Seacoast Easter Egg Hunt

Brock & Janet's Wedding

Mr. & Mrs. McGarity August 2, 2009

Seacoast Easter Egg Hunt

After the Easter service, our church had an Easter egg hunt. Lucas took off and picked up a "few" eggs.

Good Friday Service in the Park

After Church Picnic

We had a lovely picnic at church today. It was such a pretty day. I love this time of year. When we got home Curt told me someone in his family actually told him that they couldn't believe that he was letting me brain wash HIS son by taking him to church. Say what?!?! I was incredibly angry when he first told me, but it made me realize something. I have a wonderful husband who is respectful of my religious beliefs even though they aren't his and who supports Lucas being raised going to church.

A Little Weekend Update

Friday afternoon Lucas and I dropped off his the rest of his applications for pre-k. We were on our way home when my car started to overheat. Luckily I was right by our friends house so I went there. Sean was nice enough to look at the car for me and Lucas played with his friends David and Gabe (they are Sean and Priscilla's sons.)

In the wee hours of Saturday morning Lucas got sick. We are thinking now that he might have choked on his baby, (he likes to suck on it in his sleep.) After throwing up he went to sleep and when he woke up he was fine (and very hungry.) We were very glad that he wasn't sick because we had plans to get together with Curt's Grandparents. They stopped on their way back to Michigan from their trip to Florida. We ended up having dinner at Ruby Tuesdays and then back to their hotel room to visit for a while longer. Lucas ended up playing photographer.

This morning we went to church and Curt and Sean worked on my car. After church we let the boys play while the guys finished up with the car. It was such a pretty day outside! Curt and Sean were able to fix the problem with my car for pretty cheap. Turns out the car was overheating because the fans weren't turning on to cool off the car. Luckily it just took a $17 part!

Daniel Snuggled with Lions

Today at church, Lucas learned about Daniel being thrown in the lions den. On the way home I asked him to tell me about this Daniel guy and he got really excited. He explained, "Daniel was brave. Some people didn't like him and they were mean. They put him with lions. He snuggled with them. These lions were like teddy bears!" Then he started reciting his bible verse from Joshua 1:9. It's the first verse that I've heard him recite so I had to get it on video.

Christmas Eve 08

Today has been a fabulous day and I can't believe that tomorrow is Christmas. It just seemed to have snuck up on us out of nowhere. Lucas and I started the morning off with a visit to the Westin to see the Gingerbread houses and giant Christmas trees.

Then we hopped on the ferry and went for a ride across the Savannah River. Lucas loved the loudness of the ferry (which I always hate) and seeing the tug boats and the bridge that we crossed over to get to the hotel.

When we were back on land I took Lucas' hand and pulled him into a candy store. I explained to him that we were in a store that sold nothing but candy and he could pick out any kind he liked. He stood perfectly still for a moment and looked at me like, "you are joking right, am I being punk'd? Where is Ashton?" I was finally able to convince him that yes, I was really going to let him pick out candy, and maybe even eat some. He picked out sourish gummy bears, (he is his father's son.)

As soon as we exited the store he sat down in a chair right outside the store and started eating his candy. I think he thought that if he waited to eat it then I might change my mind.

We walked around Riverstreet for a little bit and Lucas played in the sandbox before we got back on the ferry and headed for our car. When we got home Curt was already here (he only had to work a half day. We ate lunch and just hung out at home.

Both my guys ended up falling asleep in the middle of the afternoon so when it was time to go to a Christmas Eve service I ended up going solo. Originally, our church wasn't going to have a service because we didn't have a place to meet. (Sunday mornings we meet at a movie theater before the movies start playing.) At the last minute Amber and Doug offered to host a laid back Christmas eve service in their backyard and it was awesome! The weather was perfect and We sang Christmas carols and listened to our pastor read the Christmas story from the Bible.

When I got home Curt and Lucas were awake. I made Chili and cornbread and we ate dinner together. I got tired of Curt (not Lucas) begging to open presents so I gave in since we will be gone most of tomorrow anyway visiting family. Even Jadie got a present (a little stuffed sheep dog toy that Lucas picked out.)

Out of everything Lucas was most excited about his new hotwheels and track.

After Lucas played for a while with his new toys it was time for a bath and to put on his new PJs. (Everyone got new PJs as a gift this year. ) Then it was time for stories and bedtime so that Santa could come.

Church Training

For the last week Lucas has been carrying around a page from a toy store ad to make sure we know that he REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, wants a train table for Christmas. All he talks about is trains and even when he doesn't have any trains at his disposal to play with he makes them out of other things.

