annual labor day trip...

Over Labor Day, we went on our 7th annual Labor Day trip with our good friends from college, the Burns and the Newmans. We go some where different every year. This year we went to the beach, and we couldn’t have made a better choice! The kids absolutely loved it and had the best time together! It was so nice to see them all play together. When they went to bed, we played our annual card games until we couldn’t stay awake any longer and ate lots and lots of cookies:) The last night we ate 29 chocolate chip cookies;/ Annie Rice and Ashlynn became best buddies. They look very similar and had the same bathing suits, so we had to do a double take sometimes to see who was who. We also got a good glimpse into what having 2 girls is going to be like:) One minute they were best friends and couldn’t get enough of each other, the next minute they were fighting and upset. Regardless, they had a great time playing together and Annie Rice has prayed for all of her “friends from the trip” every night since we’ve been back!

We had such a good time and we are so thankful for our friends! We’ve already started planning next years trip;)

 Annie Rice and Ashlynn

 the whole crew[I was on the phone when this picture was taken;/]

summer has been busy...

Well, I’ve been away for awhile..I honestly needed a little break. With the move and the busyness of life, I felt like my “creative juice” just wasn’t there, BUT it’s slowly coming back! Ha! 

We’ve had so much going on the last several months and this summer has flown by for us. We recently celebrated Annie Rice’s 3rd birthday! Our little tinker bell wanted to go to Bojangles for her birthday breakfast dressed as tinker bell. The old men eating breakfast loved flirting with her. Hartsville recently opened up the Splash-pad, so we’ve had a lot of fun going there. Annie started taking swim lessons and she is slowly getting used to the water:)

Maggie is growing so fast I can’t keep up. She started crawling at 5 months and hasn’t stopped! She is so fast and will be walking very soon I’m afraid. I just can’t believe in less than 3 months she will be 1 years old. Time goes by too fast...

We have been spending the last few days with Kaz’s brother’s family. We spent the weekend at the beach[which was a lot better than our last beach trip..it was full of sickness and the stomach bug]. The kids loved playing with each other and Maggie thought the sand was food so she ate enough to keep her full all day! 

Here are a few pictures from our last few weeks...