Moss/Pankow Beach Trip

We had the best time at the beach. The weather was perfect, the water was beautiful but the people were the BEST!!! William and Taylor had so much fun together. They woke up asking for each other and we had to show each one that the other was going "night night" at the end of the day!

I cannot tell you how long it takes to get four babies lathered up with sunscreen, beach bags packed, coolers packed, toys packed and all down to the beach. We had some great baby sitters that helped.

Taylor and William ready to play in the sand!

Taylor: "William, what are you doing?"

William: "Checking out the ladies!"

Taylor: "Well, if you do not get out from under the umbrella, you are going to blind them with your porcelain white skin."

So before we did the above, this is what happened. We were getting sunscreen on the kids. When Taylor offered to help.

She got William in the headlock (not the last time this happened this week) and rubbed it all over his face. We still had not gotten bathing suits on them yet.

William helping Taylor.

They got really tickled by the whole thing and started dancing and laughing all over the place. It was hysterical.

John loving on his babies.

This is the face we got every time we told William we wanted to take a picture.

We had to bribe William to sit on the bench and take the above picture. See below his bribe.

Have you ever seen a cuter sweet potato face!

George crawled up to see if there were any left overs.

Rich getting a little air!

Like Father like Son.

This is what William would do every time he got out of the pool. There were these two holes in the cement, I guess where another ladder had been at some point, William would get the water coming off his bathing suit to go into the holes. It looked like he was pee peeing. We got some strange looks!

Rawlings outfit and George's bathing suit matched. It took Susan and I almost all day before we realized this!

We saw so many dolphins going by and the kids loved it! They would get so excited each time they saw one!

It was so nice having the pool to jump into. The ocean water got a little cold. Taylor is such a good swimmer. She and William must have jumped off these steps a 100 times.

Rich keeps calling George "Buck Teeth"!

It was so much fun watching these two play!

How beautiful are these two.

So we went to do our annual family picture. My mom had made the kids outfits. William and Taylor were not that interested in getting a great picture.

Taylor: "William, lets play catch."

William: "OK, you cannot catch me!"

Taylor: "Oh yes I can."

William: "You got my sandy."

Taylor: "I am sorry, let me help you up."

William: "NOOOOO!"

Taylor helping Rawlings. At least someone appreaciated her help. George would have, check out Susan's blog with pictures of the same night.

She might be mischievous, but she sure is adorable!

Another year down! We had so much fun!

The picture below is from our first trip. Look at how our families and children have grown.

July 4th

We had a great July 4th in Dublin. It was wonderful to be with family and friends.

"Great" and Big Man had stopped by the weekend before and gave William and George all the right attire to celebrate the 4th.

The trip to Dublin was CRAZY!!!! We left at 6 p.m. By the time we got to Dublin, 1:45 a.m., George was asleep on my chest and William was in my lap. I know, I know, not in their car seats, but if your children hated the car seats like ours you would do the same thing.

Brad and George got some quality time. (Before I go on, there are LOTS of pictures on this post. I scaled it down big time. But I do not have one picture of Courtenay. How, I do not know, I think she was sneaky and made it that way. But she was right in the mix of things.)

Pop and George enjoying the pool.

George loved splashing in the water.

But loved the hose the most!

William loved jumping off the diving board. Here is a picture play by play!

How sweet is this!

William and Pop

George got tired and needed a break!

We blew bubbles in our pj's. In the front yard!

Watching was more George's speed.

So this is William's face when we tell him No. He growls at us!

Every afternoon the boys went with mom to help feed the horses. They were very interested in William. Mrs. Jones taught William to say "Back"!!!

Mrs. Jones and Smitty helping William ride Candy the Pony.

Mr. Jones was so sweet. He was relaxing, watching t.v. and got up to let William ride the tractor. He even let him do all the driving.

William then thought he could drive all the tractors around the farm.

George was not to sure of the horses and was glad when Rich got him off.

They even fed the duck, who's name is "George".

Leo was sad to see William leave!

Our family for the 4th. The boys looking dapper in their hats.

William stayed in Dublin and had a great time! He actually got upset when Smitty and Pop brought him home. He wanted to go back to their house.

Mrs. Keen let Smitty and Pop take William out to her farm. She has lots of miniature animals.

Here are William and Mrs. Keen.

Apparently, this is how you should greet a horse.

And this is how you should kiss them.

Not sure what this means????

William: Come here little bunny and I will love you.

William: I promise I will not squish you.

William: Well, maybe just a little bit.

William went fishing and drove the boat. I think I need to remind my parents that the legal driving age is 16.

I also need to ask them to keep a better eye on him. William sneaked out when they were not looking and surprised mom by opening up the doggy door, with no clothes on!

William: Smitty, Please stop taking pictures of me.