Pool time!

Addy and her daddy, all bundled up after the pool!

The first family swim!

Christmas 2009

Well the craziness of christmas has come to an end:) We had a great first christmas with Addyson, and are so grateful for our family who spoiled her rotten! She was a little overwhelmed at times, bu that was due in part to her teething. That's a whole other story! Christmas eve was church and appy's with the colbourne side. After that we headed over to my parents to sleep over! We woke up christmas morning, had waffles, coffee and cranberry mimosa's..it was all delish! I am pretty sure that we spent all christmas day opening presents as i had to open addyson's and my own this year, things take a little longer:) So we did our gift exchange with my parents, got dressed and headed out to my brothers and SIL place for MORE presents, a wonderful turkey dinner, and than MORE presents from my granny..I wasn't kidding when I said it was a giftathon!!*grin* Boxing day was the colbourne Christmas with more great food, the kids get more toys than they need, and a wonderful walk around the neighborhood to see all the pretty christmas lights, and to get the nephews energy run out!

Overall we had a really good christmas this year, and are so thankful for our best gift this year, our daughter. It was such an amazing experience spending it with her. The reality hit at times, such as when I was writing her card on her gift, from mommy and daddy..tears I couldn't hold back..it was just one of those surreal moments. We are so blessed! and of course so grateful for the one who made this all possible...my Jesus!

The true meaning of Christmas

About a year ago this time, my dad came to me with a proposal, well more a proposition. My dad had a dream to start an society to help woman and children in critical need in our town. So a year ago we began what is call Life Exchange Ministry's. My dad asked me to sit on the board which I was more than happy to do as this is something that I am passionate about. We have been doing some small projects this past year and focusing on raising money for some future endevours we would like to take part in, but God had a big plan for us just a few short months ago. It was God's time that a young school teacher just happened to call my mom's place of work, and just happened to be calling asking for support for her program. So my mom just happened to mention our society, and a meeting was set up. We have started off with doing lunches for these kids. Three times a week my dad takes them subway. So who are these kids. Well have you seen Freedom Writters the movie? first of all if you haven't, rent it! and if you have, its a very similar situation. there are 17 kids in this class. These kids are kids that society was ready to give up on. But this young teacher wasn't. So she started this piolet project. We decided to do this lunch program as these kids are highly malnurited and just getting a proper lunch can do so much for their focus, consentration, and much more! already we are seeing such a big change. Last week we also provided them with a christmas dinner! The big thing, that I got to take part in happened on Friday. Each kid got to make a list of specifc items they want. We picked the categories such as deoderant, toothbrushes, ect, and they picked their favorites..and man, do they know what they like:)! So I had the priveldge of doing the shopping, oh my, what an adventure!! but so much fun! So this Friday was the big day for the kids to get their stockings. Talking to my mom yesterday brought tears to my eyes, and still till this day! My dad was just going to go and drop them off, but the teacher wanted him to stay! What an experience, watching 17 teenagers unwrap their gifts! My dad was so overwhelmed at the experience. I was so worried that i didn't get them all exactly what they asked for, because that is what i am use to in my level of society..but not these kids. All they kept saying was wow, I can't believe I got what I asked for..the toothbrush I wanted, the socks I wanted..not the Wii I wanted. how amazing, how sad, but how amazing this was. The one the broke my heart the most..was one sweet boy, who my mom describes as quite withdrawn. He asked my dad if it was ok if he waited till christmas to open his because it probably would be the only thing he got to open on christmas..I still tear up as I write this. So this christmas, I hope this little story reminds you how blessed you are. I know things can be tight, and hard at times, trust me I know. But I also know how blessed we are, with clean homes, roof's over our heads, and presents to open with loved ones this Friday. So remember the true spirit of christmas, what Christ came to earth to do and if given ANY opportunity to pass this love along to anyone around you please do, don't hesitate that your gifts, food, love, open door isn't good enough, I have learned this week that it is MORE than you could even imagine! MERRY CHRISTMAS.....Love the Colbournes;)

Jesus My King

Sunday we had a guest preacher at church. He is one of the youth pastors at one of the churches in town. I have to say I was quite impressed with this young mans message:) And it really got my thinking of this truth that he spoke of.

So here is my summary in my words; my thoughts on the subject.

