Girl's Beach Trip

When the Memorial Day weekend was over, and everyone headed home on Monday morning, David stuck around with me, and soon after, Mom and Abbye arrived. We had dinner at Bonefish and saw Water For Elephants that night - so good! On Tuesday, David left super early, and Mom, Abbye and I headed down to the beach for a bit while waiting on the crew to arrive - Pammy, Amanda, Ben, Aunt Vicky, and Aiden! They joined us at the beach that afternoon, and we stayed in Tuesday night. On Wednesday, Mom, Pammy, Vicky and I headed to Destin for some shopping. And the last full day - Thursday - was spent under an umbrella again. Lovely week with family! Here's a few of our adventures!

This huge slide was there for the week - and the little boys loved it! I was so excited to show it to them before they got there!

Perfect afternoons

They had so much fun jumping from bunk-to-bunk!

Pre-dinner cocktails by the pool while the boys swam!

An afternoon visit to the Seaside Market...

And an afternoon drink by the Caliza pool at Alys Beach.

Thursday was another beautiful day to spend on the beach and by the pool. I let the boys bury me in the sand which was so funny! And then we all took turns burying them. I think Aiden was sorta comfy under there, but Ben can't sit still for that long!

About mid-day, Mom and Pammy scooted upstairs to bring our picnic down. This is probably my favorite thing we do at the beach. All my life, we've eaten the umbrella - taking turns being the one to go upstairs and fix lunch for everyone. Its lovely, and you never have to leave the beach!

That afternoon, we headed to Boondock's to ride the air boat!

The little boys were so cute and wanting to see an alligator in the water so bad! We settled for this one in the tank.

Our whole group! Such a fun week!

Summer Movies

Lately, we've been on a movie kick! I love the excitement that comes with summer movies...there's always some fun ones to anticipate! Two weeks ago, David and I saw the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie. It was so good! I'm not sure who liked what better - me watching Johnny Depp, or David eyeing Penelope Cruz!

While we were at the beach, we saw Water For Elephants - it was amazing! Such a pretty movie...and I'm a huge RPatz fan too. The Hangover II was a tish disappointing! We were all looking forward to it, but all aggreed that #1 was better.

Just wanted to share! Hope you've had fun at the movies recently too! :)

Memorial Day Weekend

For the Memorial Day weekend, David and I were able to head to PCB on Thursday night, escaping Atlanta and the bad storms that were moving through. He and I got down about 1am on Thursday night, but were so excited to have the whole day to sit under the umbrella on the beach on Friday. We read, people-watched, napped, and had an early dinner at our favorite - Firefly - before our buddies arrived. Brince and Becca got there about 10:00 so we got to visit with them for a few minutes before the others arrived. Amy and Chris Arnold drove down with Jesse and Roy Noble - some Perry friends. Jesse and I were in the same major together and spent a ton of time together in school slaving away on our endless projects! And Roy graduated from Fullington and is from Vienna. He and Jesse graciously brought their new corn hole set, and provided the entertainment for the beach time. We had the most gorgeous weather, and the best time catching up under the umbrellas. Wanted to share a few pics from our fun long weekend!  

We had quite the set-up for the weekend on the beach...two umbrellas, a huge cooler, corn hole, and plenty of beach chairs. It was so nice!

These two were corn hole champs....brother-in-law love at its best!

Roy and Jesse brought the nicest new corn hole boards, and the boys had a ball talking trash to each other and competing for The Title.

What gorgeous skies!

We had a lengthy dinner at Boatyard on Saturday night, and headed back to
Firefly for Sunday night before catching The Hangover II.

B&B

The Arnolds

Griffins!

Jesse and Roy

Sunday Ben-day

A few weeks ago on a Sunday afternoon, we were able to meet Amanda to take Ben for the night. David and I had had company for the weekend, but are always so excited when this little guy comes to stay! He loves walking around our house and finding his "usual" things..."his" bed, his box of toys, his cup...its really adorable. Later that afternoon, we took a boat ride/tow ride to take our friend Brandon (and his boat attached to our boat) to the boat ramp. Even though Ben had already swam for 3 hours in his new swim league, he wanted to jump  into the lake. Well, who are we to tell him no? He put himself to bed about 9:30, so no complaints here. 6:30am came early on Monday, but he's always so sweet! We left to go to school about 7:15 - and one doughnut stop along the way, we arrived at school early!

Look at this cutie pie with our Bax!

Amanda and Ben have choreographed moves to Taio Cruz' "Dynamite" and this is Ben doing his dance when it came on the radio on Sunday night. You really haven't seen cute till you've seen this little guy do his hip/hop moves.

We towed our friend Brandon to the boat ramp across the lake from us, and Ben took the opportunity to jump in the water while we were parked.

In case you cant tell, I love this little guy! And I think he loves me back!

I insisted he wear his life jacket, even though he doesn't need it at all anymore. Its really just to make Aunt Maggie feel better.

More lake time with friends

On Friday night, our good friends Colby and Jamie came up to Gainesville to join us for dinner and a weekend on the lake. A little while after they arrived, Brince, Becca, and Clayton arrived too. Talk about a fun crew! The 7 of us stayed up super late playing games and laughing til our stomachs hurt. On Saturday morning, Griffin and Alli joined us for the day/night. After scooping up Jamie's sister Ashley, we spent the whole beautiful day on the lake. We met Amanda, Ben, Sally, and Brian on an island and enjoyed hot dogs, brewskies, telling stories, and dips in the water. On Saturday night, we had a fun dinner and retired to the back deck for more game-time. When Clayton and Griffin, my highschool BFFs, are around, I laugh non-stop; we all do. I mean, laughing-with-no-sound-with-my-abs-aching type of laugh. Alli, Griffin's wife is awesome too! Colby, Becca and I have a ball together, and Brince and Jamie always love seeing each other. I love melding friends and laughing with them all! We slept in on Sunday for obvious reasons, and after bidding farewell to our pals about 4pm, we scooped up Ben to continue our weekend of fun. 

Look at this princess. Isn't she the cutest?



Friday night was so mild and wonderful that we were able to hang out on the deck. I had to include this pic of the candle sticks that David cut for me with our citronella candles. They kept the bugs at bay, and were pretty! Our new favorite game is The Game of Things, and we played until our sides hurt..maybe until like 3am.

The boys had a nice, sweet toast to the recently deceased Harmon Killebrew. They killed-a-brew in honor of him. Harmon!

We love when Jim Roper comes to visit too!

Best pals.

Saturday lake time!

So so so happy to have Griff, Ally, Clayton and The Smithsons for the weekend, and the Roper-Coodys too!

Our favorite little man joined us on the boat for some string cheese and photos!

He's a popular guy. What can you say? Brince loves to fish with him, Becca loves nature walks with him, and Ashley thinks he's a hoot!

Saturday night brought many more laughs during the Game of Things!