We have returned from our trip to South Carolina. And I have at least some pictures to prove it! I haven't downloaded the rest from Jeff's computer but hopefully I will do that in the next few days. We had a really great time with my brother and his family. The girls had a lot of fun playing with their cousins and really did a great job getting along. Each year seems to get a little bit easier as the kids get older. We had lots of fun celebrating the 4th of July. Mark and jackson purchased fireworks and some of the neighbors in the cul-de-sac got together and set off all of their collective fireworks. It was great fun! The night before the "official" 4th of July, we went to a community celebration at a nearby church. It was a free event and it was a blast! We all got tickets and we were able to redeem them for free food! I love free family events:) Free hot dogs, popcorn, drinks, snow cones and nachos. There were lot of games to play for the kids, inflatable to jump and play on and live musical entertainment. And of course once it was dark, there were fireworks. This is where I found out that Ellie would not be staying up for our own "official" 4th of July fireworks the next night! She hated the fireworks. I am pretty sure it was the loud noise of the fireworks but she clung to me and refused to even look at them. Needless to say I took her back to the van before they were finally done and we waited it out in the van. Saturday night saw her going to bed well before fireworks officially started. But the free night was a hit with everyone involved. Another exciting and fun part to our trip was that we got to spend some time with our China friends the Smiths. We don't get to see them very often since they live in China but they are home this summer visiting. So we planned our trip around getting to see them too! The last time we saw them was when we were in China adopting Ellie so it had been 19-20 months. It was great to catch up and spend time with them and get to meet their second addition to their family! They have a little boy, Moyer, whom we got to see in China and then Keturah, who is 6 months old. She is also a cutie:) I did get some pictures of them so I will post those once I download them. Needless to say we had a great vacation! We also got to meet the newest addition to the Moody clan on this trip which was pretty cool. Melia is about 2 1/2 months old, I believe, and cute as a button. Hopefully I spelled her name right! I just loved holding her since it has been a while since I have held a little one. I think the whole Moody clan is good looking but Jackson mentioned Melia being the cutest baby of all of them several times...I am not sure if that was because he really thinks so or if it is because I mentioned that she looked like him as a baby:)
Now we are settling back into KY life and enjoying the rest of our summer. There are no more "official" trips though I am sure that we will do a few shorter trips here and there over the remaining weeks of summer.
I have tried twice to upload pics and I haven't been able to so I will just try again later!
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