Road Trip to Georgia

We had a wonderful visit with family in Georgia this week.  The boys were awesome little troopers on the long car ride.  Thanks to DVD players and Disney movies!!   We stayed with my Aunt Pam and Uncle Steve on this trip.  The boys loved their toy room.  It was full of boys' toys...race cars, motorcycles, boats, tools, books, transformers, and much more.  Nathan and Jordan felt right at home!  Thank you Aunt Pam and Uncle Steve for so graciously opening up your home to our little family this week.  We love you!

We spent lots of time outside...

  Playing catch with Grandad.

This is Vivi as "Rapunzel."  (She declared herself as Rapunzel because she was outside without shoes.  If a princess does it, it must be okay...right?)

Uncle Jon cooked the most delicious quesadillas one night.  We put all our "fixens" on inside and brought it out to him at the griddle and he cooked it up perfect for us.  Yumm!

Jordy loved to play in the big magnolia branches and pick up all the leaves.

More playing outside...

In my Memom Beam's front yard - Jenn and I grew up trotting along this black pipe as a balance beam every summer.  So, we had to introduce the balance beam to our own kids!  They loved it.  Jordan was not so interested in having help.  And, after walking the kids across it many times in the heat of the day, we wondered why that was always so much fun.  ?!??!?  :)

Memom Fuller, Nathan, Vivi, and Jordan are sitting on my Aunt Laura's front porch watching some cousins play a game of softball in the front yard.  I love this picture!  Please excuse N and J's messy hair.  They had just gotten out of the pool.  :)

Cousin Zachary's "yellow race car" was a big hit with Nater Tot and Jordy!  They were so excited to get their picture taken with the yellow race car.

Zachary even let them sit in the front seat!  What a special treat!

We took some Beam family pics while we were all together.  This is my grandparents with their two sons (Dad and Uncle Larry) and both daughter-in-laws. 

Cousins!

Bryan taught Vivi how to do the wheelbarrow.  This was after Vivi told us that she didn't want to do a forward roll because she didn't have on fancy panties.  HA!  She cracks me up!

We made a visit to the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta one day.  The boys, Vivi, and Baby Georgia loved it!

Waiting patiently for the dolphin show to start...

SHARKS!  Nathan and Jordan were so intrigued by the sharks.  They kept repeating Bruce-the-Shark's words from "Finding Nemo" - "Fish are friends.  Not food."  So fun to see one of the boys' favorite movies become so real to them.

Baby Georgia was such a trooper on that long day.  She was just as happy as she could be looking at all the big fish! 

Nathan and Jordan got super excited when they saw a real NEMO!! 

Nathan is looking at the crabs and he's saying "Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey," just like the crabs in "Nemo."  So funny!

Driving the boat...

This was one of the boys' favorite activities at the Aquarium...a WHALE SLIDE! 

Tunnels make fish-viewing extra fun!

We had such a fabulous time on our visit....can't wait to go back to Georgia again.  It's too bad that it's a 14 hour drive away.  The time is always too long in between visits.  Thank goodness we have a few Georgia folks coming to visit us this summer!