There are two very different views the bible gives us of christ. There is Christ our friend, friend of sinner, lover of our souls. This is a very important concept to grasp and what really makes that personal relationship we have with christ real. He is my best Friend, as many of us say. I talk with him, walk with him, listen to him, cry out to him..he is there, and by grace I am free to have that unique relationship with him. This title of friend makes our relationship with Christ somewhat casual, which i have always appreciated, and one of the things that I love about my savior. Comes as you are, they tell us, and most times, that's how I present myself to him. Broken, humble, unrighteous, at fault, sinful, real...just me. And I know beyond of a shadow of a doubt thats how he wants me to be; that is how he created me to be, just me. As I know, I was created in his image, which some days is such a hard concept to grasp. But on the other end of this scale, sometimes I truely believe, especially in our generation and the ones coming up, we have abused this relationship. Sometimes we cross that line and treat him like we do anyother friend. We take advantage of him, munipulate him, don't defend his honor, don't keep our commitments to him, don't respect his values and morals when we are in his presence, which is always. we take the lords name in veign without even uttering a word. We break his heart as we bring him to our level. We abuse Grace on a daily basis, and forget the price that was paid in order for us to receive this amazing gift, and a gift is what it is!!
I now, more than ever as a mother I am just starting to finally grasp a hair of what my lord did for me that day when he let his son hang on that cross. There is no greater loss than that of a child, and that is why that and that only is the sacrifice he made..so where am I going with this?? well, as i said at the begining of this note, there are two very important roles Christ is to play in our lives, our friend..yes, but there is another huge role that he is to play in our lives that I feel so many days we forget. That christ, is my king. not just the king of kings and lord of lords..but MY king, YOUR king. So what do you think of when you think of a king..I know I think of powerful words such honor, respect, awe, reverence..do we attach those words to our relationship with christ? I was a womans conference a few months back and the speaker was talking about the path to beauty. The one major factor that makes us beautiful is having the fear of God in our lives. People have misconstrude that concept for many years, but what it truely means, what it really really means to fear God, is to have the utmost, powerful, fall to your knee's reverence to him...do we have that? Do we worship him as our king??? As his birthday approaches next week I pray that we all can remember that we are not just celebrating our savior, or friends birthday, but our Kings birthday. I know we talk a lot, especially lately with the economy about not putting emphasis on gifts but focus on the real meaning of Christmas and spending time with family, ect. But as you do exchange gifts, if you do exchange gifts, think and remember the first christmas gifts given. They were not handed to the baby Jesus as a have to, or I will put it on my credit card, or to do it because...they were given in reverence, to the king of all kings, of us, of you and me. My heart is challenged this week, to bring a new level or reverence to my father, my king. I am not sure yet how that looks every day, but I am on a path to discover as he deserves it more than anything..he deserves everything.

Six Months old!

Well we are half way to one; man is that scarry! my little miss is 6 months old today; I can't believe it! This last months we have seen a lot of changes in our little girl. She is really starting to develop in her mobility, and verbal skills! I was reading in one of my baby books how by nine months a baby should be making his or her constanence sounds like baba and dada..well this one has been doing that for the past three weeks:) She loves to say dada..no mama...come on now! but we are working on that:)hehe

She's gotten so much stronger with her toys grabbing them from all different angles, starrying at them and analyzing them, especially her soother. What a fasinating thing those soosies are:)

She has finally learned how to roll from her stomach to her back as she has been doing the other way for a couple of months now!

She also learned to sit up this month, and not the hunched over version she had been doing for a while but really sit up and she is doing so well at it!

She is a little food obsessed like her parents. She stares down everything we eat, and thinks she can have it! we will see how beans go in the next couple of weeks:)hehe She might not be liking solid foods so much after that. I will be back with pictures on that one! Whatever is in your hand she thinks is hers, especially cups. She loves cups, mugs, and of course most importantly starbucks cups! shocking, i know:She survived her first flu, not so much fun. but we made it! It was a rough long week as both Dave and I were still recovering from our batch with it, but thanks to the help of pedilite we made it! Her lovely teeth are still moving around, her eye teeth are still pressing up on her poor little gums but still nothings cut..so we wait patiently. I was a horrible teether so there is no suprise that my kid would have a tough process with this as well.

She loves to laugh, and smile, and make dinasour noises. She can get quite loud now. She is more of a ham all the time which we are just loving. She makes Dave and I laugh and smile so much, she truely is our earthly joy!!

