand! This is pretty important since we'll be spending a week in Newport Beach with my family later this month...
He started out playing in the sand at Munns' house and Jacque sent me a couple cute pics she took of Jackson there.
Then we headed down south and got stuck in the worst traffic we'd ever seen. Combine Memorial Day Traffic with a bad car accident with 20 miles of delays, than once we finally got going again - a brush fire closed down the entire highway ... it took almost 6 hours to get to Miami (normally a 3 hour drive).
But finally we got there and they gave us a suite at the Crowne Plaza, Hollywood Beach!
It didn't matter that we had a bag full of beach toys, Jackson was just fine playing with the spoon he found buried in the sand...
It was a quick trip but our one night in town, we spent with Tom Swapp in South Beach. Despite the fact that Jackson kept running up to play with homeless people, and the raunchy music blasting from the speakers at the restaurant, it was a good little night! I even got an anthro shirt because Tyler was in such a good mood hanging out with Tom :-)
They had a lot of fun running around together for about 10 minutes after dinner, here's a sampling of the night's activities..
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