road trips, baptisms, & birthdays

are you on instagram?  we post pictures there on occasion, particularly when we are on the move, which seems to be all the time.  Two weeks ago yay yay, aunt t, mamu, p and l took a road trip to Pensacola Beach for a little R&R beach time.  We knew it would take quite a bit of time to get there considering the two babies and one is newly potty trained...lets just say our usual vista view was a real sight for sore eyes more than times in the past.  I'll attach pictures at the end of my post for the road trip since they are on my phone.  We enjoyed being together and seeing some family at the beach, P is turning into a little brown bear despite my best efforts at covering him up and he would spend all day everyday in some kind of water.  We are certainly beach snobs unfortunately and nothing beats the snow white sand of the gulf coast.  We took the babies to see their gigi at her new home - FTD blogged about our grandmother a few months ago and things still stand there.  Oh how we needed the beach, each other, the babies, and a bushwhacker on the beach at the end of that day!  Our road trip home was even worse than on the way there (did I mention that I was sandwiched in-between the two carseats in the backseat for 8 - 10 hours!??) It rained, the babies cried, we were hungry, it rained, mamu (thats me) cried - we made it.  And who was at 1127 to greet us? Granddad, Dad, Uncle CMD, & Uncle Bale on his way for our baptism / birthday backyard bash!

Sweet L was baptized where BML and I got married and where P was baptized almost 2 years ago.  We were so blessed to have so much family travel from far away places to be with us and celebrate our blessings.  L's life verse is Psalm 99:9 "Exalt the Lord our God and worship at His holy mountain, for the Lord our God is holy."  We have so much to be thankful for, despite the hard things, so little L is an incredibly beautiful reminder that our Lord is holy and we should exalt Him.

We had a small family brunch just for L at 1127 and anticipated taking a little nap before the afternoon bash festivities began.  But in true family fashion we had too much fun hanging out and went from cleaning up one party to setting up for the next.  We celebrated L's baptism, the Judge's one year anniversary on the bench & our birthday boys CMD & BML on the 4th and RBDIII on the 8th.  Again, we are blessed with some really great friendships and we all loved catching up with friends and watching the kids swim and blast everyone with water hoses (a welcome reprieve from the heat).

Then grandma sue left, the crowd left, uncles cmd and rbdIII left and we were alone again...hahahaha the 4 adults, 2 babies and 2 dogs.  Won't be long before we see each other again though - we're looking forward to our summer of travel - before we know it P will be off to Weekday School twice and week and L will turn one.

Hopefully I'll blog before then!

I'm including some pictures of activities not in this post...because if I don't, I'll forget.