Beach Trip!

So leaving off from my last post.... we arrived at the beach Thursday night (after selling our house that day!) around 8 pm. We stopped for dinner on the way and Kylie was ready to be out about a half an hour from the house, but it was a good trip in general. Since we didn't get to the beach until 8, they were excited when we got there so we let them stay up late to avoid battling bedtime. We also decided to try to let them sleep in the same room so Kylie wouldn't have to sleep in with us... it actually went pretty well! We put Kylie to bed first and let her get to sleep and then took Noah in for bed after she was asleep. It went really well until about 5 am when we heard through the monitor, 'Hi Kylie-girl!' It was cute but then they were both awake! But they both actually went back to sleep so that was good. The other two nights went well and they both slept all night.

Friday morning breakfast....


Kylie was obsessed with this inner tube and kept putting it on and crawling. :) It was cute... we decided she was trying to tell us something and headed to the pool.


We had a pool at the house which was so great!! -- except for the fact that we only made it to the beach one time all weekend because we were having so much fun at the pool! :-)

We spent most of the morning out there and then lunchtime and afternoon naps Kylie slept in her pack and play and Noah and Waylon laid down together in our bed! It was cute to see them sleeping together and I think they both had fun with that. :-)

Andrea, Sean and Savannah arrived while everyone was sleeping and - you got it - we headed back to the pool. The plan was to hit the beach that afternoon but we were having so much fun, we just stuck to the pool.

Here is Kylie in one of Savannah's 2T size bathing suits!!! Wow, we have a big girl.

This was a popular game for the weekend... crawling underneath the coffee table (and not just for Kylie!)

Friday night, we had a yummy spaghetti dinner and then Noah and Savannah watched Dora and Diego before bed and I caught these great shots of them sitting together. :-) So adorable!!

Saturday morning, Noah and Savannah found a horse to ride!!! :-)

Then we finally made it to the beach!! It took us a while to get organized and all the stuff gathered and by the time we made it to the beach, it was around 9:30. We planned to stay until lunch but the kids started fading fast around 11, so we packed up and headed home for an early lunch!!

This picture kind of reminds me of this one of Noah when he was just a little older than she is now...

Savannah and Kylie had matching bathing suits! :-) Savannah LOVES Kylie and they are going to be good buddies.

We got a nice long nap for all the kids so Kay, Dick, Andrea and I lazed by the pool while Waylon and Sean stayed inside and watched football... a nice break for everyone!

After the kids got up, we took a walk down to the pier to get ice cream and play some video games. It was fun!

After dinner on Saturday night, the guys decided to try to fly some kites out in front of the house. 'Try' is the key word - but everyone had fun watching anyway!

Everyone was very tired that evening from all the fun in the sun so we ALL went to bed easy and early. Waylon and I spent some time going through house stuff that evening and worked through our plans.

Sunday morning, we packed up and headed out of town by about 9:30 (checkout was 10 so we didn't have time to hit the beach or pool before we left). When we got home, the kids napped and we took off again to go look at a few houses with our realtor! It was a quick trip but we did get a few ruled out and had mexican for dinner on our way back.

Monday, Waylon went back to work and the kids and I had a nice catch up day at home. We did venture out for a quick trip to get Noah's hair cut after lunch but that was it. It was good to get some things done around here.

I was bummed though cause I dropped the video monitor and broke the video part. We love being able to watch her on there so I figured out how to hook it up to our TV and see her on there! Here she is during naptime. :-)

That afternoon, we took a walk and Kylie wanted to try out Noah's bike. It won't be long and she'll be riding all around!

We've been taking a lot of after-dinner walks with Maddie et al over the past few weeks. I guess we are trying to get our fill of having them so close!! We are going to be so sad to leave this neighborhood....

Noah stopped to feed our neighbors' chickens. He even let them peck the food out of his hand!!

Then he took Maddie home from their after-dinner date. :-) I LOVE LOVE LOVE this picture.

We tried to duplicate the shot with Kylie but you know how that goes....

Our game plan for the weekend -- my mom is coming through town this weekend (for her high school reunion festivities outside of Charlotte) so she'll arrive tomorrow night. Then Friday, she is going to keep the kids busy while I start packing some (Waylon has already started a little!). She'll leave at lunchtime on Friday but then Saturday morning, Waylon's parents will come over to hang with the kids most of the day while we HUNT HUNT HUNT for houses. Sunday, my mom will come back through town and keep the kids in the afternoon while we HUNT some more (a theme for the weekend!). We are hoping to either find a perfect resale or decide on a neighborhood in which to build by Sunday evening. We'll see! I think we are ALL going to be very tired by then. We are just so lucky to have so much help from our family and friends!