Vacation

We went to Myrtle Beach in July with Nana. Auntie and Lucas and Abigayle were supposed to join us, but unfortunately, Unlce Lucas's grandma died just before they left. We missed them, but were glad Uncle Lucas had Auntie and Abigayle to comfort him.

Here are some pictures from our trip:

I'm not sure we knew this guy's name, but he was the Barefoot Landing mascot.
Nana and her boys:

Jordan doing a little sunbathing.

They had lazy river at the condo where we stayed. Daddy and Trevor could have ridden it all day long. Literally. Trevor never wanted to get out - neither did Daddy.

As you can see, relaxing was the theme for Trevor's vacation.

We went to the super cool Ripley's aquarium. I don't have very many good pictures, but here's Daddy with a snake (I think):

And Jordan in the whale slide.

Vacation always has to include some ice cream:

The condo also had a really cool slide. Jordan spent his whole day going down it. He was terrified of the pool, wouldn't go near the lazy river, but he would slide down this slide at least 50 times a day. Every day. On his stomach. I don't understand either.

Trevor loved the water play area.

More fun at the beach.

For Your Entertainment

Things heard around the Gilford house lately (all from Jordan, of course):

J: Mommy, I have a new girlfriend at church.
Me: You do? What's her name?
J: I don't know. Tomorrow, you'll have to drop me off at church and I'll ask her. She has on yellow.

Me: Jordan, pick up some of these toys.
J: Mommy, does "some" mean a little or a lot?
Me: All of them!!!

J: Mommy, sometimes, if you go hunting without a gun and you just go up the animal and say "hi," that's nice hunting, right?

(Uncle Lucas is the regional director of the Wild Turkey Federation and we have recently watched Bambi, so we have lots of questions about hunting and I have to figure out a way to say that even though hunters are always bad in cartoons and on Disney movies, they aren't necessarily bad in real life. And even though guns are bad on TV and we aren't allowed to have toy weapons, soldiers use guns and they aren't mean. And I'm obviously not an NRA member and would be pretty happy if guns didn't exist. Parenting a almost 4 year old is complicated.)

J: Mommy, Trevor said he wants to _________(fill in the blank with whatever you think Jordan might be wanting to do at the time - go to Nana's, paint, play outside - note, Trevor, of course, doesn't talk)

J: Mommy, I'm going to stay here by myself today.

J: Mommy (or Daddy, or whoever he might be mad at), you can't come to my birthday party.

Family Photos

Just a sampling of pictures we had taken yesterday. Both kids are recovering from the stomach flu, so it was a little difficult, but we made it work. There is a link to more pictures at the bottom. There were over 900 shots, so I've tried to pick some of the best and put them here and on Shutterfly.

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Jordan's new bike

Uncle Lucas got Jordan a new bike earlier this year. Jordan loves it, but was a little scared of it at first. Here he is riding it at Auntie and Lucas's house. He rides it everywhere at home now!

Abigayle

Here are some pictures of my beautiful new niece, Abigayle, born February 24, 2009 :)