Where Did August Go?

So it's totally September and I can't believe the summer is over...kids are back in school, it's getting darker earlier, they're putting up Christmas decorations at Macys...where did the summer go?

Warning to those of you that don't really care too much about EVERYTHING that's going on in our family, this is probably going to be long, a lot has happened in the past two weeks!

To start it off, Timothy and I flew out Saturday the 25th all by ourselves back down to Gulf Shores, AL for a week of vacation with my family. Heather and Tyler spent the night at our house Friday night and we all got up really early Saturday morning to head to the airport. The flight was great, Timothy did just fine and we didn't have a long layover in Houston so that was nice. The bad part started when we got on the plane in Houston. The pilot came over the intercom and said that one of our air conditioners was out but he thought once we got up in the air that the other one would be enough and we would cool down then (it was like 90 in Houston). So we take off and we get up in the air and all of the sudden it got really really hot and then he came back on after like 20 minutes and said that both air conditioners were out and we had no way to de-pressurize the plane and we were going to have to make an emergency landing in Baton Rouge. So we landed there, dripping wet with sweat from our 100 degree plane right, and waited three hours for them to bring a new plane in so we could finish the flight to Pensacola. I was so bored, it was nice to let Timothy down and he ran around that entire airport (which was like the size of my bedroom) and when we finally got on the plane to leave he fell asleep and slept pretty much the whole way back to the beach house.

We stayed in the most beautiful house on the beach. It was huge, four stories high, it had an elevator, it had two living rooms, six bedrooms and seven full bathrooms and a pool on the deck over looking the beach. We couldn't have asked for a more perfect house. The weather was great the whole week, we had a couple big thunderstorms, but I loved them, I miss them so much. Pretty much every day we spent going to the beach and then cooling off in the pool. I stayed in one day because I was a little sunburned, but other than that, the week was perfect. We did go play putt putt at all our old favorite places and ate at our favorite restaurants. Surprisingly enough, it didn't storm the night we ate at Steamers.

For anyone that didn't know, our family has been going to Gulf Shores for vacation as long as I can remember so it was neat to go back now with our kids and go to all our old favorites. One night Heather, Stefan, Brittany and Kevin and I went to the Pink Pony Pub...it's this little bar on the beach that's been there for forever and it was more nostalgia than anything that made us go there, and it totally did not live up to expectations! It was the practically empty when we got there, the karaoke was horrible and it was just funny that we had all imagined it to be a really cool place and it was really wasn't...but we had fun anyway, we tried to get Heather to sing and Stefan to swim in the ocean, but they both wimped out.

Brandon got there on Wednesday and played golf with the boys and one morning everything except mom, Heather, me and the little boys went on a guided fishing trip in the bay. It sounded like they had a lot of fun and caught a lot of fish. Brittany caught a sting ray and Kevin caught a fish that no one could tell what it was, not even the guides! Timothy learned some new tricks that week, he learned that if mommy says no he can go ask Aunt Heather and she'll say yes...he learned that he it's more to play with someone his own age. I think he and Linden became best friends. Linden would follow him everywhere and then they would tackle and play together, it was cute. I'll have to see if I can post the video I got of them playing together, it was so funny. Timothy also learned that the ocean isn't all that scary and he actually walked out into the waves all on his own one day. He did learn that he hates the pool unless daddy's there to swim with him. He learned how to say his first sentence, "Where's Dada?"...it's so cute when he says it!

I'm sure there's a lot I'm forgetting about that week, but I'll remember it later and post about it then...we came back late the next Saturday and spent Sunday out at the church camp for Labor Day weekend church. It was fun, but by the end of lunch we were all falling apart and needed naps. Timothy slept most of the afternoon and then another 13 hours that night. I think the time change finally caught up with him. As is our Labor Day tradition, we spent that Monday at mom and dad's house. The guys played golf that morning and then we cooked out and hung out that afternoon. It was fun, there were some new people there so that was nice.

Tuesday it was back to work and back to month end...it was so hard to get back into a routine and I think Timothy really felt it too, he did not want to get up at 5:30 every morning this week, but we survived and he's napping now so he's catching up on lost sleep. Today is the golf tournament and dinner fundraiser for JDRF so we're all going to that. Brandon's been gone all morning at the golf tournament and I'm dropping Timothy off at a sitter later today so we can go to the dinner tonight. It should be fun, I got a new dress and new shoes, so that's always exciting. The rest of the month should be pretty boring for us, other than hopefully getting pregnant!! More to come on that later :) Here are some vacation pics, I'll post more later, these are my favorites.