The Retreat

This past weekend our church had a church wide camping retreat to James Island County Park. We had a complete blast...... Some families camped in camper, tents, cabins and some just came and went through out the weekend. We camped in the camper with a few other families in their campers. It was so much fun to hang out all the time and let the kids play. We were able to sit around the picnic table and eat together, sit around the camp fire at night when all the kids went to bed and just talk, cook s'mores, ride bikes! On Friday night a few families got together and did some grilling at our camper. Okay we'll at one point we had sixteen adults and twenty three kids running around our camp site. It was CRAZY?????!!!!! All in all it was great!  Then on Saturday we had a huge mega relay races. I believe it was a total of 315 people! That was a mad house..... But so so so much fun! Not bragging or anything but our relay team WON!!! Go Blue!! Whoop whoop! We did everything from play chase with 300 people to racing with children on our backs, to tug a war.. Great times and so many mermories made. Can't wait till next year! Here are a some pictures in random order!

She looks roller derby ready!

Check out the curls

Catch rain on your tongue

Jason's number one fan

Here and Now: 2nd tooth gone

Inspired by "Simple and Joyful"{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember" 

Getting Ready!!

We are officially getting ready for Spring/summer around this joint! We have been busy doing different things around the house to spurce up for spring. A couple of weekends ago we had two large trees taken down in our backyard. So once that was done and all cleaned up our yard really looked like a wreck! Our grass looked pitiful, no flowers, no pine straw just a lot of dirt and made me feel blah... So after much talk about it we decided to lay sod in our backyard. We threw out the option to seed it with grass seed but the thought of not allowing anyone in the backyard for 4-6 weeks was a nightmare to me. Not an option! We spend so much time outside that, that would be considered torture! So sod it is! And we couldn't be happier:) I will also include a couple of pictures from when we went and picked strawberries last week with the Costa and loaded up on a lot of berries! Annabelle was one tired puppy and she by far ate her weight in strawberries while picking them! These are in no particular order!

After picking!

She looks gigantic to me

This was after I gave some away!

Before

After

Here and Now

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Thankful Thursday

Okay, I know my Thankful Thursday post are a big hit and miss some weeks but I am trying.... I have a lot to be thankful for this week!

*By far the one on the top of the list is I am thankful that Tommy bid on a brand new beautiful house on Seabrook and got the job! HUGE BLESSING!! can not express how HUGE! Praise The Lord he is so faithful!
* I am thankful for the alone time Thomas and mommy get in the morning after Gracie as left for school and when Annabelle is sleeping. It is not every morning but when he and I get the chance to crawl back in bed and snuggle and talk I want to always remember it!
* I am so thankful for the pollen beautiful weather!
* I am thankful that I was able to hold two brand new babies yesterday! After dropping off meals I couldn't leave with out holding each one. I miss those tiny sounds and facial expressions.

I will leave you with a couple misc. pictures from this week!

Here and Now

Inspired by "Simple and Joyful"{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember" 

Fresh start

We are looking at this week as a fresh start! The week and a half before Easter we had a nasty stomach bug run through our family. Well, I take that back Annabelle is the only one that didn't get it! So needless to say this momma is one happy lady to have that gone and her family back. I have to take a second a give a huge shout out to my very good friend Meagan! Meagan I can't tell you how much you meant to me during that sick time! Not only did you make us dinner, you called/texted everyday to check on us and see what you could do for us and you even left a wonderful surprise on my doorstep one night! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

   This week the older two kiddos started swim lessons and were so excited! Annabelle not so much! I had one mad little chick that she couldn't get in the pool! Thankful my nephew Chip was with us that day and was able to entertain Annabelle while I watched the other two. So, enough talk how about some pictures!