We are all smiles around here. "Why's that?" you say...
Because my camera is finally back from getting repaired! You will no longer have to look at bad pictures... well, maybe a few, but hopefully the good ones will be much more plentiful. YAY!
She and Fix were so excited to see each other, they couldn't keep their eyes open.
And what makes Addy so cool? Well, she can hang with the older kids.
She is portable.
And she is sweet!
She is also quite fast. Which made taking a picture of she and Rock in their matching shorts (courtesy of Juju) rather difficult.
This was the one and only picture I got of the two of them sitting still (caught in the crossfires of two cameras!!) and it's awful. Good thing she's coming to visit soon -- that way we won't miss her too much and we'll get another chance at the matching shorts shot!
Even though the weather wasn't fabulous, we did get a few days on the beach.
And that was something both Rock and his mom could smile about!
Even with the cloud cover, the humidity made it rather sticky.
I heart chubby baby feet in the sand.
Kelly, Fix, and Nate = Some studly beachy men!
Grandparents and grandkids.
Rock and Rock really rock!
Does Aunt Bethany look like Aunt Zuni...
Or Aunt Zuni look like Aunt Bethany?
Just in case you can't tell, they made Nick into a merman. Good work Sophie, Copeland, Clip, Aiden and Jay!
One of my favorite parts of the Fellowship week at the beach is the yummy food we get to eat.
Each of the families is responsible for one lunch or one dinner and it is always SO GOOD!
Just ask Annie. She had been looking forward to this homemade Whoopie Pie (by Pauline) for a LONG time!
Although Addy couldn't eat most of the food that was served, she did a good job of eating her own fare.
He was lucky 'cause we got to eat it twice that week.
He wasn't the only one who was excited about that.
The last night that we were there, the second generation went out to eat a yummy local seafood place called Gilligan's.
I tried to crop out Bethany's finger covered in seafood sauce, but I couldn't. At least now you know for sure that we were eating out... as this is a post on eating...
Specifically, we are failing in teaching our son how to wrestle. Every time Clip gave him a hug it inevitably ended in his bringing Rock to the ground to wrestle. And Rock simply did not know what to do or how to fight back.
Even though Fix is CLEARLY good at throwing young children around, Rock did not want to get in on the action.
Fix taught them this move called the "Bone Crusher."
But this year there were a lot of rainy and cloudy days. This made us all (especially those of us with cute aviator sunglasses) a little grumpy.
So we spent a lot of time just hanging out at our beach houses. The kids (minus Jay who fell asleep) watched Veggie Tales.
The grown-ups played Shang-Hai Rummy (or Moonshine Rummy as Marta calls it).
We also did a lot of sitting around and talking.
And a lot of picture taking. Here are all the current "babies" of the group.
Here's the best family picture we got... Rock was not interested in posing.
So we got a substitute baby to take a picture with us. He was a little heavy, but awful fun. Yes, I'm in this picture, that's my arm reaching out on the right.
