Athens Vaca

This summer, Tony’s school sent him to Athens for some AP training. He found out he was going to be gone a week and since our family hates to be separated, we decided to go along and make a sort of vacation out of it. It was a fun week filled with swimming, eating out, playing video games, watching movies and just spending time as a family. The funniest thing about the whole trip was when Kailyn and I met Tony at the UGA campus bookstore (which if you know anything about us, you know that this was very hard for Tony to take a course at his college rival). We arrived about five minutes before Tony and proceeded to look around. All of a sudden I hear Kailyn mumbling, “Georgia, YUCK!” I quickly shushed her, especially since we were in the heart of bulldog territory and were there to get something for her Papa. “But mom, we don’t like Georgia! We like Georgia Tech, remember!” I reassured her that I knew that, and we were just getting something for her grandfather. Her simple response was, “Why does Papa like Georgia…ugh. I like Georgia Tech! Oh, a dog.” For a moment she forgot about the team rivalry and focused on the little dog she had found. When Tony found us, I told him what his daughter had said and beaming he responded with, “That’s my girl.” All in all it was such a great time to just be together as a family despite the fact Tony had to be in class…and despite the fact we were in bulldog country.

Swim lessons

Last summer my sister and brother in-law moved back to Augusta and into their new home. Since they have a pool, Kailyn and I planned on spending quite a bit of time there. After only one time of having to use her floaties, Kailyn decided that she was big enough to swim without the bother of floaties. So, in early June, my sister started teaching swim lessons and Kailyn was proud to be part of her class. It was crazy, just after one lesson Kailyn could jump off the diving board and make it to the ladder! Needless to say she LOVED swim lessons with Aunt Sarah and by the end of the time she was a little fish. She even was swimming in the deep end and diving to get things off the bottom as well! She is quite literally our water baby. She loves doing crazy jumps off the diving board, swimming in circles, diving and even has tried a bit of free style swimming! Of course Tony and I love that she can swim and are both so proud of all her progress!!!

Happy Summer!!!

Yeah…SUMMER!! As with every summer, we are exstatic to see this one come…although, I must admit I am a little sad. This is the last summer before Kailyn starts school! I can’t believe in a mere few months our baby starts school!!! Ahhh….well, we’ll cross that bridge when we get to it! However, for now we are going to enjoy our lazy days filled with family time, swimming and laying out at my sister’s pool! So, here’s to a great summer…WE LOVE THE SUN!!!