You Just Don't Mess With Tradtion

If I had to describe my family in one word it would be tradition! Everything we do is based on tradition and I would not change it for the world. Every year for the past 25 or so years my mom's side of the family goes to Surfside Beach for a week. My mom and aunt rent a house and we all go done and have a blast. We go Saturday to Saturday. Every Friday before we leave, we all go to the bookstore to buy magazines and/or books to read during the week and we are not allowed to read them until we leave Saturday. On our way down we always stop at Cooper's Country Store to get a snack...this usually marks our half way point!

And every Saturday for dinner we have baked ham and biscuits. Over the past 6 or so years we started taking Khaki and White pictures all because mom found a picture of all the kids wearing white tops and jean bottoms back from when we were younger. We wear white shirts and khaki bottoms. Below are some of the pictures taken over the past few years.
Pictures from 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008 Beach Trip:
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But by far the thing I love the most is our flags that we hang up on the back porch. Each flag represents our schools:
USC: Les
Wofford: Tate
Dutch Fork: Artie
Clemson: Matthew
Erskine: Me


So tomorrow we begin another adventurous week full of tradition and I am SOO excited!!

Just another day at the farm :)

This week at work was nutrition week. On Wednesday we made edible art and today we went to a vegetable farm. It was very hot today but we still all had fun!! :)

The start of something new!

So for a while now I have wanted to start a blog but I had nothing real exciting to share like being engaged or being pregnant, so I just kept putting it off. Well even though I am neither of those two exciting adventures I just decided to bite the bullet and try it out. Hopefully readers you will enjoy! I have been working at a summer camp for the past few years and it has really been a great job to have because I get to work with wonderful people and play with kids all day long. Each week of summer has a different theme. This past week we talked about manners. The children learned about proper etiquette. On Friday we took them all to Olive Garden so that they could practice their good manners! I was pretty nervous at first taking 25 kids to the Olive Garden but it was a success!! They did AMAZING!! They were so polite and used excellent manners!