The Rest of Our Trip

After staying at the beach for a few days we headed to my parents house for a little more fun and family time. On Sunday we celebrated Fathers Day and several family birthdays. We had a great time with everyone. Here are some pictures from our day.

This is Logan and his cousin, Amelia. She is one week older than him. It is always fun to get them together.

My sister brought this baby deer over after a visit to her friends house who are caring for it after they found it abandoned. So cute! The children had lots of fun bottle feeding it. It was really tame and would let the children pet and play with it. It was really neat, I've never been so close to such a young deer.

My nephew Lincoln was turning 3 and he decided that he wanted a Diego themed party so that what he got. Here is Sydney trying to break the Diego pinata.


Here Sydney is standing by her cousin Kimball. I think that she has a little crush on him. She constantly asks about him and wants to know when she will be able to see him again. She tagged along with him much of the day.

The next day we decided to head to Williamsburg, VA so we could take Heath's mom to some of the historical sites that this part of the country has to offer. It was really neat but way too hot! The children did great, especially considering how hot it was. Heath and his mom take a turn in the stocks. This looks really uncomfortable. So glad that I never got punished this way.

Here are some random pictures from Williamsburg. Notice how hot Sydney looks.

These are just pictures of Colonial Williamsburg. Notice the decorations in the Governor's Palace. So weird, maybe I should start decorating with weapons.

All in all we had a great trip and a wonderful visit with Heath's mom. We only wish it was longer.

Emerald Isle, North Carolina

Heath's mom came for a visit so we headed to Emerald Isle, NC to the beach for some fun, and fun we had! We stayed at my Aunt's beach house and it was great! The kids seemed to have a good time and I think we all secretly wished that we had a few more days to spend at the beach.

Here are the children at the beach. (you didn't really expect to see a picture of me at the beach did you?) Sydney liked the water but I think she liked the sand a little more. If you ask her which she liked more - the water or the sand? - she says something different each time. Logan fell asleep on Grandma Charter after a little while and slept like a champ!

These next pictures were taken on the deck of the beach house. The weather was really nice while we were there and we enjoyed our dinners outside on the deck each night.

There is a pretty nice aquarium at the beach that we like to go to when we are there. Sydney enjoyed herself for most of the time but she got a little tired toward the end. Logan did great while we there. He liked the exhibits with larger fish the best because he would find one and follow it the length of the tank and then find another and watch it swim to the other end. I thought this was pretty fun to watch.

This is where Sydney started to get tired and a little grouchy.

So cute but so tired!

Here is Heath and his mom! We had a great time with her and were so glad that she came to visit!

Our Little Fish!

We decided to get Sydney a little pool for the backyard this summer. She loves it! I took her with me to the store to get it and promised her that we would use it the next day when the daycare kids came over. She was sooooo excited about it. Asking about her new pool was the last thing she did that night before she went to sleep. Sadly, the next morning we woke to rain. It rained all day long and Sydney was pretty disappointed. She kept looking out the back door and then would come running telling me, "not raining no more." (It was always still raining, plus it was really chilly out!) The next day it wasn't raining so I decided it was time to get the pool together. It was still pretty chilly out but Sydney didn't care. Here she is all ready in her new bathing suit.

Here she is out in the pool. I only put a little bit of water in there because I thought it would be too cold. Notice that she is just crouched down. She didn't sit down the whole time because it was too cold. Despite the chill she loved it and didn't want to go in.

A few days later we tried again and it was much better. It was hot out and Sydney had friends over (daycare kids plus one friend from church) and they had a ball! Sydney was too busy playing to stop and look at the camera despite my repeated requests. Sydney had also started a swimming class, the kind you do with a parent. She loves going to the big pool! We have gone under the water a few times and she doesn't like that but she is proud of herself and loves to tell people that she went under. I can get her to do just about anything so that she can go outside and play in the pool.