artsy photo?

Look Momma, two flowers!

So happy!

Wanna smell?!

Smelling flowers.

Lilly is so mobile, and ready for adventure at all times. One of her favorite things to do is pick flowers and smell them, and have others smell them too. One of our rose bushes out front is flowering all of the time (recently), and Lilly always wants to pick them. She will smell them, get some pollen on her face and then hold the flower out for you to smell! So sweet! We are also working on her swimming ability by going to the beach at least twice a week. She recently got a real kick out of playing with the little sand flea crabs that are just at the shoreline. I would catch a bunch, put them in her bucket and then hand them to her one at at time and she would let them go in the surf and laugh. She nary hurt a one....she seemed to understand when I said to be gentle. We are getting ready to enjoy a week of visiting with my Aunt and Cousin who made the trip down from PA to vacation. We are so excited to have new people to play with!!

Ninja roll...attack kite on the loose!
Momma and Lilly

I love sand!

And he's up!

Yah....seaweed!

Lovin' the beach!

My photo for the life insurance claim...luckily did not need it!swimming with dada!

Love my little pool on the beach!

My mom and her brothers, sisters and mom.

All the grandkids and greatgrandkids who were present.

Four generation photo!

Smilie girl!

She loved this rocking chair!

Aunt Chrissie and Lilly!

Cousin Julia playing with Lilly!

Swinging with Dada in NY!

Hugging with cousin Julia!

Playing at B&B's!

B&B showing Lilly how it's done!

Great Aunt Ruth, Lilly and me! She's nearly 90 years old!!

Busy Few weeks and weekends!

So we as a family have been very busy recently....we did a trip to the great northeast to visit family over memorial day, then a quick trip out to Wilkesboro for a wedding of our dear friends Karen and John, and then last night we had our first kite board kite flying experience.

We started our trek northwards with a stop in PA to visit my Aunt and cousin, then we headed further north to NY to visit with Fitz's immediate family, then started south to NJ for a family reunion on sorts on my side, and finally home!

Over last weekend, we did a trip to Wilkesboro, NC for a wedding (we forgot the camera), but had a great time. Lilly was a real trooper and loved all of the attention she got at the wedding. She was one of the few kids and so everyone was ooooh and ahhhing over her.

Fitz has decided that he wanted to take up kite surfing, so our friend Nate loaned him a training kite and we had a chance last night to try it out. Needless to say, he will need some really practice! But we had a great time and got some cute photos!