Back from the beach!

We had an absolute BLAST down at South Padre for Stephen's wedding. Carter and I got to stay an extra 4 days at the beach and hang out with Grandma and Grandpa (and Mamie, Grandaddy, Larry, and Diane--can you say the child is now spoiled rotten with the ratio of 7:1--he was never left alone unless he was sleeping!) and we were both spoiled. Our days pretty much went like this: wake up, breakfast, nap, beach, nap, lunch, nap, play, nap, more beach, nap, dinner, bed. And the naps are not just Carter--throw in read/nap for me most of those times. I will pretty much let the pictures tell the story of our week:



(not in pics--very LONG drive to Padre=stopping off at Nana and Papa's Thursday night and leaving at 5:30 am Friday morning to get to beach on time. Carter actually did GREAT driving, but was so ready to get out of the car!)

First stop after checking into hotel=beach. We got Carter's first reaction to the water on video so there are no pics. Just picture chillin watching the waves, waves come up on his feet and FREAK OUT MODE begins! Haha. As the week went on, he got more and more used to it. I won't say he liked it, but definitely tolerated the waves!

How cute are these boys?! LOVE Carter's sunglasses--and he really doesn't mind wearing them! We had a hat as well but it was oh so windy out there it kept blowing off!

Next stop = pool. Now, I must say that we took him in the heated pool and he loved it, just like a bath! We never made it to the cold portion of the pool--not sure what he will think of that this summer, we shall see!

Chillin' with Mommy at  the pool. Hopefully there will be LOTS of this in our future this summer. Oh, and notice the tan?! There's a reason all the pics are of Daddy and Carter in the pool....if Mommy got in, her tan would come off before the wedding :).

Carter with Mimi at the rehearsal dinner. He was not a happy camper this night, but give the kid a break--not only did the dinner start after his bedtime, but he missed naps due to all the beach/pool fun!

Bride and groom at the rehearsal dinner

Such a sweet picture. Mamie and Grandaddy watched Carter this night so that Mommy and Daddy could go on the party barge following this dinner. Carter got spoiled just like Mommy did when she was a little girl :).

Diane and Aunt Connie

Carter at the rehearsal dinner

Party barge ended at midnight--hair started at 10 am! There's Ali getting all pretty for the wedding!

Bride getting pretty!

Of course we have no ceremony pictures as we were both in the wedding but Carter was a little heartbreaker in his tie. Here he is at cocktail hour giving grandpa a kiss!

Our one family photo from the night :). Windblown is an undestatement from what happened to my hair on the beach!

First dance

Mother/Son Dance

Anniversary dance--give it up to Mamie and Grandaddy with 62 yerars of marriage and still going strong! Watch out...lots 'o sombreros coming up...

Amanda and all her girls came. We had so much fun with them on the dance floor!

Dancing with my brother

Caleb wasn't feeling great, but I still drug him out on the dance floor :)

How Carter spent the reception. LOVE this age where we can dance till midnight and he just sleeps through it all!

Ole!

With Ali

Sunday was Mother's Day and it was SO neat to spend it with my Mom and both grandmothers. Amanda came over and brought her girls to see Nana---here is Great Nana with all her great grandkids on mother's day!

Not the best pic, but 4 generations on Mother's Day!

All the girls!

We then went out to lunch with Mamie and Grandaddy--here is the pic of them with their kiddos!

Still act like kids :)

Wanna Wanna Beach Bar for lunch! Yum! Carter was such a trooper and did great just tagging along wherever we went! As long as he was fed and had his carseat to nap in, he was golden :).

Shrimp boil at the condo! Here's Carter with Mamie and Granddy

Larry and Diane spent the week too, it was so fun to get to hang out with them without the huge group setting!

Dad and Jolie prepping the shrimp boil!

Couldn't get Carter to look but this pic is priceless--Carter with his 4 great grandparents

More time at the beach!

Chillin' with Grandaddy on the beach

Love this pic of Carter with Grandma Jo, cool in shades on the beach!


After the beach we went and spent a few days with Amanda and her girls--all my pics are on the iphone, so those will come later. We had SUCH a great time with so much family but are also very glad to be back at home with Daddy!