Birthday Party at the Beach

My mom recently celebrated a momentous birthday!  We decided to take a family beach trip to celebrate...and headed down to Pensacola for the week of July 16th.  Mom, Dad, Aunt Libby, Patrick, Mikey, Parks, Marlee and me.  We stayed at "Portofino" in Pensacola and had a blast.  The water was CRYSTAL clear and the sand was clean and soft and white.  I haven't been to the gulf in years, but I was very impressed.  So pretty!

Unfortunately we did have quite a bit of rain (especially after Mikey showed up on Tuesday...he had to work the first part of the week).

Here's our trip in pictures...

over 1 million $ and counting on the ceiling, walls, etc.
hope they have a good fire policy!

Waiting to see the Blue Angels at "Crabs"

Upside Down Angel

Our view of the beach (the other end of the porch gave views of the sound)

Inked

Fun

One of the better pictures of my dad

The famous Jim Murray smile

Aunt Lib and Pat at Maguires

Jungle Jim Time

Sup

Patrick loves Lucy  :)

Our view of the sound and 2 of the 5 towers at Portofino

Sister Sister

Crossword Cheating

Patrick OWNED the kitchen
Frying up some oysters here

Motorcyclin Mama

Nice dinner!!

My wonderful parents and daughter

LOVE THIS

Marlee pre head injury  :(

Beachin with Uncle Pat

I want to eat sand

The crew, minus Mikey and Me

2 babies

Lib getting inked

Diapers FULL of sand

Matching Daddy and Parko

after 3 attempts, this was the BEST picture my dad got of us

Liberachhi and Mikey

Just walking on the dock wit my gramps

The beach wears babies flat out

Only family beach pic....dumb weather  :(

Getting out the cowboy boots and packing up the bathing suits 

New Car

We said goodbye to my first car, a 2005 4Runner.  I bought it new right out of college when I got my first job.  She was a good 'ol girl and we did a lot of miles together.  She smelled really bad, thanks to Shayla and Kaly, but was very trustworthy.

We traded her in on this baby:

It's a 2007 Expedition with just over 100K miles.  Leather seats (my favorite part), Captains chairs in the middle row, automatic opening and closing rear hatch and even a DVD player for the kids!  I really love it.  It's definitely bigger than my 4Runner, but we took it on a road trip to Pensacola a couple days after buying it and it was great for the long ride!

Curls for Girls

And by girls, I mean "mommy"...and one day, Annie.  :)

June Babies

Yep, this post is simply pictures of my babies in June.  That's it.  :)

Diaper Cake for Claire

My Mom, Aunt Libby and I all threw a baby shower for Claire and Tony.  Of course Claire was the one who got all the good pics because I am TERRIBLE at remembering to take pictures, but here is my first attempt at a diaper cake.  It was actually a lot of fun to make.

Had to stick them on the porch so we could work  ;)

(kidding)

Ketchup

Wow, I have been MIA for quite a while on here.  I need to step up by blogame.  Especially since the next week or so is going to be BIG TIME for some of the people closest to me.  Have to document some very important babies!!

So, I'm going to play some ketchup.  Sorry for all the back logged posts.  I will try to space them out a bit.

One moment, Marlee has a call...

Ok, we're back.  It was just a sales call.  Uggh, they are relentless.