Again we took a trip to beautiful Tybee Island for another parade, this time St Patrick’s day. Tybee held it’s parade on the Saturday before the big Savannah parade and we again had kids on hand and an extra one to boot in Courtney, Alyssa’s friend, so we loaded up and trekked to the island hoping for another fun day. It was gray and cooler this time, as opposed to the beautiful day we had in February for Mardi Gras, so we decided to get back off the beach breeze a little and stood on Tybrisa this time. Read more
This past weekend Tybee had it’s first Annual Mardi Gras parade and street party. We had all four kids this weekend so Kriss and I made plans to go down to the beach and check it out. The kids really love going to the beach and the weather was going to be nice. We got there early enough to get good parking and get down by the pier where a few vendors were set up selling beads, masks, drinks, etc. We had over an hour before the parade came so we walked up on the pier and then the kids wanted to go dig in the sand so we let them while we sat on the pier and enjoyed the sun.We ran in to several friends too. Read more
Marc has gotten in to a lot of activities over recent years, I don’t know how he even keeps up with them all and his school work sometimes, but one that he seems to really enjoy so far is acting in plays. He’s done a few plays for his school (last spring he was the lead role as the prince in The Prince and the Pea) and church. This Christmas he was in a short play at his local community theatre called The Elves Impersonator, you’ll get the name when you watch it. Dad and Lynn were going to Nashville and stopped in to see it on the way up and he filmed it.
Yep, this is the first year that we’ve had all four kids, or Marc at all, on Halloween for Trick or Treating. I drove up Friday afternoon to get him and try to get back in time before the other 3 ripped the door down at dark, we barely made it right after dark. Kellie was Princess Aurora, or Sleeping Beauty as you probably know her. I’m not sure what Erin was, I guess a dead, scary, witchy, something or another. Marc was a cowboy, at least that’s what he said he was, there was a hat. Alyssa was scariest of them all, she was an ugly, mean looking witch 
! We walked a good bit through the neighborhood though there were some skipped houses along the way, I think the older kids hit more but they always get ahead of Kellie since they don’t need adults holding their hand. We worked our way around to where the Pirate’s of the Caribbean show will be the next weekend, at one of our neighbor’s houses. He does a big production that gets bigger each year with costumes, sets, smoke, etc, and it’s free although they will take charitable donations to benefit SMA, Spinal Muscular Atrophy. This was in front of the Flying Dutchman set. Click on the image to see the full size version. The extra girl beside Erin is her friend down the street Ashley.
I then walked Erin over to a friend’s house that was having a party ’til late, their house was all made up cool with crystal balls with floating heads inside them and lighting effects, while the rest of us went to get something to eat and then we all came back home to divy up the treasure and enjoy a sugar rush.
As mentioned a few posts ago, we went to Hollie and Chad’s wedding at Bethesda Chapel on September 6, yep, had to wear shoes that day. The three of us were in it and I wish I had been able to get a pic of all three of us and one with Pepa, all of us in our monkey suits.
But here is a pic of two of my beautiful babies, click it for a full size version. Kellie was the flower girl and Marc was the ring bearer, although he bore no rings. He wasn’t at the rehearsal the night before and had to wing it so they walked in the door and down the aisle not knowing he needed the little pillow. I think Kellie showed him where to stand.
This is the only pic I have so far, hopefully more to come and you can check Hollie’s Facebook for many candid shots.
Marc was recently in a play at school, The Princess and the Pea, he may turn out to be the actor in the family. I have a copy of it on my iPod and we are supposed to have a few dvd copies in the near future so stay tuned for that. It’s too long for YouTube so in order to get it on the site I’ll have to find another way. But he was the lead character, the Prince, and spent many weeks rehearsing leading up to it.
He’s sure grown up a lot, I never would have guessed he would have wanted to be in a play but he says he liked it a lot. I’ve had to skip a few weekends seeing him lately due to the play and now baseball but he’ll be here for a month soon so I’m looking forward to spending time with him and all of the kids, I’m sure there is a lot of pool time coming.