Today he ended up being the only kid in his class at church. He didn't want to go to the bigger kids class so one of the teachers stayed with him in his class so he could play with play-doh. When I came to pick him up the teacher showed me the Christmas tree he had made as well as a little Jadie look alike dog and presents. She told me that he had the little dog open all the presents. Guess what was inside EVERY present the play-doh dog opened.... that's right trains.

After church we met my family at my parents' house and had lunch. My mom asked Lucas if he had learned about Jesus at church. Without skipping a beat "No I didn't. I learned about trains!"

Coming Soon

3 preggos = 4 baby boys

Seacoast White Water Rafting 2008

Thursday night I dropped Lucas off at Tony and Lori's house with a bag of clothes, a bag of toys, some snacks, and his sleeping bag. He was so excited to be over there he didn't even care that I was leaving. I had to chase him down to get a kiss goodbye. I headed to dinner with a few friends and then I headed home to pack for our trip.

Friday morning we got up a little after 5AM and got dressed and made sure we had everything ready. We were on the road at 7 and were at the White Water Rafting place in Tennessee about 12:30 pm. We went and ate lunch, set up camp, and then went swimming in the river.

The water was so clear you could see the bottom and you could watch the fish swim under your feet. We took a water proof camera with us and I can't wait to see the pictures we took. We got out of the water a little after 5 and just as we were drying off the rest of our rafting crew arrived. Less than an hour after we were out of the water the dam up the river opened and the calm shallow river was now a lot deeper and faster. When we were swimming everyone was climbing this tree that stretched over the water and with the dam opened it was completely underwater. We were all glad we were out of the water before the dam opened!

Most of the group ended up going to this place 20 minutes away to go swimming again but Curt and I were so tired we stayed back and just hung around while the hamburgers for dinner were being cooked. Once everyone got back we ate dinner.

After dinner everyone sat around the campfire and introduced themselves. There was a total of 28 of us and not everyone knew each other since a lot of people had invited friends or family. Then it was time for s'mores before we all headed to bed. I was so tired that the minute I laid down in our tent I was out. I woke up once because I was cold (which is a NICE problem in July) and crawled in my sleeping bag and feel right back to sleep.

In the morning we all got up and started to get ready to go White Water Rafting. We knew we needed to eat breakfast so we headed up the hill to this little Cafe on site to eat. They had these really cool swings for chairs at the table.

We all got together for a short orientation on what to do and not to do and then we all picked up our helmets, life jackets, and paddles and loaded up on a bus. I was so excited but when we actually got out of the bus and saw the water I was actually getting kind of scared.

Once we got into the water we hit our first rapid pretty quickly and it was a lot of fun. The water was a little chilly but it felt so good because I'm sure we were all sweating from working so hard to paddle.

Our guide asked for a volunteer to sit on front of the boat and hold on to the strap around the raft to "ride the bull." I'm glad someone else volunteered because there was no way I was going to do that!

Everything was going smoothly when all of a sudden our raft hit a rock and wrapped around it and all of a sudden the water was rushing in and we were all holding on so we wouldn't fall out. For a minute there it looked like Curt was about to be swept down river. Our guide knew what to do and we got the raft back in the water with all of us still in the raft.

When the raft was righted most of us ended up in different seats on different sides of the raft and we had no time to adjust to paddling on a different side before we hit more rapids.

Near the end of the trip we hit a big rapid and the two big guys on the front of our raft go flying in the air out of the boat. We had to pull them back in while still going down the river. I think we were all glad that we were wearing helmets and life jackets.

When we were back on land I was very glad that we had gone because I had a lot of fun but I decided that I could go a few more years before going again. Curt who didn't originally even want to go wanted to go again the second we were out of the boat. He told me "I'd go again next year." So we might very well be doing this again in a year.

We loaded back up on the bus and were taken back and turned in our paddles, helmets, and life jackets before heading back to camp. Everyone changed into dried clothes, took down their tents and packed up. We loaded back in the cars and headed back to Savannah. We got caught in traffic a few times so to entertain ourselves we just started taking random pictures. It was just so much fun!

When we got home a little before 9pm we found our cars vandalized. We had to wait for the cops so we could file a police report before we could pick up Lucas from Lori's house. We ended up picking him up a little before 11pm. He had a blast with Lori and Tony and I don't even know if he missed us at all. I hope this is the first of many kid free trips we get to go on. Our next camping trip (with Lucas) is in September and I think we are all looking forward to it!