Lifeguard in Training

In case you haven't met us . . . we love the beach! :)

We go often, as evidenced by Liam's savage tan - and I swear he wears sunscreen everyday!

The more we go, the more Liam thinks he works or owns the beach.

When your Dad is one of the officers there, you get some perks:

there's always someone you know nearby who can take family photos for you :) . . .

You get to play with the lifeguard gear . . .

. . . There's always a lifeguard around who wants to take you in the waves so Mommy doesn't have to get wet . . .

. . . you can start prepping about 6 years early for Junior Guards

. . . and your tan makes you super studly which gets the girls attention :)

My little lifeguard - the tradition continues

Summer is going too fast . . .

We've been so busy lately, I've taken lots of photos, but haven't had time to update the blog. Can't believe it's the middle of July already . . . will time please slow down???

We've been enjoying our pool and Liam loves doing Super Hero jumps off the diving board - I think this one is Green Lantern (who knows?) . . .

We spent 4th of July night at Aunt Jaclyn's house on the river. . . best view of the fireworks ever and the place I've spent almost every 4th of July of my entire life . . . love passing that on to Liam.

He was so excited for the fireworks and was jumping up and down the whole time they were going off. . .
The day after the 4th of July is my birthday . . . the BIG 3-0 this year . . . so I spent it at the beach with my favorite guys

Liam got to swim around in the ocean without much help, and now truly has no fear of the ocean . . .

Then Casey took me out for dinner and Nana watched Liam for us . . .

Maybe 30 won't be so bad . . . .

Believe in the Sun. . . even when it's not Shining

the sun FINALLY came out again. . . so of course we packed it up and hit the beach. . .

we played and soaked up the sun for about 5 hours and Liam spent almost all of that time in the ocean. . . . and before we left he had to check out the view from the guard house with Daddy . . .
He fell asleep before we even made it off Ocean Avenue - hopefully there will be many more sunny days this week.

End of School

Monday morning I didn't have to be in school til much later than usual, so Liam and I went to the gym . . . I took a spin class and he must find it very interesting. As soon as we got home he told me that he had to go downstairs and that I wasn't allowed to come - so after a minute or so he calls me down to see this:

. . . and he tells me "I do spinning, too . . . see" - he pushed a step stool up to Casey's spin bike that is kept in the storage area of the basement :)

Then Tuesday was his last day of school for the summer. He graduated from the "Explorer" room and had a great year with his teachers and friends. . . I had to take a last day of school photo
. . . such a tough guy

Story Book Land Date

Last week I took my last personal day of the school year and brought Liam down to StoryBook Land in Mays Landing. . . .

We had a great time - just the two of us, and we went on almost every ride. Liam even wanted to go on the dragon roller coaster that he wasn't a fan of back in December. This time we were the only people on the ride and he picked to sit in the very first seat!

He also went on the flying elephants by himself twice!

We spent the whole day there and had great conversations - he's a pretty laid back dude and I enjoy his company :)

My mom used to always take us to Story Book Land when we were young and although many of the rides are new and parts of it have been updated, the Little Schoolhouse is still the same as when I was young - Liam and I took turns playing student and teacher . . . Since it was about 101 degrees this day Liam found something fun to cool us off. He was very focused at squirting down the bad guys . . .

We had fun and it was nice have each other's undivided attention, but the trouble with no one else joining us was that I couldn't get a photo of me and my cute date. At the end of the day we went on the carousel again and since we were the only ones I asked the nice 70 year old guy who was running the ride to take our photo . . .

Can't wait for summer!

Watch out . . . he's got a mohawk!

This is my little beach bum before his new haircut. We were pulling all our beach gear out of the shed and Liam set himself up like he was at the beach. This may be one of the few pictures of him sitting in a beach chair - I doubt there will be much sitting going on when we are at the real beach.

Aunt Jaclyn took Liam to get him a haircut and he came back with a mohawk!

Apparently he's now tough enough to do this . . .

Even tough guys that rock mohawks need to get clean once in awhile . . .

Still my silly baby no matter how tough he looks . . .

Memorial Day Weekend

It was a beautiful weekend and we took full advantage. . . we spent Saturday doing outside work and then had a BBQ at my parents house and Liam was happy to see Uncle Adam who was home from Philadephia. Then Sunday Liam and I decided it was a great day for a bike ride - Quite a number of bike rides actually. We had lots of places to be Sunday and we rode my bike to all of them. We logged 11 miles in total (not couting that morning's spin class) and had tons of fun!

Then today we brought Grandma and Grandpa Scallon's kayak over to Aunt Jac's house and went out for a paddle on the river. Liam loves kayaking - he even took a dip to cool off with Aunt Jaclyn

He also enjoyed his lunch while we were on the water
Back to school and reality tomorrow :(