Vacation

We just got back from spending 11 wonderful days at Myrtle Beach! We are blessed every year by my sister-in-law to stay for free at their HUGE beach house. We had our dear friends Doug and Kristin and their 3 girls stay with us for 3 days and were joined by an overnight visit from the Pennell's mid week, with James parents coming down the end of the week....whew! We never got bored. In an effort not to sound like a ''stepford blogger''(stolen from erin:) ) I must confess the beginning of the week was a little rough,seeing how my son wanted no part of being around water!!!! Guess he didn't fully understand that is WHY you go to the beach!!!! After working through some serious ''how can you do this to me on my vacation''complaining, I was yet again reminded that God does not stop growing us into His image on vacation, which of course means major pruning of my idols of comfort and ease. But God was so kind and wonderful to give us some great family memories while easing Jake into getting comfortable with the water. I am so pleased to say that on the fourth day there, something clicked.......and he began to LOVE the water!!!! He is a little hesitant to get in the ocean, but will play well in the sand. He mostly loved the pool. He will now go under water without even flinching and kick and play ball etc. He still prefers me to hold him but hey, that's fine by me:) He even went down the slide with james! I was hopeing he would come to love it since he loves bath time so much....even when I splash his face with water (we have never avoided getting water in his face at bath time in hopes he would get used to it) and I can say that really has helped. So from then on, the hasty family vacation was almost perfect, I mean really...no car accidents or major hurricanes or even bad attitudes from any one of us!!!!James and I even got to go out on a date when his parents came. That was one of the highlights for me, we ate dinner at a restaurant on the beach, talked a lot and watched a jet ski race that was going on. I so love it when I get to give james my FULL attention over a good meal from time to time:)
Now that I have more than likely bored you readers to tears, since I know most of my blog readers only want the pics...here ya go!!!!!