Sunset Beach Getaway

Last Saturday and Sunday Alex and Jeremy invited us to spend the night with them at their vacation rental at Sunset Beach, NC. We kicked the evening off with exploring on the pier. It was a really nice private pier with a floating dock. Then we had burgers and dogs, cooked by Paps and Big Daddy Neal. Yum Yum. Later that evening we walked to the beach to fly kites. After the children went to bed, we played Catch Phrase & Phase 10. We stayed up until 1:30!!!! On Sunday, Jeremy cooked a wonderful breakfast (one that I requested because he is so good at cooking biscuits and gravy). While he cooked, I went for a run/walk. It was nice to spend some alone time with myself:) After breakfast, we went down to the pier to catch some crabs. We caught 2 crabs that were really feisty. Then Trev dropped the crab net into the water, so we went to the beach. There was a tide pool and we found hermit crabs, a starfish, a crab, a big clam, & broken sand dollars!!! Lilly did a great job of keeping her cast dry and sandless. And she was very confident, as she wore no head covering. I was very proud of her.
We went back to the beach house and got cleaned up and then Trev & I walked to the pier. The tide went out, so we found the crab net and checked out all of the oysters. Lots of fun was had by all. Thanks Uncle Alex and Uncle Jeremy for planning such a fun, simple, inexpensive trip for our family.

Worms in his hands

On Friday Trevor and I went for a morning stroll through the neighborhood. It was great. The weather was just right. And I got to spend some heart warming times with my son. I got to enjoy his discoveries, one of which was worms on the cool street. I had mentioned to him that there were dead worms and worms that were alive. I explained to him why the worms had died on the street and why some were alive. We came up with a plan to save the worms and let me tell you, it was A LOT of worm saving going on. Trevor would pick them up and throw them into our neighbors yards. After saving about 10 worms, he decided he wanted to keep them. So we began our walk home, all the while, collecting more worms. We decided to put them in our vegetable garden.

Lilly Bell

A few weeks ago, I went to Lilly's school with her to visit for the morning. On the way across the campus I had said something to Lilly like "I love you Lilly Bell". She in turn said to me, "Mom don't call me Lilly Bell or anything else. Just Lilly." Of course, I said "OK." But inside I was saying "AAAAGGGGHHHHH, she is embarrassed by me calling her a sweet name." It made me sad. Oh well, I guess I will just have to save endearing names for home.

Biomatrix April 9th, 10th & 11th

I wanted to share Lilly's trip to the Hair Club for Kids with the family. The first appointment was a 30 minute fitting. That day was interesting. Lilly's new hair looked like Cousin It and it was gray colored. I was scared. But it was dyed, cut and styled and now it looks great. Lilly is very happy with it. She has complained of itching but hopefully that will subside soon. So without further ado, here are the pics of the steps of getting the system on her head.

Getting her hair washed.

Getting marked for proper placement of the biomatrix.

Biomatrix getting tape put on it.

Lilly getting adhesive put onto her scalp.

Getting it put on.

TA DA!!!!

Technology and children....uuugggghhhh

I know when I was a child, life was more simple. We have really tried to keep life simple for our children. Especially when Lillly was an only child. My philosophy is this "Einstein was a genius and he didn't have battery powered toys" and "The pioneers survived with wooden toys and sticks for guns and swords and they weren't idiots". So when Lilly started talking about how all of friends had DS's, we told her she didn't have to have everything everyone else had. Then we decided that if Lilly wanted the game (which btw, has educational games as well) she could save half of the total amount and then we would pay the other half. It took her a Looooooooonnnnggg time to save the money, but she did it. So, now Lilly is the proud owner of a DS and we have leverage. Ha ha ha.

I want one now.

Pictures of dinner.

Trev & I
Lilly & I

Neal & Trev

Here are some pics I wanted to post of the family at Hiro's. Also, check out the video of Neal eating an Alaskan Sushi roll. Funny stuff.

Family Dinner

Last night we went to Hiro's Japanese Steak House & Sushi Bar. It was Trev's first time to watch a hibachi chef in action. I think our chef was bored or depressed. Anyway, there was lots of fire and fun. And of course it was yummy, just ask Neal.