Back from the Beach!

Just back from a week long trip to Myrtle Beach with the family and what an amazing week it was! It was a perfect mix of family, beach, games, food, drinks, shopping, relaxation and bonding. How I would love to dive into all the details, but I am wiped out! In a nutshell....Zane did a lot of this:

 

While Conner spent almost every moment on the beach doing this:

Alaina also did her share of wave jumping, with MUCH more confidence than last year,

 

 but, in all honestly, Alaina spent most of her time doing this:

 Yep, socializing. That's my girl!

I spent most of the week sitting on the beach, trying to follow doctor orders of taking it easy and healing. At time I caught glimpses of my children and wondered when they got so big. Seriously, when did Conner start to look like this?

 

And Alaina get this big?

 

One thing I did see, amidst the hurrying and chaos of family vacation was this:

 

While they do their fair share of aggravating and arguing, they are also continuing to form a friendship that is so sweet (more on that later). 

I had many sweet "moments". Some, like this one that I witnessed

 And some I missed, but Keith was good at remembering to capture for me. We both are learning to capture "perfect moments"

There was also quite a fuss made by all this week over one special girl in my life. Yes, my sweet niece Maylin. She reminds me of what fun is to come as Zane grows over the next few months.  She also reminds me of miracles in life and how blessed we all are.

 Many more details and pictures to come. : ) Already feeling so behind. I have yet to even start on baby announcements and Zane will be a month old next Friday. Wait, what? A month old? *sniff sniff* He is growing too fast. Just today he graduated to size one diapers and his umbilical cord stump fell off. He will be out of newborn clothes within the week. Would love to stop time, but since I can't, at least trying to embrace the moments I have. Good night!