It's been too long!

I know I said that I would update and post pictures about our vacation, but time just got away from me.  We were busy the whole time we were in Myrtle Beach so the saying "I'm going to need a vacation after my vacation" is totally true in my case...lol.  I hit a wall with my pregnancy fatigue when we got home and haven't fully recovered (and probably won't til this little boy is born).  It certainly didn't help that Kelsie got sick with strep throat not even 12 hours after we'd been home and Ashlin caught it a couple of days later.  Daniel and I managed to avoid it, but I got a cold a week and a half ago and I'm still trying to get rid of the last of it.

Anyway, on to vacation stuff!  We. had. a. BLAST!!!!  It was seriously so much fun!  Way better than I imagined it would be.  The girls had a couple of cranky moments, but not too bad and Daniel joined in every little thing (including waking up at 7:30am or earlier and going to bed early) which made it that much better.  Now for some pictures.  Some of these are just snap shots and some are supposed to look a bit nicer.  Don't judge too hard :o).


These are quick snaps of the girls on the way there.

This is the first time on the beach.  We got checked in and our bags in the room and came right to the beach.  The girls loved it!


It took a while to get them down to the water cause there was a lot of sand to explore.  We weren't even off the little boardwalk before they were in the sand!

 Ashlin and daddy going to explore the water.  Ashlin loved the water, but Kelsie preferred the sand.  She said when she was in the water that giant clams were snotting on her face...lol.

 One of the only letters Kelsie can write is an upper case "E", so minutes after we were in the wet sand, she made an E.  Naturally, I needed a picture of it!

 Ashlin showing me some of the "shells" her and daddy found :o).

 This is what Kelsie did every time the water started to come in...hehehe.

 Our first full day there.  I won't caption all of them.  They range from waking up, to playing at the "sun pool" (what Kelsie calls the water park for hotel guests only), to more beach fun.

 The next day:  We went to the beach first thing in the morning, looking at the war memorial,  and the aquarium later in the day.

Kelsie took this with my point and shoot

Our last day.  Daniel found a tiny tree frog while moving the car while we were getting ready to check out.  He brought it up to show us before we set it free again.  We also went to Planet Hollywood (Kelsie was dying to go in the big planet...lol), build a bear (but no pictures of it, silly mommy forgot), family picture on the pier (our only family picture of the trip), and a couple from The Pavilion at Nostalgia Park (a kind of permanent carnival).

So I know that this was a picture overload, but believe it or not, there are over 160 more pictures that I didn't post here.  If you'd like to see them, just click the link and it'll take you to my Myrtle Beach album on Flickr.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jessie7813/sets/72157624793178634/with/5014630015/






On a whole other note, I'll give a quick update on the pregnancy.  I'm doing really well so far at 32 weeks and 5 days.  Our little womb-piggy keeps on growing and boy am I feeling it.  He's running out of room, so I've become way more uncomfortable lately and like I said earlier, I have no energy anymore, but only 8ish weeks left!  My baby shower is on October 2nd and I'm getting super excited for it.  My amazing best friend, Kimie, offered to host it and she's paid for everything and I love her so much for it (well other reasons, too, but right now this is on the top of the list of reasons why I love Kimie...lol).  The only problem is she's keeping most of it a surprise!  Well not a huge problem cause I love surprises, but still :o).  I have my next appointment in a week (I go every 2 weeks now).  I've gained 12 pounds so far, so not too bad if I do say so myself!  That's it for now...here's a picture of the belly at 32 weeks and 1 day: