Long Beach Island, Part 1

I went to LBI on thursday, and hung out with my good friend Mamie, her family, and her new roommate, Hannah.  They rent a beach house there every summer for a week, and lucky me, they invited me over for a sleepover for the  night! :)  Mamie's family is really awesome, and I look forward to visiting with them whenever I get a chance.  I'm really glad I made this trip, I had some much needed girl time, and I'm really glad I got to meet Hannah.  I can't wait to visit them in their new apartment!!!

The house they were staying in had two giant butterfly bushes, with big purple flowers, and the beautiful lacy winged creatures flocked to them in hoards. 

Seafood at the beach is the way to go.  I love me some yummy shellfish!  Oh, and I must say, Mamie always has thee best stack of bracelets on.  It's a rare site to see a bare wrist on this stylish lady.  

After dinner we went down the street to a dock in the bay, and we took some great sunset photos.  Actually, I have so many I'm going to save a few for later in the week.  

Good times with the Schillers and Hannah.  Indie is the Chesapeake Retriever, and Charlie is the lil' Cockapoo.  Sadly, I didn't catch any pictures of Mamie's cute kid sister, Katie.  She's awesome too. :)  She came to the shore with a gaggle of lady-friends, and they were busy having quality girl time, while we were watching the sunset.  Also not pictured here was the awesome tandem bike Mamie and Hannah were riding together for their stay.  I'm kicking myself in the butt for not getting a shot of them riding together.  Very disappointed in myself!  Sometimes lugging a giant camera bag around the sandy beach is the last thing on my to-do list though.  I totally loved riding bikes at the beach.  I could do that everyday for the rest of my life.  I came home looking up prices for beach cruisers, and wondering how hard it would be to find a cruiser with gears.  

Well I want to work on some other blog stuff, and go outside for a bit.  Have a great Sunday, and happy DIYing, chris!

Doggies and The Grandparent's

I need a little break from the Wedding Anniversary Series I've been posting.  Things have been really stressful here, and I need some cute happy pictures.  Here are some of the adorable dogs my family owns.  I snapped these photos on Easter.  There were three dogs there, but sadly I didn't get any photos of my uncle's dog.  

This is my aunt and my cousin's dogs.  I love watching dogs play!  My cousin's dog in the back is making an awesome face at my aunt's dog.  My aunt's dog is so perfectly happy.  She was hard to photograph, because she's a fast little lady.  I was please to get a tongue photo of the lil' girlie.  

My cousin's dog Bella was a little model.  

See here she goes again. 

And again with a lil' tongue this time. Aren't those baby blues beautiful?  My family owns some cute doggies!  

Here are my grandparent's.  I love them tons.  I lived in this house with them for a few years, and I spent pretty much every summer until college at their house.  I wish I visited them more.  I used to hang out with my grandmother all the time when I was a kid.  I have many fond memories of time spent with her.  It's hard now.  She's hard of hearing, and has tons of health problems, which makes it hard for her to get around.  She's still a beautiful woman at 81, she'll be 82 in June!  

This is the only photo I got of all three dogs.  I was sad about that, but this was only the first of many opportunities I hope to have to photograph them all together.  Plus my uncle asked if I could take some photos of his pup jumping, because he is a fantastic jumper.  You can kind of see him hiding in the back there.  

I took some super cute photos of my niece too, but I didn't give myself enough time to ask permission from her parent's to use them (hope I didn't need to ask permission to post photos of the doggies ... I never know what is kosher with t his sort of thing) .  Opps!  That's okay, puppies and babies would be too much cute!  

Well, those cute dog pics definitely helped make me smile a little, which I definitely need to do more right now.  Hope they lightened your day too, happy DIYing, chris!