Fun in Hilton Head
We spent a fun week in Hilton Head prior to Labor Day. Other than a single morning of rain (it was our first morning there) and a couple of night-time showers, we had perfect beach weather: hot and sunny. I've come to discover, however, that I am the sort of person who enjoys the beach for a few days, and then I hit a wall where the application of goopy sunscreen and the accumulation of sand over the entire body starts to become something of a nuisance. But it was fun, and we all got pretty nice tans!
We were staying with a fairly large group (Josh's dad, "step mom" Heather, Josh's little half-brother Nicholas, Josh's full brother Ben and his girlfriend, and Heather's parents). Yeah, the relationships got a little confusing the Jonah and Nicholas (Nicky's grandparents are Jonah's step-great-grandparents, his Daddy is Jonah's Granddad, etc.), but we managed to keep it all straight somehow. Also, given how large the group was, we managed to coexist extremely amicably for the entire week! You never know what to expect when you're vacationing with the in-laws (and I had never done so before this trip other than just a weekend trip to Iowa with Josh's mom and brother for a cousin's wedding) (and I'm sure they feel the same about me!), but this was a fantastic trip! :)
The house where we stayed was incredible! It was HUGE (it sort of had to be since there were ten of us staying there!), with five bedrooms, an enormous great room, and phenomenal kitchen (note: it was my dream kitchen), a pool, and a hot tub. It also had this great screened-in porch where we usually gathered in the mornings for breakfast and coffee, and from which Heather and her mom actually saw an alligator in the lagoon that borders two sides of the property! Above and Nicky and Jonah playing on the porch with a couple of flashlights.
On one of the afternoons after we'd all left the beach, we came back to the house for some pool time. Jonah decided he just wanted to lounge in a pool chair with a towel over him. Here's a shot of him with his Granddad.
Isn't he cute?! What was truly funny was that sometimes after Jonah was all done with the pool, he would simply take his swim trunks off right there poolside, then proceed to walk his little nudey butt up the steps to the house to get cleaned up! I took a cute picture of this and would post it if I weren't scared of child pornographers getting a hold of it. *Sigh*
Nicky is a great little swimmer. I wish Jonah was as brave as his little uncle when it came to swimming on his own in the pool! Maybe next year....
My one and only beach boy!
It was actually kind of hard to get a picture of the two boys together. They seemed to be on such different schedules during the entire trip, taking naps at different times, sometimes eating meals at different times, etc. However, I did manage to get this picture of them having dinner together on our last night of the trip. They are so cute together!
We were staying with a fairly large group (Josh's dad, "step mom" Heather, Josh's little half-brother Nicholas, Josh's full brother Ben and his girlfriend, and Heather's parents). Yeah, the relationships got a little confusing the Jonah and Nicholas (Nicky's grandparents are Jonah's step-great-grandparents, his Daddy is Jonah's Granddad, etc.), but we managed to keep it all straight somehow. Also, given how large the group was, we managed to coexist extremely amicably for the entire week! You never know what to expect when you're vacationing with the in-laws (and I had never done so before this trip other than just a weekend trip to Iowa with Josh's mom and brother for a cousin's wedding) (and I'm sure they feel the same about me!), but this was a fantastic trip! :)
Jonah did a fantastic job on all of our flights to and from Hilton Head. He even managed to nap on a couple of the legs, and the rest of the time he was just having fun flying through the sky!
The house where we stayed was incredible! It was HUGE (it sort of had to be since there were ten of us staying there!), with five bedrooms, an enormous great room, and phenomenal kitchen (note: it was my dream kitchen), a pool, and a hot tub. It also had this great screened-in porch where we usually gathered in the mornings for breakfast and coffee, and from which Heather and her mom actually saw an alligator in the lagoon that borders two sides of the property! Above and Nicky and Jonah playing on the porch with a couple of flashlights.
On one of the afternoons after we'd all left the beach, we came back to the house for some pool time. Jonah decided he just wanted to lounge in a pool chair with a towel over him. Here's a shot of him with his Granddad.
Isn't he cute?! What was truly funny was that sometimes after Jonah was all done with the pool, he would simply take his swim trunks off right there poolside, then proceed to walk his little nudey butt up the steps to the house to get cleaned up! I took a cute picture of this and would post it if I weren't scared of child pornographers getting a hold of it. *Sigh*
Nicky is a great little swimmer. I wish Jonah was as brave as his little uncle when it came to swimming on his own in the pool! Maybe next year....
My one and only beach boy!
It was actually kind of hard to get a picture of the two boys together. They seemed to be on such different schedules during the entire trip, taking naps at different times, sometimes eating meals at different times, etc. However, I did manage to get this picture of them having dinner together on our last night of the trip. They are so cute together!
posted by Cathy at 7:07 PM
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Those are great pictures! I'm glad you had such a good vacation!
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