Preschool

Payton starts pre-school on Tuesday and she is so beyond excited!  Here she is with Miss Gail on her last day at Miss Gail's house.  Reagan says she is still going to Miss Gail's pre-school and Payton will go to another pre-school.  This is the best pic we could get, she wouldn't keep her eyes open!

Myrtle Beach

We had a great time in Myrtle Beach, we did a lot of things and were also lazy a lot, a perfect vacation.  Other than the fact that BOTH cameras are broken, so we don't have as many pictures as I normally would have taken and the cruise control on the Explorer doesn't always like to work anymore, not fun when you're driving 6 hours.  We went to Charleston, saw some of the pretty old houses, went to the open air market and saw all the people making the sweetgrass baskets, I really wanted one but, wow they are expensive!  Saw the Charleston Riverdogs, it was a neat stadium.  Tung ate the homewrecker hot dog we saw the Man vs. Food guy eat on the Travel Channel, it was huge!
Went to the Dixie Stampede, both girls loved it, Payton's favorite part was the pre-show where a guy juggled and balanced all kinds of crazy things like a ladder on his chin, after the balanced the ladder, he dropped it on the ground and spit out all his teeth, she thought it was real and the look on her face was complete disbelief!  He even saw her and said "if you all could see this little girl in the front, she has concern written all over her face, don't worry I'm OK"
Ate too much good food and went shopping.  I love the Disney store at the outlets can't beat $2.99 for an Ariel t-shirt that makes your daughters so happy!
The last night we were there, we walked on the beach, someone put off a ton of fireworks a football field's length away from us, it was like our own private show, we walked over after they were over and saw where they had dug out castle like things in the sand to set the fireworks in the holes to hold them.  I forget all those fireworks are legal in SC. You definitely couldn't put off anything like that here, you are however not supposed to put them off on the beach and the police did come by but were about 30 min. too late.

Hurricane Earl gave us some crazy waves throughout the week, the high tide on Thursday afternoon was crazy, it came all the way up to the dunes at the edge and puddled about 6" deep, the waves were 8-10 feet and the lifeguards put up the red flags to not swim. They were constantly blowing their whistles to keep everyone out of the water because the rip currents were so bad.  We were thankful for the pool.  Reagan always wanted to be a mermaid in the water, she put her face in blew bubbles and everything.  Payton did a good job doing her "ice cream scoops" swimming in the water and dunking her whole head in.

The last night there, we ate pizza on the bed, both girls think it's so fun to eat pizza on the bed, Payton asked about it the 2nd night we were there, we still had 5 more days until pizza day!

Reagan on the beach this year

Reagan at the beach 2009 for comparison, look at the hair!

Love this one of Payton, she was on the hunt for seashells the whole time we were there.

Trying to take a pic with my girls, they both wanted to run away

Daddy and Payton in the huge hole someone dug

Daddy and Payton in the lazy river

Attempt at a family pic with the broken camera that washes out everything and does not zoom anymore.

In the lifeguard chair at night, too bad the best one of them has my hand in it.

Payton will hate this!

Payton will hate me someday for blogging this.  When Tung was getting ready in the morning, she was watching him and when he put on the deodorant she says "Do you put that on to make your fur shiny?" Hopefully she'll think it's as hysterical as we do someday!

Painting with Pallets

We went to Ben Franklin and bought some canvases because they were on sale very cheap, I'm not exactly sure what I"ll do with them yet, but I know sometime in the future I'll want some for crafting/painting and these were too good of a deal to pass up.  While in the paint section, Payton and Reagan spotted the pallets and had to have one, then later I wondered why had I never bought these before? Sure beats having to find a paper plate or remember to keep an egg carton like I had been doing.  Here's what we painted that afternoon.

Reagan then began taking it to a whole new level, notice her face.

She mixed all the colors together

And ultimately painted more of herself than the paper!

Hair Cut

This is a bi-monthly occurrence in our house.  The girls for whatever reason like to sit at the door to the bathroom and watch Tung shave his head.  He always tells them they're next and they just laugh.  Too funny, however what's even funnier is this is exactly what he was doing the first time I met him, though it was over a trash can in the hallway of the dorm.  It seems not much has changed 13 years later, except now it's over newspaper in his daughters' blue and pink bathroom!