Until next time!

I guess maybe because of where I grew up, ( Biloxi, MS) the beach will always be my favorite place, the greatest getaway, my place of relaxaition, and a place of fun for the family. No matter what beach I am on, it always feels like home. Luckily my family seems to enjoy it as much as I do, so it makes for a great family vacation!

For Adam and Cole, the beach is a place of great adventure and fun. It is where Adam can go fishing, and Cole can run for miles and throw things in there air with the only consequence being that he is eventually covered in sand and results in a shower, that he drags out to last a good 30 minutes while he splashes and plays even more. It is where Adam and Cole together, can wonder out and find all kinds of new thing to learn and talk about.

Such as starfish:

 Cole had a great time collecting starfish. He liked the way they wiggled in his hands, and loved lining them up for a group picture. At one point in time we had collected 11starfish!

They also had fun collecting crabs that they found. Adam found a huge area, when the tide was down, where there was literally hundreds of crabs crawling everywhere! Cole kept wanting to poke them despite our warnings that they would pinch him! Logan went with Adam to collect them, while Cole was down for a nap, and when he woke up they all went out on the back deck to show Cole what they had found.

We managed to find all kinds of new things to show the boys. There was even a piece of coral that washed up on shore while we were there.

We even, spent one day out sight seeing and visited the light house.

So as you can probably tell the boys had a great time! Cole loved the time he spent with Daddy!

And as for me, well I enjoyed all the adventures, but taking off my shoes and relaxing was what it was all about.

And since Brody wasn't old enough to take part in the adventures he enjoyed relaxing with me when he wasn't trying to learn to crawl (I'll blog about that soon).

and occassionally even Cole would enjoy in a little relaxation as well...

Although I would have ordinarily been annoyed with Brody waking my up at 5 in the morning, the view from the balcony made it all worth it.



My favorite part of each day was the beautiful sunrises that Brody made sure that I was up in time to enjoy!

So until next time....I will be dreaming of you beach and your beautiful sunrises!

A day at the beach for the Hall Family

Just recently, Adam and I, along with the boys, took a trip to Hilton Head, SC with the Hall Family. I was fortunate enough to be able to spend part of a day photographing this wonderful family!

Julie and Dan (two of Adam's best friends from WKU) are two wonderful parents of two truly adorable little boys, Logan and Landon.They are for the most part your typical family, but they always seem so happy and say some of the funniest things! There is never a dull moment with any of them around. 

 We were able to hold the boys interest just long enough to get a few family shots before Landon decided to stray off and find his own things to get into.

Landon is just under a year and half, and is one of the sweetest little boys ever. He is so kind natured and always seems so happy. He, like most boys his age, is so curious and always finding something new to run off to and explore!

Logan is the oldest son. I think he is one of the funniest and yet more mature 4 year olds I have ever met.

His favorite words/phrases seemed to be "actually" and "I was suprised really well to find..."

Logan is capable of finding something fun to do or something silly to say no matter how serious everyone else is trying to be. My favorite thing that Logan said came after his mom told him that if he could not stop maybe time out would do him good, his response was "actually mom, I can't handle a time out right now"

He enjoyed finding all kinds of different things on the beach such as hermit crabs and starfish, but he is favorite part was by far "riding the waves!"



Dan and Julie, thank you so much for letting us be part of you family vacation!! You two are so great to be around and your boys are so wonderful. I can't wait until our next get together!

Molten Mocha!

Anyone, who knows anything about me, knows that I love to bake!! I often look for reasons to bake something, but with Allison being around as much as she is, I don't have to come up with a reason on my own anymore. She is more than willing to come up with something that she has been "dying" to have or simply "has to try."

One of Allison's favorite desserts is the Lava Cake that Olive Garden use to have on the menu. A couple of months ago she ordered one to go, so that she could eat it later. Only to find that when she returned home, it had already been eaten. Her Papaw, thought it was for him, and enjoyed every last bite of it. And although he enjoyed it tremendously at the time, he felt equally as bad later when he found out that it was Allison's dessert, that she had been looking forward to eating all day!!! So, a few days later, Allison returned to Olive Garden to finally get her dessert she had been longing for, only to find that it is no longer on the menu!!!!!

After all of this, you can only imagine her excitement, when she found out that I had a recipe for a similiar cake. So after several days of being too busy to bake these Molten Mocha Chocolate Cakes aka Lava Cakes, we finally set aside time to bake them after school today.  They turned out wonderful and had a little more coffee flavor than the ones at Olive Garden, which is more than okay with me. However, even though I may be known to have a sweet tooth, these cakes were a little rich even for me. I was only able to eat about half.....with Cole's help!



As delicious as it may have been, I too feel the remorse that my father in-law felt for having ate it. Now I have to go work off all those unwanted, yet delicious calories that I simply could not resist!