Back home :(

Well the Scrivner's made it back to Easley today!  The kids and I were not happy about leaving the beach (Jonathan was ready to come home after the first week!), however it was nice to get some sweet tea and to see our dog again!  We had a great time this year and we are already working on planning our trip for next year!

The last night we were at the beach we went on a "Pirate" cruise on the Belle of Topsail!  Probably the best part of the whole trip....our entire gang of 13 went and we had a blast!  The kids loved gettting to shoot the water cannons at the pirate ship as they were trying to take over our boat! 

We also got another go round at the family pictures....much better this time!  We actually have several pictures where all 5 of us are looking at the camera!  We decided to do some Topsail style pictures instead of just the beach pictures like usual!  So we had some pictures made in front of the towers, the swing bridge, and a few taken on the sound side in the beach grass!  Plus the pictures from the pirate theme night!

This year for theme night we decided to go with a pirate theme!  Heather (my aunt) really out did herself!  We all had the best time!  We ate dinner, played games, and dressed up!  I love having family time where we all act crazy!!!

Want to send a special thanks out to Kathy (my aunt) who dog/house sat for us the first week we were at the beach!  And thanks so much for cleaning our house....we owe you!!!!  And to my in-laws for dog sitting the second week!  We couldn't have enjoyed our vacation as much if we had to worry about our sweet Carolina!!!

So we are back now, almost unpacked (thanks to Jonathan) and I am on my 2nd load of laundry (back to the real world)!!  We did go to the Huddle for dinner since we missed it for 3 weeks (they close the week of the 4th  and didn't reopen until we were already at the beach)!  Now we will just enjoy the rest of the summer (5 weeks as Jonathan keeps reminding me) until the girls (thats right they will both be in school) and Jonathan start back to school!