Cherry Grove 2008!

We just came back from the beach on Sunday! Our whole family had a great time! It is soo funny, when we pulled up to the beach in the golf cart, the kid's hit the sand right then and there. I guess they think that is the beach, not knowing that you having to walk over the dunes to see the ocean. Schedules were a little off, I love my schedule! I need it for my sanity!
Jon and I got to spend two brief afternoons on the beach. (Gran and Pop-Pop watched the kids.) We enjoy adult conversation(woo hoo!) with the Long extended family. We also got to take a brief walk. And played an exciting game of botchee ball! Must activities are about the children! Which is the way it should be and the way it has to be!
Marley had a wonderful time this year! She was mainly a water bug! She enjoyed her pink tube and boogie board! She also enjoyed playing with her cousins, Bailey, Catherine, and Carson! Marley got a hole in one at putt putt. It was an amazing shot, curved to the left, bounced off the steps and into the hole! Worthy of a video clip! She also enjoyed the Aquarium at Broadway! Marley and Bailey are just at a great age to enjoy each other's company and entertain themselves!
Carpenter loved the beach! He loved going out in the ocean with his dad! He also loved being with his cousins! Carpenter, I think got a little tired of the beach by Thursday! Just the wind and sand wearing him out! ****He said his first sentence this week! I told him to go give something to his dad and he said: "Here you go Dada!" I was soo excited! You have no idea what that meant to me! He also had a great time at the Aquarium. He cried when Gran, Missy, Bailey, Marley, and Kyle left! So they took him with them and he had a wonderful time!
Sadie loved being in the ocean with her tube! She really loved being out in the ocean with her dad also! Jon and I did make a not so smart mistake(stupid is a bad word in our house)! With Carpenter and Marley gone to the Aquarium, we decided to take Sadie and Rowan to the Tanger Outlet's. We thought it would be real easy! Just two kids. But we looked at the clock, we pulled out of the driveway at 8:05. And I thought it was late, we would have never done this at home, my kids are usually in the bed at 8 pm. But we were at the beach and everyone knows beach time is different than real life time! So we went into the Stride Rite store. Every year I stock up on shoes for Carpenter, you save alot of money at the outlets. So Jon took Sadie and Rowan down the isle in the double stroller while I shopped for the shoes! There is one thing you need to know about Sadie, she loves shoes, obsessed, can not be compared to anyone else! So Sadie had to try on every shoe, then she would throw them in the stroller, thinking we could have them all! A free shoe store is her heaven! So I wanted these cute little pink madras shoes, and she wanted everything else. So I saw some flip flops on the clearance isle. So I said why don't we get them, but I didn't know the price. They were still $14.99, and my cheap self would not pay that much! So she pitched a ROYAL FIT! Screaming, crying, and the ole keep my self stiff so they could not put me in the stroller! It was horrible. She cried for 20 minutes, while I checked out and the walk to the car. We went all the way to the outlets to go into one store!
Rowan loved the beach, he didn't eat the sand too much! He would just crawl right into the ocean! He learned a big skill, he knows how to drink out of a straw! I can truly appreciate this skill because of what it took with Carpenter! He had a wonderful trip!

Funniest moment of the trip:
Uncle Lee put his bottle of water down beside Sadie's bottle of water. See, Lee drank Sadie's bottle of water. Gran gave Sadie a bottle of water because she was thirsty because she was eating a piece of bacon. Sadie's bottle of water had chunks of bacon in murky water in it! GRRRROOSSSSS! I missed Lee's expression, but he knew after the first sip that this was not his water. He quickly proceeded to the back porch to throw it up!

Rowan and Pop-Pop

3 amigos!

Sadie May!

Carpenter

Sadie getting knocked down by a wave!

Rowan and Daddy!

Kyle and Carpenter

Carpenter

Shirer's and Carpenter

Drinking a capri sun!

Girls in the ocean!

Carpenter pouting!

Jon and Marley

Rowan, Mom, and Marley

Putt Putt Fun!

Uncle Lee and Carpenter

Marley and I @ Libby Lu's

Milli and Marley

Gran, Rowan, and Pop-Pop

Sadie and Carpenter