Happy six months birthday girl, words could never express how much we love you and how much joy you bring to all our lives!!!

A Split Second

A split second changes everything, sometimes for the better sometimes for the worse.
We were all set to go out tonight to a church christmas production. All day I had this not right feeling in my stomach but figured it was just my nerves as the snow flakes were kissing my windshield, a sight that is beautiful but not pretty on the roads. Ever since my car accident three winters ago, my nerves get shaky during this time of year. But as the evening approached the snow was staying away we got ready to go. We headed over to my parents place to drop of the princess. Just before we were about to walk out the door, their phone rang. as we listened to the message, we knew good news was not on the other end, so my mom ran and picked it up. It was one of those phone calls you dread getting...did you hear....so in so was in a car accident and died on impact. my heart sank. The person we lost was an old family friend. His dad was my dads associate pastor at our church in Vancouver. he was 21..6 years younger than me, 60 years taken to soon. This was a boy who broke the odds. He was born with a medical condition that almost took his life at a young age, but God spared it...so why now? these are all the questions we ask. but we thank God that he is with his father now...

The moment the phone call ended the tears ran down my face. I knew I couldn't leave. To sad to go anywhere like a production, and to fearful to get in a car and drive a far distance on the highway and most importantly to far from my baby. I think i will just keep her close to me the next couple days, weeks, years! its so wierd now being a mom, and hearing of these losses...it hits so much harder. because that was someones baby, and that thought is unimaginabal.

So pray four our friends, pray for this family as this grief will be overwhelming especially at what is suppose to be such a special time of year...

Off to a crazy start!

Well, this month has started off pretty crazy for us around here:) First dave had the flu, than I got it and now my little princess is recovering from it...I have never cleaned up so much barf in two days!!:) I feel I have entered a new level of motherhood with being puked on so much!

Needless to say I am a little weary of life, but know that good things are around the corner and we can only go up from here!

I still love this season and am so looking forward to the next couple of weeks with family and friends! This is such a special christmas as it is the first with our angel and she is at such a fun age for it!

Off to a christmas production tonight as long as the weather holds off, than tomorrow we are going to go on a little train ride at one of the nusery's in town..should be fun! they have real life reindeer to, so I am excited to see and show addy those!
Than sunday we have our church production.

this week will be filled with baking cookies as two of my mommy friends and I are doing a cookie exchange this year! should be fun and tasty:) than next wekeend we are heading into the city to celebrate my brothers big 3 0 birthday, and hopefully to one of my favorite places to go at christmas time, van duesen gardens! Than after that...its the big wekeend! Full of food, fun and family..the three F's:)!

It looks like everyone is very busy getting ready and enjoying this season so far I pray. I am hoping you all are staying warm and cozy inside and healthy and safe!!

Merry 14 days till christmas!!!

kick of to christmas

This sat we had our first official christmas event...cutting down the christmas tree with Daddy D's side of the family:) It was a gorgeous day...just a little windy! but miss Addy did great! I on the other hand have not had the greatest week. Stomach flu....barf..literally. So its been a tough one for me. COmbine that with a child who has decided to party in the middle of the night instead of sleep, well, thats probably what shut my immune system down and how I got sick..but anyways, so is life. Its tough though as I was all excited to enjoy this month Naseua free. Unlike last year! but i guess better now than on christmas day! But yes, still frustrating. Its been 5 days now and I still feel off..so pray I get better soon please! I am learning very fast this crazy world of being sick and being a mom...not an easy combination!!!geesh!

But back to yesterday, it was a great morning of cutting the tree, a big family lunch, hanging out, decorating, snacks....christmas is coming...I can smell it in the pine needles and I am so excited!!

Where did God go?

This is a question that has been on my mind lately. Not in my life, but in everything around me. Not saying that there some days when Definetly put him on the back burner, and forget that HE is suppose to my priority not laundry, not baby, not myself..him. I just have found lately as I have been a soul journey of gaining a deeper and better understand of Christ in my life, that he seems to be missing in so many things where he should be number 1! its hard. Some days more so than others, some conversations harder to be a part of than others..some people harder to be around more more than others, its just hard. I feel like so many people are lost, lonely, materialism focused, getting ahead, making sure their kids have all the best toys, education, sports activities, art classes and dance classes..ect. I am not saying that these aren't all wonderful things, but sometimes I feel like they push God to the end of line instead of being at the front. With Christmas approaching and all the events begining..where will God fit in it for you this year? When did God stop being enough for us?

