Two weeks of FUN!

This year we were fortunate enough to be able to go to the beach with my family for one week, and with Brad’s family the following week.  We even got to stay just the three of us for one night in between!  We are so fortunate to have such generous families that invite us to spend a whole week with them at the beach.  Thanks guys!  Here are some highlights from each trip…

Holden Beach, NC (my parents and sisters):  water slides, eating at new interesting places (haha!), HOT and sunny weather, catching fish, getting to swim in the rough ocean with Haley and Riley, Brad golfing with Dad, Haley and Riley teaching Emery to count to 14 using the steps, Emery sleeping on a twin mattress for the first time like a big girl, taking Emery to the Disney outlet (she screamed when we walked in…I can’t imagine the child actually at Disney World haha), Emery watching “Finding Nemo” (first movie she’s ever watched start to finish)

Oak Island, NC (Brad’s parents, brother, aunt and uncle, cousin and her family):  Olympics (DUH!!), shopping, flooding, Emery making a friend on the beach named Sophie, cooler weather which this pregnant lady GREATLY appreciated, grilling out on the charcoal grill, spending lots of time floating in the ocean, Emery “surfing” on the boogie board, Emery playing with the dolphins…there was one for Mommy, one for Dada, one for Emery and one for “bruder”

Both weeks: Emery “shimmin” with Dada and saying “nin, nin” over and over because she NEVER wanted to stop swimming with Daddy, getting lots of love from both sides of the family, eating great food

During the couple of days we had to ourselves we took Emery to Britt’s doughnuts on the boardwalk at Carolina Beach, to the aquarium at Ft. Fischer where she saw turtles, alligators, lots of fishes, and “sharks”, bought her new tennis shoes, and swam in the pool at our hotel.

There are two funny stories that I want to remember from each of these trips.  As I said before Emery slept on a twin mattress in the floor of mine at Brad’s room at Holden Beach.  We assumed that she was going down great and never getting up because we never heard her and she was always asleep on the mattress when we came up for bed…WRONG!  One night Haley and Riley went to bed and went to check on Emery and she was gone, so they freaked out.  They saw the light on in the bathroom and checked in there even though the door was closed.  Sure enough Emery was in there, sitting on the toilet brushing her teeth with Riley’s tooth brush.  The girls were cracking up and ran down to tell us about it.  Before we could get up to the bathroom to see Emery was already back in the bed pretending to be asleep…CRAZY girl!!  Then, on our last night in Oak Island Emery kept saying she was ready for bed, but I was trying to get all of our clothes packed up.  Finally she said, okay night night Mommy, and then proceeded to get the cover to her pack n play out from under the bed and used it as a sleeping bag and pretended to fall asleep right there on the floor…I think it’s safe to say she’s not lacking in the personality department! ha!

We have really enjoyed making some memories as a family of three this summer in anticipation of baby brother coming in a month (oh my goodness…a month??? Are you sure???!!!)