4th of July + Birthday Weekend

July 4th weekend is always extremely fun and busy for us because Josh's birthday is July 3 and my birthday is July 6th. This year was more fun than usual because it was our first 4th of July with Aidan! We spent Josh's birthday (July 3rd) at the lake with our friends and his parents, we spent 4th of July at the lake with both of our parents, and we spend the 5th at my parents house and pool where we celebrated my birthday a day early. Fun weekend!Aidan is crawling and pulling up on everything. This picture cracks me up because he was SO proud of himself for looking out the window!
Aidan and Josh crawling together :)
Singing Happy 28th Birthday Josh!
Mike explaining the Declaration of Independence to the guys....they were really interested :)
4th of July!
Yes, that is Mike, my father-in-law, running with American flag pants, American flag bandana, and the American flag to make his grand entrance to introduce the 6th Annual Golf Cart Parade.
The winner of the golf cart parade
Mike doing his 4th of July speech
Baby boy!
4th of July golf cart parade. There were about 30 golf carts!

Nana rocking Aidan to sleep after a very busy 4th of July!
Pappy and Aidan!
Happy Birthday to us!
Dad & Tom
Nana and Pappy
Aidan and his best friend :) They're so cute together. Herschel is in trouble now that Aidan can pull himself up on things!
I have the best girlfriends in the world! My birthday dinner at The Old Mill....it was so much fun! I'm now officially a quarter of a century!

Myrtle Beach! June '09

The last weekend of June we all went up to Myrtle Beach, SC to visit our friend Wes. It was such a great weekend! My best friend Laurie went with us and we all had a great time. Wes lives in a condo that is located in a 4 star hotel, so we had full access to the pool, beach and great restaurants. He had a great view of a river going into the ocean from his balcony and his condo was really nice....he definitely has it made! This was also Aidan's first time seeing the ocean.

Daddy and Aidan
Josh, Aidan and Wesley
Josh and Wes going golfing on Saturday. It was great that they went golfing because Laurie and I went to the outlet malls that were 5 minutes from his condo....that would be SO dangerous if I lived there! It was fun, we got great deals at Banana Republic and Baby Gap, and then came back to catch some rays by the pool.
Me and baby boy about to go swimming
The pool was so nice and it was soooo hot outside!
Laurie and Aidan in his raft!
Eating the monkey


After golf the guys joined us....by this time Aidan is out
Eating lemons at a Mexican restaurant
Sour!
On Wes's balcony....we definitely want to go back and visit again soon!
At the beach!


About to feel the ocean for the first time!
"Gear Up" Baby! Everytime the water came up he'd pull his legs up!

Big wave! He loved the ocean....wasn't a huge fan of the sand though.




Laurie watching him while Josh and I swam....it was so nice that Laurie and Wes helped out so much!
The ocean and the sun wore him out.
We discovered that changing a mobile baby at the beach is sandy and hard :)
Josh pushing Aidan around at the pool to get him to fall asleep. I love this picture....I think it's so cute! Josh is such an awesome dad.
Aidan looking at his mommy through the mesh of his stroller! He was asking me to get him out!
In the pool!
Family!
This was take 1 of 1000 with the automatic timer on the camera!
We moved it inside to get a better picture. This was take 1000.
Last night at Myrtle Beach at a great little seafood restaurant! Aidan was an angel throughout the whole trip and it was so much fun to take him to the beach! He loved it! We can't wait to go back. Thanks Wes!