Beach Baby!

Um, attention people: Lets hurry up and go down to the beach. There is a lot of sand that needs to be inserted into my mouth.

I kept trying to get Ryder to bury my feet in the sand. Ya know, the lazy parent's excuse that makes the kid think they are participating in the sand fun, when in reality they are asleep in the chair.....he didnt buy it. That's ok, I really like building sand castles. My mother loaded us up with sand toys for the beach, so we had some serious construction going on.

There will little "baby pools" where the tide had come in. Lucy had the best time ever. I wasnt a fan because it was all a little too warm. Plus I saw several kids pop squats in them to pee. No thanks. Lucy was out after that....

Whoa. Im too cool for pics.

Checkin to see if the parentals are looking.....

Oh yea, I got this......

THE OCEAN! FREEDOM!!

seriously, every single time we set her down she took off like a freaking marathon runner for the ocean. 

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There was other fun besides the beach though..

Whoop! Walked right in and sat down at Sea-N-Suds. My bff Randi always makes fun of me for loving SnS. She says its "cafeteria food"...she is also crazy, and a bit senile. 

I think Lucy might think its cafeteria food too. Hey, George and I are very patriotic on this night.

 

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After Sea-N-Suds we went to "The Shark Store". Otherwise known as Souvenir City.

 Ryder got a shark head on a stick...

...tried on awesome glasses with Georgio...

...and attacked me with his shark head in an alley of hats.

 

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Now, on to the beach for a little crab searchin'.

there werent any.....so we left : /

 

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Lucy's favorite thing was stuffing her face with string cheese,

and Ryder's favorite thing was playing video games at the Track. Im not gonna lie, I am the ski ball QUEEN. I wish I had ski ball in my house.

Hope you enjoyed my beach trip! We sure did! PEACE!

We're Back!

 

pic from here

YAY! WE ARE HOME!!!! This will be a quickie post, I will share our pics and adventures with you tomorrow.

We had so much fun and it was awesome to get away, but oh buddy are we glad to be back home. This was our first trip down with Lucy and the drive there and back went really well. Both kids were awesome, thanks to the dvd player my mom got them ;) Im not a fan of kids constantly watching or playing something, but on a long car trip with two young children it was a lifesaver. 

It has been fun getting back on Pinterest, and catching up a bit on the blogs I read. The condo didnt have internet. 

Now I have a mountain of clothes to wash and dry and put away. That is the craptastic part of going on vacation. 

Two milestones did happen while we were away: 1) Ryder got two splinters in his foot! Stupid wooden deck :( 

2) Lucy started to really walk. She has been taking steps for a while now, but only like 3 or 5, then she would fall. But now she is walking everywhere. I mean she still falls some, and she sometimes thinks that crawling is the way to go. But she's getting it!

Ok, that's it for my boring update! I will be picture heavy tomorrow! BYE!

I heart Candles.

Since Hurricane Lee has sent so much rain our way it has gotten COLD! We were stuck in the house for most of the day yesterday, but I finally had enough and decided my family would brave the rain and go out...to the mall.

In case you dont know, I am obsessed with Gap's amazing sales they have all the time. I wont annoy you with all the details now, but I have gotten Ryder a pair of $34 jeans for $4, and socks for him and Lucy for 50 cents. Anyway, I had gotten an email from them about a 40% off baby gap sale. I had to go. Turned out not to be anything great. But while I was in the ghost town that is University Mall I wanted to hop down to Bath & Body Works and check out their candle selection.

Sweet Lord. It was just what I expected. Candle Heaven. I like 3 brands of candles. B&BW has their Slatkin & Co. brand. Then their is Tyler. Anna Kate and Company is the only place in town that carries them I think. We used to carry them @ Bama Bean (the coffee shop that I worked at, and pretty much my most favorite job of my life). Really I think Tyler is my fav. Just thinking about them makes me want to go to Anna Kate and Co and smell every last one. And the last candle love I have is Voluspa. These are sold at Anthropologie. Oh, heaven.

So, back to the mall. Bath and Body Works was having a sale on their big candles. 2 for $20. I took one look at George (who is just as much a candle lover as I am) and he gave me the go ahead to pick two out. WHOOP! We smelled every single scent in that entire store. So did Ryder. He loves candle shopping. I did have to get on to him 5,000 times for trying to pick up the candles. So, these are the ones that came home with us. 

Spiced Cider. 

 and Salty Caramel.

 

There were also three mini candles that we got too. Leaves (George picked that one out), Chocolate Mint and Apple Crumble.

We always buy candles in the fall, and since the rain has got me putting socks, jackets and pants on my kids, I decided it was time.

I always lean toward ones that smell like food. What are your favorite scents?

I am wanting to hold fall back for just a little while. My family is headed to the beach this friday, so I want just a little bit of summer to remain. I have gotten Lucy's box of winter clothes down, but I WILL NOT put them in her closet until we get home from the beach. I hate that we are going so late in the summer. But we got the fall price on our condo, so ya know, we like saving money :) Also, I think this was the only time George could get off work.

Oh, and I didnt forget about Vintage Tuesday! I have some goodies to share in a second post later today :)