Ocean Isle Beach

(Photos are in random order)

View of sunset from our beach house's sun deck

Scott with Carter and our niece, Ava, having snacks from bath

Scott and Carter brush up on all the local hot spots

Carter and Daddy, Carter's 1st time at the beach

I mean seriously, how could anyone resist these two boys??

Scott splashing in the water to help show Carter it really is fun!

On the sun deck of the restaurant we ate at our last night there, Cinelli's Pizza

Carter and Scott ready to head to the beach

Our beach house, 6 BR, 3 Bath, 3 decks and complete with hammock and swings

He started sticking his tongue out when he was concentrating on something.

He def gets that from his Mama!!

I just love this picture! One of my favorites!

Nothing says it like sandy, pruney baby feet!

I love hats backwards!

Splashing in the ocean....in a bucket! What?

Disgruntled man and cheese eater

Sitting in one of the porch swings. What a view of the ocean!

He was slow to warm up to the idea of sitting in the sand and surf.

Mommy and Carter ready to eat pizza at Cinelli's

Carter's 1st time at the beach

Playing with Grandma Smith, Aunt Amy, and cousin Ava in the sand

Stand Alone or Sit In Grass?

Carter doesn't like the grass and he doesn't stand alone yet, so we decided to trick him. We put him in the grass and well, he either had to stand or sit. Watch to see the outcome. :)

Father's Day 2010

We went to Ohio Father's day weekend for the wedding of one of my Bridesmaids. Then Sunday we went to visit my grandma, we took my parents to breakfast at Bob Evans, Carter napped for a few hours, and then we packed up to head back to Michigan. Oh, but before we really got on the road we stopped at Scott's parents house. We had a great weekend and I hope Scott had a nice Father's Day!

Scott with his Father's Day gift (Very Sexy cologne from Victoria's Secret) And, ignore the image on the TV behind us. Haha! I think it was E! or MTV or something. Doh!

My sweet, awesome, hip, amazing, lovable, sweet grandma gave me my birthday gift early while we were home. An iPad!!!!!! I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE it!!!! If I could sleep with it, I would!

Love you Nana!! Thank you soooooo much!

4 generations shot

May May and Carter

Happy Father's Day baby!!

I feel pretty blessed to have two pretty handsome boys in my life!!

Mama and her baby boy!

Father and son! (Just i case you couldn't tell by looking, ha!)

G-Daddy and Carter

I LOVE this picture of my dad and Carter! G-Daddy just lights up when he's with Carter!

It melts my heart!

3 generations

Happy Father's Day, Dad! I love you!

Scott's dad, Larry, Scott and Carter

(Excuse Larry's attire. He'd been working hard outside mowing and it was super hot and humid!)

Blowing Kisses

Carter practiced blowing me kisses on our vacation to OIB. This was in the car on our drive home to MI from NC. I think he's got it down pat!!

Preview to OIB, NC

We are technically still on vacation right now, but only staying overnight in a hotel in NC before driving back home to MI tomorrow. (We decided to have a 5 hour drive today and then a 9 hour drive tomorrow instead of doing it all in one day.) We went with Scott's family, immediate and extended, to Ocean Isle Beach, NC for the week. I'll write more later, but wanted to share a few of my favorite pictures to tide you all over! :)

A Few New Randoms

It's official, at 10am he comes crawling from where ever and whatever he's doing to watch Ellen. The sound of her voice seems to mesmerize him!

He has started hugging all of his stuffed animals and his "bunnies." It's really cute!!

Usually, while I'm cleaning his room or putting laundry away, he'll sit just outside the gate to his nursery and flip through books I give him. It's really sweet!

We have started "brushing" Carter's teeth. He'd rather suck the gel stuff off than brush really, but it's a start at least.

Carter has 6 teeth now!

Splash! Splash!! Splash!!!

Last week, I took Carter to our neighbor's house to play in the kiddo pool. This was a first for him and he seemed to really enjoy being in the water during the HOT weather.

So because he seemed to enjoy the pool at the neighbor's, Scott pulled out the pool that my parents got Carter for his birthday. Oh, and when Carter went down for a nap, I put my suit on and grabbed a cocktail and soaked up some rays myself. This is how we spent our Sunday afternoon on our Memorial Day weekend. Hope everyone had just as nice of a weekend!