Question??

So I was at the parenting seminar last night and I got talking to some of the other parents. the discussion of girls came up and different things with raising them. one of the things that we got talking about was girls and them dressing themselves. Meaning at what age do you stop dressing your girls and letting them pick out their outfits and at what age do you stop? Do you let them go to school at the age of 5,6,7 in a princess gown if they want to, or do you make sure that they look "normal". Maybe only to church?? anyways, one of the parents said that at home they let their 7 year old wear whatever she wants, but when they go out they dress her to try and create a sense of whats normal, in her mind. So my questions is to you mamas with girls, mama's with boys, mama's to be soon or in the future, whoever, just curious, what do you think about this subject?? Do you just let the girl be who she wants to be, or do you guide her down a path of creating what you think is normal???

Random thought number 1

its late, and this is when my brain usually decides it wants to work. its quite annoying actually..most of the time! So, Dave and I started a parenting seminar at our church last week. It goes for four weeks. Yes its true we have an out of control 5 month old who needs lots of discipline...just kidding:) The truth is that we want the proper tools now so that we are being pro active and not reactive to how we want to raise our kids. The title of this seminar is how to raise healthy kids in a destructive world..or something like that. Anyways, the first week was great. We are already off to a good start in the learning curve. What they talked about seems like such basic concepts. how to raise good kids, start with being a good role model. Be who you want them to be..easier said than done..right?? The one challenge that the speaker said was to come up with one thing that you would like to change about yourself so that your children won't follow the bad trait..if you could do just one..have you thought of what it would be??

The other thing he talked about was staying focused. Focused on the goal. So what is it?
My question to you is that have you ever sat down as a family and come up with a mission statement?? what do you think of this idea?? Having a family plan, or a couple plan. The core of it comes down to in many ways one targeted thing for us, to raise our chilren to be like christ. So if we can keep everything we do focused on that wouldn't you say we would be off to a good start changing our world, one little person at a time? I think so! so that is our goal. one we will fail at probably every day, but every day we will pick ourselves up and keep trying!

The other thing that the speaker talked about that I love. Well, more of a retorical question I guess..we are we spending so much time focused on making this 100 or less years be the priority when we have a whole eternity ahead. how many hours in the day do we plan for that?

more Randomness...

So i have lots of random thoughts running through my head right now..I will be back when I get them organized!! maybe we can start up some interesting blog discussions????:) ok, I will be back...stay tuned!

5 Months old...seriously??!!!

i can't believe how fast time is flying! Addy is five months old today...so hard to believe;)

This last month has been lots of fun with our little miss. She is getting busier and more interactive all the time!

Her big milestone this month would have to be learning to sit up! She has for a couple of months done a slunched over version but this last week she has learnt how to sit fairly straight up and for a good length of time!

She loves to laugh and giggle. Farting sounds get her going the most:)hehe

Her new favorite thing to chew is her toys and her socks. Cant keep a pair on for the life of us!

She also is fasinated with scratching everything around her, loves feeling material and all the different textures..she especially loves to scratch her butt in the bathtub:)*grin*

She is busy watching the world and learning all the fasinating things around her!

To me there is nothing better than watching your child discover life! its truely amazing!!

Recent Happenings and a bunch of random thoughts!!

Its so hard to believe that it is november!! time is flying, and my baby girl is almost 5 months!! oh my:) We sure are having fun with her;)!

October has come to a close. its always a busy one for us as its again, our anniversary, my birthday, thanksgiving, and Halloween:) We had so much fun as you can see from the pictures in my last post dressing up the girls and taking them out, I look forward to making this a tradition. and again, halloween, we don't really like, but cute costumes and candy..well, who doesn't????

So between hanging out with my little girl, visiting with friends and family, and sweeping my floor what feels like 20 times a day, we have been living pretty low key...and I love it! I have always been the sort of person who needs to be going going going, and for the first time in my life I am enjoying just being. Cause God did call us human beings, not human doings...so I am learning:) Plus as stated about, it seems like time is flying with our girl, and I don't want to miss a moment!

