Summer is winding down...

There haven't been many posts this summer and for good reason, our family computer is kept up in our loft area that overlooks our living room. In the summer the loft heats up to sauna like temperatures. We have our laptop on the main floor but we don't keep any pictures on it. So when I want to do a post I have to sit in temperatures that are easily 90-100 degrees. Whew! But it starting to cool (slightly). Our summer went pretty fast, due in part to our 17 day vacation! We met up with my side of the family in Myrtle Beach for a week long visit. We then met drove up to MI and spent the week with the Fowler side of the family and at the end of the week celebrated as Drake's brother Field married the beautiful Jenni.

Our beach trip was so much fun and Olivia loved the ocean and the kiddie pool. I didn't get many pics from that week because I was usually soaking wet and sandy and was too afraid to pull out the camera. I got a few though...






Our trip to MI was so much fun and it was great to spend time with so much family. Olivia had the spotlight on her the whole week and loved it. She was a flower girl in Field and Jenni's Black and White wedding and did about as well as a 21 month old could do. Luckily they had 2 flower girls and Hannah (the other flower girl) was 5 and more able to handle the responsibilities of being a flower girl. Olivia did great at the dress rehearsal. The wedding started an hour before bedtime, was outside at a park-the place she is normally allowed to run free in, and was at the end of a long 2 weeks. The ingredients weren't there for a stellar performanse, but she had everyone smiling and laughing as she threw her flowers down before walking down the aisle and ate M&M's the whole way. She ran around the park for the ceremony but I corraled her to walk back down at the end which she did. She fell every 3 steps the whole way back because there was now a cloth runner down, meanwhile carrying two large sticks that people were afraid she would poke her eyes out with. It was all completely adorable and so Olivia and we were very proud of her. I have almost no pics from that day or the rehearsal because I was darn busy managing my busy little bee. Its sad too because we were all dressed up so nicely. Although Olivia is still not too interseted in smiling for the camera. But I am hoping for family to send some half decent pics. It was a great time away and we really enjoyed being together as a family and having time with all of the people we love so much. Now we just have to pay for this whole trip....