is for FLORIDA! When people ask me where I'm from I basically say Florida because that's where I spent most of time growing up. My dad was in the military (and no, I wasn't a "military brat".. I don't know why people really say that...) so we moved about every 4 years. When I was in 4th grade a wrote a paper called 4 Corners because we lived in the 4 corners of the US (roughly). I was born in Hawaii, I went to Kindergarten in Seatle,Washington, 1st-3rd grade in NYC, 4-5th in Charleston, SC, and Florida 6th-12th and my parents still live in the same house (since '93). So eventhough I lived in many different states, we lived in Florida the longest. I loved living in Florida, especially because of the warm weather and being so close to the beach. My friends and I would go about every weekend to play sand volleyball. I had one partner that we'd call ourselves "The Bandits" because we played with red bandanas with braided pic-tails. Oh those were the days..... I moved away from Florida to Charlotte in 2002 to start a new life with my husband and our now 2 boys! We try and get down there at LEAST once a year to visit (which is definatley not a lot) but so far in the past 5 months we've already been there 3 times! (not necesarrly on good terms, but it's always wonderful to see family weather it's for tears or laughter). After this last trip Eric and I decided that we MUST make ourselves leave REALLY early in the morning while the kids are asleep or else a 9 hour drive will take you 13.5 hours if driven in the middle of the day! Yes, that's how long it took us last weekend! Our next trip to Florida will be at the end of June to spend a week in Disney with Eric's Dad, Dave, Rachel and her family, Tish, Chris, Isabella, and my family is going to join us too! I'm SO glad that not only does MY family live in Florida, but Dave and Rachel do too. They just live on the West Coast near Fort Lauderdale!