Family Vacation: Downtown Greenville

We woke up on Day #2 of vacation in beautiful Greenville, SC. Alex spent one weekend a month here for five years in the Marine Corps. I came with him some weekends and would just hang out in Greenville. I LOVE Greenville. My one requirement while we were visiting the Midgetts besides just being with them was that I wanted to head downtown and be downtown Greenville for a bit. So, we got up on Wednesday morning and we headed downtown. The kids were going to play in the waterfalls and the adults were going to just be :)

 

These two were inseparable.

A family photo!

WHAT?

We never get family photos!

When you're the best of friends.....

I don't know what I would do without her....

So beautiful.

I admire Niki as a person and especially as a mom.

The four babes ready to play in the water!!

Check out Sawyer's hands on his hips!

He killlllls me!

The waterfalls are outside of one of the hotels in downtown. It's a little area down by Falls Park where people are expected to play in the water. There are even benches for the adults to sit on and watch. CLEARLY the waterfalls were loud. Check out my two :)

It was cooooold.

 

AH!!

Parker is a lot like Sawyer. He gets overwhelmed at times. I love this picture of him and Alex hanging out.

I love this one...

Now he is ready....

And Niki came prepared. Cups for everyone!!!

Naturally we had a man down!!! Gavin had a cut and some blood BUT he was a champ and it stopped bleeding PRETTY quick!

Watermelon!!! YUMMMMM

These kids LOVE them some watermelon :)

How cute.

There is a train theme at the waterfalls. It was so cute!

Niki is always prepared!!

When in doubt, give them all a bit of a sugary treat and all meltdowns will end.

 

They love each other :)

CHEESE!!!

This tired boy decided he needed some daddy snuggles instead of playing with the older kids.

My two boys...

As we changed under the bridge (like some real creepers) we encouraged Sawyer to take a pee outside. He did awesome. Peed all over that rock!!!

Gavin and Charlotte were so proud!

ANOTHER family photo!!

After we were done with the waterfalls and getting changed, we hung out in Falls Park and checked out the ducks.

Next to the sign that says that we aren't supposed to feed the ducks, we fed the ducks.

Feeding the ducks. I should have gotten a sign in the picture.

This one wasn't scared at all.

Charlotte was trying so hard to pet him!

It's a stare down!

 

We shall call him Ephriam and take him home and pet him daily.

I did a little photo session of Niki and Parker. As in, I took a bunch of pictures in a 45 second time span. These were my favorites.

This one just hurts my heart....

Who's sick of these family photos??

Had I known we were going to be doing so many, I would have worn something a bit more becoming :)

My handsome sunkissed boy.

Still trying to grab Ephriam.

A boy and his Daddy.

It's seriously love. They didn't need us. Just each other. It just warms my heart more than anyone could know.

Time to head back to our friends' house for lunch and to pack up for the next leg of the trip...

 

We had lunch. We got packed. Sawyer pooped on the potty for the first time. And then we headed off to Columbia to see Adam and Adrienne.

 

It was the best 21 hours. We love visiting our friends. They make us feel at home. They are family. There is family that you are born into and family that you choose. We choose them. We love them. Thank you for the best night, Niki and Ty. We love you so much!!!!

GDI Playdate With Water

We had a fabulous GDI playdate scheduled for Tuesday June 3. Amy hosted this little get together. It was so perfect. She is usually the host...because she is one of the houses in the middle...and she has such a perfect house....and a perfectly fenced in yard... and for some reason that's just how it usually goes. We all brought some yummy food to share, swimming suits for the kids, and a list of funny things we have forgotten to tell each other.

 

These two boys are just so cute. Only four months apart. I think they will be the best of friends just like their mommas.

Amy's yard looks so perfect and green in these pictures. It's BEAUTIFUL!

Check out the pool boy :) Pretty cute, right?

Amy got blue sand for the sand box/water table. She was like, "It seemed like a good idea" and then states "I'm not sure the stains come out." So funny. Clearly Nicholas didn't care.

Sweet Matthew. HE LOVED the bubbles. He was hoarding them.

Water table, sand box, pool, jungle gym, bubbles

Everyone in the pool!!!!

How cute is Addelyn's little get up??!??!

I love his expression here!!!

The cold water had just hit his back.

That blue sand....and Matthew hanging with the bubbles.

Sawyer had a pretty genius idea. Let me combine the bubble and the sand. This could be fun.

Yeah, no, not so much.

The Workman kids....and their beautifully pregnant mom sat with her cute pregnant feet propped up waiting for Baby Workman to make his arrival.

So pretty!

The older kids!!! Ages 5-1

And let's add in the two babies.... Logan in the carseat was about 6 weeks and Collin in the stroller was 2 and a half months.

How sweet is this baby Collin???

These two girls are always best friends when they are together.

 

Everytime we all get together, the time flies by. Our kids play and play. They never fight. They all just play and go with the flow. We talk as much as possible but leave feeling like we barely got to talk to each other. It's so refreshing and so good for my soul to be around my college girls. When you have lived with people, they know you....and hopefully love you anyway. So thankful for these friends.... As a group, we've been friends for 11 years. Our GDI sorority was established in 2003....in case you needed to know that....

 

Thanks for the great day, girls. It's always too short and makes me wish we all lived in the same block....like sister wives....but not as sister wives....