Savannah/Tybee Island

A couple of weeks ago we decided to meet my very pregnant sister, in the middle, from her home in Charlotte and Savannah was the place. We wanted the beach so we stayed on Tybee Island, little rinky dink, but it was the beach. We had a lot of fun. We all loved feeling Melissa's baby move (priceless since that won't be happening for us again). Fun fun on the beach, with the exception of the jellyfish that were abound aplenty. We went back to Savannah for lunch on Saturday. Relaxed and enjoyed each other. Here are pics from the weekend. These are not in order, because I'm blogger picture post challenged.

Totally in her element, she said Mommy, I really really really want to very very bad bad bad stay at the beach all day. I think it's not fair that her skins starts to burn at the thought of stepping in the sun no matter what we do :(.

At the top of the Tybee Island lighthouse, all little ones and bout to deliver a little one people walked all the way up!!!!

Tybee Island Museum, totally in his element

Anya loved Cole and apparently all boys according to her mom, Cole ate it up.

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Typical Anya

at the top of he lighthouse. Hannah's wondering why Melissa was clutching the side of the wall. It was a little scary, but very nice too.

Loved driving down this street in Savannah, lots of big old beautiful houses with big old beautiful trees.

out last day, very windy, cold, sandy flying, while Hannah, Cole and I headed back to the car...Laura could have cared less, I swear that girl is a fish

We got ice cream at Leopold's...it was family owned from way back, but the son of the original owners went on to be a big hollywood producer and many stars have passed through here...apparently Forrest Gump was filmed in Savannah, a picture of Forrest sitting in Savannah was on sale for $300...I think I have that same picture on my VHS cover.

Hannah got chocolate, but there were other very cool flavors, Brandon and Cole got Japanese Cherry Blossom ( I have lotion of that scent and it tasted a little like my lotion, still good). Laura got rose petal and it tasted just like a rose, but not so much that it wasn't good. Melissa got a vanilla shake (boring .... but very delicious)

Awww, couldn't resist :)

more to come, keeps not letting me upload....

Today's tender mercy

a much needed fresh perspective...

Spirit week

what fun...Monday was messed up Monday/wacky hair mismatched etc., Cole loved not doing his hair. Tuesday was Career Day, Cole said he wanted to choose which books got printed so he said editor, I added owner...dream big I say! Since you couldn't tell by just looking what Cole was, we made him business cards and the teachers and kids loved them. I have fun making those and Laura's name tag to be 'Dr. Laura'. Wed was field day (another post). Thursday was retro day which puzzled me because the kids have lived a decade how can they choose to go back to one. We were given to shiny clothes so sent Laura as 70s disco and Cole wore a video game shirt with sweat bands on his head and wrist to represent the 80s .. I know a stretch I did take pictures, but they must still be on the camera, cause I'm so up to date on the blog and all My period key is not working. oh now it is.... and Friday was pajama day and we were running super late, because it was Friday, and didn't get pics. The kids enjoyed the week

On to March...

Father/Son Campout, Wallwood. Brandon and Cole took a friend Joe and camped alongside the Knudsens. They ended up coming home early due to no watch and the camp next to them staying up all night. The boys woke up in the middle of the night and wanted to get up. Brandon thought it must be morning because people were up...then Cole was cold and Brandon being the good dad, got up to make a fire, someone comes by and Brandon asks the time...4:30 They came home earlier than expected because the boys were so tired. I've never seen Cole so tired. They made some memories though :).

This expression is Cole's general feeling about getting on or near deep water.

Joe David

Last of the Mohicans !!!! well I guess they didn't have swords (??), but that was the first thing that came to my mind.

There are no pictures of Brandon, but plenty of other father and sons, cause Brandon's an amateur professional photog.

January/Feb 2010

Anya's 4th bday party at Mom's - her last one before a little brother comes along to steall away the attention

Upper right corner Laura was Cinderellay for literacy parade.

Soccer, Soccer, Soccer....Cole playing it, the girls enduring it :)

more soccer, scooters at a nearby church parking lot

the MagLap openhouse before soccer and the soccer tournament

where they had face painters, yeah!

Trying

to get back into bloggin'. I had the first year of bloggin made into a book and I was just looking at it and enjoyed reading about the kids' personalities back then, so I diving back in.
Here's some pics from Cole's life and some funnies of the girls.


For Literacy week, Cole's class dressed up as Narnian's. His teacher Ms. Yori is Susan, and Cole is the mouse that fights...he has a tail made out of pipe cleaners :).

At pack meeting they had a paper airplane competition, I think Cole won this one just barely.

Cole receiving his Wolf.

And our world is laden with soccer, we have tons of pictures.

soccer in the rain

Some funnies from the girls....

Hannah has started getting in bed with us again at night and she's found a bear she likes to sleep with. The past few nights with the bear have come some interesting things. One night it was a barbie and I think a shoe or something weird. Then there was the kick ball, I said you can't bring a kick ball to bed and she said Daddy said I could sleep with it, I'm fairly certain he was not expecting to wake up next to a kick ball, but I was to tired to continue to argue with her.

Laura's been on a roll lately. One morning I was having a hard time, but was trying to hold it together and Laura said to me in her most reassuring tone, "Mommy, you fixed your attitude".

Yesterday she was sitting close to me during the closing hymn of sacrament and she said, kindly, "Mommy, you don't have a good singing voice, it's crooked."

And this afternoon I approached her to give her kisses and said Laura, I love you. She said very hesitantly, you could tell she wasn't feeling it at the moment, "I love you mostly, the mostest, then a pause as she thought about it, well Daddy then first, then you".

I understand the order.

Bout time

for recapping, we went to Disney a couple of weeks ago as a gift from my dad...the kids loved it, esp the hotel that had free popcorn, Hannah was a big fan of that. It was fun to be together, we all had a good time. The older kids were so exhausted they put themselves to bed w/o dinner...not a peep. :)