FIRST VACATION AT THE BEACH!

The night before we left for Destin, Jay & I met up with Heath, Erica, & Lola in a Wendy's parking lot in Hammond. They were on their way to their new house in Canton, MS. It was really nice seeing them and we wish them the best of luck. They also gave Nola her first LSU cheerleading outfit. It's a little big but we LOVE it!!! Thanks guys!

Tuesday afternoon we were off to Destin. We stopped along the way at Mellow Mushroom in Alabama. Yum! Yum! Nola loved everything even the lemon!

Right when we got there we got our bathing suits on and went swimming. Nola absolutely loved the pool. Wednesday morning we went to the beach really early so it wouldn't be too hot. Nola was funny looking at the sand at first. She looked confused but then started crawling around. When we took her by the gulf she really didn't like it. I think she was scared of the waves. A previous storm brought seaweed and jellyfish so we didn't really go in the gulf, we stayed by the pool.

Nola & Big Daddy


Thursday I took a ride with my mom to pick up Dave, Christy & Tripp from the airport. Once we finally made it back (after shopping) we took the kids to the beach. Since it was in the afternoon we put them in their sunblock sunsuits. These are great inventions! They had a great time playing together.

Of course after getting sand all over them, we put them both in the tub. Tripp bit into the soap which was pretty funny.

Then, almost simultaneously the kids seemed to get fever and were cranky. Poor Tripp was worse than Nola, but we had one bad night where Nola was screaming and Jay & I had to take her for a ride in the car to get her to fall asleep. We were both kind of freaking out because she doesn't usually act that way, but when we woke up Friday morning we saw that Nola had a tiny piece of one tooth popping through on top and a little while later Aunt Christy found a bottom tooth coming through as well. Jay said he hoped they were ALL coming in because she was screaming so much! We think Tripp is getting his one year molars but nothing yet!

Who cares if Nola isn't feeling 100%, her dad still likes to torture her. Poor Baby! Mom came to the rescue!

Nola hanging out with Aunt Elizabeth. The Giambrones always come for a good time. We played cards and Rock Band. That was really fun and I'm really glad I didn't break your drums.

Family pic!

Tripp & Nola celebrating their 1st birthday together. Someone bought trick candles. Real funny!

Grammie & Pipaw came to spend time with all of us, but especially the babies :)

Fr. Adam came for the trip and it was really nice hanging out with him and getting some extra blessings for the kids. He said mass at our condo on Saturday. Very convenient!

Nola & Tripp

Nola & G-Momma

We really had such a good time. We swam, we ate, we laughed, we fought, we tallked, we walked on the beach, we rented scooters and a car to sightsee (okay go to the store), we tanned, and we shopped! It was nice to hang out with my family and both of my brothers for the weekend. We haven't all been together since Mardi Gras and yet when we are together it feels like we were never apart. Thanks to everyone for such a GREAT TIME! We took a big family picture but I need to get it from Christy! I hope we do this again next year!

On the way home we stopped for snowballs because it was on our To-Do list for this trip. Nola & I shared strawberry-cheesecake. She loved it but I was scared to give her too much! Yes, I'm still a little paranoid!

There were way too many pics to upload them all here so I have uploaded to shutterfly and I need to get Christy's, Nanny's & my mom's pics. I will have them add to the album.

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