our week in review:

daddy's off this week for a staycation, and it's proven to be a spectacular blend of fun, celebration, dragonflies, catching up around the house, and relaxation!  Independence Day Festivities were a blast!  We hung out at Sun City, taking the golf carts down to the fireworks launch location, where we enjoyed food, music, family, fun, and a spectacular show! check out the fireworks launch that looks like a sunflower!


 




The next day, we hit the high seas!  We had SO much fun...we launched from our small coastal town's fabulous new boat landing, and accidentally found and enjoyed this amazing sandbar, lovingly titled, "the Redneck Riviera," by the locals, and finally hit the boat again and headed to Daufuski Island for a great, casual, coastal life dinner!
 
Last night we enjoyed our weekly Pool and Picnic night, with Grandma and Grandpa...this time, daddy finally joined us, for the first time!


and what would a Lowcountry life week be like, without ice cream outings and pastry picnics...and storms, lots and lots of storms!
  


and of course, nature adventures:



grateful for another beautiful week in our neck of paradise!

sunday funday

and then there was icecream :D


I personally had a turtle sundae....they forgot my pecans :(

on this day, five years ago.....

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May 18, 2010 ·

It was such a beautiful day we had to take an afternoon "field trip"---we hit Boerner Botanical Gardens and Basse's Farm for icecream (bribery for the girls letting me take a thousand pictures at the gardens of them:D)"

....we were so blessed to live within a couple of miles of these beautiful gardens. When we got home that night, we found out we were moving to South Carolina (and our WI life suddenly became very hectic with the mass exodus;) The girls' ages: 4 and 6....they both still had most of their baby teeth....

 





 

dinner at our favorite little ale house

followed by icecream next door (and they have GOOD icecream!)...can't wait for the day when we can meet gramma and grampa over there!  (and they only need to ride over on their golf cart!


I had the veggie fajita which was DEEEEELISH 


and we sat outside for dinner because it was a very comfortable 75 degrees:)

and then the girls talked their daddy into buying us icecream...I had banana fudge and banana cream pie...yum!
the end:)

Summer is Sweet