Beach Bums

This past weekend, we had a wonderful family vacation to the beach. Thanks to my amazing brother-in-law and sister-in-law, we were able to stay in a cozy little beach house in Litchfield. This was Nathanael's first trip to the beach and Sam hasn't been since he was 2. Unfortunately, most of my pictures were ruined by my piece-o-crap camera, but atleast I was still able to capture some of our memories...


Here are my two little chickens actually sharing (some popcorn chicken)!
Sam took right to the sand like a good little boy is supposed to.But he didn't stick around in this hole long enough to actually be buried.This one, on the other hand, hated the beach!
So, he decided to just go to sleep so he wouldn't have to deal with it.
Self-portrait ruined by stupid camera.


Paul and Sam took a short, and I mean VERY short, ride on this boat. That's a whole blog post by itself.:-)

We visited Garden City beach peir, which has an arcade. Paul and Sam played a few games. Paul played a game of ski ball and, based on his score, he should have gotten 9 tickets. Instead, the machine kept spitting them out until we had hundreds. We thought we'd be able to get something fabulous (well as fabulous as arcade prizes get), but alas, Sam ended up with two ring pops, 2 tootsie rolls, 3 fireballs, and a quite cute caterpillar that looked like this..
But within about 5 minutes the silly thing broke in half. Sam was pretty sad which made me sad. But I gave him one of his ring pops and he forgot all about it.

We caught a sunset on the beach.
We caught a sunrise on the beach.
We caught an eel. Eeeek!!
Natey still hated the beach.
Natey decided he LOVES the beach.
And then it was time to pack up and ride home.

What a fantastic weekend. Can't wait to go again.

Lil' Tiger

Paul took Sam to his first Clemson football game September 11. Sam was super excited to go. They followed the marching band before the game as they marched to the stadium. Sam's really into music, so he loved that. His other favorite part was the release of the balloons.
He made it through the first quarter before he announced that he was hungry. Paul, not thinking like a mother, hadn't brought any snacks for the poor boy and there was a little girl sitting in front of them eating everything from cotton candy and m&m's to hot dogs. It made Sam want something and he told Paul "they have little restaurants up there", because he had seen the concession stands when they came in.
Even though they only lasted 1 quarter, Sam had a great time. Now we'll just have to get him to a BYU game before he becomes confused about where his loyalty should be.

First Haircut

Paul gave Nathanael his first haircut tonight. It looks so much better; the baby mullet is gone. I don't know why that kind of makes me sad. Truthfully it needed to be done, but it's like cutting away part of his babyhood. They just grow up so fast.


Before


Nathanael did so well. He knew exactly what was going to happen and he was excited. He sat right down on the little chair, sat up straight, and let Paul cut.

After

First Day of School

It's official....Sam's not a baby anymore. He started preschool on August 30th.
We had a little photoshoot before I took him to school. He does the most bizarre poses:-).

He was so excited to start going to school. When I dropped him off, he went right in and started playing. He told me he had a "GREAT!!!" day and was super excited to go back the next day. As I was getting him out of the van the next day to go to class he said, "I love school, Mom!" I don't know how he got so big so fast, but I'm glad he's excited about this new adventure.