Have you ever

seen anything this cute????

We have been on our annual beach trip and back again.  I scheduled a bunch of posts while I was away  and I love doing that.  I forget what I have scheduled and I am open up my blog and SURPRISE!  I get to see something I did not expect.

So our journey started on a Monday evening.  I drove to our friend's beach house about 2 hours away to cut out some time to our journey to Corolla, North Carolina.  The next morning we left around 8:00 and traveled 6 hours.  The girls were for the most part awesome and the trip went by fast, despite drenching rains for most of the trip.  The night before it took Audrey forever to go to sleep, she was still up at 10:00.  She did not nap for Grandma and Grandpa who watched the girls that day so she was really tired the next day.  She also only napped for 30 min in the car.  When we arrived at the beach house the girls chilled out and watched tv.  Within a short time I looked over and this is what I saw.  Water bottle tossed, Meow Meow cuddled, and cozy pillow under her head.  She is so LITTLE, Audrey despite telling me you are BIG, you are still so little.

So this week I guess I will recap our trip to the beach.  It was another good year.  We did not love our beach house and the location but there were other perks.  I enjoyed being relatively close to a grocery store because treks out there did not take an hour.  I liked the pool that was nearby and the amenities provided.   There were no views from the house which was a different experience for us.  Okay, if you looked in between two houses about 1/2 mile away you could see a square of the ocean.  The ocean this year was warm for the most part.  That has not happened in years.  It was Sooo nice.

Best Buddy

Tucking Audrey into Bed one night, 

we said some prays.

We said God Bless to a lot of people including her cousin Emmett.

Audrey said "I sit next to Emmett"

I asked if he was her best Buddy

"Oh no, no, Celia (seeya) is my Best Buddy"

Planning

When you decide to have an almond butter in jelly sandwich for breakfast

It is important to have a little white chair, and you just dump the

things on top of the chair off

Striped convict looking Houdini proof jammies

That you absolutely love even though

they have spoiled your diaper

stripping days

Oh and binoculars that hang to your knees

Bread, almond butter, and jelly are optional

Messy hair is also a must

In less then a month

She will be doing some crazy things....

 Getting on A Bus

Walking into Kindergarten

Eating in a Cafeteria

Standing in the Parking Space In Which she is born,

This time as a 6 Year Old

I Hungry

I think that Audrey announces at least 20 times a day that "I hungry".  She just eats constantly.  We try to distract her, feed her healthy things, but ultimately she just eats a lot.  She is not a big 2 year old either, in about the 20% for weight.

We were swimming at the pool one evening and a Mom started calling her kids in to come and eat because they brought dinner to the pool.  Audrey had already eaten her dinner.  When the Mom called, Audrey looked around.  I then heard "Mommy, I hungry".  No, Audrey we will get something at home.  A few minutes later she came over and wanted her towel.  The Mom called again to round up a straggler and Audrey got very excited.  "See Mommy, Dinner time, they have food".  No, Audrey they are not going to feed you.  By this point the lifeguard was getting a good laugh out of this scenario.  She sifted through our pool bag just to make sure I was not holding back on her.

Nature Center

I joined a nature center through groupon that is reciprocal with many other science museums and gardens.  This nature center is actually free to walk the grounds, the bird sanctuary is a donation but essentially it is all free.  The center was not very big and their was a camp going on but it did occupy us for over an hour so I thought the 20 min. car ride was worth it.

We saw bald eagles, legless lizard, snakes, owls, and some lizards.  We also saw a small mock Native American village, wetland area, and a creek.  Hmm... as I list all of that I guess it was pretty cool!!

The girls loved throwing rocks from a little bridge into the creek.  There was a family there using the creek as a kiddy pool and we thought that was a little odd.  But to each their own.

Sunday School

The girls and I have been fairly faithfully attending Sunday school since the late Spring and we have enjoyed it. I have attended a few Sunday school classes and although I will have to say I do not consistently follow what everyone is saying, I have enjoyed some of it. Pete and I tried to attend the contemporary service at our church before we had the girls. It just was not for us at all. I have been surprised that I actually am enjoying the contemporary service. Maybe it has changed, but it just relaxed and very nice. I am hoping to keep taking them consistently during the School year. Celia will no longer have the lessons that she had while attending her Christian daycare/preschool so it is now (and always should have been) up to us to continue providing her with those teachings. We will always let our girls take the lead with this and right now as my 5 year old constantly sings Vacation bible school songs and songs that have some religious tie, I think I know where she is leading us. So I have tried taking their picture right before Church and it is always interesting how it turns out.