Happy Birthday Lucy!

July 12th was Lucy's 2nd Birthday. She didn't have much of a birthday since we were driving back from our vacation. But we tried to make is special anyway. It was a long trip and she did pretty good considering we were in the 'bus' (that's what we call Danny's Excursion) 7 out of the 10 days we were gone. Needless to say, by the end of the trip, putting her in her carseat was a struggle, literally.

The trip was fun, we got to my dad's just in time for the fireworks on the 4th and then Monday we went to the beach in Ocean City, MD. It's the beach I grew up going too. We walked on the boardwalk and and ate and shopped! On Tuesday we went down to the beach. The kids had a blast playing in the sand and made some friends from Texas whose dad is in Iraq for the 3rd time. The water was ice cold! Kids were getting out of the water after playing in it for awhile and they looked sunburned! I then realized they were red because the water was so cold. It really was freezing. The sand on the East Coast is very sticky. At one point EmmaLee came running up to me and her head was covered with sand. I asked her if she had been rolling around in the sand, but she said no, she'd just been in the water! It was caked in her hair. It took 5-6 washings to get it out and the next day she said she still thought she had sand in her hair.

Then we went to Gatlinburg, TN (Seiverville and Pigeon Forge are all right in a row). We save this part of the trip for the drive home so we have something to look forward too. This is such a beautiful part of the country. We had a lot fun and the kids loved it. We went to the Nascar Speedpark at the end of the day and Danny and the kids raced go carts while Lucy and I watched. Well, I watched, she screamed because she couldn't ride and because Danny wasn't holding her. She bonded with her daddy on this trip.

The last 10-15 minutes of the trip (seriously, we were almost home) Lucy lost her mind. She wanted out of her seat so badly. She was being a total goof ball and started sticking both of her fingers up her nose! Then she plugged her ears and started yelling. Then she just got really ticked off and started crying. We were all laughing at her which just made her even more upset.

Here are the pictures from the last few minutes of the trip. If you want to see some of the vacation photos, please click on the link:

VA Trip 2008