Changing the weather...

Recently the weather changed from one week being 70's- 80's to a night of freezing 20's-50's WHAT A HUGE difference and not only was it cold- it was also rainy =\  So since my hubs hasn't had a chance to see my pictures when I went to FL I thought I could revisit and change the weather :)

In December 2011 it was off season and plane tickets were CHEAP!!!!!! It costed 62$ one way but since baby Caleb was 2 I had to purchase tickets for him as well but STILL a great deal!!! We ended up flying to Tampa bay, FL and driving out to a few other resorts :) Hope you enjoy the pictures!

This shot I got from near by our hotel where we ate at! What... calming waters <3

These are a few shots I got of the dock behind our hotel :) I could just lay there and breatheeeeeee~~~  At the very end are two of our friend that we went with <3  Dont they look so cute?! Its like I was giving them an engagement photo shoot... cough cough jkkkkkkk <3 hahaha ^___~*.V

More shots of the water..... so pretttttty :) ...but I MADE A HUGE mistake while taking the first two photos that I learned about later. -.-'' NEVER point your camera and take a picture at the sun if you cant look directly at the sun with your naked eyes. Reason being, that it could mess up your camera... your lens could act as a magnifying glass and damage your shutter or the light sensor >_____< Totally didnt know that and now that I do Im never doing it again- seriously ~__~

 This is where we stayed at! The Grand Hyatt Tampa Bay :)

Our second location we stayed at was Coconut point resorts <3

 I woke up early the next day and took some pictures before the Sun woke up. This is the view outside our room :)

the sun setting <3

 

a farrrr capture of the a water fountain~

These last three photos were taken while we were on a boat on the way to the seashell beach :)

reminder*** NO direct pointing camera at the sun!!!!!!!!!!! I was so fortunate to learn that and I wont ever do it again.

THE BEACHHH!!! THE BEACHH! I LOVE THE BEACH. This is the SEASHELL CAPITAL... in the last two photos above... I was crazy enough that I was actually in the water while taking the pictures but it was only because the water is really shallow, clear, and the waves were gental... I would have died if my camera drowned -____- huge risk but it was also because while I went out... I saw this:

can you see it? It's either a sting ray or horseshoe crab... yum... I think... ( I ran back to grab my camera to get this shot) then and later while looking around for pretty shell I saw something else in the water and thought JACKPOT!!! ( this was after I put my camera back with the bags so it was safe ^_~)  I reached in the water and... pulled this out <3

Can you see them?! The shell was in the shallow water half buried and in it was two hermit crabs and Im not making this up but they were HOLDING ... CLAWS? legs? haha... I took so many shots of this but it was hard to capture it and I might have taped the shell gently and I saw the legs hold on and pull tighter. SO SWEET <3 I felt bad that I disturbed them( after taking a mini photo shoot of them)-__-'' so I tried to put them back where I found them. Then later I some how started talking to a random lady about the pretty shells that I went back to finds these love crabs to show her but... they were gone~____~! So I ended up keeping the shell. <3 I was thinking of using it as decoration later like a glass bowl with sand and shells :)

This is another shell I found inside the water... I dont think you can see but their were TINY crabs crawling around on it!!! 

<3 Found this randomly on the beach <3

I took these two pictures just a few minutes apart with different manual camera settings... Look at the difference!

...ON to the next location!!!!!

these were taken from the roof top of the hotel at Clear Water! Out door pool and... just a structure next to the hottub! I forgot to mention -____- o fail....... THAT we stayed in FL for a week and the weather was BEAUTIFUL ( around 80's everyday) till the day before we were leaving...

these are some AWSOME cane sugar rim coated
frosted glasses my friend made with some chillin green sweet tea!!!! They were so good !!! =9 slurp hahaha.... so sweet

Well... hope you liked my pics :) FL is beautiful isn't it! I recently went back but to Key West this time I'll post some pics up later. If you ever get a chance go and definitely you will have some fun in the sunnnnnn! I got so tan and healthy looking hahaha :) Have a beautiful day!!!

Intro...

Hello there... My name is Margaret! I am kind of new to this blog thing but I guess today is the day that I start to contribute to this world... Share my thought, ideas, and hopefully it can shine some light on you ^__^ Thanks for stopping by!

So here I go... sighhhhhhh haha...

I am a mother of one precious little baby boy... WELL not so baby anymore as you can see but as he's getting older I believe that forever in MY eyes he will be my baby and I am NOT saying that I will treat him like one but... NOW that I am a mother I can FINALLY understand how my parents see me the way they do.  Recently I've been reflecting back about how I was raise and why things are the way they are today and it's a great way to see how far I've come along.

I believe that things in life all happen for a reason... That being said... I'll explain my blog name: the 4 C's CUT COLOR CLARITY and CARAT... No Im not a Diamond but I know that my experiences in life shape me towards that direction. I think that everyone is CUT out for something is this world to contribute. I believe that in hardships (situations that people go through) show the true COLOR of who you are and you definitely learn from that. In this rough economy people get competitive and often times the you see lack of character and quality of relationships go down. People get hurt are afraid and put up walls... the CLARITY a true relationship(give and take) suffer... it becomes WHAT can I get out things... how can YOU help ME. Selfishness takes over and a relationship has no Carat(I'm comparing relationship with WEIGHT/ SUBSTANCE).   Er... does any of this make sense? blahhh! anyways...  It's just some things I was thinking about... Im everywhere!  BUT I've been trying to start blogging for awhile so... I got one foot out the door so let's see where this takes me... THIS THE START!!!! haha O dear... WELL... I guess as I blog more maybe I'll get better at explaining things -___- I think I'll probably go more towards other directions like makeup, sharing pictures... and whatever come across my mind! Thanks hubs and Lisa for encouraging me to start!