spring break '12

Uncle Troy and Graham playing a round of golf

on Ocean Creek.

 Evan, Todd and Graham

 Peter and Evan

Peter is from South Africa and is

one of Evan's best friends...he is a knob this year too.

Peter, Coach Baker, Justin and Evan

We went to Hilton Head to watch The Citadel Men's Tennis Team

play tennis.

Lizzy and I just killin' time!

It was nice to watch the team, but I think that Lizzy

would agree with me when I say 

we liked killin' time at the beach better!!!

 Evan and Oliver (asst. coach)

 Justin, James, Peter, Alex, Evan and Dillon

on the tee behind our house.

The team visited Fripp Tuesday evening for dinner.

It was getting dark here, but the picture

still turned out pretty good.

 Evan and Lizzy

 Evan and Graham with their "fake" smiles...

...just hagin' out after the team left.

Graham giving a lesson to Lizzy!

Lizzy with her new racquet and tennis shoes :)

Hey wait a minute...I thought that I was giving the lesson?

So hard for a "coach" to just watch :)

So proud of her...she did great!

Her first match is this Thursday!!

Thanks for taking time out of your lesson to pose for a picture!

We always have some sort of project to do...

one night Lizzy, Todd and Graham

put together a storage rack,

it was really loud...

Just ask the boys...they opted to stay in their cage

until Graham put the hammer down!

And speaking of the boys,

they were up to no good as always!

They fought over the same chew toy and

sat stood on top of the sofa and watched all

of the other BIG dogs walk by.

Todd mowed and powerwashed the decks.

I worked out in the yard and trimmed all of the 80,000 clumps of grass!

I love how it looks, especially in the fall,

but it is a lot of work to get it to look that way.

I also raked up all of the oak leaves, southern oaks lose

their leaves in the spring, and laid pine straw that

my sweet son, Evan went into town to get for me!!

He also got me another oleander bush...

it is the one that is already blooming. The deer on Fripp will

eat anything, even poisonous oleander, so that

is why I had to replace that one.

More grass! My hands had two very big blisters by this point :/

Soooo, I got some pretty daisies to flank the front door.

Just makes me happy looking at them!

Thanks Todd for letting me get them...

I hope that they can live a week without water before my parents get there!!

After all of our hard work...and some beach time,

we went to a new restaurant on Lady's Island called

The Dockside. It was right on the water and the

food was just as good as the food at

their other location near Port Royal!

The best cornbread ever...we asked them to take the bread sticks

away and bring more cornbread :)

I was so thankful that Evan had the same break as us!

It was such a good week...but, it was back to reality for E.

This was early Sunday morning at The Citadel.

The barracks weren't even opened yet so we had to drop him off

at the tennis center.

Doug and Vladimir liked their first visit to The Citadel!

All of my boys :)

Those good-byes are tough! I am so glad that he only has a month left :)

I know that Lizzy is too. It was a long ride home.

See you for Recognition Day in a couple weeks, E!!!

Finish strong!!!