Giddy up!

Alright, so I'm going to do my best to hop back on this blog train and get back to writing along with my posts. Updates on the kids, small little posts on people in our family, what life is really like behind these lovely smiley pictures. Because for real, there's lots of smiley pictures on this blog, but as we all know it's not always that way with two little creatures running around the house (hence the picture below of my lunch at work, it's peace I tell ya and that day in particular they had food trucks come and we got free lunch...heaven).

Fall is in full swing and I'm loving it. We had a really great summer. The weather was awesome, but I'm ready for it to turn to a new season. There's enough sand still coming out of our washer to last us until next summer, so yes Fall we're ready for you. We're now moving on to crunchy leaves all over the house and smooshed in to the carpets. I love the seasons here. I'm still soaking them up and we've been back here for 4 years this month. Crazy, it's been 4 years.

Tyler started soccer 2 weeks ago and the first session he pretty much had the worst meltdown I've ever seen. He loved the exercising at the beginning, the drills, then it came to playing a game and he was upset that kids were taking the ball form him and some kids were running faster. Explain to a feisty 3 year old that this is actually the game of soccer. Umm yeah, no beuno. His second week though he did much better after our numerous talks about what actually happens in soccer. We checked our cousin Kyle's game and watched those high school boys play soccer. Speaking of high school boys, Kyle is a freshman and is starting on the varsity team. He's pretty darn good.

Here's another photo dump of all kind of random stuff we've been up to over the past few weeks.

Beach Vacation 2013

Ahhh...vacation in Sea Isle City ♥

We did lots of playing in the sand, running in the ocean, bashing waves, digging holes, crab catching, jelly fish hunting, ice cream eating, bike riding, and playing. It was a nice week off and was officially our first family vacation.

Although with any vacation, I wouldn't want to mislead as if there were unicorns jumping over rainbows all week.

Zac got an ear infection the Wed before we left. This along with 4 teeth coming in led him to be pretty cranky the first few days. His sleeping was off and Dave and I each had a morning to see the sun rise on the beach with him. Another family staying with us had a son who got hand, foot, mouth disease so they had to go home on Tues. The other kids in the house seemed to escape that thankfully. With two small kids, things can be chaotic especially when your not in your own home, but mid-week everyone got healthy and things seemed to calm down a bit. I finally got some time to enjoy to myself on Friday morning. Yoga on the beach with the girls, then breakfast planned afterwards. When I got done with yoga I had a text from Dave saying he had been sick all morning with a stomach bug and to come back as soon as I can. So, the boys and I had our last beach day on Friday while Dave slept all day long and we packed up and went home Friday night instead of Saturday morning.

With that said, it was a really good week though. The kids loved the ocean and the beach. They both have no fear when it comes to the water and had lots of fun. We took trips to the beach at night to hunt for crabs and touched jelly fish at night to watch them glow. Tyler's new word of the week was "bioluminescence". Oh, and the outdoor shower. I'm thinking of getting one of those at home because that could occupy them for a long time. They loved the outdoor shower. We had a really great time staying with Jill and the kids and the Dauksis family. We spent some nights on the patio in the warm ocean air playing pigs, had marathon uno games (I know we're pretty wild, huh!?) and got to relax a little.

We took Tyler to ride wave runners one day and he loved it. Dave took him our first and I wasn't sure what Tyler was going to think and when he came back smiling I was so happy! Then, I took him out for another trip and I was told "Mom, Dad goes much faster than you!". I was going about 22, when I asked Dave how fast he was going he said around 40 or so. Yes, that would be faster than the granny speed I had Tyler going at.

So here's some picture overload...