Monday, September 7, 2009

Labor Day, but no Labor, Just Relaxing!








Reesi fell in love with the Ipod touch. She would walk around the house with the headphones on listening to music forever.





Meemaw grabbed the top to Elye's bottle and filled it with cocktail sauce. She didn't realize what she had done until she asked the waitress for another small cup like that. The waitress gave her a strange look and informed her that they didn't have any cups like that.
The boys had a blast with Reesi's doodle book. Austin is the artist in the family and it was right up his alley.








These are all the shells that Reesi found on the beach. They were actually purchased at Sea Shell City by me and hidden in the sand by me. Reesi didn't have a clue. The idea was stolen from Candi Spelling and it was the best idea ever!
























Short, but tons of fun. That pretty much describes our trip to Florida this weekend. Karen was going down to Lesli's for Labor Day weekend and wanted someone to ride with her. At first I was going to stay home with Elye while Larry and Reesi went, but I finally decided to go. I was convinced it was a mistake after Elye developed a runny nose on the way down there and threw up everywhere right before we pulled into their drive. But the nose didn't turn out to be a big deal and I decided to be thankful that she puked right before we got there so we could just throw her in the tub even though it was midnight. The next morning she woke up bright and early at 6:00 so I took a morning nap with her while Karen and Lesli took Reesi to the beach for the morning. We then went to Parker's football game (hot!!) and then out to dinner for some seafood.
The next day we took everyone to the beach for the day. Reesi loved it! She smiled, laughed, jumped, dug, and frolicked the whole time. She also found some beautiful shells. 69 to be exact: she counted. That afternoon Larry, Reesi, Elye, Parker, and I went to get Larry a tattoo. He has Reesi's foot on his chest with her name so he has been aching to add Elye's to his chest. After Larry got inked we met the rest of the family for crab legs at Old Bay Steamer. And of course, every night we ended the evening with a soak in the hot tub. This night Reesi had us playing Doggie, Doggie, where's your bone with one of her shells. She loved every minute of it. It is always so much fun to hang out with the Hardings and get a little taste of Florida.

4 comments:

Julie said...

Those are the best pics! Ofcourse I laughed out loud @ Karen and her cocktail cup! Haha! Looks like you had fun..:)

Misty said...

Did you read Tori Spelling's book? I read them both and thought they were good. fun and easy reads!

Amy Griffin said...

the pictures alone were worth it!! glad you had fun!

joyof3boys said...

I am so jealous. I can't believe I didn't see the ocean ths year, but I am happy for you all, and your pictures are so great.

FYI my mom bought a sand dollar once and hid for me to find, and when I found out I was so mad. I bet I was much older than Reesi though.