Trip to Virginia Beach

After being involved in a camp in Virginia for 9 years for Adults with Traumatic Brain Injuries, I really wanted to go back and visit. We left on Friday to head to Chesapeake, Virginia and were able to see the many staff members that I used to work with the the awesome campers. Despite the fact that they have brain injuries, they remembered me. It was so neat.

We then met out friends Kim and her kids at their place on Saturday. Her husband was scheduled to return from Haiti, where he has been with the Army since January, the following day. Carter and I met Savannah and Kim at gymboree when the kids were just 10 months old. Carter and Savannah have always had a special bond, but they moved away about a year and a half ago.

Here is Abby playing the slide at their house.Forever friends. Savannah and Carter...

New friends, Abby and Brodie. Brodie was so sweet with Abby. He is 2 1/2. Carter actually bonded with Brodie because of their monster trunk love. I think that Savannah's pink room, kind of scared him. It was so cute. Ft. Story, where they live, is on the ocean, so we walked over and let the kids play in the sand. It actually started raining, but they still had a great time.

Abby was not so sure of all of it, but had a lot of fun.

Carter and Savannah.

We then went for dinner and it was time to say goodbye.

Savannah and Carter with their goodbye hugs.

Brodie joined in to hug Abby.

The kids together.... We look forward to them visiting Columbia this summer.

The next morning, we went to my friend Jessie's families house for breakfast. Jessie and I met in PT school and they live in NC but happen to be in Virginia Beach with family, so we were able to see each other and meet each other's youngest daughters. Our oldest kids are just a few weeks apart.

This is Abby and Marci, attempting hugs but they got shy.

Driving cars up/down the window with the dogs outside.

Lauren and Carter.

We then drove straight back to Columbia to celebrate Gramps's birthday. Here is Gramps reading a book to his granddaughters, Neeley and Abby.

Abby on the 4-wheeler.

Carter on the motorcycle pulling around his cousins.

We had a great weekend. Here are a few pictures of the kids on Memorial Day.

I updated another post, so take a look.