Drive down south with Aunt Jen

I originally planned to drive back down to Charleston by myself however, given Colin's dislike of the car I knew I'd never survive the 10 plus hour drive by myself.  Luckily, Aunt Jen is the most awesome person in the world and offered to make the drive with us without even having to ask!  We had already made plans to visit some friends in Northern Virginia on the way so we did that first before meeting up with Aunt Jen.  Unfortunately, this trip began my downfall of documenting our life....you'll notice a major decline of photos.  Not only have I not been taking enough photos lately but I've always resigned to using only my iphone most of the time.

For example, I only got this one shot of Colin and Jack while visiting my friend Lindsay from college for the night.  Lindsay and I had a great time catching up while Jack and Colin enjoyed playing together.

The next day we swung over to my friend Kaela's house for the afternoon.  We were so sad when she moved from Charleston earlier this year and took her sweet boys with her.

Colin and Henry getting reacquainted.

It was difficult to get them all smiling at the same time so I was looking at them instead of the camera hence cropping out part of Henry's face.  Better luck next time!

We spent the rest of the day at the Emerick's house.  Pappy brought Aunt Jen and we all stayed the night before heading out the next morning.  Big surprise, it seems I didn't capture any photos of our fun evening together.

And I also didn't capture any shots of our adventures in the car.  Thankfully, our trip was pretty uneventful!  Colin took his two naps in the car and stayed entertained while awake by either Mommy or Aunt Jen.  I admit that sometimes meant one of us holding the iphone while Colin watched Yo Gabba Gabba but we didn't have to resort to this until the last hour of the trip.  We could not have asked for it to go any better.  I'm eternally grateful to Aunt Jen for coming with us!

The theme continues...I didn't get a single photo of Colin and Aunt Jen the entire time she visited us in Charleston unless you count her legs in the picture below...

We went to the Farmer's Market in downtown Charleston where Colin had his first sip of lemonade.  He loved it and kept saying "mmmm."

Rocking out with Aunt Jen's shades.

We got a babysitter one evening and went kayaking together. Aunt Jen was a natural and Mommy could no keep up!

As always, we had a wonderful time with Aunt Jen and were sad to see her go.  Luckily we'll be back up north in less than two weeks!