Ren does Chucktown

The last weekend before school starting we took a quick family trip down to Charleston.  J booked at garage apartment through Airbnb.  It was neat because we had our own little apartment with a tiny kitchen, living space, bathroom, and bed above some guy's detached garage.  We never actually met the guy who owned the apartment but when we got there he had bagels and cream cheese, fresh towels and linens, and even those little hotel size shampoo, conditioner, and face soap like a hotel.  
On Saturday we took Ren to the beach for the first time and he LOVED it.  J did not love the amount of stuff we "had" to have with us on the beach but he enjoyed our day together.

After a post-beach nap and a visit to Westbrook we walked around downtown Charleston before heading off to dinner.

On Sunday we tried to go to the aquarium, but there was some sort of Kid's Day festival going on downtown and admission to the aquarium as well as other places were all free.  After sitting in traffic and then discovering this fact, we decided to go back to Charleston for an aquarium day trip on another day.

Welp....

It's September which means summer is over and the last time I posted anything summer was just kicking off.  I promise we kept ourselves busy the entire time, and I did take some pictures, but I'm just not feeling like blogging everything we did the past three months.  So.....
here are a few pics that I took one day when Ren and I decided it was too hot out so we played in the blow up pool under the screened porch.

Summertime

This week was officially the start of summer for me and Ren.  Summer means playing outside and helping daddy with, oh ya know, yard work!

Why am I sitting on this wall?

Happy Fourth of July

We started the day off with a parade with friends in the Kimrey's neighborhood.  Ren was a little young to enjoy the parade because he slept through the whole thing!

The girls can still wear the shirts I made for them last year!

Happy 2nd birthday Ty-Ty!!!

This was Ty last year...its crazy how much he changed in just one year!

We headed to Josh's parents house for lunch and pool time.  I was so happy to finally be able to get in the pool after six weeks of waiting and seeing everyone else swimming.

Ren wasn't a big fan of the pool.  The water was cool and I think he was just too cold.  His mommy loves the pool so he'll just have to get used to it!

We finished the fourth with more food and fireworks with friends.  It was a pretty fabulous day.

Hotlanta

For our girls weekend Julie, Briana, and I all met up in Atlanta.  The girls each flew from their cities and I drove in so we could have a car.  Briana's flight got in first...and let me tell you...picking up someone from the ATL airport is no joke!  I joked with Briana when she finally got in the car that if we were at the Columbia airport I would have parked, sat and waited for her in a sweet little rocking chair while she came out the one and only possible exit, got her bags and paid about $3.00 for my parking spot.  Easy-peasy.  In Atlanta you get yelled at by policemen for sitting in one spot on the curb for too long and have to continue circling around until your friend arrives.  That is until we discovered the cell phone lot when we went back to the airport later that night to pick up Julie.
The main reason for out get together was just to hang out since we hadn't been together in two years.  We didn't really do a whole lot other than chat and catch up.  Friday morning we went to the Coca-Cola museum which is something I've been wanting to do for a very long time!

 The official torch of the 1996 Olympic Games

The best most interesting part of the museum was the tasting room where you could taste Coke products from around the world.  Each continent had it's own drink station where you could taste several different flavors.  Most of the flavors where very sweet fruity drinks that you could never drink for real.

But there was one flavor...

just save your taste buds and skip the Beverly from Italy.  It was so bitter and disgusting that I had to quickly find the traditional Coke fountain and wash that nasty taste down!

At the very end of the tour you got to pick up a free glass bottle of Coke that was bottled right there in the factory!

Saturday we spend most of our day at the Mall of Georgia shopping and then on to the Bella Vita salon.  Josh's aunt owns this super cute salon so we made appointments to get some fancy high school style manicures.

I don't know if you can tell, but there are tiny rhinestones on each of our ring fingers...we are so hip!

We had such a good time being together again.  Next trip...Nashville '14!!