Our Family Night at Buca

Since Dana and Michael were in town we decided to spend the evening at Buca...

one of our favorite Italian restaurants in town!

I attempted to get pictures of the boys but failed miserably and gave up!

Take 1 Fail

 Take 2 Success :)

The immediate Sumner family (Minus the Whitmire's)

After dinner, we went back and listened to our very own private concert :)

Goodbye for Now!

   We were sad to leave but I was so glad I got to spend a few days relaxing with my best friend!



Saturday in Paradise!

On Saturday, Forrest suggested we go shopping at Johns Pass. This is yet another reason I'm still savoring our time at the beach. My hardworking husband had no worries while we were away so he kicked his "spoil my wife rotten" plan up a notch. Every meal he let me pick and every idea he had was something he knew I would love!

Once we got back to our hotel in the afternoon, we hit the beach and stayed until right before sunset.

We walked on the pier and chatted with some local fishermen who said they just caught a 4 foot nurse shark! Who knows if this was true or fish tales?

FRIDAY!

Forrest asked me the night before to open the sliding glass door to the balcony so that he could wake to the sound of the ocean. Great idea...except for the fact that I woke up because the sun was shining in the room. I opened it up and sat on the balcony sipping my tea. I thought it was strange that no one was one the beach. Forrest rolled over and asked what time it was. I looked and realized it was 6:30 AM! Needless to say, I guess I should have checked the clock. Rest assured the next morning I closed the curtains so the sun didn't shine in quite so early!

Since Friday was our first full day at the beach, we played it low key. Our morning and afternoon was spent at the pool and beach. We spent the evening walking the beach.



Day of Arrival Thursday!

I haven't written about the beach until now because in my head we were still there. I was stuck in paradise- still dreaming of breakfast in bed, lunch overlooking the ocean and filet mignon for dinner?

 We stayed at our favorite hotel, The Doubletree. I could go on and on about how make we love it! It's clean and everyone is so friendly!

We checked in at 3 on Thursday and spent the day looking around the hotel and beach.

 I have no words to describe our view!

 There were people putting on their own firework show down from our hotel. We enjoyed watching from our balcony!



Fireworks at the Sumner's

After the picnic, we went back to Forrest's parents for some rest and fireworks later in the evening. Since we were leaving the next day for the beach we wanted to keep it low key. So that's what we did! Our afternoon was spend relaxing and watching The Help.

   

1st Annual

We went to a church picnic at noon on the Fourth of July. The spread was full of hot dogs, fixin' and sweets!

 We played a little cornhole...

 ...loved on our families...

 and played games in the AC!