Myrtle Beach, SC

We are home and trying to settle back in to a routine after our wonderful vacation to Myrtle Beach. It took us about 13 hours to get there. The girls are gettting older and traveling long distances isn't quite as bad as it used to be. Thank goodness for the DVD player in our SUV! The girls watched movies a lot and even watched the entire Anne of Green Gables series...my all time favorite!!!!! Anyway, we had a great time. We stayed in a condo right on the beach with 2 lazy rivers and a pool. Maddy is our beach/ocean lover and Mallory prefered the pool/lazy river which at times made things a little difficult, but it was fine. We just tried to alternate our time each day between both places. Maddy has no fear and was amazing in the waves and boogie boarding and Mallory practiced and practiced and basically mastered swimming in the deep end! (I still stay close by just in case)

We met a wonderful family staying at the same place as we were with 2 girls about Maddy and Mal's age and the girls had so much fun playing together everyday. We swapped address and the girls hope to stay in touch. Dan and I actually sat and relaxed a bit while the kiddos played which was really nice. Sorry for the picture overload...it was hard to only choose a few. :)Father's Day

Love this pic!

Maddy could have done this all day!

Maddy took this pic of us...

I think that's Mal in the tubes, but Maddy started doing it first and called it the "double cheeseburger"

Mallory spent an afternoon with these girls (they weren't into the ocean waves either) Here they are displaying their mermaid tails

This is Maddy and friend Hayden

Love this one too!

Madison, Auburn and Hayden

Missouri

Last week the girls and I spent time in Columbia MO with Dan's parents. (and Mike, Kasey, Dave and Sarah) The girls went to VBS at G-pa and G-ma's church each day from 9-12. I was a little worried since they didn't know anyone how they would do, but they loved it and did great! So once I dropped the girls, along with Grandma, off at VBS I drove to the ARC (activity and recreation center) and worked out. Having a few hours to myself each day was awesome!!!! The other highlight of our trip was getting to see our new nephew/cousin, Evan. He's precious and I'm kicking myself for not getting more pics of him!!!! Evan and Uncle Dan (Dan drove up for the weekend)

On Sunday the girls sang the songs they learned during the week at VBS.

When I started uploading pictures I was totally ticked that I barely took any pics while I was there!!!! Errrr! Thanks Grandma and Grandpa the girls and I had so much fun. We are home now, but re-packing our suitcases for our vacay to Myrtle Beach...we leave on Friday. Woo hoo!

In an instant...

We took a few silly pics of Maddy's soccer team last Saturday. This Saturday is her last game of the season. :)

Sunday was such a beautiful day here in Indy and so before church I took a few shots of the girls dressed in their matching dresses. We had a great morning at church. Dan was asked to speak to the graduating seniors at our annual Graduation breakfast our church does for the graduates (and he did a great job!!) We left church and were going to my parents for the afternoon to have a cookout. Dan asked me to drive him to our house first so he could change and said he wanted to drive separately b/c he planned on leaving my parents early to get some work done. I left with the girls and we were pulling into my parents driveway my cell rang, it was Dan. But, on the other end was a woman telling me Dan had been in an accident, was hurt and that I needed to get there quickly. It was so terrifying. I had no idea what had happened or what condition Dan would be in when I got there! After what seemed like the LONGEST car ride of my life (really only about 5 min) we got to the scene as they were loading Dan into the ambulance. There were two wonderful ladies at the scene, one who called me on my cell and a nurse who kept Dan's next neck stable/still until the ambulance arrived. They assured me that Dan was going to be ok, but that they probably needed to do some x-rays to be sure. (He had cervical fusion surgery done several years back) Long, long story short he's fine, just sore. I just kept thinking how life can change in an instant. One minute we were heading to a cookout to spend the day together and the next I was watching paramedics load Dan onto an ambulance!!! CRAZY! We haven't gotten the official word that the car is totaled, but are pretty sure it is and this week we are trying to adjust our schedules around one car. yuck!