a weekend with family…

Just got back from a weekend with family at my brother-in-law’s parents beach house. (Thank you Helen and Phil for this treat! It was such a FUN weekend with family!) My grandparents, who live in Fairhope, came to join us for the day–and it was so fun to get to spend a day with them with our kids. We grew up in Fairhope (until I was in the 8th grade) living NEXT DOOR to my grandparents…so we have some of the SWEETEST childhood memories ever with them. We had fun reminiscing together–and I’m so thankful for their health and how much JOY they both have…and their love for one another too! I feel so blessed my kids have great-grandparents to play with still!
NOW…one thing you must know is that everyone on my family’s side of the family lives to be 100 (or more!) I still have 3 living grandparents and they ALL still live in their own homes and are as active as ever. These two get their day started EVERY morning at 6am by swimming with what they call other “dawn dippers”…yes–I said 6am! LOVED hearing about their day and schedules and just how much they are enjoying retirement and life!!! They have always been SUCH encouragements to us girls–and I’m so thankful for them!

My older sister (by just 14 months) and her family live just 10 minutes from us. Our kids are all best buds–so it was so fun to be together! Here’s a picture of her sweet family…

My little sister joined us too with her man Rama. SO fun to ALL 3 be together again…just like the old days:)

Your babies are your babies NO matter how old you are. Here’s momma with her babies…

Really though–we aren’t that serious. This is more like it…

OK..they are going to kill me for posting this one…but it is SO us. You just gotta know us–and for those of you who do–then this one will crack you up…

Alright–so we think we are funny. Guess you had to be there:) But you don’t have to be there to see how stinkin’ cute this kiddo is…Oh MY–I could just gobble him RIGHT on up!

I just downloaded the pictures from the weekend…and I have 250 favorites;). I might have to pop ’em in a slideshow to share. TOO many favorites to share…but here are some quick highlight moments from our weekend…

Isaac got to go on his first boat ride ever!

Uncle Harris took us to a little island where the kids got out and found hermit crabs and just played in the sand…

Isaac ADORES his cousin Isabelle…they are connected at the hips when we are together…

THEN we went for a slow cruise to scout out dolphins. AND it was a successful one…SO fun for the kids to see THESE up close!

As if that wasn’t close enough–they decided they liked our kids chatter and squeals and came closer for a little show…

The kids LOVED the boat fun–but what they loved more than anything was just being together…

More pictures to come after we catch up on laundry:) Wanna catch y’all up on some things in Zambia too!!! Hope you all had a great weekend!

XOXO,

Andrea