2012 Olympics

Unless you are living under a rock, you know that the 2012 Summer Olympic Games have started. I love the summer Olympics! It's always fun to watch the opening games and all of the entertainment value that comes with that opening ceremony. What I love more is to watch the competitions. It's the only time that I really watch any sports other than college football (which starts in a month's time, hootie hoo!).

I only caught a few things over the weekend, since I was in Savannah and doing other things. But David and I were able to watch a few events during the course of the weekend. Without a doubt, my favorite thing to watch is the gymnastics.

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 I loved gymnastics as a young girl and if I was any good, I would have loved to have been on the Olympic team. Ha! Guess you can figure out that I wasn't that good :-)

My other favorite sports to watch during the Summer Olympics are swimming, volleyball, and running. I also enjoy watching the other random sports that you never see, such as ping pong, etc.

It was fun to watch Dana Vollmer win the Gold last night and to set the world record.

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And with that being said, I have to throw out a "Go Gators" on that one. I saw on Gator Nation that if the University of Florida was it's own country, UF would be 5th on the Olympic medal count. So Florida is being represented well at the London games.

What were your take on the Ralph Lauren designed outfits for the athletes (with the made-in-China controversy aside)?

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I was interested to see if Labron James would sport that sweet hat and I guess that he did!

I'm looking forward to watching the games again tonight. Are you?

Go USA!

Last Post About the Beach

...I promise! This will be a quick post about my last day at Indian Pass. I'm sure everyone is tired of this by now! I am anyways. On Monday, Brad, David, and I went out on the bay to go fishing. We only "fished" for a moment, then got caught in a rain storm, and then finally got in the water so the guys could spear fish. I occupied myself by gathering sand dollars and other creatures. We had a fabulous time and I was glad that I got to spend the day with two of my favorite men!

That evening, the family hit up the beach with the kids in search of crabs. They had a blast chasing them down. Rendi even got brave and held one. They were adorable and we had so much fun doing it!

So that wraps up our beach vacation. We had a great time and if you are looking into a low key beach vacation off of the beaten path away from a bunch of tourists, check out Indian Pass.
Told you this would be a quick post! Happy Friday, ya'll!

How to Torture Your Boyfriend

David is a sport to put up with me. I am constantly threatening him with taking pictures and I've always got a camera in his face it seems. Before our trip, I ran in Target to grab a few beach essentials. Like always, I pass through the clothes and bathing suits to check things out and came across a cute little sundress. I knew exactly where I wanted to wear it. On the beach and for a photo shoot. So, I ran over to the men's section and grabbed David a matching t-shirt. I may, or may not, have sent David a picture of our outfits as a threat to his impending torture!

Sunday after he got back from fishing and playing in the pool with the kids, we got all cleaned up and hit the beach. I loaded up my tripod and my remote for my camera and lead David down to his doom. {and I warn you, these will just be pictures of me and David for my mother's benefit. Feel free to skip this post if you aren't interested!}

I had to get a shot of the beginning. I was giving him a pep talk here that it wouldn't be so bad.

Here I am again, telling him to smile and act like he was enjoying himself. He in turn said he was hoping we were done. I had to choke hold him to get him to stay a little bit longer!

A little better!

I love his face here. Poor David! He finally admitted defeat.

And I got a few good shots of him.

I then wanted to try a few different poses. It is a little difficult to do when you have a remote for your camera and not someone actually taking the pictures for you.

Then things just got silly. This was my favorite part. I told David to look out at the water with me.

I told him to gaze into our future. He in turn told me that he was imagining getting in the water and drowning himself. Ha! After that, I figured he was done. He had been such a sweetheart to indulge me this. I didn't want him to push his limits too far. He really is too good to me. But we came out with some good shots and I'm so glad we did it. It was quite the bonding moment. :-)

Indian Pass

As I mentioned in my previous post about our recent family get away to Indian Pass, I took way too many photographs, so this post will be more of the same. Just recounting and recording our memories from the weekend.

Sunday was a gorgeous day. All the men loaded up and went fishing, so all the girls and children stayed back at the house. We hit up the beach for a moment. Then Stacey and I stayed with the kids at the pool, since that is where they preferred to be. Go figure! Plus, it allowed our mothers to relax on the beach in peace.

You're welcome for this picture, Mother!

Rendi showing off those painted fingernails!

Barrett had fun playing with Stacey. Sadly, Stacey and my Aunt Susan had to go home later in the day on Sunday. I was bummed to lose my bed partner Stacey. She actually let me sleep with her on Saturday night...in a twin bed at that. Which is unheard of in Stacey-Land. Usually if you sleep with her, she blockades herself in the bed with pillows so you can't touch her. She wasn't that lucky this weekend. And speaking of bed partners, David was a trooper this weekend. He had to sleep with Barrett for two nights. Barrett is obsessed with "John David" as he calls David. (We have a friend named John David that Barrett sees much more than David, so he gets a little confused!) I, of course took pictures of the horror on David's face of him and Barrett before bed. Barret was estatic.

And here's Stacey before her worst nightmare came true...sleeping with me :-P

It's ok because I got payback when little Miss Rendi came on Sunday. She wanted to sleep with Sissy, so I got her and David got Barrett.
The boys finally got home from fishing that afternoon and David surprised me with a present. He had gathered a few sand dollars for me while they were out. He's a sweetheart.

Then he got bombarded by the children. He was the new toy of the trip. I'm surprised he didn't break up with me after this trip between the kids and the torturous photo shoot I made him endure! He's a keeper for sure.

Yep, the kids loved them some John David. They were all big buddies by the end of the day.

I think the kids and adults included had a good day!