Myrtle Beach III

We took our third and final trip of the summer to Myrtle Beach last week. It was so relaxing. We pretty much stayed at the resort and swam during the day and watched the Olympic games at night. Charles Allen was able to play around in the pool with just his swimmies on for the first time and Emmy won first place in a limbo contest. I tied for first place, but lost the tie breaker to a lady from Holly Springs. Neal and Emmy entered in a putting contest and a WII bowling contest. They didn't win, but they had fun trying. We finished up the weekly activities with tie dying t-shirts and renting bicycles for the day. Unfortunately, Hurricane Faye arrived on Friday. We had been planning all week to go to the water park on our last day, but between the rain and Emmy's allergic reaction to the sunscreen that swelled her face up to the point of not being able to open her eyes we had to come home early Friday morning. All in all it was a great trip with many fun memories. We can't wait til next year.

Ally kept herself entertained by trying to balance on Charles Allen's boogie board.

Emmy also entered into a hula competition.

This is a new game that Emmy and Neal came up with. It looked like a lot of fun. At least for Emmy.

Cool Shirts! Lazy DayzsAlly even went around the pool with just swimmies on. She's such a big girl.

High Ratings

We're in Myrtle Beach right now and last night we we're planning on what to do on Friday, which is our last day. We had originally planned on going to Myrtle Waves, which is the water park down here and it was the one big thing we had planned to do all week so the kids have been really looking forward to it. Neal was telling Emmy that because of Hurricane Faye we wouldn't be able to go because it's predicted to be bad weather. So she immediately said, "Well if I can't go to the water park then I have to see grandma." OK then. That was easy. So Grandma if you're reading this know that you're missed and greatly loved, and more importantly you rate right up there with the water park! To a seven year old that's a big deal.

Living The Dream

Last night Neal and the kids and I drove down to Harrells to visit with my dad's brothers and their families. We went to my cousin Beverly's house and she has a big nice pool. My aunts and cousins were all commenting on how comfortable my kids seemed in the pool and they were asking if we had a pool. Of course we don't and they seemed surprised, but I told them we often went to Myrtle Beach during the summer. So late that night as we're just starting our drive back home Neal begins to ask me why I said we didn't have a pool. Emmy chimes in that we don't and he acts stunned that we would say we didn't have a pool. He's hurt. How could we deny our lovely pool that we've played in for two summers now. Well, Emmy and I had forgotten our lovely pool and we apologized and rolled our eyes. Yes, we do remember her now. She is lovely and we're grateful to have her. We probably won't miss her while we're at Myrtle Beach this week, but we'll be glad to see her when we get back home!













My favorite part is the hot pink duct tape. I just couldn't bare sending her to the landfield so I taped her up and she's good as new!

Happy Birthday Emmy!

This is my birthday girl. My beautiful babies. Birthday Pizza! The best.

Emmy turned seven on July 29th. I can't believe it. It makes me so sad when I think of how quickly it has gone by. Time really does fly when you're having fun, and Emmy has been so much fun since about 3 months. Don't even get me started on the first three months with a new baby, especially the first. Of course, it wasn't her fault. I just had completely no idea what in the world I was doing. Poor thing, it's a miracle she made, not to mention that she seems to be doing well in spite of what she had to endure. Anyway, it seemed like we celebrated all week long for her birthday. We get pretty excited around here when one of our babies has a birthday. On Tuesday, her actual birthday, we opened two presents before she went to school. Then during school she had a party with her classmates. We shared two birthday cookies and Capri Suns with her class. Mrs. Haden was really good to let us come in and disrupt her class. And it was especially exciting for Emmy since it was the first time she was at school on her actual birthday. When she got home from school she opened another present because apparently a seven year old will die if they have to wait too long to open presents on their birthday. That seems to be the rule. I know I wanted to die if I had to listen to more begging. Thankfully we all survived and we were able to go to Emmy's favorite restaurant, Moe's, and have a birthday dinner. After that we came home to finish opening her presents. The very next day we took Emmy and her BFF, Elise, to the Jonas Brothers concert. And finally, on Friday we had a small party with her cousins during our monthly date night. It was a fun week and we're so lucky to be sharing our lives with such a great kid. Happy Birthday, Emmy!

This looks like trouble to me. Run girls! Run!

The girls kept trying to outrun the boys in the gator. It didn't work so well.

Boys and girls play so different. While the boys were busy trying to bomb everyone with water ballons, the girls were trying to protect their "babies". It was so sad when they busted.