This year for our family vacation we took an amazing trip with David's group of best friends from his ward when he was growing up. This trip was about a year in the making and we were so glad to have been able to see David's friends and to have such a great time. It was especially fun because we all have new babies (Savannah is the oldest) and they are all girls. Watching them interact was really special.
We rented a beach house on the Holden Beach island. This little island was perfect because it isn't touristy and the beach wasn't crowded at all. Now if only the weather could have been better....
Here's our little cutie playing in the front seat of the car during one of the bathroom breaks along the road.
The first day there we packed up everything and walked down to the beach. People kept staring at us because of how many strollers and children we had! It was pretty hilarious! I'm so glad I took this picture because during the first night there one of our friends little girls got sick and they had to leave. This is the only picture we got of the whole group so I'm grateful I took it!
At Holden Beach with daddy!
David hung Savannah upside down and stuck the top of her head in the water. She thought it was great!
I think this is my favorite picture from the whole trip. Savannah looks so, so happy...and look at those chunky legs!
The boys digging for crabs.
The next day it was raining so we decided to drive to Wilmington for the day. We ate a yummy dinner and then got some amazingly good ice cream from Kilwins.
We were trying to teach Savannah to lick the ice cream. She was...okay at it.
Jake and Chris decided to do handstands in the water. Jake was definitely better than Chris was. (shhh, don't tell Chris I said that!)
The cute mommies with their girls, Hadley and Kenedee.
Little Kenedee makes the silliest faces!
One day we came home to find a very long and very "fresh" snake skin hanging out of the dryer vent into the car port below. It kind of freaked us out. We were grateful when we found the (very large but thankfully not poisonous) snake outside on the pipe. He would sit there whenever we had the dryer on because he didn't like it and then he would slither back into the vent when the dryer was off. Needless to say we kept the dryer on a lot while there!
Here's the house we stayed in. It was perfect for us!
The next day we went to a family friend's house for dinner. Matt Case and his family who had left the first night at the beach house because of sickness came too so we were able to see them one last time before they headed back to Tennessee. Here's the three oldest girls, Pippa, Savannah, and Hadley. Obviously Savannah was stuffed from Anne's yummy dinner and just wanted to lounge a little.
