Beaches and birthdays!

The past two weeks have been a lot of fun! On Friday (7/9), we headed down for a week at St. Simons. It was such a fun family vacation! My parents came down with us on Friday - Mom left with me and the girls in the morning and Dad and Ryan came down after getting all of their work done. They left on Sunday for a conference Dad had in Amelia Island (at the Ritz) - but it was fun to have them around for a few nights. We got a room in Amelia and went down there for a night (two days) and had so much fun! Spending our days at the Ritz and getting spoiled with beautiful weather - it was soo nice there! It was also nice to add a little variety to our trip! Luckily, it's an annual conference, so I hope we go back there every year and maybe stay longer!

Anyway, our beach trip was filled with lots of good food, LOTs of pool time, playground time and finally some good beach time this year!! The girls LOVED the beach this year - especially Rhodes, she dove right in the ocean and they both giggled every time the waves came up! Of course my camera started having issues before we even left for Amelia on Monday so my pictures are very limited - I was so disappointed. But, here are a few pictures from our beach trip 2010!

This was actually the night before we left....while I was on the phone and left Rhodes alone for a few minutes, she came dancing in, cracking up, to show me the beautiful artwork she had done all over her legs... She is also on her 3rd (maybe 4th) outfit of the day! What a character this kid is...love her!
Dancing bedtime sisters..

Ocean time!


Ready to go out to eat!



While we were at the beach, Ryan celebrated his big 3-0! I had given him a set of golf clubs for his birthday so he went to go play (by himself, poor thing!) one day while we were at the beach to celebrate a little! Then, on his actual birthday, we spent the day going to breakfast at his favorite breakfast buffet in the world - Sandcastle! Then, we had a busy day of playground time, beach time, bike riding, pool time and then out to dinner! Phew! It makes me tired just thinking about our day! I think (and hope!) that he had a great 30th! We got back home in the evening on Friday night and invited a few friends out for dinner at the brand new Mexican restaurant in Marietta, Vaquero's. It was really yummy and a lot of fun! Ryan's only request for his 30th was to have karaoke and I was so stressed just trying to find a place that had karaoke (on a weekend night) where we could have some friends meet us - and was starting to turn hopeless. Finally, thanks to Ryan, we decided to just meet friends out to eat and rent a karaoke machine to sing on back at the house! Ha! He was in HEAVEN! And, it was such a fun night! Thanks to Grandmommy and Granddaddy for keeping the girls so Ryan could celebrate his birthday singing karaoke until the wee hours! :) Again...my camera started working briefly when I put new batteries in it before the dinner - but, stopped working way too early!

Happy 30th birthday Ryan!! We love you so much and can't wait for the next 30!!