We have had a busy past few weeks. I never expected that it could take a week to pack for the beach with a two month old! We also decided that we are going to have to get an SUV a lot sooner than we expected to be able to go out of town again!


Chris' parents rented a house in Sea Pines at Hilton Head for a week. Eight adults and four children under the age of three and half made for fun times! Mike, Chris' middle brother, and his family are moving overseas to be missionaries in a few months. It was nice to be able to spend time with everyone before they go. We are going to miss them!


Audrey's cousins adore her and especially her 3 year old girl cousin. Two of the cousins had a cold and since they love her so much it was impossible to keep them away from her! Every time they got in her face or kissed her hands, I immediately got in their faces and gave them a big kiss. Supposedly I can pass along any immunity I have to her since I nurse her. Well, I have been battling the cold for the past several days and she is doing just fine! Maybe her ability to fight it off was a little better than I thought! Let's hope I don't pass it along to her now!


I am sure many of you have been checking this several times a day to see if I have updated it, but, please don't waste too much time. I am really not very good at keeping up with this, Facebook or email for that matter. Please forgive me and enjoy a few more photos of Audrey. I am going to try to post her newborn photos that we got back from the photographer just before we left. Hopefully I will do that soon!

Chris took Audrey into the ocean for the first time. She just got her feet wet, but did not like it at all. We tried again a few days later when the water was a little warmer. She liked it a lot better!

Emily, my sister-in-law, bought coordinating outfits for all of the kids so we could take a cute photo of the cousins. It didn't really work with the grandparents, so you can imagine what happened before we added them in. Audrey looks like she is about to drop out of her Papa's lap!

Our family photo. Chris and I took a picture in this tree two years ago. I think we will make it a family tradition.

Me and my beach baby in the sundome at the beach. It was really useful to keep her out of the sun, but a pain in the rump to try to get back in its carrier. Chris called it the sundumb every time he took it down!

Emily brought a baby pool to keep out by the big pool at our house. I think Audrey loved it!

She was so precious in her little swimsuit and big hat! The hat is actaully 12-18 months and obviously a little too big, but too cute to pass up!