One of the things we are doing right now, is praying, praying for some big things! A few of them being, getting out of apartment and into better and bigger living accomidations. We really really want to do a tropical trip before having another wee person join our lives, and getting Dave through his last level of his carpentry apprentice this January! We can't wait till he is done this! and hence why we want to take a trip...to celebrate this huge milestone in his life!
We are also praying very hard about what I am going to do in the spring time when the wonderful world of mat leave comes to an end. Right now the thought of going back to work makes me sick. We have come to a decision, and hopefully can stand by it that no one else but family is going to be raising our children..so God is just going to have to work out the finances for us to accomplish this. We are not sure right now how this is going to work, but we do know we serve an amazing God who wants what's best for his children, so he is going to work it out!

I have also have been doing a lot of reading lately. It helps to keep my mind working, and its a great escape at the end of the day! One book that I recently finished reading and HIGHLY recommend anyone reading is called the Glass Castle...it will change your life. or your thought life I guess you could say...it will make you appreciate so much more than you ever have before how truely blessed you are! I have a stack of a few others right now to that I will be giving reviews on, at a later date:)!

This weekend we have had some interesting small turn of events. Addy got her first cold, and her mama caught it too! So it was a few rough days around here, and still is, my little monkey is in bed coughing as I write..poor little bug:) but she is a trooper, and I am hoping all these vitamins that I have been taking are what helping us fight this sooner than later!
While my mom was over yesterday helping take care of her sick girls she discovered something nasty in my house...mold!!! in my washing machine!!! it was disguisting!!! black nasty mold in my fairly new front loader washer from Sears. Lets just say Sears wont be getting our business again anytime soon! they have been no help! so we having been trying everything this weekend trying to get it clean, but we will probably have to break down and buy a new rubber part! and now we know that apparently after every use we have to air it out to dry...so annoying!! but I did discover, through my research, something very interesting. A new cleaning agent..ready for this....hydrogen peroxide! works wonders..better than bleach...who knew:)!!!

So november is here, we are looking forward to a few different events this month, including a parenting seminar at our church every thursday for a month..will be back with review on that as well!! anyways, that's my late sat night catch up on life around these parts:)!

Addyson's first Halloween

How much fun am I having with all these firsts...tons!!! This weekend obviously was halloween, and addy got to be the cutiest little lady bug I have ever seen! Yesterday was filled with lots of fun with her cousins, we did a family kids photo shoot in the afternoon, than tricker treating around David's sisters area, than over to my parents place to do some more around their culda sac! All in all a great day! the girls did a great job at getting their daddy's and mommy's lots of treats! Can't wait for next year when she is walking and talking..should be even more fun~ I love building all these traditions with our families..its a blast! and i look forward to many more;)!


Lady bug addy and Eden Bear;)

The girls and their daddy's!

I love my lady bug!

Ok, not a fan of this picture of me, but I love her shirt that we got! And we couldn't get her to look at the camera because she was too distracted by her tights!

Cousins:)

LOok mom I can fly!

Another First!

Well and to me this is one of the most important first for every little girl.*grin* Last wekeend, I forgot to add this one to her many firsts, Addy recieved her first Tiffany's! Thanks Uncle and Aunty I love my new piggy plate and cup and cant wait to use them! But for now I also love my big Tiffany box!:)!

A weekend of firsts

This weekend we had a few fun firsts in our household;) One pretty big, and a few that just warmed my heart. The first cute little thing that I just want to record, is Addy's discovery of her hand movement. She found her hand a month or so ago and was quite fasinated by this tiny fist. But this wekeend we saw a big change in the way she now realized that she is so amazing and can make her hand move..wow majic:)*grin* its so sweet to watch her.
The second first that just warmed my heart happened on sat. I went to an all day womans conference with my girlfriends, and daddy D spent his first full day alone with miss Addy...seven whole hours! and might I say he did great!! She has been awesome all week, and so easy to please, that daddy got lucky with a happy clam, and had a great day together:) He even got her down for her two naps..I was quite proud:) but what warmed my heart was after being away from my little peanut for the longest stretch yet, I walked into the door to be greeted with the biggest smile and laugh! I grabbed my girl as she cluthed my hair, and burried her sweet little face into my shoulder...oh mommies home:)! It was one of those moments I dreamed about growing up and about having kids..the look of awe as their mama returns home! warmed my heart;)!

