Our Family Blog – Mike, Louanne, Nadia, Amelie, & Dani
Amelie woke up and immediately went to the balcony door and said, “Side side side!” She was ready for the beach and some more playtime!
Claire getting ready to hit the waves.
Nadia in the condo all proud of how fast she can climb up the stool.
For dinner we all headed over to the Burro Loco. The food was yummy and we had a good time.
And clearly I wasn’t thinking here. I should have had Mike in the photo with us and asked another person to take the photo!
We got to the beach around 4:30 after spending the morning with the Hatchers in Augusta. Once we met up with everyone at the condo, Kim and I set off for the grocery store while Mike and Eddie took the kids to the beach.
This looks like Nadia is saying, “Come on Amelie, the sand is fine!”
Julie played with Amelie for a long time. Mike said that Amelie tasted the sand and got a big surprise. Her and Nadia had a great time playing in the sand, Nadia really enjoyed that she got her “regular” clothes soaking wet.
*I have more posting to do about our beach vacation, but I wanted to get this post up first.*
The fans and dehumidfiers were still running in our house and we had no A/C or water, so we were at a hotel in the cultural district for the 4th. The girls played in the room in the morning while Mike and I tried to recover from the drive back home.
We had gift cards for Cotton Patch so we headed over there for dinner.
Our hotel was right by Trinity Park so we tried to get an idea of how we could best see the fireworks without going too far. We let the girls stay up late and at 9:30 we climbed the little hill next to our hotel and watched the fireworks. It was great! Once it was over we went back down the hill and right to our room to put the girls to bed. Perfect!
We packed the car up the night before we left, so we woke the girls up early and put them in the car in their jammies. Our first stop of the day was in Shrevport, LA. We decided to make it a long stop and eat breakfast at IHOP. I put the girls in their new outfits from our friend Lynnea and after the girls ate they were allowed to open the other present from her. Road trip fun!
We made it all the way to Atlanta, GA on the first leg of our journey. We stopped for the night and got the girls to bed as soon as possible. The next morning Amelie decided to use the hotel room as a demolition derby for her head. She still has no safety filter! She hit the coffee table and had a little goose egg going so I had to rig up our freezer pack from the cooler.
She was not impressed.
Then Nadia decided that she needed to pose in pain too.
Once the medial treatment was over we packed up the car.
We headed for Amy’s house to stay the night and let the kids play. They were one of the families in our travel group for Nadia. They are now waiting on a little girl that is basically Amelie’s “hand twin”. We are so excited for them. The kids played and played and played. Mike let the kids take some photos with our new underwater/shock proof camera.
Click the photo above to see that album.
That night they invited another family over with their kids and we all had a wonderful time!!! Mike has quite a few photos on his other camera and I will get those up in a future post. We have some shots of all 10 kids together.
This was the first time that Nadia had a sleep over. Even though we were downstairs it was still a new thing for her to be up in Jaida’s room. The next day she said, “We played some more while you were sleeping.” She was so proud. That just made me laugh. The kids got up and instantly started playing some more. We had a leisurely breakfast and packed up to make our way to Myrtle Beach. We were having so much fun that I didn’t want to leave and neither did Nadia. She kept saying, “When will I see my friend Jaida and Xin again? Are they coming to our house?”
Cuteness overload!! Seriously!
Then her late night caught up to her once we were on the road 🙂