Throwback Thursday: 7.24.14

 

Below is my Throwback Thursday pic from last week.  It's a pic of my cousin Chrystal, her son Braidon, my little puppy Hershey Bell, my sister Beth, and her little peanut-in-her-belly Gavin.  I had just gotten my new "professional" camera so we went down to the bluff in Rockport to play around with it!

Surprise! Happy Birthday Braidon!

My cousin Chrystal had an early surprise birthday pool party for my little cousin Braidon last Sunday evening.  She had it early because the pool would of been closed for the summer before his birthday later this month. 

 

Shawn and I picked up my littlest BFF Zoe, my mom, and Gavin and we headed to the Rockport Pool for an evening of fun.  Everyone arrived a few minutes early for the party and then Donnie blindfolded Braidon and drove him around the block a few times before pulling up to the party.  He led him to the entrance where everyone yelled surprise! 

 

I think it's safe to say that Braidon was definitely surprised!  We had cake and ice cream (thanks to Shawnie who was feining for ice cream!) and lemonade and then Braidon opened presents.  After that, we spent two hours swimming in the pool and had a great time!  Too bad my birthday isn't in the summer, I'd have myself a pool party too!

 

 

We got Braidon a Rubics Cube, a glow-in-the dark Batman shirt, and some candy.  And then I bought Chrystal a cute texting turtle statue.  My cousin Braidon's nickname is Turtle, so she collects turtle things.

 

I was so proud of Zoe!  She wanted to go off those diving boards so bad.  She was constantly looking at them and talking about going off and trying to get Shawn or I to go off of them with her (no thank you!)  She inched closer and closer to them and then would chicken out.  Then I wasn't paying attention and looked around for her and there she was.....finally attempting the diving board! 

Swimming at the Rockport Pool

Last Thursday I took a vacation day and headed to Rockport to take Gavin swimming at the Rockport pool.  Bethie didn't feel good so she wasn't able to go :(  However I did pick up my cousin Chrystal and her son Braidon aka Turtle for some pool fun! 

 

Gavin is tall enough to touch in the ends of the pool, but still spends the majority of his time hanging on the ladder.  I did manage to pull him off of it for a little middle of the pool playtime, but it doesn't last long.  While I want him to let go and play around in the water, I still love the fact that he wants to hang on to you and get that snuggle time.  That little boy sure is growing up fast :(

 

Yesterday, Gavin said some of the funniest stuff!

 

 Braidon was splashing him and he kept saying "STOP! Stop like a stop sign!", all the while pushing his little hand out to get him to stop.

 

Then another time someone was splashing and his hair was getting wet and he would say "hey stop, I just had a bath", all while running his wet hand over his head!

 

I took one of those water gun/squirter things to the pool and the handle broke. So after I fixed it I shot Braidon with it. Then I filled it up again and said "I better double check this, just to make sure it's working". Gavin said "yeah, like Double A batteries". ??? What a ham bone!

 

Turtle loves going off the diving boards!  I between he went off them 100 times while we were there that day!

 



It was extremely cloudy the day we went...and windy and chilly.  However the sun popped out quite a few times to warm up.  Near the middle of the afternoon it was more sunny than cloudy and the swimming was lots of fun!