South Carolina Vacay

We spent last week in Charleston, SC. for a much-needed family vacation! We left at 2 a.m. on Saturday morning to try to make up for the 13 hour drive. It wasn't so bad. Of course, J did all the driving, so he might have a different opinion on that.

We stayed on Isle of Palms, right on the beach. We could see the ocean from our balcony - it was amazing! Believe it or not, I took about 600 pictures, and forgot to take a picture of our amazing view! I won't bore you with all 600 pictures... but here are some of the highlights:

The SC Aquarium (we seem to have a thing for Aquariums)



Bug was a crazed-toddler at the Aquarium. We put her down, and she went nuts - bouncing back and forth from every tank and exhibit. She was on overload and loved it. Too bad the pictures don't quite capture what a spaz she was! She loved every minute of it, but when we left she crashed - she was asleep in the stroller before we made it to the car!

Yeah, she's kissing the fish.



A day at the beach.

Bug's first time in the sand. We tried to take her shoes off - I don't think she liked it. She's so weird about textures! But she got over it, she loved playing in it... just didn't want it on her feet.

She kept running towards the ocean, and then when the tide would come in, she'd run away squealing "oh! oh! oh!"


Touring around downtown Charleston.















She found a ladybug...


Our last day there, we visited Middleton Place, a huge plantation. We didn't take the house tour, because we didn't want to risk our crazy toddler surrounded by antiques, but there was plenty of beautiful scenery and animals to keep us busy.






Last, but not least, part of the reason for our trip was for my friend Joellen's wedding! (This pic is Bug cheesing for the camera at the wedding.) But I have more pictures from that to come!

Smile Bug!

Miss Bug's new thing: when you ask her to smile for the camera, you get some version of this squinty-smile.

Housing Report

Well I’m very happy to report that after seven showings in the past eight days, I’m exhausted.

And as if seven showings in this terrible housing market (?) wasn’t enough to be grateful for… we’ve gotten TWO offers!

And as if that wasn’t enough to be ecstatic for… tonight we got an ACCEPTED offer!

So, we’ve still got the inspection and appraisal to get through, but it looks like we might be selling our house!?

It is truly unbelievable. To be really honest with you, we really weren’t expecting this, so we don’t exactly know where we’re going to live – and it is a bit of a shock. I love this house, and I’m really going to miss it.

But I know that wherever we end up, we'll make it home.
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