21 years and counting!

For the 21st year (we may have missed one) we took our family vacation to Atlantic Beach, NC. We love it.  This year, it was Mom & Dad, Beau & Isabella and Brandon & myself.

Of-course, as it is with any family, practically all of my pictures are of the baby! Well, the little girl.

"I love Annie because she got me a tattoo!"

She also loved the Mickey Mouse pool.  The only pool she ever wanted to go to was the Mickey Mouse pool.  I'm SO glad it was the one next to our apartment! :) It's the one I always wanted to go to when I was little too.

The kids and one of the kid's kid and the other kid's hubby.

The bros-in-law looking and dreaming of one day having a boat. I was too.

I find this picture somewhat poetic. I love it. Izzy and her daddy's shoes.

If she didn't want to go swimming in the Mickey Mouse pool, she wanted to play with sparklers! It was super cute.

Annie and her Izzy. Or Izzy and her Annie. Both work for me!

Beau and Isabella.

We got Izzy an Ariel towel and she was in love. Ariel is her favorite. She made herself a cute little fort with it and everything.  Can you see Enchanted on the TV? We watched it, no joke, everyday, sometimes twice.

I realized that I didn't have any good pictures of my parents at the beach....so here's one of them at Boxerwood Gardens a couple of days before we left to go down there :)

And one last one of the little one with the superhero look. I'm gonna say a pink Batgirl, cuz she's awesome.

Well, there we go! Family Vacation #21 in a nutshell! We spent a lot of family time and watched Enchanted 9 times. And Mom, Brandon and I got strep throat. Awesome. But other than that, it was great!

Shutterfly Photos for Family Vacation 2010

Year 2 ends and Year 3 begins!

Well, it has now been 2 years since Brandon and I got married! The first year seemed to take FOREVER but this last year has flown by.  Brandon keeps saying, "so which anniversary is this? number 8, 9?" haha.
Anyway, this year, we didn't do anything super fancy, we just got away for the weekend, and it was really nice.  Friday (June 18th) we drove down to Greensboro, at at Qdoba (one of my favorite restaurants) and saw Shrek 4. Some people might say "how lame!" but it wasn't lame for us, it was perfect.  It was so "us".  Dinner and a movie, just by ourselves, relaxed, carefree, awesome.   We stayed in a hotel that night and then stayed the rest of the weekend with Jared Arny, a good buddy of ours.  He and his wife helped out a lot with the wedding and we haven't seen them since then, so we figured it would be a good thing to go and hang out with them a bit.  Unfortunately, Scarlett was out of town with the kids...but we did see Jared and accomplished a lot of chillin'.  Wii Resort was involved. And a driving range. Fun stuff. :)  All-in-all, 2 years down, eternity to go!  Chapter 2 has closed and chapter 3 has begun.

Our typical pose.  I don't know of a trip that we've been on where I didn't take a picture exactly like this one.

Hittin' balls.

Jared & Brandon

What was I doing, you ask?? Reading like a good girl. Actually, this was a lot of fun.  Ridiculously hot, but fun.

Getting their money's worth.  It said don't remove balls from the driving range, it didn't say they couldn't reuse them!

By-the-way, this was the day that Brandon realized that he doesn't want to be a golfer. :)

Bunny.

The end!

End: chapter 2.

Fallen Soldier

We have the blessing of living in a house that came with lots of trees and shrubs that we didn't have to buy! :)  One of my favorite of all of them (second only to the dogwoods and lilacs) is the huge apple tree in the back yard that takes up a good portion of our yard.  It gives us lots of shade and apples (that we never use...) and it's really just beautiful.

Well. A limb fell.  I was so sad! It's not like the whole tree fell or anything, but it's still depressing to see a huge part of it on the ground.  The only members of our family that didn't seem upset were the cats.  They had a TON of fun making it into their temporary jungle gym.

 Can't you hear Taps playing in the background?

The new playground

Do work, son!

My burly lumberjack husband :)

Don't worry, I made him trim up his beard.  Well, he decided to do it, and I certainly didn't argue! :)