Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Amelia Island 2013
 It was a quick trip over Memorial Day weekend that was squeezed in between summer baseball and the Aiken kids not being out of school yet. 
 Celie did great this year. She played with shells, periwinkles and fish for hours. 
 Buie helped Chris catch all the fish minnows.
 Mason's body guards
 Such a sweet picture!
 We played baseball....
 ...caught fish....
 ...played Frisbee...
 ....played in the waves...
 ...got a great workout in the waves....
 ...got very brave and dove into some huge waves...
 ....ate snow cones...
...dove into more waves...
 ....took a beating....
 ....caught more fish...
 ...and added out periwinkles to the fish bowl....
 ....tortured the fish....
 ....thousands of periwinkles and Celie wanted to pick every one of them...
 ....Daddy took the boys boogie boarding...
 ....in rough seas might I add...
 ....launched by their personal launcher...
 ...and off they go...
 ...wheeee...
 ...."whew, I made it"....
 ....more baseball...
 ....since we missed some games while we were gone...
 ....gave ourselves a mud bath...
 .....played Grandpa's made up game....
 ....I believe daddy won...
 ....finding treasures...
 ....Mason's favorite hat...
 ...the kid loves to play...
 ...uncle Jason scares Celie...
 ....played some putt putt...
 ....slow and steady...(Mason)
 .....hard and fast...(Buie)
 ...."look at me!"...(Celie)
 ...had a blast with their cousins!!!


Thursday, July 25, 2013

Lake Nantahala 2013

 8th year in a row that we have gotten to go to Lake Nantahala for the 4th of July. We look forward to the trip every year and the kids are having more and more fun each year. This year, Matt joined us (Mrs Marilyn and Mr Ben's youngest son). 
 Even though it rained for 4 straight days, it did not stop us. It slowed us down a bit, but really what does it matter since you get wet at the lake anyway? Celie and Mr Ben taking a ride down to put the tube in the lake. 
 Mason jumped right in 
 Buie LOVES to go tubing and always wants to go faster. (Mason not so much)
 Grandpa loves to "try" and get me (and Celie) wet while riding jet skis  
 Mason was a little more brave this year on the tube, trying out some stunts. 
 Clearly Mr Ben was not going very fast!
 Buie even went out in the kayak by himself. Notice the sun in this picture. It didn't last long!
 Buie and Mason trying to bump each other. 
 Daddy messing around with Mason
 Mason LOVES to water ski! This year he did it on the boom, but with the ski rope. 
 Buie got up as well, but that was all he wanted to do. He wanted to get back to the tubing. 
And Daddy FINALLY (easy for me to say) dropped a ski and stayed up after doing so. It took a few attempts, but he did a great job showing the kids to keep trying and eventually you can do it!

THANKS MARILYN & BEN! THE RAIN CAN'T SHUT OUR PARTY DOWN!

 
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