Brooke and Audrey: Hilton Head 2012

The Olympics are killing me! We are up late every night watching them and it is making it almost impossible to keep up. Unrelated to Hilton Head but I have loved watching the Olympics with the girls. They are just so funny about it. And of course they are both going to be in the Olympics when they are older. Brooke in swimming and cycling and Audrey in running and swimming. And to hear them talk about the different countries is a hoot. For example, during the diving the girls keeps saying things like "Oh China. They are always so good." And "That China flag looks a lot like Turkey."

So on to the actual post. We got back from our annual Hilton Head beach vacation a week or so ago - time is so arbitrary during the summer! It was a great trip from beginning to end. On the road trip out there we took our time and made it a two day event. And we stopped in Columbus GA and ate at a branch of the restaurant that I worked at in college and got to eat some yummy wings and spicy chicken skins! and no it was clearly not a Hooters :) The week had fabulous weather - though the last couple of days were quite windy - and wonderful family fun. On the drive home we stopped to see D's Granny and the next day we ate lunch in Biloxi.

The girls with their Great Granny

Me and the girls! I wore this suit the first day and was greatly harassed by the family due to the fact that my belly was super white. Apparently I have the mom-tan from all the tankinis.

Love this picture of the three girls heading out (on their own) to boogie board. They are so big!

Waiting on unsuspecting family members to come back from the beach so they could squirt them. Though they had to ask first to make sure they were not holding any valuable electronics!

D's new trick with the girls. They are practicing to be cheerleaders....though I am not sure how this will help them in the band :)

The whole family!!

Love this one of Brooke!!

Brooke was showing me one of the crabs that the girls caught and it was making an escape up her arm. Kayla, which very little actual assistance from the girls, collected 20+ crabs one day. The girls had them in a bucket in a wagon and were walking up and down the beach showing people. It was hilarious!!

Love this picture of Audrey. She looks so proud of her sand castle and her little dinosaur that was living on top of it!

We went on a dolphin watching cruise one afternoon. We saw several dolphins which the girls were quite excited about and the boat had a cute furry dog co-captain. The captain was very chatty but he was nice to let all of the kids on the boat (which was just the girls and their cousins Kayla and Paul) drive the boat for a little while.

We did our annual photo shoot that I make us do. My hope each time is to get a great photo of the family so that I can use in on the Christmas card and not have to stress about that toward the end of the year. Unfortunately we waited until the latter half of the trip and that was when it was super duper windy. So we are all totally wind blown and disheveled. And while they are not card worthy, they are certainly blog worthy....as my standards are much much lower here.