Beach Time with Bibby and Aunt Katie

Mom asked me a while back when the best time would be for us to take the kids to Panama City.

We decided August would be good since school is back in session for most. 

Well it was still crowded and extremely HOT!! 

We still had a great time! 

Next time we will wait till October or so!

It was so fun to be with mom and Aunt Katie. 

My kids had a blast!

Here are some pictures from our trip.

Lake Martin 2014

Lake Martin never disappoints! 

-Family time

-Good food

-Blow up mattresses

-Two inches of actual floor showing after all the beds are set up

(Everyone in our family is at least six feet with the exception of Shelly and my two children, Folks!)

-Tubing

-Beachin it

-House hunting

-Peanut Point

-Niffers

-Grillin

-Ice runs

-Cleaning the boat

You get the picture!

Typical family fun!

Here are some of the pictures of our last trip!

Until next year…

:)

Barfield Beach Trip 2014

SSI 2014

It's beginning to become an annual trip! 

This year it was so much fun!

Having littles and their grandparents together makes any trip fun!

Last year when the family went to the beach it was just Konrad…

This year we had Konrad, Mary Wesley, and Sophia! 

Going from one to three in one year…

How fun?!?!

Just think how happy the grandparents were!

Both of their children, the children's spouses, and their three grandchildren in one place…

It was awesome!
There are fewer things that make me happy
than seeing grandparents and their grandchildren together!
We played on the beach, Konrad swam  jumped in the pool 9000 times, 

ate good food, and visited together. 

We even all went out to eat as a family with the children.

It was so delightful!

Here are some pictures from our trip!

Hope you enjoy!

It's a pj picture!

These two have some fun days ahead!

I guess this is how it goes…

I take two pictures. 

One smiles in the first, the other smiles in the next. 

Mary Wesley has been walking taking steps since ten months. 

She is finally getting to where she walks more and more. 

This particular night on the beach she decided she'd walk every where! 

Happy Girl!

Yep, she's got him wrapped around her little finger!

My girl!

Daddy

Mommy

"Hey guys…wait for me."

Mary Wesley ate enough sand at the beach to fill up a coke can.

Yal, i'm serious. Every time I turned around she was eating a handful.

It did not matter what I did!

The best Nana and Grandaddy in the world!

Park fun!

Konrad eating his "Superman" ice cream!

She continues her tradition of snoozing on the beach!

Sweet girl!

My boy!

As you can see, we had a blast. 

It was the most relaxing joyous time I have had in a long time!
I can assure you there were many more pictures!
The blog can only hold so many! :)

My family has always lived so close, so 

it's new for me to only see some of my family every now and then.
We stay in touch for sure, but there is nothing like us all being in place at the same time for a significant amount of time! 

Let me say…meeting my beautiful sweet niece for the first time was the highlight of the week!

Sophia made me an aunt, and I am forever grateful!

I can't wait to see her and her parents again!

I am so excited about the adventures my children will get to take with their cousins! 

It's going to be awesome!

I hope you all have a great weekend! 

You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.
Isaiah 55:12

Praise the LORD from the earth, you great sea creatures and all ocean depths…
Psalm 148:7

                                            

#1 Barfield/Kersey Beach Trip 2014

Hilton Head Island

I've been telling you all we had some trips planned. Well, this one took place a WHILE back, but i'm just now getting around to posting it. 

The Kersey's and Barfield's are starting a tradition this year taking 3 family trips a year. 

With or without kids is the question.

We decided to just see how it goes. If the kids go… awesome! If the kids don't go…great!

It will just depend on the location and such. 

So, here are some pictures of our first trip of the year. 

We've visited Hilton Head a lot the past few years, so we knew what to expect as far as eating, where to go, and what to do. However, this is the first year we have been with three children under the age of three. (2.5 years old, 8.5 months, and almost 4 months)! Now all you older folks with kids and grandkids are laughing at this point because you know the drill. Yea, beach trips become sacrificial trips for the most part after having children. Now, don't get me wrong. The trip was great. The weather did not cooperate very well, but we just adapted and did what we could to not stay cooped up in the condo. 

I will say we learned a lot this trip. 

I would share what we learned, but it needs to be a post in and of itself-stop laughing-! 

Enjoy the pictures!

We started off our mornings with reading time with dad! 

Just kidding… I think Kyle's goal was to read most of this book while we were on vacation.

He read six pages!

:)

Our beach set up was nice…

till the wind blew the tent down and snapped it in half!

Like I said the weather wasn't that good to us…

we made the most of it though….hooded jackets and all!

This girl sleeps any where! Both days we were on the beach she snooooozed!

Konrad and Kyle making a fishing pole!

A little sand castle village that lasted all of two minutes, because for some reason Konrad likes to destroy things like this! :)

She's free!

The beach is probably one of the best places to teach a baby to walk.

I really think if we would have been there longer she would have taken off!

She's growing way too fast! 

We had a great trip.

Like I said…we learned a lot, but isn't that what life is about?

Next time we go to the beach I have a list of things we will and will not take etc. 

One thing we will do is take family photos. 

I cannot believe we got away without a photo. 

That tells you how much fun we were having. 

I hope you found some humor in us kiddos learning the lessons of life with kids!

It's a great adventure.

One I wouldn't trade for the world. 

And i'm just so glad I get to do it with all the ones I love!

I mentioned at the end of my post Friday that I would be at the foot of the Cross praising Jesus!

Well, I started thinking about that and realized that I really think this week

( and every week) I will be at the tomb with my arms lifted high praising the ONE who has risen from the dead and is ALIVE!!!!!

Happy Holy Week!

"Christ is risen from the dead 

Trampling over death by death

Come awake, come awake

Come and rise up from the dead!"

You can find the rest of this song here.