Botany Bay

Mike and I have been down in Charleston for the last week. It has been raining a lot while we've been here but we have been able to have some fun despite the weather. One of the fun things we wanted to do was go to the beach. So my dad told us about Botany Bay Plantation down on Edisto Island. Its a really pretty beach and the best part is there aren't very many people (especially since it had been raining so they all ran away...it stopped after about 2 mins and we were able to enjoy a basically deserted beach and no rain :)

This beach is covered in beautiful shells! They are perfect and so pretty. The sad part is that you can't remove them from the beach (yes they have people watching you to make sure) but the nice part is that people have taken the ones they have found and displayed them on the beach. So on the fallen trees there are rows of shells that everyone can look at and enjoy :)

We had a lot of fun playing in the waves too :)

Look at them tan lines

Good times had by all :)

Birthdays! Birthdays! Birthdays!

May is a crazy month for birthdays in our family (which is why this post is being written in June). I LOVE birthdays! I love celebrating my birthday but I also love making other people's birthdays special. (I'm only going to blog about 2 of the birthday's this month but that's because these are the only 2 I was around for....I hope the others had fabulous days as well)

My dad's birthday always falls on Mother's Day weekend and also on the weekend of State for track. This year the state track meet was in Columbia and my dad had to be there. So Mike and I decided we would drive down and see him there. Then my mom suggested that we surprise him and drive down to Charleston. So we went to cheer his team on and when the meet was over we said goodbye and wished him a happy birthday.  Then we raced down to Charleston to beat him. We got to my parents house and my mom was set to go pick my dad up from the high school but luckily we made it in time to go pick him up. Boy was he surprised when he saw Mike and I drive up :) We continued to celebrate his birthday by taking him to see Iron Man 3 and then we went home and had a wonderful dinner with chocolate cake and ice cream for dessert :)

Happy Birthday Daddy!

At the end of May we celebrate another birthday....this time it was my birthday. This year I turned 23(still sounds funny) and I was so excited that my birthday fell on Memorial Day this year because that meant I didn't have to go to work. For my birthday I told Mike I wanted to sleep in and then go to the gym(yes even on my birthday I actually wanted to go spend at least an hour working out). Then I just wanted to relax at home until we went to the movies to see Great Gatsby and go to Red Robin for dinner. Best laid plans......

After I worked out I had a surprise waiting for me in my living room....my parents and little brother had come up from Charleston to spend the day with me! I was shocked! We began our day with presents!

This is a little flower cookie pan from Mike's family...it was pretty tasty!

 I have been telling Mike for a few months that I want to start canning food so guess what he got me! I'm so excited to be able to can some foods now.....now I just have to learn how to use it :)

 He also got me one of my favorite movies...Legally Blonde!

I also got some money from my family and Mike's which I enjoyed. I decided to use it to go shopping (shocker). I got some nice workout clothes and also some new summer clothes which I'll have to post pics of some time but trust me.....they're cute!

The only sad part about my family coming was that I didn't have a birthday cake. Originally when it was just going to be Mike and I, I told Mike I didn't want a whole cake for just the 2 of us so he made me pecan bars instead. He only made a half batch though so we didn't have enough for 5 people but if I had known their were going to be 5 of us I would have asked for a cake :( Oh well the pizza for lunch and Cookout milkshakes were delicious!! I decided to skip the movie and spend some time with my family so we played my favorite game....Clue!! The best part is that I won the game which I had never done before so I was pretty happy. After they left Mike took me out to dinner at Red Robin was was yummy as always then we had dessert at home and he sang Happy Birthday! to me.

The dessert was delicious and was the perfect ending to a great day! Hopefully 23 will be a great year! I'm happy my family was able to celebrate with me and that my husband worked so hard to make it a special day for me!