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Whew! It has been a long day that started at 4:00am in Pleasant View, UT. My kids are great, the best traveling kids in the world. I had several people on the plane tell me that they have never seen kids do so well on flights. Their champerific!!!
I had SOOOOOOOO much fun out west, and saw A LOT of my favorite people. Daddy O, Granny, Brie, Baylee, Blaze, Granny Gran, Great-Grandpa Olds, Grandma, Grandpa, the different Grandma, Great-Grandpa Brooks, Carl, Carla, Darren, Katie, Ben, Jess, Ellie, Matthew, Brooke, Rylie, Mason, Bracken, Dale, Julie, JT, Christie, and the list goes on and on.
But as much fun as we had, we were ready to come home, we missed Miles.
... to the mountains, err.. green hills.
To camp or stay in a bed and breakfast, hike, clear trees, maybe swim, visit with Evan and Kelly (and the rest of the Travis clan, plus Ross and Kristy), and just get away from Durham for a couple days. Should be fun!
The second annual Olds Beach Week took place this year at Holden Beach, NC. Dad, Taryn, Brie, Baylee, Blaze, Miles, Halleigh and I all stayed at the beach house all week. My Granny, Grandpa, Great Aunt Barbara, Uncle Jasper, and Aunt Becky all came for a couple days in the middle of the week. We enjoyed having the mid-week people come; it made it different than last year, and helped us not dwell on missing Ben.
We spent pretty much every minute that we could on the beach swimming, looking for shells, riding bikes, body surfing, sunbathing, visiting, and slathering Halleigh with sunscreen. Which brings me to the week's biggest accomplishment... Everyone got sunburned, at least a little bit, except Halleigh. She kind of had a faint swimming suit line by the last day, but not one iota of pink on that girl! YES!
Miles and I felt like we started the week with a baby and came back with a kid. She really blossomed around her uncle and aunts into a little girl who is more of a kid than a baby. She added several words to her vocabulary, which was really fun for my family to participate in. Much thanks to Brie for teaching her "belbow" elbow. You can see in one of the above pictures that Halleigh had her first ponytail; that was a big hit with her dad. He always wants me to put her hair in a ponytail. You can also tell from the pictures that she wanted for nothing all week. People doted on her like she was the Queen of Sheba... it has made this week difficult at times. It seems that I am just not as cool as Uncle Blaze. he he he
We liked Holden Beach so much that I think we are going back there next year... I can't wait!
Well after a very fun filled week with my family we are back. They leave in the morning... sad!
We have to upack, do some laundry, weed the garden and go to the grocery store; but as soon as that is all done, I'll post some pictures of our beach week.
On a gross note, yesterday I ripped my toenail off. It is sick, I wont share pictures of that with you, but I think that I will have to go to the doctor. Blech!
My family gets here today! I have a ton of stuff to do before they get here, but I am having a hard time concentrating on the tasks at hand. It is going to be so great... a week at the beach with some of my favorite people in the world. The only thing that would have made it better is if Ben would have been able to come. But he is too busy hanging out (literally, since a-school hasn't started yet, he isn't doing much) on the other coast... we will miss you, Ben!
Never mind that I am sick... again! Ugh! This is the third time that I have been sick in the last month. I think that it is the same cold coming back everytime I get stressed and don't sleep well. So far, Halleigh seems to have dodged it, but only time will tell.
Anyway... back to cleaning the bathroom and the other 15 items on my to-do list.
Here is my favorite picture taken of Ben during our trip to see him at basic training graduation. This is at Navy Pier in Chicago, and this is an anchor from the USS Chicago.
