The 4th and Fishing!!

This is the only picture from the 4th of July that I have.  My cousins, Chris and Christy, were in SSI with their crews, so they joined us at the beach for fireworks.  My kids were much more interested in their glow sticks than the fireworks. Haha!

 This is out of order, but this is the shark that Jake caught. 

 This sweet boy ended up having an allergic reaction to the life vest.  Ugh.  Poor kid.

 This was Anderson's first time on a boat (I think) and he was beside himself.  I kept saying, "hold me...I fall off boat."  Hahaha.

 Jake reeled this shark in all by himself!

 Look at this sweet boy's face!  Haha!  He was trying to hold the shark, but the shark was going nuts and the tail hit Jake in the face.

While we were in SSI, we went out on the Billy Bee, which is a kid's fishing charter.  Mr. Billy Bice is a former school superintendent who is a HUGE Georgia Southern fan, but he has let us come on the boat for years even when we were at UAB, UCF, and Colorado State.  He definitely wanted to talk football more this time, though. Hahaha.

Unfortunately, the fish weren't biting very much on this particular day.  All we caught was a fine-tooth shark, a crab, and a crab trap (for real...in our motor).  A good time was had by all, though.

The Beach!!!!!

 First full day on the beach!!

 Two-thirds of my children weren't feeling the photographs.

 Please notice my swim shirt and Tyson's in these pictures- at 36 years old, we are finally over getting sun on our body.  Plus, we both have to go to the dermatologist next week to have more margins of our moles cut off our bodies. Grr.  Protect your skin, people!!

 One of my new favorites.

 This kid is a maniac at the beach...until he almost got swept away and drowned by a rip tide.  Whew!

 Anderson got a little tossed around in the waves, so he insisted on wearing swimmies to the ocean.

 Anderson playing cars with Bo and Mack.

 Tyson and his best friend, Worth.  We love getting to spend our time with Worth's family.

For the last part of Tyson's vacation, we loaded up and went to St. Simons Island, Georgia for the 4th of July.  We've been going to SSI on the 4th now for many years (we obviously missed last year since we were in Colorado and it just wasn't the same), and it's a vacation I always look forward to.  We get to see Tyson's best friend, Worth, and his family. (And by Worth's family, I don't just mean Worth, his wife, and their 3 kids....it's Worth's parents, his sister and her crew, his Uncle, Aunt, cousins, and their crew, his wife's parents, his wife's brother and his wife, his wife's cousins, and a whole bunch of other people that I really can't even make the connection with).  Hehe.  It's always a great time, though.

Outside Pic of Our Statesboro House

After I posted the pictures of the inside of our house a few weeks ago, I knew I needed to get an outside picture of our house.  At the rate that we move, I'm going to have to have photographic evidence of our houses so that our kids can remember them. Anyways, here you go.  We love our little house.

Cruisin'!

Tyson and I spent the first week of his vacation on a cruise to the Bahamas just the two of us. To be honest, I hate a cruise, but my husband loves them.  I figured that if I got him out on a boat in the middle of the ocean then maybe, just maybe, I could get his mind off work, so I agreed on a cruise.  Ha!

We ended up having a GREAT time!  Our first stop was in Freeport where we went out on a sailboat with about 15 others from our cruise.  We ate, we drank, we snorkeled, WE SAW A BARRACUDA!  Haha! Tyson actually thought it was a shark at first, but that's a whole other story that I'm sworn to secrecy on.  ;)

Our second day on the boat, we stopped in Nassau.  Now, this was our 2nd and 3rd time in Nassau, so we ended up staying on the boat and just having a relaxing day.

Our last day was a Fun Day at Sea where we hung at the pool and ended up sitting next to a couple from Pooler, Ga who were Georgia Southern grads.  Small world!

We missed the kiddos so much, but they were in great care of my cousin, Trey. :)

The New Digs

Here is the new house!  I can't believe we've almost been in this house for 5 months now, and I'm just getting around to photographing it.  Honestly, I think we just got done with the decorating recently so I didn't have much to photograph.  We had a camera crew from a Savannah TV station come to our house the other day to film our family, though, so I had to get the house in order.  As I post these, I realize I haven't actually taken an outside shot of the house from the front or any pictures of upstairs.  Haha.  Anyways, upstairs, the boys have their 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, and a bonus room that we use as the toy room, playstation room, and movie room.  This house is much different than our last few- it's older, in an established neighborhood, and needed some updating.  We did a few things, nothing major, but it has quickly become "home."

Swim Lessons, Snakes, Shirts, Satellite Camps

 Anderson has almost finished his ISR refresher.  As usual, he's much more interested in swimming than floating, so it has taken a little longer to finish than I would have liked.  Apparently, Anderson has the lung capacity to swim the length of the pool at 2 without coming up for a breath.  Haha!

 I'm trying to play catch up since Memorial Day, but I haven't really taken a lot of pictures.  These next two pictures are from when the GSU Wildlife Center came to the library.  Jake was so sweet to help Anderson pet the snake.  Walker was off talking to his friend that is a girl, and missed petting the snake.  Hahaha.

A big reason for the blog hiatus over the last few weeks is that my Granddaddy (my mom's daddy) got really sick really fast, and the grandkids all took turns caring for him.  He ended up passing away last Monday June 13, 2016 at the age of 89.  Click here for his obituary.  He started having back pain over 6 weeks ago that progressively got worse; he ended up being diagnosed with an aggressive form of lung, head, or neck cancer that had metastasized to his spine and bones. I was fortunate enough to be able to take care of him at home before being admitted to the hospital, to be with him twice at the hospital before being sent to hospice, and to be able to say goodbye to him at hospice the day before he took his last breath.  None of us knew it would happen so quickly.  We still thought we had time to get him home. :( I was able to tell him that I loved him and he told me the same; 12 hours later he slipped into unconsciousness.  I'm going to miss him so much. Life will  never be the same without him. :(  This picture above is of Walker and Jake at the funeral.

 Since Granddaddy's last name is Peacock, my sister, cousin, and I thought Granddaddy would love these peacock shirts that we wore to his visitation.  He loved all things Peacock.

While all of this has been going on, Tyson has been super busy with satellite camps.  Luckily, he was able to break away for a few so that he could be with us during this difficult time with my Granddaddy.  He is pictured here with Kirby Smart and Mike Bobo during a camp that Georgia Southern hosted at Buford High School.