Beach 2016!

We had an amazing beach trip this year!  We went to Holden Beach again and we absolutely loved the house!  The weather was perfect this year.  Every day we had great weather with lots of sunshine. All of the kids loved the water, especially Josh!  I couldn't get him out of the ocean!  Sam could not come this year because of work, so we missed him terribly!  He is the one who usually stays out in the ocean so I was tired by the end of the week getting knocked down by waves with Josh!  We also celebrated Josh's actual birthday at the beach!  We had another Star Wars theme party, complete with decorations!  Vera, Tom, Uncle Harold, and Aunt Doris also joined us for the party!  What a fun and amazing week!!

We made it!!

So happy and excited!

Beach Selfie!

Running back to our house!

This guy loved to dig in the sand!

My handsome 5 year old!

Running care free!

Beach Week!

Love this picture!

We loved eating on the table outside!

Pop and Josh!

Looking for shells with Nana!

My sweet guy and his Mama!

My babies!

Digging with Pop!

Loved riding the waves!

Twins!

The girls

My little beach lovers

Every day was picture perfect 

My bathing beauty 

I'm 5!

Nana and Pop with their grandkids!

Love this picture!

Sweet Holden!

"GaGa" and Holden

These boys love each other!

Beautiful sunset!

Nothing beats playing baseball in the evening!

Pop and Josh playing baseball 

We went with the Costleys on a pontoone boat for the day!

The kids loved it!

Hats and life vests all around!

Josh driving with Uncle Harold!

Josh picked water slides on his birthday day!

Cora!

Head first!

Ice cream time!

I think they liked ice cream more than the water slides!

Birthday cake!

So happy and excited!

Picture night on the beach!

Missing Daddy!

Party time!

Lots of help from his cousins!

Presents!

He hugged each person who gave him a gift...first Uncle Harold!

Next Aunt Doris!

Next Tom!

Then Vera!

More opening!

Hugging Pop!

Then Nana!

Beach sisters!

Selfie with my girl!

Holden serious in our selfie!

Boardwalk!

Another grand kid picture!

My babies and I again!

Kelly and her crew!

They didn't know what to think of the boardwalk!

Shark siting!

Annual crab hunt!

They love crabs!

Painting shells!

Kite flying!

My kite flying diva!

Putt Putt!

This was the first year ALL kids played and kept score

They loved it!!

My big 5 year old

Ice cream after putt putt!

Aunt Doris and Uncle Harold joined us!

Happy Birthday Josh and Meme!

Before we left for the beach, we celebrated Josh and Meme's birthdays!  My sweet boy turned 5 on Aug. 24th.  I can't believe his is 5!!  He has one more year of preschool then he will be heading to Kindergarten!  I get so sad just thinking about his!  But he had such a great birthday at the pool this year and celebrated with his friends and family.  Josh is such a sweet, funny, and smart little boy.  He is very athletic and loves to play sports.  He keeps us on our toes and laughing all day!  We love our sweet boy!!  We also had a very nice party for Meme who turned 83! We love Meme and had such a great time with family!  Here are the pictures from our August birthdays!

Meme with her five great grandchildren!

Meme and her kids!

Sam and Holden!

Birthday pizza!

Star Wars cake!

Such a happy boy!

Singing!

Not the whole group, some people already left

We gave Josh his present before we left for the beach

He loved it!!

8th Wedding Anniversary and Picking Peaches!

Last week Sam and I celebrated our 8th wedding anniversary!  We didn't have any big plans and the kids were insistent we should get ice cream as a family...so we did!  First we went on a long bike ride around Crump Park then headed off to Brewsters for some ice cream.  It was not the most exciting anniversary but I would not have traded anything for the world!  Last week we also went picking peaches at Chiles Peach Orchard with the Wheelins.  Josh and Cora love hanging out with Mason and Abby.  We have so much fun together.  Ironically, there were no peaches at the peach orchard that we drove an hour and fifteen minutes to!  There were vegetables and flowers, ha!  It was so beautiful up there and weather was perfect, not hot at all.  So we picked some veggies and flowers and had an absolute blast.  What a fun summer activity!

Our bike ride!

Josh loves riding without his training wheels!

Ice Cream!

Sweet friends

Looking for those veggies!

Beautiful flowers

I think I see a vegetable!

They loved picking flowers!

It really is beautiful in the mountains...

Love hanging out with Jill!

Random picture...we have been so excited to watch Townley Hass!
Townley swam at our pool and we love wearing our shirts to support him!!

Summer Pics...

Here a bunch of pics from August!

Sam and his Dad did a Mid Night Race..they loved it!

He loved it!

Pop and Sam built Josh a swing set for an early  birthday gift....he loves it!!

Best gift from Pop and Nana!

Cora and Lillian are the best of friends!

Friends since 2!

I often find them sleeping together....

We went to see a short play with the Meehans and Wheelins!

Squirrels game with Stella and Nolan!

Beautiful night!

They all had a great time!

Water Country!

Last week we did our annual trip to Water Country.  We do this every year after swim team is over! This year we went with the McGuires, Meehans, and Bursdalls.  It was a great group and we had an awesome time.  Josh is over 42 inches now so he can basically ride what he wants...well almost everything!  Love doing such fun activities with my kids...we stay busy but we love every second of it!

Josh and Johnny have a lot of fun together!

Our "kids with the map" picture!

The whole group!

Josh loves Caroline!

Josh is on the top right...brave boy!