A Little Trip to Seany Sean

this probably makes about the third trip to charleston, s.c. in a year!!! i love going to visit my brother! i love him to pieces!!! carter and i had just gotten back from destin, fl and decided to do a load of laundry, repack, fill the car up with gas and take off for charleston to visit my brother for the last week of summer! ging got to go on this trip, which we love!!! unfortunately, this was not a relaxing, peaceful trip. let me explain. we left and made the trip to charleston just fine. we arrived, met up with sean, met his girlfriend (who is wonderful) and went to my favorite place to eat...the surfbar!!! ging gets to go to dinner with us at this restaurant and i just love it! we put her in a highchair and fed her french fries while we ate! such a little baby!

and i know what all of you are thinking...that i have a little bit of an obsession with my puppy, but when you don't have any other babies around and you have gingi, it just sort of happens!!!

so, first night GREAT!!!! we stay at my brother's house, i get up early the next morning and while carter and ging sleep it out, i clean sean's house from top to bottom. bathrooms, floors, dusting, vacumming...you name it and i did it! i go to wake carter and gingi up because i was ready to go to the beach for the day. gingi is laying on her belly and i pick her up to scratch her belly..as i flip her over, i notice that there is a FLEA MEETING going on, on her belly!!! i panic, i scream, i freak out! FLEAS!!!!! i call mom. i call sean. ging has fleas! what do i do?? carter gets up a lot quicker after that!!! we take ging to a local little pet store, which was perfect! they have a little wash room. we scrub the poor thing, scrub, scrub her! we comb, we pick, we scrub, we lather, we rinse, we repeat, like ten times!!!! we kill every single one of those little fleas! ging gets a couple of new toys for her trouble! then, we go back to sean's to clean it all over again! i deflea it to the best of my ability...needless to say, his place was SPOTLESS!!!! we then, check into a hotel! sean had failed to tell me that he knew he had a flea problem, but thought he had taken care of it! obviously, flea problem...not taken care of!

but, after that stressfulness, the trip was great. i got to see sean play with his band...deepwater soul society and meet up with keena, keeleigh, and bethany! ging went for her first swim in the ocean...by herself! she kind of just jumped in with no warning! apparently she wanted to try something new on this trip besides getting fleas!!! sean's band was amazing and it was good to spend some time with him! i miss him sooo much! i wish he lived closer! oh well!!!! maybe one day!

Destin Round 2

so, we went to destin, florida with brad, heather and paisley at the beginning of the summer and then were lucky enough to end our summer with another trip to destin, fl! this time we went with carter's family..his mom and dad, brother, sister-in-law, and their three children...ages 7, 9, &11, and his 15 year old cousin! a lot of family! we had a blast and really enjoyed going to the beach for the second time during our summer vacation. i can't think of a better way to start and end the summer! i can't believe i lived ten minutes from the beach for two years and maybe went five times in the 2 years..i love the beach! enjoy the pics!!!! oh! gingi had to go to little momma money's and big poppa money's for the entire week. i was a little nervous about my parents keeping ging, since they aren't big puppy people, but they did great! mom had all kinds of stories to tell about gingi when we got back! ging loved it too! she was spoiled with lots of popcorn and naps!!!!

the whole family! rachel, juliann, ashlyn, christy, jayson, loftin, jay, susan, carter and me!

So....

i realize that i am horrible at keeping up with this blog! but, this is effort number 2 and i am going to try to do a much better job! there is a ton to catch up on...a ton! so here goes...some with pictures, some perhaps not and then i promise that i will start making posts more regularly!!!!

when last we met, it was just july...it is now november!!!! oops!!!!

in july carter and i went to alabama for the 4th of july! the shoemakers, who are some of the best people in the world, my adopted family from college, and at one time my young life semi-leaders, have a lake house in alabama and invited us down for the weekend! we had the best time! it was nice to get away and just relax and take it easy! our cell phones didn't work, so that was even nicer! gingi got to go and enjoyed her first trip on a boat! she did great!

we went for a boat ride when we first got there and as you can see, ging loved it..i guess...take a look at the next pic...i'm pretty sure her defense mechanism was setting in and she was trying to go to sleep in an effort to avoid the ride!

all in all, she did great and loved it! she even got to wear her little two piece!!!!

okay, so i just started back and already i have to go...sleep is calling my name...i promise to post the next trip soon!!!