Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Pics from Arley, Alabama...what? You've never heard of it???

We are currently on vacation down in Arley, AL with my mom, dad and niece Emma. I bet you're wondering what there is to do in Arley, but my parent's house is on Smith Lake and we have a lot of fun swimming, fishing, tubing, skiing, etc. So, here are a few pics of our trip so far...

Emma with Grandaddy fishing off the pier. Emma is using Jacob's chair and fishing rod since she threw part of her rod in the lake earlier in the day. Ha! Grandaddy has already fashioned a new one for her to fish with. No fish so far! Here is Mom and Maggie enjoying some time on the water. Maggie has been such a good girl on this trip! She started sleeping through the night last week and it has made such a difference (at least in my life it has!). Here she is wearing her hat, which she later chewed on for quite a long time.
Here is a picture of Brent riding "big bertha." He had quite an interesting stance on the tube, but I have spared you that picture. As usual, he got sunburned on our first day down here...
Here is a picture of Jacob and Brent fishing. Jacob had quite a time playing with the night crawler worms. He let them crawl all over his arm, etc. Funny thing is he wouldn't hold a frog!
Jacob enjoys sitting inside the tube while in the water but we have managed to actually get him in the water some and he does pretty well. He really likes holding onto his noodle and he LOVES playing with tubes of sunscreen, which he calls his chapstick and rubs on his face nonstop. At least he is protected. (They actually look like a fat tube of chaptstick...we're not letting him play with lotion sunscreen...)

Here are Jacob and Emma eating some strawberries in sync.

John and Emily got to spend a few days with us before heading for a 2 week tour of Europe. At least our arm pits won't be as hairy as the folks they'll encounter over there...that, and we actually like Americans.

These last two pictures are some of Jacob playing in the back yard before we left for Alabama...he is blowing bubbles and playing with a mushroom.










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