Our First Family Vacation

We began planning this trip last summer. We had to do that in order to coordinate
everyone's schedules! Did get everyone together for a week it literally came down to 1 week out of the entire summer, June 2-9.









That meant we'd be gone on HK's first birthday. At first I wasn't crazy about the idea, but she'll never remember that. It just meant that she got to have two parties.









We-- Mom, Dad, Kent, Ang, Gran, Nate, me, and Hallie Kate all went to Hilton Head, SC for a week. We took Mom and Dad's van and our Freestyle. We left at 5 am from Eldorado on Saturday, June 2nd. We rented a villa with 3 bedrooms and 3 1/2 baths for the week. Mom and Dad had one bedroom. Nate, HK, and myself had one. Then the 3rd bedroom had a queen and full size bed in it. So Gran and Ang shared the queen and Kent took the full. Each bedroom had their own bath with a 1/2 bath, kitchen/dining room and family area downstairs. There was a screened in back porch with the pool outback. There was also a 1 ft baby pool which was great for HK.


We bought a screened in tent which we took to the beach and set up two of the days. One day we went exploring to other parts of the island. One day the guys went golfing and the girls found the outlet mall! We went kayaking one day and bike riding everyday. We played miniature golf and took a sunset boat ride. Ice cream was an every evening occurrence. We were trying to figure out the best on the island! We cooked in some evenings and went out some evenings. Everyone really liked it there.






It was a very family oriented place with many mulit-generational vacationing families. I would go back in a heartbeat.


HK loved the beach. It took her a couple days to warm up to it, but by the end of the week she was walking out to the ocean and sitting down in the water. She loved to run around on the sand. We discovered going down to the beach after dinner was the ideal time. There weren't as many people and the sun wasn't as hot.



On HK's birthday we had spaghetti and meatballs for dinner. We went swimming in the pool, had cake and ice cream, opened a few presents, and then everyone went down to the beach. It was our last night there.


One evening the three of us dressed in khaki and white. Kent took pictures of us on the beach. They are some of my favorite pictures!