Vacation Getaway

This week was a wonderful week because I spent it with my family. My parents, siblings, and of course the kids went to Hilton Head Island, SC for 5 days. We had so much fun. We rented a fabulous 3 bedroom condo on the golf course and it was well equipped and beautiful. The days were too busy and full to describe every event but believe me we stayed busy. The kids absolutely loved being with Nanna and Grandpa, and of course screamed when we left them this afternoon. My childhood friend and classmate Sean came over with his family a couple of days and hung out with us as well. He has a 14 month old son who definitely did not want to leave Trey and Preston. They all had a ball and stayed up till 11pm with the adults. We watched the playoffs, had a huge family meal and played games. The next day we went to Sean's parents house and they had a huge cookout for us. Our parents use to be best friends when we were growing up so they really enjoyed sitting around telling Sean and I how bad we were....but anyway.

Paul was able to play golf a couple of days which of course made his stay just peachy. Trey tagged along with him on both days to play golf for the first time and he looked cute as pie dressed like daddy in all their golf attire. He really thought he was a big boy on the golf course. My dad, brother and Paul also took Trey fishing for the first time. Unfortunately, none of them caught anything but Trey did hook Paul on the shirt trying to toss his rod and hook into the lake. From what I hear they had a great time even though they did not bring dinner home.



We also enjoyed a morning bike ride with my parents. This however was hillarious!

Paul had a bike with a buggy for both the boys to ride. I of course had my own, and both my parents had their own. My wonderful dramatic mother had not ridden a bike for maybe 25 years so you already know where this is going. She hopped on and started pedaling and in only 1 minute almost fell. She started back over again and ran through a stop sign and almost got hit. She struggled to get up the hills (needs to excerise more yoga once a week is not enough!) and I thought we were going to have to push her. About half way into the 2 hour bike ride her sunglasses were tilted sideways and she was leaning on the handle bars. I wish I could have taken pictures but I would have busted my butt taking pictures while riding a bike. My bootleg father however did well riding the bike. My only issue with him is that as soon as he got on the bike he lit a cigarette. Who in the hell smokes a cigarette while riding a bike....my daddy! It was so embarrassing but I am so use to it that Paul and I just laughed and kept on cycling. Ya'll continue to pray for him. Also while riding the bikes Paul ran over a green tree snake. He didn't know he ran it over until I screamed and ran it over next, then my mom screamed and ran it over again. We were all cycling in a single line so you aren't really looking down on the ground to watch out for snakes. I almost pissed my pants and my mom almost fell off the bike because she was waddling and kicking her feet...truly a mess!



The most exciting part of the entire trip was the wedding of my little brother Lamar. I now how a sister for real! Lamar and Shirl had a beautiful, private beach wedding with only the parents, siblings and nephews. It was very intimate and the scenary was amazing! I am so happy for them and I wish them all the best. I feel as though they are blessed to have each other. And hopefully they won't have too many kids and expect me to watch them especially since they just bought a house 10 minutes from mine.



Congrats Lamar and Shirl!