Nicholas and I had the opportunity to go to South Carolina in August. We went for the Black family reunion, which is my mother-in-laws side of the family. I hadn't met most of them and Nicholas hadn't seen them in like 4 years. It was so much fun! We were there for a whole week that went by so super fast! I had never been back east before so everything was new to me. the weather was actually very nice while we were there, but it was way humid. Everything was so green and beautiful. One thing I found funny was that pine needles were used as decoration. My brothers and I hated (my brothers still hate) the FHEs when we would have family pine needle pick up. So after seeing pine needles around the trees as decoration I just laughed and thought man, we should try that! Here are some pictures I took so many i could have posted a hundred more...
Boiled Peanuts:) This was a first for me and they were really really good! Granddaddy and Grandmama also had a tomato garden so the tomato sandwiches were to DIE for!
This was at the zoo... just a random picture that I thought was funny!
Nicholas and Kennedy
Had to have a kissing picture sorry!
My husband, just chillin! Isn't he HOT!?!?! Yes, Yes he is!
We had the chance to go to the temple in Columbia with the family. It was such a neat experience. I love temples and want to go to as many as I can, so I was so excited. I am so thankful that temple work is important to our family and that we took time to attend.
We also got to go to the mountains in North Carolina and go tubing down a river.(I don't remember what one) It was super fun! Like I said before everything was so green!!! We saw some turtles just floating down with us, it was so cool!!! As we were getting down the river towards the end of our journey... there was this rope swing. All the boys were jumping and swinging away. SO.....
Nicholas: Hey babe why don't you try??
Me: No, its okay... I don't think I have enough upper body strength to hold my body up.
Nicholas: Yes you do, you'll be fine!
Me: Okay, but so help me if you laugh at me your dead!
So I try and as soon as my feet hit the water, I couldn't hold my body up and just splashed! It was UGLY! I guess I felt I was more athletic than that, even though I have no upper body, so I decided to try again. This time I climbed up higher hoping to get more air or something... I really don't know what I was thinking...Anyway I pretty much did the same thing I did the first time but somehow I managed to jam my finger. It swelled up and hurt like crazy... It got to the point where I couldn't even move it. So yeah, it was black and blue no fun at all! Nicholas didn't laugh so I let him live, and he did feel really bad for talking me into trying!
Nicholas drove home after this little trip and this is the family crashed out! We had way to much fun!
Then the Beach!!!! I LOVE THE BEACH! I could have spent a whole week just chillin at the beach! It might be cause I'm an Arizona girl and am not around it a lot but I love it! The water was so warm and we had so much fun in the sun!
This was our last day, and we hadn't taken a picture with just our family so we pulled off to the side of the road, set our cameras on the top of the car and smiled! It was such an amazing trip! We had such a blast and were so lucky to get to go on this vacation! I married into such AWESOME family! I am so glad I got to go meet some of them and spend more time with the ones I already knew! I just wish we weren't so far away!
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