Our weekend and Noah's, too!

We had a great long weekend away at Bald Head Island with our friend Josh and Anise while Noah stayed home with Grammy and Papa. I think all parties involved had a GREAT time!

First, our weekend.....

My parents got into town very late Wednesday night/Thursday morning because my dad was being promoted to Principal Professional Staff at the Applied Physics Lab at John's Hopkins University - this is equivalent to being a Tenured Professor at the University - go Dad! Anyway, they didn't get in until after 2am but were still up bright and early when Noah woke up to say hello. We'd been preparing Noah that we were leaving and he was totally fine with it. We left Thursday afternoon after Noah's nap and gave us hugs and kisses and happily waved goodbye as we drove away.

We arrived at Bald Head that evening and had a nice dinner at a restaurant on the island. That night, we played games and stayed up late (for us) since we knew we could sleep in the next morning! :-)

On Friday, we had a nice slow start with breakfast and relaxing. At 11:45, Anise and I took off to the spa for an hour long massage followed by a pedicure. Sooooo nice. The guys were going to go play golf but it ended up being more complicated than it was worth, so they got a head start out on the beach while we were at the spa. Afterwards, we picked up lunch and spent the rest of the afternoon at the beach. Friday night, Josh made yummy fajitas and 'we' watched a movie. I'm still wondering how the pregnant lady was the only one who could stay awake through the whole movie..... hmm... maybe it has something to do with not being able to drink/pass out!? :-)

On Saturday, we had another slow morning and spent most of the day at the beach. So relaxing. That evening we went off the island and had dinner in Wilmington. We sat outside at Elijah's right on the water and ate and ate and ate! I think we were at dinner for almost 3 hours. It was so nice. We didn't make it back to the ferry until 11:10 so we missed the 11 ferry and had to wait until midnight. Josh had cards though, so we enjoyed playing spades (well, Josh and I did anyway - Anise and Waylon lost bad!) :-) until the ferry came.

Sunday morning, we packed up, cleaned up, and poked around the island for a while before heading home. We got home around 5:30 and were happily greeted by Noah, Grammy and Papa! A few pictures (I don't take as many when kids aren't around!).....

Anise and Finley

A belly pic for you all.... :-)
(21 weeks)

Dinner at Elijah's - the water was right behind us but you can't really see it.

Heading back to the mainland on the ferry - looking back at the Old Baldy lighthouse

Now Noah's weekend - Grammy and Papa brought all sorts of new toys to keep Noah entertained over the weekend, so they played with those a lot - a new pool and all sorts of fun bubble activities. They also went to Marbles, visited some friends from MD (who live in Cary now) and went out to dinner. It was action packed and they all seemed to have a lot of fun. We talked to them a couple times each day and Noah will actually talk on the phone some now which is fun. He didn't really seem to miss us until we got home and then it was MOMMY MOMMY MOMMY! I could hardly go to the bathroom! :-)

The new pool has a giraffe on it that sprays water - he loved this feature!! :-)

Love this expression

Playing at Marbles and talking to Mommy on the phone

On the pirate ship with Papa at Marbles

Marbles again - jumping on a trampoline

Blowing bubbles

In the pool again
this time - 'Grammy, get in pool!'

Where's Noah!? :-)

A great weekend for everyone - maybe we should do this more than once a year!! :-)