beach pictures

another fun renfrow beach tradition is to color coordinate (khaki and white) and take pictures on the beach. i love this tradition as well! john is our main photographer—as you will see...not too shabby!

 

 

 

 

Renfrow/Pollock Family Beach Trip!

wyatt enjoying a traditional renfrow beach treat – a blow pop!

(we had to keep and eye on him to make sure we got it before he reached the gum part!) 

we got to spend the week at the beach with the sweet renfrows and sweet pollocks!! what a fun week that flew by!! the kids just loved playing in the sand, and thankfully not too much of it was eaten!!

 

everyday, mainly by late morning, this is what our "beach camp" would look like. john and ash were usually the first ones out getting the spot...whoever had the little ones would be the last ones out!

 

john and matt competing in a game of ladder ball!

 

this particular day it was really windy. it was so cute how wyatt didn't even seem to notice the umbrella flapping on his head while he was playing in the sand.

 

as a precaution to keeping sand out of her mouth, claire had her paci during sand play time.

 

our two little monkeys were so focused and content in their sand playing that most of the time it was hard to believe we actually had a 3 yr old and 1.5 yr old with us!

lunch time on the beach.

just a cute picture of claire.

 

just a cute picture of wyatt.

 

just a cute picture of the ncrenfrows! :)

 

just a cute picture of the pollocks!

(i am missing an important cute picture...the varenfrows!!)

 

wyatt and claire awaiting another fun renfrow beach tradition is "chicken on the beach". this is the longest day on the beach, we stay out (for the most part) until dinner. then fried chicken is picked up from a local resturant and sides are prepared at the beach cottage and we have a yummy meal on the beach!

 

it's almost time for...

 

..."chicken on the beach"!! it's kind of hard to see in the picture, but it was good! :)

 

claire's first experience with the waves!

 

she loved the water...unlike her brother. wyatt didn't like it his first time and as you can see...

 

...his feelings haven't changed much!

(lil guy in first chair on the left, by himself!)

 

close up of the stinker, sneaking somebody's drink!

sand baby

tomatoes...good!

bathtime at grandma's!

Happy 30th Auntie Ree!!

jason planned a fun 30th birthday party for andrea at the park he used to work at in durham. some of the fun was at her expense...but she's a good sport! :)

Wyatt's Birthday Party

cheese! i'm so excited about my thomas the train cake!!!

today we had wyatt's birthday party with his friends! in the past month or so i've been asking him what kind of birthday party he wanted and although it did change every now and then, he still came back to wanting it to be a thomas party! it's just sort of funny to me because until his actual birthDAY he didn't even have a train and he doesn't really talk about or play with the thomas he has as much as he does some other things. he was really excited about his cake and the little thomas treat bags i was able to find! it was a really fun low key party!

 

  i found a coffee shop/bakery that makes really great cakes. we had claire's lady bug birthday cake made there, so i went with them again! very pleased!! i bought the little thomas the train to put on the cake, but they made thomas look great!

 

wyatt and his buddies!!

(evan, oliver, wyatt, claire and avrie)

lean-to and the garden growing

matt's been wanting to build a lean-to onto our shed for a year or so now and he is finally getting a chance to do it! he wants a place to keep our tractors out of the weather and maybe even the lawn mower so that he'd actually have room in the shed to move! he's doing a great job!

 

be careful up there!!

 

green beans, sunflowers, snap peas and limas

the garden seems to be doing pretty good so far too! we've noticed the return of some potato beetles, which we had pretty bad last year, but hopefully we can get them under control before we get too many...we are seeing that they are not completely partial to potatoes.

 

squash, sunflowers and tomatoes

 

lil claire

 

such a nice day to be outside riding lawnmowers or carrying tractors...

 

cute bubs, he's getting so big and steering really well these days!

photo fun

 

it was such a beautiful evening! we were all outside enjoying the weather...and the tractors! :)

babysitting

today we got to babysit our sweet little neighbor madelyn! having a 2 month old next to my baby...definitley makes my baby not seem as much like a baby!! she is only 17 months though!! just goes to show how FAST they grow!! cute little girls. 

outside

just a fun evening outside playing! :)

our garden grows

front garden

we were out playing today and i thought i would take some pictures of the gardens progress.

green beans

sunflowers

limas

the back garden, snap peas, squash, zucchini and lots of tomatoes

the playing outside: wyatt and claire getting soaked and soaking each other with the water table.

beek!
(that's what we say instead of "peek-a-boo"...not sure why...more than likely i started it, that's what matt always says anyway! ;) )

lucy sneaking some sips!

monkey see, monkey do!