Our Day Trip- Debordieu

Today we headed out of town for a day trip to Debordieu to visit Leigh, Jackson, and Pressley and some of Leigh's family. The last time I was at Turtle Egg, Too (the name of the beach house Leigh's family rents for a month since the 1980's) was when Pressley was almost 2 years old! It's been a while!! We had a GREAT day. We started it off taking some pictures for a project I am going in the "kids room" at my parents house. Glad we did the pictures early because after nap time it was raining like crazy! But before the rain came we had a great time playing on the beach. Karoline really enjoyed riding the waves with TJ and her cousins and Anderson preferred to stay on shore with Leigh and I.

We ate lunch and got to visit with Leigh's sweet grandmother, Mimi, and then the kids took a nap. Leigh, TJ, Cooper (Jackson's other cousin his age) and I played cards. I love to play cards and wish we did it more often... It was so relaxing while the rain was falling.

My mom arrived and then we headed to eat and I had my favorite, shrimp and grits! It was SO good. I think we have discovered the beast food around is in Murrells Inlet. Mom headed back to the beach house with them for the night and we headed back home. We had to say goodbye to Press and Jackson and though it was sad we have been able to see them SO MUCH more than we did while we lived in Texas and California. I just have missed them SO much! I am SO thankful we live closer now and can see each other more often! Thank you Lord for such a wonderful family!

Celebrating 39 Years!

Today is my parents 39th anniversary... one more year to 40!! Brent, Leigh, Jackson, and Pressley met us in Murrells Inlet for dinner last night (they are just 45 minutes away from us closer to Georgetown with Leigh's family). We celebrated mom and dad's 39th anniversary. We ate at a Japanese hibachi restaurant and it was yummy. Karoline and Anderson did NOT like the fire!!!! I'll say it again... DID NOT LIKE THE FIRE!!!!!!!! Other than that we had a great dinner. After dinner we got a family picture despite my brother's deep hatred for taking pictures... not sure how we ended up in the same family. Just kidding.

After dinner and I helped put the kids to bed I went back over to mom and dads and the original four of us, mom, dad, Brent, and I sat on the back porch for a long time and just talked. It was so fun. I am SO thankful to all be closer again. It was a fun evening!

Anderson- not too such what to think...

Sponge Bob Square Pants...

My Mom liked the name of this boat... hehe...

My dad's name is Bill & sometimes he can be crabby :)

Bill and Little Bill

The girls practicing the balance beam.

The 4th Of July

We had a great 4th of July which was also Barna and Kerry's anniversary. The day started off with a bear sighting... in the front of the house... Karoline was TERRIFIED! But the bear ran away quickly...

After the bear sighting, we pretty just just hung out all day and relaxed and got ready for our big dinner out. Kerry and Barna took us all to this nice restaurant in town and their long time friends Ben and Sandy came too. The food was SO GOOD!

One of the funny things is that they have these Victorian hats all over and they let you wear them... it was quite funny (see pictures below). Karoline was too scared of them to put one on her head. It was a very nice dinner and it was such a fun treat.

After we went home and ate a 4th of July cake that I made and watched the NASCAR race outside with a fire... it was so peaceful... then the fireworks started. We got to see about 10 different groups of fireworks going off from the porch.

I love the 4th of July and it was so special getting to celebrate spending it with family!

The girls showing off their pink nail polish...

And what did Buster do while we were away... he played with my brother's dog, Blackmond, at my parents house. They had both grand-dogs... Buster was apparenlty winner of many fressbee tug of war games... I'm proud!

I hope all of you had a great 4th of July!!!

Blue Ridge- Goff Family Vacation

We had an AMAZING time the past 5 days on a wonderful trip to the Blue Ridge Mountains. We stayed at Jared's bosses mountain home. He has such a generous boss! This house was AMAZING and was just completed last year. It was nice to go to the mountains for vacation since we now live at the beach!

We had an amazing time... the kids are at such a fun age and played SO well together, especially the girls. It is always fun being with TJ's family and we soak up all the time we get to spend with them. It was also fun to see Sarah pregnant and it was so fun to get to see little Laney growing inside... We can't wait for her to be here in early September (Sarah would prefer late August!) .

I took a LOT of pictures... 350 :) Here are just a few.

The Views

The Cabin & The Town

Around The House

Jared's Birthday cake...

Family Picture Time

I still have more pictures.... I'm going to do 4th of July in a different post!

We Are Away...

We will be back later, but we will be at this beautiful cabin in the mountains with TJ's family! I am SO excited. We left Wednesday morning...

PLEASE pray for safe travel as the roads leading to the cabin are quite narrow and winding... I am NOT excited about that part...