Nelson Beach Trip 2010

This past weekend (Thursday - Sunday) we went to North Myrtle Beach for our annual Nelson Beach Trip. We had a wonderful time, but it went by too quickly! We drove down Thursday morning and got there around lunch-time, but it was a rainy miserable day - so we stayed in. We went to dinner and to Walmart to pick up a couple things and Drew and Olivia walked through the whole store holding hands - aren't they so cute!

Friday was much nicer outside - so we got to go out to the beach and pool area. Olivia has LOVED swimming and the beach every time we go. Here she is playing in the ocean with us:

After we spent some time out in the ocean, we went over to the pool area. The hotel was really nice (we got a condo this year) - it had a big pool, a lazy river and a kiddie pool. We spent most of our time in the kiddie pool and lazy river (when we weren't in the ocean!). Here's Olivia playing around in the kiddie pool:

On Saturday, it was another nice day outside and we got up early and went out to collect seashells with Olivia. Here she is sporting her cool sunglasses running around looking for shells:

We stopped to get a quick family photo from some helpful passer's by:

Then it was back to the pool area for some more fun. Susan had picked up some little inner tubes for the kids (and some swimmies), which worked out great for the lazy river. Olivia had a great time floating around it like a big girl - all on her own! (with daddy close by!)

Drew even got into the action:

Then we had our annual putt putt competition. Let's just say that Grant and I didn't win - but we had fun! :) Here's Olivia and Drew riding the train up to the course. Drew LOVED the train! It was his favorite part - every time the train came by both he and Olivia had to wave to all the passengers!

Olivia is still *learning* how to play putt putt, but at least she understands that the ball goes in the hole. Here are the two main ways she does that:

1) She (or we) puts the ball right next to the hole and then knocks it in:

2) She just puts it right into the hole:

It's a work in progress. But she'll maybe have if figured out by next year.

In other news, just since I blogged yesterday - Olivia has really been doing well with the Potty. When I picked her up from daycare yesterday they told me she had been doing REALLY well with it (4 or 5 times just yesterday), and that she was even trying to help Jordan (she's a couple month's younger than Olivia) go potty! She told me she had to go this morning - and she did! Wow, she may be trained sooner than later! (Still not poo poo in the potty, but we'll get there! - ha ha!).