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Saturday, August 25, 2018

Turks and Caicos!

To finish up our photos from June, below is a quick look at our 15th anniversary trip to Turks and Caicos!

We had such an amazing time on the tiny little island of South Caicos (population ~1000!) and loved having several days to relax and read on the beautiful, empty beaches looking out onto the turquoise waters. The food at the resort was delicious and we enjoyed our few ventures off of the resort. It was such a much-needed vacation!

Our view over the islands from the tiny plane!

View of the resort pool and private beach just beyond it.

Beautiful sunset sky at Triple J's, the backyard "restaurant" with surprisingly delicious food!

We kayaked every day!

Couldn't get enough of our views.

View from our balcony!

Another pretty sight along our bikeride for souvenir shopping.

We loved these waters!

Another local eatery where we enjoyed a yummy conch burger!

Since our main goal for this trip was rest and relaxation, we didn't want to overdo it with activities so we kept it simple with a snorkeling tour that included a trip to a secluded island filled with iguanas, and rejuvenating massages!

Seens from underwater.


Plenty of curious iguanas with breathtaking views to boot.


Quick stop on our tour to check out some incredible starfish!

Sooo enjoying the peace and quiet.

One of our incredible meals on the resort.



Scenes from a long walk along the sand.


With the bartender, Steve- he loved to come up with drinks for us, and we enjoyed our talks with him every time we visited the bar!

Probably our best meal the night before we left.

In the TINY plane to get us from South Caicos to the Providenciales!

And the several hours long layover in Providenciales gave us time to enjoy a gorgeous beachside lunch.
Little did we know how much we'd need it given the overnight delay we ended up having in Atlanta! 

More pics HERE!

We were so grateful for this sweet time away and SO grateful for my parents caring for the kiddos so we could have this time away!!! Already dreaming of the 20th anniversary trip... 


Saturday, August 4, 2018

July

Sandwiched between our "couples" beach week and our "family" beach week, was a very hot first week of July. We cooled off with sprayground fun, sprinklers and water guns outside, and had a wonderful July 4th celebration with our neighbors. Complete with some fireworks!














Then a beautiful weekend day with cooler weather called for a trip into Old Town for ice cream and hanging out along the Potomac! (Side note: watching them climb on these very small rocks, in comparison to the crazy large rocks my brother and I used to navigate along the ocean's edge in Monterey, gives me a newfound appreciation for my parents allowing our adventurous spirits! My heart stops watching their little feet clamoring up the uneven rocks, so close to the water! Definitely working on letting them explore without having a heart attack!)











And a HUGE thing happened in the beginning of July!!!

We largely blame ourselves for Maelee not learning to ride her bike sooner, as we literally only gave it a few attemps over these past few years, but we knew she was at the age and ability that it wouldn't take much for it to just "click." So on a Sunday afternoon, Steve took her to a nearby park with a large, grassy area, and a looping road around it, and sure enough, it clicked almost immediately. 

Video of her first bike ride HERE

Pardon the sideways views, but poor Steve was doing his best running alongside her! So proud of her!!!


More sprayground fun after our OBX beach week! 


And more ice cream!




2nd VBS of the summer was another smashing success!

Water play on a rainy day!


This time Ollie let go and trusted just his arm swimmies!




Another fun VBS!


Little ice cream shindig with the neighbors to give our biggest "well wishes" to Marcel who broke his arm so badly that he needed surgery!


Another treat at the end of July was seeing Mee-Maw & Grandpa after they flew in to Dulles from a cruise! 

Ollie was beyond esctatic over the new handmade dump truck from Grandpa!

And summer is already finishing up! 

More pictures from July  HERE