Our 200th Post!

To celebrate our 200th post, here's a video of Charlie FINALLY walking!

South Carolina FUN

For a whole week in July we loaded up drove down to the beautiful Lake Keowee in South Carolina to stay at the amazing mansion home of the Heritage family.  My dad worked very very hard to help them design, build and decorate this gorgeous home and they were generous enough to share it with our family.
We had a great week of adventures and fun.   Jack fell in love with the house and the area.  There was a really neat 'bunk room' for kids that had a loft and cottage house, games and bunk beads.   He thought it was the coolest thing ever!
We went for lots of hikes, picnics, waded in streams, played LOTs of games, ate tons of roasted marshmellows and even rented a boat for a day and went tubing.
Here are some pictures from our great week.

Charlie didn't waste any time checking out the place

Aunt Jess and her growing belly!

It's a BIG BIG house!  Here we are playing croquet.

Jess and Jack spend some time playing on the ipad.

One of our many hikes.  Jack was leading the pack!

Jack spent a lot of time throwing water balloons of various balconies.  This is the highest one and was quite exciting to throw it over and watch the big SPLASH!

Erin tried to catch it!

beautiful view from that balcony

Jack had a BALL getting his mommy soaking wet.  Look at the devious look on his face!

Watch out I have the hose now!

Our first marshmallow roast.  YUM!

yummmm....sticky

Another hike.  This time we got IN the water.  Jack thought hiking up the creek was SOOO fun!

Our boat ride!  HI Charlie!

We stopped at a cool waterfall.

HI Charlie!  He was really into waving that day!

Mommy on the TUBE!

Jack was very brave and came out with me.  

Even going at a decent speed he really liked it.

Sleepy baby being soothed by Grandpa

Jack helps Daddy drive the boat.

Sleep boy.  

Our weenie roast!

We went out to a nice dinner at the ClubHouse.  Look at Jessica's baby belly!

The boys starting acting super goofy.  Jack was making Charlie laugh and laugh.  It was very cute.

Making some brownies.

Jack showing off his rocks.  He found quite a few beautiful rocks on various hikes we went on.

On the way home.  A GREAT time was had by all.  Jack has asked numerous times since when we are going back!