Visiting the Pender's

If you haven't already read our Caring Bridge update, please read that!!

www.caringbridge.org/visit/alexward


I have a lot of pictures to post to show how much fun we all had on our trip to visit our friend, Julia and her family in South Carolina.

Hope you enjoy!!!

We left Thursday and I flew with all three kids by myself.
I was really proud of all three of them!!

Here is Alex playing with the window. Just trying to keep him entertained!!
He was either eating or doing this.

Here is Hayden and Hayley on the plane. They both did so good!!!


Alex getting ready to fall asleep.

He's going......

And he's gone!!!
He did eventually let the pacifier fall out of his mouth so I knew he was sleeping good then!!
And yes....he was "that kid with the very dirty mouth and shirt"!!!

We finally go to meet Julia and family on Friday evening!!!

Here is Julia and "the boy," as she called him!!

We finally got a good picture of the two of them.....we just had to have Bari hold them both!!


We went to the downtown Greenville, SC area.
It is a really neat area with lots to do.


Hayley, Hayden and Lucas.
The look on Hayley's face makes me laugh.


The kids enjoyed a fountain/waterfall area.



Saturday night we the kids played in the sprinkler at the Pender's house.

Lucas, Hayley and Hayden playing in the water.


Alex preferred the swing!!


Hayley was being silly and kept covering up in her towel.


Julia loved it and kept copying Hayley. It was very cute!!



Sunday evening we went out to eat and then to a little ice cream shop near our hotel. The kids loved it and they made a huge mess but it was a lot of fun!!!

Alex, Julia, Hayley, Lucas and Hayden
They are looking into the sun so this isn't the best picture but we did get them all to look in the same direction!! :)


Julia and Mark & Alex and Cory


Me and Bari


We had such a great time and hated to leave. Monday we made it to the airport early only to find out that our flight was delayed. We had to entertain the kids for about 5 hours!!

Here is Hayley taking pictures of airplanes.


Here is Hayden being silly and playing with his home made gun.


Here is Alex standing in the chair.
(Did I mention that we had to entertain them for 5 hours??)

Here he comes....

This counts as therapy....right?


He was determined to get to me and the camera so he climbed over to me!!

The rest of the five hours Hayden and Hayley played with some other kids that were waiting with us and we chased Alex around trying to wear him out!!
All thing considered they all did great.