Following in Mommy's footsteps

Or swim strokes I suppose. The girls this year have really done well in their swimming. Next year I hope to work on stroke development more. Leah has even learned how to dive with very little coaching from me. Since I used to be a swimmer and love the water, naturally I am proud,
These videos were from fourth of July weekend in destin.

Another "relaxing" day

I put the word "relaxing" in quotes because I think that word is no longer synonymous with the word vacation. Add 2 10 month olds and there are few relaxing moments.

Our day started with matt getting up at 7 to call the one place that can repair a toyota using our warranty. It is too hot to put babies in to that car with no air condition. Matt spent an hour last night making sure it was not a fuse and we decided to have him take it in this morning when we found out it wasn't. The place is in fort walton which is about 45 min from where we are.

Turns out it is our air conditioning clutch. Of course the part was on backorder. They managed to get one and we had to pay to overnight it but they gave us a rental car at least. We should have the van back no later than Wednesday so we did not hassle with the car seats. That means we are confined to the Sandestin area for now ( can go places in a golf cart). Laura (forgot to mention she drove in also) headed to the beach and left me with the kiddos (kinda stranded) until matt got home from Toyota. It is impossible to take 2 babies to the pool or even outside in the jacuzzi on my own. I am at the mercy of anyone who can help to do those kinds of ventures. Around 11 I laid the girls down as I stared outside hoping it would get sunny enough to lay out on the deck at least. I got some chores done and matt got back in the rental.

Once the girls got up we enjoyed some time splashing in the (cold) jacuzzi before they had to nap again. For dinner we loaded up in my parents pimped out auburn golf cart and went to a little restaurant in Baytown.

Overall we had an enjoyable day but we stayed busy! Hopefully we will get our car back soon and can head to the beach. Unfortunately jelly fish and undertoes are supposedly bad enough to keep everyone out of the water. If so the pool will be our favorite place!

Am I too much of a kid to be a dad?

Allyson and I are taking our "Baby"moon at Orange Beach, where Allyson's boss was very generous and let us stay at their place at Caribe Resort. My friend Ben and his wife also came down with us. Caribe Resort has some pretty cool water slides that Ben and I could not help but ride over and over, even trying things like riding face down and face down on a float, even to the point of injury. It was like we were 12 year olds again, running up in down the slide with kids a third our age. Oh well that is what vacation is for right...plus there were other Dad's older than Ben and I riding the ride...sure they were riding with kids but who is keeping count :).




Riding the Big Slide
from matthewmccay





The Slides at Caribe
from matthewmccay

Babies first trip to Disney World

Well the babies will be making their first trip to Disney, keeping with the family tradition started by my mother, to visit the land of "The Mouse" while in the confines of their mothers belly.

We will be taking it easy no doubt, catching up on some much needed rest, considering rest will be an infrequent thing once the twins come.

I am sure there will be plenty of pictures and stories to tell when we get back.