Trip to South Carolina

A few weeks ago, Drew, Jenna, and I met up with my parents and grandma at my uncle and aunt's house in Anderson, SC. We had such a great time visiting with family, going boating, skiing, tubing, and swimming. What a great mini-vacation!

Jenna and Mommy at a rest stop. It started raining as we were posing for the picture and we ended up running back to the car.

On the boat, ready to go!

My Uncle Keith and Aunt Mary

My uncle and dad - can you see the resemblance?!?

Everytime Jenna was on the boat, she would fall asleep. It must have been the humming of the engine and the rocking of the water. It was great!

Jenna in her lifevest. Don't you just love the scrunched up face? She's trying to chew on the vest.

Daddy and Jenna walking back to the house from the boat.

Daddy and Jenna enjoying the water

What a cutie!

All 3 of us

Daddy and Jenna taking a swim. Jenna loved being in the water with Daddy, especially without her vest or floatie. Don't worry, this was at a dock and Drew was able to touch the bottom.

Drew skiing - he's a natural!

And then there's me... I DID get up though! Drew was so excited, he didn't get a picture of it. But I did get up for about 10-15 seconds. Yay!!

Drew tubing

Kristin tubing

Drew and me tubing together

Now check out these videos...

This first one is of me tubing.

Here's Drew tubing...be sure to watch the ENTIRE video. ;)

Daddy and Jenna swimming

Army Crawl

One more video for the week...we're well on our way to having a crawling baby! Thursday evening Jenna started doing an army crawl across the floor - mostly to get Bailey's toys. Drew was actually the first one to see it, which was fun for him.

Belly Laugh

The other day my mom was over and she got Jenna to laugh harder than I've ever heard her laugh before. Unfortunately, I didn't grab my camera until near the end so you don't get to hear the real deep belly laughs, but I did catch a few on video.

Another video

We have a couple more videos we've taken over the past week, so I'll post one today and one tomorrow. This video's not too exciting - just an example of how badly Jenna wants to crawl. She gets up on her knees and rocks back and forth. Many times she'll take a few steps with her arms, but hasn't figured out how to get her legs to follow, so she'll just plop on her belly. The video also shows you one of her favorite pastimes right now - making bubbles.

First tooth

My little baby is no longer a "baby"...her first tooth popped through last Thursday (although it isn't all the way out yet) and today her second tooth on the bottom is now peeking through her gums. Poor little thing - two at once! Although, maybe that's better than having to go through this two separate times. She's handling it pretty well, but the days when the teeth are actually coming through the gums, Jenna seems to be much more clingy and fussy - who can blame her? I haven't been able to capture either tooth in a picture, but will once they're sticking out all the way.


Last week I decided to give Jenna a new look - a bow in her hair. Of course we had to do it "Bam-Bam" style, right spack dab on top of her head. Too cute!


Jenna absolutely loves being outside and she loves swinging. So since we don't have a playset of our own yet, we decided to take Jenna to a park with some swings. She had a blast...as did we!


Jenna has a new favorite food - sweet potatoes! I love how this picture makes her lips look HUGE.
Lastly, if you remember we had a nest in our hanging flower pot out front...well, the birds hatched. It's been fun watching them grow. They're both gone now - the last bird left the nest this morning. Now I can finally take down our nasty dead flowers out front. Our neighbors were probably about to call the HOA on us!

I'll leave you with a video of Jenna swinging. Enjoy!