2011 Family Vacation - Sandbridge, Virginia Beach

We had a great time on our summer vacation at Sandbridge, Virginia Beach with Griff and Barb, Justin and the Godfrey’s. The house was AWESOME!


We spent many hours chilling inside of the house and also on the enormous back deck where we enjoyed the beautiful beachfront view.  Sadly, Jay spent the first 4 days of the vacation in bed as he developed strep throat on the first night of vacation.  We went to a local urgent care center 2 times before getting the proper medicine to help him get better.  He did come out and socialize a few times the first 4 days, but by Thursday, he felt better and was ready for his vacation to begin.
We also spent many hours on the beach while the children played with the sand.

One day, Jay caught Griff dancing on the beach...not a pretty sight!

Another day, we made a Hershey Kiss sand castle with the children.

Once built, we tour down the sand castle and then buried Jay in the sand, turning him into a butterfly.

Chase wanted to be like daddy and also be buried in the sand. He did not like it very much.

Sunset photo of our family.

Several of the days, Barb and Griff went into the ocean to swim or boogie board.
Jay is not very fond of all the animals hidden in the ocean, so we played with Chase by the shore and just got a little wet.

We spent our time swimming in the outside pool...

and in heated indoor pool. Chase became quite a good swimmer on this vacation.

On Thursday, Griff, Scott, Braydon, Jay and Chase went to the Military Aviation Museum to see the old war planes and equipment.

Towards the end of the tour, Chase got pretty bored and occupied his time by walking back and forth on an extension cord.

On Friday, Justin left the vacation one day early. We were sad to see him go as we knew that our vacation was also coming to an end very soon.

Our vacation ended on Saturday as we packed up the car and headed out the door for the 7 hour drive home back to Pennsylvania.

Thanks Barb and Griff for another AWESOME vacation!

Spaghetti Head

After dinner schedule…tubby time!

Getting Some Outside Play Time

The past few months have been the wettest Pennsylvania has seen in a very long time. Today it was not raining, so Amy let Chase and Baby spend a lot of day outside playing in the front yard.

 

Visit With Davis Family In NC

This past weekend, we visited the Davis family for the first time since they moved to North Carolina. We drove down Wednesday evening and arrived after 1:00 am. Shann had to work on Thursday, so we spent the day with Sarah, Caden and Alyssa. After breakfast, we went to a local thrift store to see if we could find any good bargains. Chase really liked the boxing headgear that the kids found buried in the toy section.
Alyssa liked it too.

After the thrift store, we took the kids to the park.

The kids, including Jay really like the one piece of playground equipment that spun around while you hung on it with your hands. They decided to try it while sitting on it. Boy did they have a fun time.

This photo of Chase, Caden and Alyssa is just adorable.

Before Shann arrived home from work, we went swimming in the neighborhood pool.

Shann got home just in time to watch Chase do a jumping into the pool countdown.

Later that evening, we went to Shann’s sister’s house. We had dinner and hung out with Shann’s dad and mom who were babysitting Shann’s sister’s kids.
The motorized cars were a lot of fun.

The next day, Shann got us free tickets to the North Carolina Museum of Life and Science in Durham. They had so many things for the kids to see and do. They played music.

We walked a dinosaur trail that ended at a place where the kids could dig for dinosaur fossils.

Inside one of the buildings was a room that bred and released butterflies.

We also got to see many farm animals. Jay got freaked out when this cow got a little too close.

We then went inside the larger building where there were many hands on things for the kids to play with…including an indoor playground.


On the way home, we ate dinner and then went to a place that had go karts,
bumper boats,
and a ton of arcades.
The last day of our visit we went to Shann’s Merck employee picnic.
They had games set up for the kids to play and win prizes.
This video explains how Chase ended up with the stuffed animal in the photo above. She “tried” helping Chase throw a straw hat into a basket.

The best part of the picnic for Chase was that he got to play on the inflatables.

Sadly, Sunday morning went left to go home. We cannot wait to get together with the Davis’ again. We love you guys!