Thursday, July 30, 2009

Family Photos on the Beach

Beach Time

Caroline enjoyed the beach and the ocean.
John and Patrick dug a hole in the sand until they reached water. Everyone thought it was cool.
Caroline plays or eats rubber duckie while sitting in her little pool.
The stud as he thinks in our family.
The beach beauty poses in her sunglasses.
The boys loved playing in the ocean together. It really was nice weather the entire week. It felt like it was October. NICE!
This pool was used for many things while on the beach. Something to swim in, nap in, change clothes in, alittle bit of everything.
Every evening was full of fun with a new place to eat out and activities afterwards. Putt Putt is always a good one along with shopping and riding go carts. Something the kids look forward to every year.
Mommy and Me. I love it!
John loves to bury himself in the sand and I had to finish him up.
Sweet... John helps take care of his baby sister.

Summer time

Just thought I'd up date everyone on our family during this summer. Chris has been on me for a while for my updates. I just have soooo much FREE time. Drew played baseball all stars all summer and ended late July. He had fun but it was busy with tournaments and practices. Most all of the tournaments were less than 40 miles from our house. So that was good. We didn't let John play. That wouldn't have worked with two playing all summer so it was Drews turn. Other than baseball we hung out by the pool most of the summer. John went to Church camp (Centri-Kid) and he had fun. Patrick and Caroline were just in tow. She is growing every day and hard to believe she will be 11 months old on Monday. John started football practice this week. We're gearing up for school which starts on Monday. All three of the boys are ready and excited. We met teachers today and yesterday and all was good. Yeah! Patrick is going to pre-kindergarten and is VERY excited. A teammate of Drews got hurt. Busted noise and was out of the World Serious late July. Drew thought of Ethan while he was out by his support on his eye black and the team wore red wrist bands.
Drew made some great plays while playing pitcher. His team was the Rome Braves.
Caroline was busted climbing the stairs. This has been the only time she tired it. I guess that fell done her in. Maybe... I'm sure she'll try it again soon.
4th of July spent with wonderful family cooking out by the pool. My niece and nephew came over from Birmingham with their mom Kathy and my brother and wife Tina came over too. Nana and Grandpa Bob were here for the fun as well. It's nice to spend holidays with family. I wish everyone could have come but it was really nothing planned since Drew was playing in the Dizzy Dean State Baseball Tournament here in Rome that weekend. Above my brother in the pool with Caroline. He thought we would let her go to swim on her own "to see what she would do but thought I'd kill him if he did". I was in the house at the time.
The boys playing in the pool with their oldest cousin, Travis. He's 23 and they had a BLAST! They still talk about it. Abby was around but I thought she might get me if I put a picture of her in her swim suit on my blog. Love her!
John and Drew attended the Clemson Football camp. They had fun but worked hard for two long days. Those boys had never work and ran and played so hard from sun up to past sun down. This is a picture of them with the head football coach of Clemson, Coach Dabo Swinney and below pictured with Perry Tuttle.