Our visit with GG Surber

We loaded up the car on Christmas day and drove all the way to Florida to visit GG Surber.  We were meeting Pop Pop, Nana, Uncle Matt, Charlie and Adam there.  We were excited to spend a week in the sun!  It was a pretty uneventful trip which is great.  The girls were great travelers and since we left a day before the big snow storm the weather cooperated.    I am not sure where to even start when blogging about our vacation.  Between all the cameras we had hundreds of pictures! (remember this is our so called baby book so please excuse the large number of pictures)   I decided to start with the most important part...the reason for the trip, GG Surber.  We were so excited to get there and spend some time with her.  Emmerson absolutely adores her.  She pretends to go visit her all the time when playing at home.  

When Nana brought her to the room we were all waiting on her in Claire took off running and flew into her arms! 

Emmerson wasn't far behind.

We got to visit her everyday we were there.  Charlie didn't want to miss a minute with her either. 

During one visit Claire kept rubbing GG's feet.  

The girls picked out shells on the beach everyday to take to her.  She was excited to see what they brought each visit. 

We hated to say good bye and head home but we hope to see her very soon!

We LOVE our cousins...and Uncle Matt!

We were so lucky to get to spend so much time with our cousins.  The girls LOVE them so much.  Charlie is the best big cousin around.  He was so helpful to them and did what ever they needed.  Adam and Emme had so much fun playing in the pool together.  It was fun to see how well they played  together and how much they enjoyed it!  Both boys must have said a hundred times, "Claire is so cute."     She just followed the big kids around (or Charlie carried her) the whole week.  

Emmerson loves playing with Charlie. 

These two are buddies!

Afternoon smoothie...at the bar!

Silly cousins!

Claire loved cuddling up to the boys...and they never said no to her!

They were all so tired by bedtime!

Three little fish!

Trying out our masks we made.

Pop Pop gave all the tubbies!

SO sweet to see them all together!

Aunt Nee got some snuggles too!

Just flying a kite with my cousin.

Charlie was so good with Claire.  She even let him comb her hair!

This little one did everything she could to get into Uncle Matt's arms.

SO sweet!

Uncle Matt is still Emmerson's number one!

I don't think Nana and Pop Pop had a terrible trip either!!!

Sand and swimming = FUN!

We were outside early each morning and didn't come in until it was time to get ready for dinner.  It was so nice to have such great weather and for the girls to get to swim and play at the beach.  Both girls would stay in the pool all day if we let them.  Emmerson would play in the sand all day too.  Claire preferred the pool but if we could get her to forget about the ocean and just play in the sand she tolerated it. 

Happy girl! 

Some of our other cousins came to see GG too so we got to play with them.  

Claire just waited by the side of the pool for anyone to offer to help her in.  

She spent a lot of time crawling around the pool like a dog too!

I think she is going to be a fish like her sister. 

We even got to eat outside. 

Emmerson built so many sand castles.  She loved playing in the sand.  

Claire on the other hand called the waves bubbles and would say over and over, " NO bubbles".

She did like the shells though.

Some evenings we went back to the beach after dinner to play in the sand.