The big step though for my missy this weekend was her first taste of rice cereal...yumm yumm:) it was quite the hit! Proof in the pictures below:)!

The Brunette is back!

It was time! I was missing my dark hair, and now that the fall is here, and so many rich warm colors need to be worn..I needed my dark hair back:)! Daddy D was quite excited about this, as this was the color my hair was when he met me. whats with that...maybe it takes them back to the happy time, when everything was so fresh and new and exciting, i guess it takes him back to that happy place;)!haha! anyways, here I am, all ready for fall, not ready to embrass the winter though!

Helllooo number 16!!!

So this is what we spent our saturday morning doing! After an hour in the pouring rain waiting to see mr. trevor Linden...we did! It was well worth the rain drops:)! Addy did great and slept most of the line up wait till we got to the front of the line..waking up just in time to meet him:) I am not going to lie..I was a little speechless standing next to a guy who I have had a crush on for a good 20 years....it was quite awesome:)! What an experience;) I got my hockey cards signed..thats right MY hockey cards and we got my moms jersey signed for her as she was working..that's right HER official Trevor Linden jersey...can you tell we are Linden fans:) Anyways, we headed right to wal mart to get this picture up top deleped and framed and headed to my moms work to show her..and her newly signed Jersey...There were a few tears:)! Well worth it..such a fun way to spend a Saturday.! and now we are at home curled up in our cozy's having a snuglley afternoon:)!

Addyson 4 months!!

So hard to believe...she is four months old today!!! here are some pictures of her in her thanksgiving bib that she didn't even get to wear because we were in the states this thanksgiving...so she is sporting it today at four months old! Maybe we will have to celebrate american thanksgiving this year so she can wear it than:)!

So at four months miss addy is busy busy busy:) her personality is really starting to come out now more than ever! Her big accomplishment this month was learning to roll over from her back to tummy..but she hasn't quite figured out how to go back yet which equals some frustrating moments;)*grin* but she is getting more and more content being on her tummy for expended periods of time now..so its all good! She loves to giggle, usually when you blow raspberries on her belly or legs, make wierd faces at her, lift her up in the air and bounce her on your knee; these all gets lots of laughs! She loves to sqwack now too..sounds like a little dinsosaur or bird sometimes..we love it!! She still loves to stare and analyze things. She is still teething and we are waiting patiently for the first teeth to pop as its been a long month in that aspect. everything that can go in the mouth and be chewed on will! She has also become quite fascinated with food this last month...meaning our food!! Hopefully she will love her veggies one day!
She is still a big mama's girl, but she knows how to melt her daddies heart and gives him big smiles when he comes home from work:) She loves being at home, and is definetly showing more and more signs of being an introvert..shy in public and groups but once she gets comfortable she has lots to say to you! She is an amazing little traveller so far and does like being out and about, but only if she keeps moving in the stroller or can be looking around in her little carrier with daddy! I love being this little girls mom, and feel so blessed to spend every day with her!

almost 12:30pm...

Its time to pray. I hope you all are continueing to join with us every thursday at 12:30pm to pray for eachother! its power, and i know its working..so its three minutes to prayer time...and i just want you to know i am praying for you!

Brithday, and Zoo and shopping oh my!!

So this sat was my birthday!! I am the big 27 now:) Sounds so much scarrier to me than 26 for some reason;) Anyways, we headed down with my brother and sister in law for a weekend of fun and shopping! Since the birth of addy..well, as most people, my clothes don't fit. Some things have just expanded that might never go back, or just haven't yet because it has only been four months! So I am in this awkward stage..but I need clothes..so off we went!! We headed down to seattle and hit up the zoo first on sat..we had a great time there, and I would love to go back again when Addy is older. She was a big fan of the penguins:) Than we headed to dinner at Joeys by seatac and had a delicious meal! Sunday was sleeping in and than shopping at South center mall which i am a BIG fan of!! We did some serious damage at forever 21!! Than headed downtown and did some wandering of the market, had a starbucks at the original starbucks and than some shopping! after that a delicous comfort meal at the cheesecake factory!!!
Monday was the outlets and than home for a quick thanksgiving meal with Daddy D's side of the family..quick meaning we showed up after dinner and had leftovers..but it was still good! All in all a wonderful weekend with family and shoes:) Looking forward though to my next trip involving a beach!!!