Atlantic Beach

We are enjoying a nice weekend at Atlantic Beach building sand castles, soaking in sea water and absorbing the UV. The weather is cooperating nicely. More pictures to follow upon our return.

Mom, Mere, Mutter, Mae, Inahan, Moeder, Mana, Makuahine,Ema, Maji, Madre

We would like to publicly thank our mothers for supporting us throughout our lives, particularly when we became new parents over and over again. Thanks for the plane tickets, the air sickness, the little side trips, the visits, and the extra set of hands. It meant a lot to us.
Love Mat and Mic

Rexine and Becket


Rexine and Gretchen



Rexine and Micah



Andrea and Becket



Andrea and Gretchen



Andrea and Micah


Aren't they great? I love these pictures with their grandma's and feel so fortunate that each of them had their special time with these two lovely ladies. After seeing these pictures it is making me a tad baby hungry, so I'm walking away from my computer, but not without saying Happy Mother's Day to the both of you!

Madame Butterfly

What does a caterpillar do on New Years Day ?
Turns over a new leaf !

Why did the boy throw the butter out of the window?
He wanted to see the butter-fly!

All joking a side...we enjoyed hosting caterpillars in our home. It's a beautiful transformation and always leaves me dumbfounded. You can order the little darlings from insectlure.com use web5 as a code at check out and save 5%. I should get referral money for this. Here are some pictures:

West Virginie!

The Fam took a trip to West Virginie this weekend. Have you ever had one of those trips or days when something is working against you? You try to make things run smooth and it just ain't happening? I should have have consulted my Chinese Almanac or read my daily horoscope. I'm sure it would have said, "Do not travel this weekend!"

FROWNS

Car battery died for a split second as we were pulling out of the driveway. We had to jump it with Mat's car.

Two hours of sitting on the freeway due to a diesel landing belly up on the interstate (I do hope the driver was okay)


Micah was given permission to wander since we were stuck, stuck, stuck--hence, no car seat.


Missed appointments that we had set up

New Condo sneak peak gone bad due to shirtless college students not cleaning up pad, especially their clothes that seemed to be the common carpet throughout the house

Stuck around for church until 1PM hoping to make some connections with the people we've been talking to, but as it turns out it was stake conference that day and it had happened 3hrs earlier.

Got home at 9PM instead of 6PM --had we known about church a tad earlier

There were some fun times so I can't be totally a neg about this trip.

SMILES

Lots of talk time with our family



West Virginia will provide us with lots of hiking and bouldering opportunities

The People are really friendly (If you don't wave they could take offense)

It was supposed to rain all weekend and we got a few dabbles at the most

Becket, Gretchen, and Micah do not complain about riding so long in the car

There is a swimming pool included with the condo that my kids have not stopped talking about since they learned about their new whereabouts. I have to explain the whole season thing over and over.

A new adventure begins and we're not sure we want to jump!
(but we're going to have to)