FUN FUN FUN!!!
So Jess doesn’t so much like the beach right? We’ve lived here 6 ½ years and haven’t spent
much time there (meaning we haven’t taken the kids there to play since 2007…)
SO, some of my girlfriends and me got together to play for the weekend. YAY!
It was sooooooo great!
Also, I’m totally still nursing Max, so he came with us and
was a ROCK STAR! For realz! So so so
good. Turns out when you have 5 moms and
1 baby, plus no set schedule babies are super easy J
Friday morning I got a babysitter-since it’s way cheaper to
pay a sitter for 7 hours then for Jess to take an unpaid vacation day—plus the
boys love her so that’s nice.
Here are our adventures:
We drove to Charleston, picked up Rachel from the airport, checked
into our hotel and took off to the beach. It was great weather and not very
crowded.
We read a tiny bit and
talked a lot.
Max slept for most of it but woke up at the end to take in
the awesome-ness of it all.
Then off we went to dinner by the beach at Banana Cavana’s—We sat
outside, I had the Mahi Mahi with a pineapple mango salsa and awesome mashed
potatoes; I’m pretty sure they were mostly butter. Mmmmmm. There was a live musician playing and it was
the perfect temperature and was just so nice!
Then back to the hotel for more girl talk, hair, painting
our toenails, and falling to sleep with their bajillion pillows.
Saturday morning we drove out to Charleston proper (we were
actually staying in Mt. Pleasant). Jessica called to make us reservations which
was so great cause turns out Memorial Day Saturday is in there top 5 busiest
days of the year.
It was hop-n! But we got there in perfect time, got 4 hours of free parking, AND got right out on our horse drawn carriage ride. Those homes are beautiful, and the gardens were incredible!!!
It was hop-n! But we got there in perfect time, got 4 hours of free parking, AND got right out on our horse drawn carriage ride. Those homes are beautiful, and the gardens were incredible!!!
We stopped afterwards to do some souvenir shopping at the market for our AWESOME KIDS AND
HUSBANDS back home--great prices and cute cute stuff.
Side note: (and GENIOUS IDEA that everyone should do!)
I have a good friend who purchases a piece of jewelry
as her trinket from cool places she visits.
Isn’t that the greatest idea EVER! Who has a place for trinkets? And I don’t buy jewelry hardly ever, so I
think it’s genius—cause then you have this awesome memory every time you wear
it—So smart. (I actually didn’t get it this time..dumb..mostly
I just kept looking for the fams stuff first and then we were done
shopping-lame—but next time cause I LOVE THAT IDEA!)
We stopped for lunch—at fancy Chick Fil A—which has just
changed my life because now I have tasted Chick Fil A sauce—MMMMM so delicious! (thanks to Shalynn for introducing the sauce to me :) Then back to the hotel to change, and off to
the beach again.
This time the beach was super crowded, and the weather was a
little different. It started to rain….
Ha! Fun! We just waited it out, but the beach became quite a bit roomier after that. :)
This time Chelsea and I wanted to play in the water!
Such a highlight of the trip! I
haven’t played in the high waves of the ocean since…ak! Prolly Monterey I guess. But it was sooooooo fun.
The water was perfect. You know when it's too cold and you have to hold your breath as you get deeper and deeper? There
was no holding my breath or anything—just the perfect temperature! Something about the power of the waves,
jumping to miss them, being successful sometimes, other times failing miserably
and getting a face-full of water J. Jumping with the waves and
being carried up weightlessly to the tip, digging my toes into the sand to no
avail because the water is sooo much stronger then me, diving through the
waves, coming back to shore and realizing that the waves moved you way past
your starting point.
AHHH! I love it all. I want to do it again
right now.
And seriously, Max was sooooo insanely
perfect for this trip on account of he still sleeps all the time. Plus, he doesn’t wake up till like 8:30 so
AWESOME! He slept the entire 3 hours we
were at the beach..through the rain and everything. He’s so cool like that!
This is us trying to catch everyone in the air--Wowza! Turns out we failed...a lot! (there were like 12 shots...bwaha ha--we had a little audience by the end of the fun.)
Sunday we woke up, drove to church with the Charleston
ward—and enjoyed such a great service!
The lesson in Relief Society was from the talk Boyd K Paker gave in
general conference. “And a Little Child Shall Lead Them”. That was such an amazing talk! Anyway, the teacher was superb and had
us all in tears wanting to be the most incredible moms ever—and making
us feel positive about our current state—that’s a hard thing to accomplish! She was awesome and we all loved it!
We made some soup in the crockpot (Chelsea’s delicious Chicken Tortilla Soup—mmm) for
dinner, chatted forever, and then played games outside in their
courtyard that night.
I love
games so much, they’re one of life’s great joys!—this one I totally failed
at…but I’m noticing something about myself.
When I realize I’m not good at something. All the competitiveness in me
disappears. So that’s nice. J No hard feelings! Also—no one should ever want me on their team
for any pop culture. Just a heads
up. I just have NO memory names of
actors, song titles, musicians, sport stars…other stuff like that.
Monday morning—after our breakfast (which—seriously, they had the greatest waffles ever that I had each morning…light, fluffy, crispy, and so tasty) we tried to layout by the pool…got rained on a bit, so back inside to get ready for the ride home.
It was a weekend filled with
relaxation,
fun,
food,
GREAT
conversation
and
fantastic friends.
I’m soooo thankful for a husband who could
and would watch
our 3 big boys so I could do this.
Thanks baby-you’re nice.
