Jekyll Island

In mid-July we had the pleasure of going to Jekyll Island for our friend Matt's wedding to Erin. Josh and Matt went to med school together and lived together for a year when Josh lived on Davis Island. Matt also did his residency at UAB and a year's fellowship at Emory so we have all made the same moves these last several years. He and Erin live in Birmingham and we are so happy for them. The wedding was beautiful!

Med school friends: Jeremy, Troy, Josh



Josh, Matt (the groom), Troy



Josh's parents were able to meet us for the weekend and watched Luke for us at the hotel while we attended the wedding. The next day we headed over to St. Simon's Island for the morning. It was hot, but really beautiful. It would be fun to take a long weekend vacation there. There were lots of cute shops and a fun playground which Luke enjoyed. We ate lunch on the island and I had the best grouper sandwich ever!
Here are some pictures from the day:
On the pier (I am around 25 weeks pregnant here I suppose, starting to show)



Josh and his dad



Boardwalk and the lighthouse



And since I know what you all really want to see are pictures of Luke, here he is having a grand old time on that playground:











little guy next to a big whale



by the lighthouse





swinging!





We had a great (though too quick) trip! It was nice to get away for the weekend.

New yard, new pool

One of the things we like most about our new house is the ability to actually play outside. We had nowhere at the apartment that we could do that and although several of the parks/playgrounds nearby are nice, it is much nicer to be able to walk out your front door and play. Our backyard is pretty much unusable, it is fairly sloped and full of ivy and pine straw but the front yard makes a nice outdoors space for us. We set up Luke's new wading pool to use and he had a great time!