RELAXING DAY AT THE BEACH

Last Sunday our friends, Jonathan and Suzanne invited us down to their family's beach house where they are vacationing for the week. This house is very old and used to be used for military training along with others nearby in WWII. Some of the original furniture is still in the house and their family is working on remodeling some of the rooms. I love the back porch which over looks the gulf. There
are about 7 rocking chairs and a hammock on the porch, the first picture in the post is a view looking to the right from the porch. I could just stay there all day, the breeze coming off the gulf was great, not too hot at all! There is an old sidewalk that runs down behind all the houses in the area
and it just reminded me of something right out of a magazine! Anyway, we just had the best time, ate lunch, played on the beach while the daddies fished. Jonathan and Suzanne's oldest daughter, Mary Rose, was so cute, she wanted to go fishing with the daddies and use her new Barbie fishing pole, I think Mike was impressed! Mike caught two flounder and he fried them up for dinner along with some grunt fish he had caught on Friday night. It was SOOOO good! We had cheese grits, french fries, salad, and brownies! It was a perfectly relaxing day! Good food, good fellowship, good times! Thanks Jonathan and Suzanne for sharing your vacation with us! Sadly, I took no pictures of them and their sweet girls :(

I finally did it!

We went out to the country for lunch with our good friends and saw some goats after we ate a picnic lunch of the best sausage dogs ever!

Our little boy is growing up SO fast! Here is his 9 month picture (better late than not at all).

I almost always request a strawberry cake for my birthday, yum!

The sista's

This is our funny friend, Katie, we have been friends for 22 years!

My aunt Kim shooting some pics of Daniel, she loves photography!

Daniel was fascinated with grabbing my dad's nose, he thought it was hilarious!

I have been wanting to start a blog for a long time and I could give you a ton of excuses as to why I haven't done it before now, but I will spare you! Thanks to my dear friend, Stephanie, she helped get me started. Thank goodness I have many technilogically saavy friends!

Rather than try to recap on my life up to now, I think I will just start from here and go forward. I like the idea of a blog because it is kind of like journaling and scrapbooking, neither of which I am making time for right now.

Last week my mom graciously came to help us with Daniel and she brought with her, my grandmother and aunt! They all had a blast and it was so comforting to know that Daniel was well taken care of and loved while I was working!

"The Babysitter Club!"

This past weekend, we went to my home town for my birthday and to attend a wedding. I felt like I had a week long birthday celebration, it was wonderful!

Ok, so I am still learning the layout of this blog! I should say that the picture on the top of the blog is taken by my friend, Caroline, you can link to her website at the bottom of the blog. She did NOT take all the amatuer photos I have in my post, my photography is a work in progress ;) I think I could use some lessons!