Finally home again!

We are finally home again after what feels like forever!
We had a great time and got to see so many people! All in all it was a great trip! We started out at Ellis and Melissa's the 1st night and then moved to the hotel for the next 3 nights. We hung out with Ellis, Melissa and Brian (Melissa's brother) on Sat night and had a great time. Sunday we spent the day at the pool with Angel, Phil, MAC and Madi and then capped off the day at Cheesecake factory with them. Monday night I met up with my Mothers and More friends-Kristy, Dawn, Jen and Bridget for dinner at Bamboo Club and then we spent the rest of the night/morning at The Blue Martini. It was a great night and I was so glad to get to spend time with them. Early Tuesday morning Steve was off to the East Coast and the kids and I rushed to pack up the car and head to the movies to meet Judy, Alexis, Mardi, Bailey and Luke to see Everybody's Hero- Great movie if you haven't seen it. Then we hit Chick-Fil-A for lunch and the kids to play. We then said goodbye to Mardi, Luke and Bailey and headed for Judy's house for the rest of the week. Tuesday night Jenna got to go to Cheer Express and see the girls there and do a private with Ellis. She had a great time. Wednesday I took my kids and Alexis to Planet Bounce to meet up with my Mothers and More friends and their kids for a few hours. A great time was had by all and then we headed to McDonalds with Dawn and Hailey for lunch. Steve ended up coming home Wed night instead of Thursday. So Thursday night we were able to meet up with Keith, Gian and Kendall for dinner and then we headed home a day early on Thursday.
While we were in Tampa we got a phone call that no one wants to get, that one of Steve's best friends (Dugan), sister had very unexpectedly passed away. So after unpacking at home at 2am Friday morning, we wrapped up what we needed to and headed back to North Augusta. We were very glad to get to spend some time with Dugan and his mom on Saturday morning. We were also able to spend some time with Blane, Tina and Christian- who by the way is the pregnant one I was so excited about a few posts ago- It's a girl and she's due in November! We also got to see GG and PPaw and we went and ate a great Bar-Be-Que lunch with PPaw. We then packed up and headed home. Saturday night we went to a 40th birthday party and now here we are today..... Tired and trying to regroup and get ready for the week.
I have so much to do with getting meals planned, going to the grocery store, laundry, etc......SO, we hope everyone has a great week!
I will add some pics from the last week in the next day or so. Thanks to Tequila, I may just figure it out!

An Update from Tampa

Hi everyone! Hope you are all having a great weekend! We got a later start then we wanted to on Friday, but we got here around 10:30pm Friday night. We made our way to Ellis and Melissa's and cought up witht hem for a little bit. Then Melissa's brother got into town and we stayed up way to late just hanging out and chatting.
Saturday we got our Justie back and headed to Clearwater Beach for the day. Man, let me tell you, we forgot how HOT it is here....it was just plain HOT! Jillian loved playing in the sand and dragging the surfboard around. I will try and figure out how to post some pics on here 1 day. After we all got to looking like lobsters, we headed to check into our hotel and get ready for the evening. We had a sitter keep the kids and we headed out to dinner and out on the town with Ellis, Melissa and Brian. We had a great time, and once again stayed up way to late. This morning, Steve took the 3 older ones to the pool while Jillian napped and I got some work done. We are now waiting on Angel, MAC and Madi to get here to hang at the pool with us for the afternoon! Tomorrow Steve's marketing get started and the kids and I are going to do some more visiting! Have a great week everyone!

7/11

Hope everyone is having a terrific week. It has been raining everyday here and is a bit dreary. Justin is still gone and I think we are all missing him now. Especially Jilli......you can hear her every morning, "bubba! bubba! bubbaaaaaaaaa??" It's so sweet. She is going to be so excited to see him! Speaking of him, he is having a great time. He did have a little bout with swimmers ear, but Mrs. Walsh got him to the DR's and they have him on the mend now, thank goodness!
Jenna went back to cheerleading last night after a 2 week break from the gym for the holiday. Back to the grind with that.
Joshua is missing Justin tremendously and just wants him to come home. Even if he is "mean".
Steve and I have jumped back on the getting healthy bandwagon this week and have been going to the Y and eating better. I guess we can all stand to do that. I just need to find some kind of energy booster, I am so tired these days!
Well here's to a hopefully sunny weekend, the kids really want to hit the pool this weekend. The forcast is rain till Sunday, but maybe the sky will give us a few hours to swim! Have a great weekend!

Camping

Justin made it safely to Tampa and is having a blast with the Walsh's. We told him he had to call us everyday. So far we have called him and the 1 time he did call us, it was to ask he could watch Star Wars 3. So it's safe to say, he is having a great time.
As for the rest of us, stuck here in Ga......we went camping for the last 4 days. :) We had a great time! We went with the Franke family and we really did have a blast! We thought it may be hot, boring, buggy....but it was really none of the 3. I mean it was hot and there were bugs, but not like I had thought. We had a great time and can't wait to do it again! And with camping comes tons of laundry when you get home. SO...thats where I'm off to. We hope everyone had a wonderful July 4th!