justpeachyfamily: July 2011

Sunday, July 17, 2011

Fourth Fun & Popsicles

Lucy dancing with her best buddy Joon

Does he look like Dennis the Menace to anyone else?

I am learning how to take pictures with manual focus using an old Canon AE-1P and my first big challenge was shooting fireworks. We went to the ball field by Andy's mom's house and set up my tripod for the big show. If you know anything about our house/yard, we have many large pine trees and are close to the marsh and our grass is pretty pathetic. Most of the yard is covered with pine straw and sticks and the dirt itself is sandy. It's not really an ideal place to run around in your bare feet anyway. When we got to the park surrounding the ball field the kids flipped out about how nice and plush the grass was. We all took our shoes off and ran around like fools. It was so lovely! I laid in the grass with them and felt like a kid again. The heat wasn't too bad and there was a nice breeze. The whole evening was lovely. Anyway, here are a few fireworks I shot.

Friday, July 8, 2011

Mini Vacation


Happy Kids at Hilton Head Beach

Andy was off work on Tuesday so we made an impromptu trip to Hilton Head to have a little min vacation with the kids. We knew we won't have a chance to go anywhere big so we wanted to do something special. We made an afternoon of the Sandbox Children's Museum and then went to the beach at Hilton Head. I can't believe how clean the beaches are there compared to Tybee! The sand was so soft and the public bathrooms were readily available and clean too! Anyway the kids had a really good time and so did we. We didn't tell them where we going beforehand so they were about ready to bust by the time we got there.

PS- Eli stayed with Andy's mom and had a fun time with cousins. Sometimes it's hard to spend one on one time with the older kids when tending to a toddler.

Little Merman at the Sandbox Children's Museum

Jacob building a city with giant Lego's

On the way to Hilton Head there are some giant elephants out front of a fireworks store. I've always wanted to get out and take pictures there so we finally did.