Kiawah/Charleston

We celebrated our 11th anniversary with a trip to Kiawah Island and Charleston, SC - it was FABULOUS!!!!!  Our dear friends from college, Jodie and Jeff, joined us and we had a blast being together.  We spent 2 nights in Kiawah and enjoyed golf, spa, pool, beach, and then all went to Charleston together for 1 night and then Kevin and I stayed another night just the 2 of us.  It really was an AWESOME vacation and was a little tough to come home ... thankfully, we had 3 pretty cute reasons to return :)

 At the Ocean Course

 The 4 of us

The golfers

 I surprised Jodie with some Satco queso :)

 Our balcony at The Sanctuary

 And then on to Charleston - Husk bar

 Market Pavillion bar

 Exploring the city

 Drinks at Cypress

 Dinner at McCrady's - it did rain a lot but didn't spoil our fun

 Biking over the Ravenel bridge

LOVE having some kid-free time with my man ... the boys were in Memphis/Nashville dispersed among 4 grandparents, 6 aunts/uncles, and 10 cousins.  They had a ball and towards the end of the trip, my mom told me that they were having so much fun that she didn't think they missed us ... I told her that the feeling was mutual ;)

Sum-Sum-Summertime!!!!

We have had an AWESOME summer!!!!!!  The boys and I are a bit sad to see it go :(  But I know they'll be excited to get back to school.

 Lots of ice cream treats

 Luke taped up Carter

 A trip to the Skate Center

 Family golf night - a favorite!!

 Swimming with cousins

 Lots of Beyblades

 Ice cream eating contest

 Seeing Mr. Bond the Science Guy

 A canoe trip down the Harpeth river

 We stopped for a little fishing ... 

 ... and rock throwing

 Catching minnows in a creek

And we have FINALLY broken ground!!!!

Destin

We just returned from a great trip to Destin with Kevin's family!!  We had great weather, great food, and a really awesome time being together :)

 Buried Alive!!!!!

 One happy Lukey :)

 And one silly Carter ;)

 Out to dinner at the Surf Hut

 Putt Putt

 All our boys LOVED riding the big waves on boogie boards

Watching some baskebatball

Burgess Falls

We took a day trip to Burgess Falls State Park (1.5 hrs. east of Nashville) today and had a great time ... check out our pics:

 Starting our hike

 Middle Falls

 Hiking down to the bottom of Burgess Falls

 Checking it out

 It was massive!!

 We made it

 The view from the bottom

 Back to the park grounds for lunch - Graham said, "Seriously Mom, did you really pack peanut butter and jelly for Dad?"  I ran out of turkey for Kev ... Graham was disgusted :)

 Enjoying playing in the "creek" - the top of Little Falls

Carter found a HUGE spider