**Warning...Photo overload :) The pictures tell a better story than words ever could I think this week.
What a great week! We had a wonderful week resting, relaxing, spending time with family, quite mornings with coffee in hand and enjoying the creation God has blessed us with! I don’t say it often enough how blessed I am with wonderful In Laws who have always loved me like their own and always willing to do anything they can for us. Often when we tell people we do a family beach trip with the extended family some could not imagine a whole week that way. We love it. We get time with grandparents, cousins, and Aunt Tammy and Uncle Joey! We are all so blessed to have the time together with some funny jokes woven into the week of course.
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| First day at a the beach and the girls found a ton of shells! |
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| The Martin Camp for the day at the beach! We sure know how to do it! |
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| Maggie preferred most days to play in the sand, but did do some waves some days. |
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| Love this picture of Gracie and Ally looking for shells. |
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| Running on the beach! |
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| Looking for shells with Papa! |
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| Broken shells…..the girls found great delight in them and declared them as "pretty". I pray that I always see the broken as pretty and not just throw it away as if it is nothing! God's creation is always beautiful even those broken pieces, just like our lives! |
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| Something about just looking at the ocean from the beach that we could do all day! |
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| Checking out their newest collection. |
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| Jimmy and Papa watching the girls. |
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| Gracie could drive for rings all day at the pool! |
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| One day at the pool house they had someone doing face painting. It did not last long but was sweet! |
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| Somedays it just wears you out! |
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| More "sand castles" with Maggie |
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| Not sure what this look was for, but it was a classic Gracie look! |
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| Riding the waves! |
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| Having big cousins is fun! Maggie loved being sandwiched between these two and they were very accommodating to her! |
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| Such a happy girl! |
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| Ready to show off her new swimming skills. |
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| My Doodle! |
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| My girls! |
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| Gracie got right in on the monkey in the middle game with the boys! |
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| Maggie diving for her sticks. |
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| Pool girls! |
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| Gracie loved to see what she could catch with Aunt Tammy |
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| The catch…the little fish! |
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| Also the view we got often from Gracie…water handstands! |
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| O the stories, secrets and memories they have and will share through life! |
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| Time to feed the horses! |
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| One ate the carrot off Maggie's coverup! |
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| They were a little eager to get some treats (carrots and apples of course) |
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| Each year Gracie gets more comfortable feeling the horses! |
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| Maggie still showing off her swimming skills! I know have two girls that swim better than me! ha |
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| Big girls at the Pharmacy eating lunch |
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| Sometimes we all needed a little downtime. |
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| Ready for family pictures with Mr. Chris |
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| And we got a little dirty too! |
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| At Angel Oak (largest Oak tree, we visit every year) |
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| Grammy and Papa with our girls. |
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| The grandkids together |
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| Quick family pic |
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| Awe struck by God's creation! |
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| Playing outside at Hymans while everyone worked to park! |
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| Love this smile! |
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| Jimmy got fried flounder and Papa ate the tail. The girls all thought that was great! |
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| I love my oldest more than words describe! She is turning into such a young lady! |
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| Again, she is between the two boys! She sure has great older cousins! |
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| Last night at the beach |
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| Big waves and lots of surfing! |
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| Yep..more sand castle building! |
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| Maggie fell asleep like this one night playing Dominos on her iPad! |
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| We had a tired little girl |
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| Daddy and the girls! |
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| Its signs like this on the island that make me really take a deep break, relax and take in every moment! |
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| Gracie's request the last night was to feed the horses again. |
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| He really liked her! |
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| Maggie's request the lsat night was to swim! |
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| Handstands….. |
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| Sweet sister loves! |
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| Of curse we had to have a few Java Java frozen mochas! |
The girls both have become extremely confident in the water. Gracie is eager to begin swim team and has really worked hard on her form in the water. We are looking forward to the next six weeks! Maggie about Wednesday swimming just seemed to click with her. She did not want to have her arm floats or her backpack and gradually began to swim farther and farther. She has good technique as well coming up to breathe and not getting choked. She has an unhealthy confidence and will jump right in now that she can “swim”, but she needs to learn we need to be right there. She can even do a handstand and flip in the 2 or 3 foot side! She really loves to also dive for the rings!
Maggie Funnies:
“I am going to catch your snappy” as she reaches for my nose. This is what Papa tells Maggie when her noise is running.
“Why do they have snakes in their hair?” she said at two of the hostesses at Hyman’s who had braids in their hair.
We had news to celebrate too!
--I received a promotion to PMTL effective July 1. I will have to share in a separate post how this transpired and the peace we ultimately feel as a family regarding this decision.
--Thursday night we received a call from CCS....Maggie has been accepted into their Pre K program that will begin this fall. God is so good! Three years ago when we enrolled Gracie our prayer had been that they would begin a Pre K program and that Maggie would have the opportunity to not repeat the same class at her daycare for her final year before Kindergarden. Jimmy would tell you “it all works out”. We both believe that God has orchestrated each moment and decision including this!
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| So we say goodbye to this bag! We have used this bag since Gracie started daycare at 2 months old and have used it through Maggie's last day at daycare! Its bittersweet but we are ready to move Maggie to Pre K at CCS! |
