St. Andrew's

This was a really enjoyable vacation, even though there were some rough attitudes every now and then. It's hard to be happy all the time when you are sunburnt and have whiny babies and have to unpack camp, yada yada.... but it was still fun. Adam is the worst off- he did not use any sunscreen the first day :(

This is setting up,

and Tripp got so dirty in record time!

An evening at the beach. We came on this trip with a handful of friends and their families. We went to the mountains last year, Lake Carter, and it was a blast. This year we had fewer families, but we plan on making it an annual thing. It is really loads of fun!


We couldn't keep them out of the water, and poor Tripp just kept getting knocked down, but he didn't seem to mind one bit. He just kept going back for more.



We went to the Alligator Walk to see if any were out and about.

No alligators, but I wasn't complaining.

Our last day at the beach.

They played pretty well together.


My cute hubby!

And to prove that I was there, here is my tanned face peeking around the camera:

The real culprit turns out to be, not deer... no. It is that ugly tomato hornworm caterpillar in a picture in the post below. I caught one that had munched through two pepper plants and was as big as my pinky finger. It made this horrible clicking noise, I guess to try to "scare" me away or maybe it was scared itself and screaming at the two huge sticks trying to pry its legs off my plant. Those things are strong, and I didn't want to touch it. But now I can take down all the red celophane that looked very weird, and be on the look out for these caterpillars. They come out of nowhere it seems. This year for gardening has been a very educational one.

Okay, I am very protective of my garden. And I don't appreciate anyone coming around and messing with it. This includes YOU:
I had the cutest little budding tomato plant, and you reduced it down to this,

a stalk!

Well, I'll show you. With this:

Crinkly paper to scare you with the noise you'll make as you bump into it. Oh, and not to mention the yellow-eyed cat that will come in handy long before Halloween.


I have yet to find a good way to scare this guy,
but his time's coming.

But there is good news:
Check out this cute little pepper!
The boys of summer-