Kennedy Taylor Rider: July 2011

We took our first family vacation last week to St. Simons GA. We went to Gulf Shores last summer with the day side of the family, but this was our first family vaca by ourselves. (3 muskateers) We met up with our good friends the Moody's at the beach. They stayed at this hotel last year and told us what a great time they had. We packed up on Tuesday (the day after the 4th and headed out early). The trip was not bad with Mickey movies and naps. It seemed to go pretty quickly. (I wish we had all this technology when I was younger) We got down to St. Simons around 2pm. The Moody's stayed in the room down the hall. They have 3 adoreable girls, Mary Madeline (4), Hendley (3) and Clara Jack (1 1/2). Lee coaches with Matt at Harrison. We took Kennedy onto the beach later that afternoon and needless to say she loved it! As I have said before Kennedy loves the water. She has no fear. She takes off running to the waves and jumps right into the pool. Its almost scary because she doesn't realize any fear. Went spent most of the mornings at the beach and afternoons at the pool. Kennedy was getting some more teeth. (Actually it just broke through last night) So she was a bit cranky. She always seems to be very irritable and moody 1-2 weeks before the teeth break through. Anyways she still had a blast. Whenever she saw the waves or the water she had to be in them. She got tumbled a couple times, because she would sit right down in the water. The first day she ate some sand and licked the shovel a couple times. I think she finally realized she didn't like that gritty taste. We ate alot of seafood, relaxed by the pool and rode bikes. We also met up with our friends the Slattery's for dinner one night. They now live in Camden County which was really close. Kennedy got the cutest little tan (even though I coated with her with 50) By the end of the day she was so worn out after all the excitment. She did not really dig sleeping in the pack in play 5 days in row and towards the end was letting us know in the middle of the night. I also think the teeth had something to do with that. Luckly we were able to nap a bit when she did during the day. The hotel was the perfect location. Walking distance to resturants and ice cream. Which we enjoyed on a nightly basis. St. Simons is such a quiet and friendly place to vacation with kids. On the final night we rode bikes that we rented. Kennedy thought that this was great. Every time Lee stopped she started kicking him or grunting for him to keep going.We came back on Sunday. KK slept majority of the morning and then returned to watching Minnie's boutigue upon awakening. We had a great time and think we have found our family vaca spot for future trips. I took a ton of pics, since this was Kennedy's first time at the beach. I can't believe how independent and big our little doodle bug is getting! Hope you enjoy!

Kennedy enjoying Milk and Cheerio's-The hotel had Disney Channel. YEAH!!!