Summer Vacation

Let me first start by saying in my family growing up we rarely went on vacation. I remember going a few different places and most of the time we drove a little car, so no more than 5 people were ever on our trips. They consisted of my mom, sister, grandmother, myself, and one other person we would invite. Since it was always an all girl trip we stayed in hotels, not anything fancy, but still hotels. Then I grew up and married a Read. I have since been introduced to a whole new world of vacationing. Don't get me wrong I absolutely love going on vacation with the Read's, but I remember once as a teenager watching "The Griswall's" (I think I spelled that right). I thought the movie was the stupidest thing I had ever seen b/c I just new that stuff never happened. Well, it may not be to the extreme of the Griswalls, but I am certain if you filmed our vacation it would be just as funny. So, let me tell you about this years vacation. We went to the same beach as last year. It is really a great place and it has an RV park attached. THANKFULLY the parents upgraded to a much larger SUV. Which was for sure needed since the number of people and animals changed from last year. Let me paint a picture for you, b/c taking any pictures at this point was not even a thought in my head. On the way down to the beach we had David and Charleen, Brian, Noah, and myself, David and Ashley, Chris, and his dog Smokey. Yes, that is a lot of people. Each person had a seat and Smokey had the very very back. Which he stayed there pretty well until Chris decided he wanted to drive and Smokey did not want to be that far from him. Let's just say Noah's car seat is the only thing that saved me from having a dog,who weighs as much as I do, in my lap. Oh, and my brother-in-law David who ended up with the dog in his lap.

Okay now picture time:

Here is the SUV and RV. Yes, we all stayed in the RV including the dog.

Here is our beach set up, and Noah getting a little sleepy.

Noah swimming with his uncle David.

Here we are taking family pictures on the beach. I don't know how well you can see it but please take a moment to click on the picture. The interaction between Ashely and Smokey is classic.

(Another cool scrapblog creation, but I think the picture w/ Ashely and David is blurry. I think that is my fault not scrapblogs. These work like a regular picture just click to make it bigger.)

(I made this using a cool new tool Ashley showed me. It is called scrapblog.)

This is the video of Noah going down the "slide." He absolutely loved it, but it scared me just a little.

We always have so much fun on our beach vacations and are so grateful that Brian's parents let us tag along each year.