Oyster Roast 2010

This is literally the only picture where both Blyth and Gwennie are clothed and clean!

For those of you not watching the news, there was a HUGE storm that hit Virginia/Maryland/DC this weekend. We were planning on heading up there to visit friends and celebrate birthdays, unfortunately 3 ft of snow got in the way! Thursday afternoon Corbin and I were wavering between leaving at 4 PM to beat the snow or just heading to the Low Country to hang out with our cousins at the annual Oyster Roast. Finally around 3 PM we decided not to chance it and called Russ/Gini and asked if they wanted company this weekend. Gwennie and Hudson love to spend time with Blyth and Alex and we always have a blast hanging out with E, Gini and Russ so we left the car packed and headed down to Columbia Friday night. Blyth and Gwennie kept everyone in hysterics Friday night as they made an interesting mess of "Spaghetti Night". Gini made the sauce while Russ cooked the meatballs and it was a huge hit. Gwennie and Blyth probably stepped on more than they ate but they had lots of fun doing so. After hosing them off and putting their jammies on we read a few stories. They spent more time "talking" on their cell phones with each other than actually listening to the story but by about 9 PM they were wiped out and ready to crash.

Saturday morning we all loaded up and headed down to Huger (pronounced YouJee...don't ask my why it's said that way, couldn't tell you) to see the rest of the fam and as usual, I didn't plan well so the camera battery didn't make it very long :-( Here are a few pictures from Saturday with Page showering her ace Auntie/Mothering skills, Aunt Louise pushing Gwennie on the swing and Molly (who is a big sister to baby Jack!) giving a "Yay, we did it!" picture smile on the swing. When the girls got there Molly/Blyth/Gwennie/Alex all couldn't wait to play together (just like Xmas!) and had lots of fun making a mess.

I wish the camera was working all day because the pictures of Gwennie COVERED in mud from playing on the slide were pretty funny. I think she might have been the dirtiest kid there but she sure did have fun!

A big thank you to Nana, all of the Aunts and Uncles (especially Bill who held Hudson and kept him smiling and happy) Page, Emily Vick, and Jeremy for helping out with kid duty!!! It took an army to keep track of all of the little ones!