Beach Trip

I'm horrible at keeping this updated..... I need to add pictures too I will do that soon.

We went to Hilton Head Island with Bill and Nancy Williams the week of July 4th. Bill and Nancy are my best friend Joy's parents. They also keep my boys during the day. They have a condo at the beach as does Joy and her brother Chris. They were gracious enough to invite us down. We stayed in Joy's condo with her and her brother his wife, their 3 kids (they have 1 yr old twin boys and a 4 yr old daughter), then they brought their friends Dave and April and their two kids. (1 1/2 yr old Lawson and Mia who is 6 I think...). Anyway they all stayed in Bill and Nancy's condo. We had such a wonderful time.

Highlights:
My children have no fear. They loved the ocean and would just run right out into it and put their heads in, it was really cute. We spent one day all day at the beach and they had such a good time. Bill (they call him PawPaw) played with them and they built a big castle with him and Auntie Joy. Memaw (Nancy), Michael and I sat under the umbrella cause we were on fire...... But the day was beautiful and the ocean was perfect. We had wonderful weather the whole time we were there.

We took the boys, Mia, and Skyler to see KungFo Panda and they were "pretty" good luckily there were only 4 other people in the theater. The movie was cute.

The boys became more interested in using the potty while we were there which was great. The walk from our condo to the big pool in the complex required us to walk over a big lake like area. In the lake thing were alligators and turtles. It fascinated the boys to be able to see alligators that close up it terrified me of course all the worst scenarios run through your mind.

The boys wore swimmies on their arms but by the end of the week they could swim without them on. They could also touch the bottom of the pool at one end so I think it made them more daring. People were constantly asking me if they had taken swimming lessons and I would say no. Just goes back to that theory that I have show no fear and they will have no fear.......

Anyway, the day before we left we bought them a little tiny turtle they named Tippy. Yes he is still alive how? I'll never know.....

We went to this place called Shelter Cove to watch the fireworks on the 4th. It was fun. The boys enjoyed and we ate vendor dogs and some fancy cupcakes which were good. Their Memaw bought them these really annoying pop guns which they continuously shot off the whole time.

I forgot they LOVE the elevators at the beach. It was a constant battle between the two for who was going to get to push the button. We had to keep a constant eye on them cause that Joseph knew how to unlock the condo door and that mean he could get out and get on the elevator..... Never a dull moment.

They were also given a DVD system for the car as an early birthday present. THANK YOU MEMAW & PAWPAW!!!!!! That was a blessing and it would have been a very stressful ride had we not had that. For anyone traveling down that way there is a wonderful Restaurant called the Front Porch it is only about 50 miles from here before Columbia. We ate there on the way down and back. I highly RECOMMEND IT.

All in all it was a wonderful vacation!!!