Family Vacation 2010

I’m not even going to attempt to make this post interesting.  I’m too exhausted and am crashing down too hard from my vacation high.  Here are the facts:

Location: Folly Beach, SC
Event: Annual Family Vacay
Objectives: Have lots of family bonding time and eat huge amounts of unhealthy food.  Check and check.
People in attendance: J.C., me, Eli, Tessa, Gramamma, Pop, Nick, Mawmaw, Chris, Rachel, and Ali

And here are the pics.

The beach had a huge tide pool that the kids played in in.  No waves, undertow, sharks or jellyfish = perfect beach baby pool.

We had one tired and super snuggly little boy on our hands after all the beach fun.

“whooooaaa!”

Walkin’ the plank.

 

The fam

 

Our little family picture looks a little different this year than it did last year (and definitely different than it did 3 years ago).  I wonder what it will look like next year???

The long awaited Grandparent blog update

I don’t have much to share, but this should buy me at least a week before hearing the question “when are you going to update your blog”.  Riiiiight??  :)

Eli is quite obsessed with his new cowboy boots that Gramamma bought for him.  I had stripped him down last night before bed and hadn’t gotten his jammies on yet.  Before I had a chance to, he found his boots and put them on (on the wrong feet, which made it even cuter in my opinion).  It was kind of warm in the house, so J.C. just put him to bed in his diaper and boots (daddies…. :)). 

Strikin’ his modeling pose.

 

Here’s a video of my sweet Tessa-girl.  She’s not doing anything spectacular, but I can’t get enough of her giggles.

And here’s one more pic for good measure.

I hate to brag, but….

I just can’t help myself.

This and That

So I’ve pretty much come to terms with the fact that this blog is going to strictly be a “please-come-oooh-and-aaah-over-my-kids” kind of space and not so much of a “come-read-my-hilarious-and-thought-provoking-commentary” kind of space (although we all know that was a stretch to begin with).  Really, the only reason I still post anything on here is that it’s as close to any form of scrapbooking or journaling that I’m ever gonna do and I need something that I can look back on one day to have some memories, ya know?  So, if you’re interested in following along, you’re more than welcome.  If not, I won’t hold it against you, because believe me, unless you’re a pretty close friend, I wouldn’t follow your blog if it were as boring and self-centered narrowly focused as this one.

Maybe one day when I have at least three whole seconds to rub together on a regular basis, then I’ll revisit the idea of actually blogging instead of just dumping pictures and videos.  Don’t hold your breath, though.

Enough self deprecation.  Moving on to the main subjects.

Tessa hangin’ out with mr. cutie pie, Grey.   Can we go ahead and arrange the marriage?  (kidding….. sort of.)

Bath time fun.  Of course Tessa’s bath seat looks like the most awesome thing in the world to Eli (kind of like the exersaucer).

I just think Tessa looks really pretty in this picture.  Please don’t tell me if you disagree.

We went to visit my friend Brooke the other day and Eli found an awesome mud puddle face-plant play in.

Our biggest news lately is that Tessa has started crawling (what???).  Slow down, Mr. Time…

And here are a couple more videos for good measure.

Is it sick that I find that video funny?  Most parents would probably rescue their baby from the overly determined toddler, but not us.  No, we video and laugh. 

Think these two might be siblings?

Tessa – 6 months

Eli – 6 months

Eli meets the beebahs

Portraits

Eli – 20 months old
Tessa – 6 months old
J.C. and Lindsay – just old…..

We coordinated our session with Chris and Rachel so that we could get some cousin shots. These actually didn’t turn out too bad considering that we were trying to pose three kids three and under. A feat that completely exhausted me….

And here are the family shots.