The Hamrick Family: Memorial Day Weekend

We started Saturday with swim lessons. Emma used the belt for the first time to swim alone. It was hard for her to get her legs kicking hard enough to keep up, but she was working at it! She really has to learn to balance while kicking and use her arms at the same time. Some of the kids have started going under water. Emma can't do that because of her ear tubes. I had to keep explaining that to her, but it was okay. I need to get her fitted for new ear plugs soon.

Anyway, after swim lessons we hit the road for Bells Island. My cousin, his wife and daughter were going to be there with some other friends and invited us to come. We taught the kids to use the head phones in the van on the way down. Bo and I wanted to listen to our beach music! They did pretty good! When we got closer we opened the sunroof and played Buffett and the girls were looking at all the water - it was so fun.

We had a beautiful day by the sound. The kids played in the pool with baby Adair. Emma wanted to get on the "ski." We really did a whole lot of nothing but lounge in the sun, swing, cooked out, had some adult drinks and simply relaxed. It was wonderful. We stayed later and had dinner and didn't leave until almost 7:30. The kids were beat!

Today was "regrouping day." I had about 10 loads of laundry to do, grocery shopping, cleaning, and some errands to run. Hannah and I ran the errands. After naps the girls had a birthday party to go to. They had so much fun since it was outside at a park. We don't know what our plans are tomorrow - beach? pool? Children's Museum? Water Country? Busch Gardens? Since we caught up on things today we will be sure to do something fun tomorrow! I love Memorial Day weekend! Yay for summer and only 14 more days of school!