House with a view

This is the view that we had most nights from the front of our beach house (canal at Murrell's Inlet) - AMAZING!!!

CARS & Emma with the Freezer Pops

Will and Emma took some time out from playing on the beach to watch the movie CARS together...it's Will's favorite and he watches it all of the time and watched it many times at the beach. Emma decided to sit down to watch with him one day and they had so much fun snacking and hanging out together watching the movie.















Emma tried out some freezer pops and had the funniest faces so I just had to get some pictures:

2008 Beach Vacation Pictures

Me having some time alone with Emma and Will - a rare occasion:









Heading out to the ocean:





"Play date" with Jackson:

Baseball with the Boys

Will playing baseball with his daddy, uncle Kent and Kent's friend, Josh on the beach. He had so much fun with them and if you take a very close look at one of the pictures you can see that he's got awesome form and check out the index finger placement in the baseball glove! :)

What you've all been waiting for....

2008 Family Beach Vacation Pictures!!! We headed off to Garden City, South Carolina on June 21, 2008 for our family beach vacation. We had a wonderful time and couldn't have asked for better weather! It was gorgeous! We were able to hang out with Will's best friend, Jackson, one day and Jackson's parents, Allison and Brian, and his grandparents. We found out how small a world it really is when Jackson's grandparents walked through the door....my mom and her brother had grown up with Jackson's grandfather! So...we couldn't decide who had more fun - the little kids or the big kids! :) They had so much fun catching up with each other! We also got to spend a day with Rick's cousin, Scott, and his family and had fun catching up with them. We had our traditional dinner at Nance's but didn't get any pictures there this year due to a really bad thunderstorm! :( First year in forever that I haven't gotten pictures taken at the inlet. The boys were able to get a little bit of fishing in although they didn't catch anything this year. Will was given a fishing rod by my grandparents (we made fun of it b/c it was a pink barbie rod - couldn't complain though b/c they got it for 25 cents at a yard sale and Will and Emma loved it) and he loved using this and getting to fish with Rick and Ben! Rick, Ben and my dad did their annual golf outing - unfortunately Kent wasn't able to make it b/c of his broken hand .... hopefully next year! Everyone had a blast boogie boarding and playing in the ocean and just hanging out with each other on the beach! We had a few walks down to the inlet which were very nice and lots of fun! Will and the "boys" also made some time to throw the baseball on the beach and Will loved this - he was so excited to be hanging out and playing ball with his daddy, Kent, and Josh! If I do say so myself (and Rick) I think we might have a future "allstar" on our hands - he's got quite the form! :) Sadly we headed back home on the 28th of June and came back to the real world and will be ready to do it all over again next year! Looking forward to it already!

The Backyard Project

So we've started working in our backyard and here are some pictures of the beginning stages:

The deck that Rick built with our gazebo that we bought:



Flower beds and natural area, etc.:

Ebenezer Homecoming 2008

We had our annual Homecoming at Ebenezer ARP church this year and it couldn't have been any more perfect than it was! Greg Marshall, one of our previous youth pastors, gave the sermon and did a wonderful job! The music was amazing and the weather was gorgeous so we were able to eat out on the front lawn this year! It was a great day! Here are pictures of Will and Emma and Uncle Kent. Completely forgot to take one of myself and Will b/c I was busy keeping up with him instead! :) Maybe next year!

Early Mother's Day Gifts

I came home the other day from work and Rick and Will were outside playing and Rick whispered something to Will for him to tell me and so he did... all I could get out of the conversation because Will was so excited was BIRD! :) So....Rick, myself, Will and our neighbors, Allison and Jackson headed to the backyard and Rick showed me what was my early Mother's Day gift - a birdhouse (I've been asking for one for years)! I absolutely love it and hope that we'll actually get some birds, especially with having Hawker in the backyard. Here are pictures of it:







We also went to the store yesterday and got an arbor - this is actually something that both Rick and I have been wanting for a while. We bought some Wisteria that we put on the sides of the arbor and were hoping that they'll start growing real well and look good with the arbor. Here are pictures of the arbor:

The Many Faces of Will

Will has been getting himself into some trouble lately for not listening and while he was sitting in "time out" tonight for once again not listening I took some pictures and the pictures obviously show everything - the many different faces of Will....